The Magical Fallout

Prologue. (Pre-War Saga!)

16th of October 2077:

'War, War Never Changes,' were the words going through Nathan 'Nate' Archer's head as he seat at his desk, thinking about the speech that he was writing for the Veteran's Hall, Fraternal Post 115, in Cambridge. It has been about three years since he left the Sino-American War, as his two terms in the army ended. He could have another term in the army, and many wanted him to as he was the best Combat Engineer that the 2nd Battalion of the 108th Infantry Regiment had, but Nate wanted to start a family and so left the US Army. It was at this time that he meet Nora Walker, a twenty year old law student at Suffolk County School of Law, who was in her last year at law school and married in the year 2076 and in the year 2077 had their first son, Shaun.

For his speech for Veteran's Hall, he was going to start about his great, great, grandfather who was serving in the army in the year 1945, and was wondering about if he was going to make it back to his wife and his son that he never seen before because he entered the war before he was born.

He would go on to explain that he great, great, grandfather got his wish when the US ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From there the World awaited Armageddon, as they feared that the other counties would retaliate in some way because of the nuclear attack, but nothing happened; instead, something miraculous happened. The world began to use atomic energy not as a weapon, but as a nearly limitless source of power. People enjoyed luxuries once thought the realm of science fiction. Domestic robots, fusion-powered cars, portable computers.

But then, in the 21st century, people awoke from the American dream. Years of consumption lead to shortages of every major resource. The entire world unraveled. Peace became a distant memory. Nate would then explain that it is now 2077, and they stand on the brink of total world war, and he was afraid. Now only for myself, but for his wife, and for his infant son - because if his time in the army taught had taught him one thing: it's that war, war never changes.

And here he was, wondering where to go from there, how would he explain his thoughts. His speech was meant to be made in about two weeks time, and yet Nate was having problems writing the rest of it, not knowing where to go with it. With a sigh, Nathan decided to take a break.

As he went to the bathroom to get a wash, he looked in the sink mirror and looked at himself, and saw the scars from his time in the war. Although his face had mostly healed, he knew where they were, and knew that the one across his right eye and on his upper lip would never fully be healed. He's a decorated war veteran, served his country since he was eighteen now twenty-nine watching as age, and the stress of the war took its toll on his face and body.

He was six foot two, and his once tan skin, was now paler and a few scars across his body. As he took a closer look of his face, he noticed the wrinkles and crow's feet on his face. And his hair, which was once once jet black hair, was starting to grey along the sides, which upset him a bit seeing he was too young to go grey so soon. His eyes are dark brown, and had a sleepy look about them since the war, because he was having nightmares of from the war, nightmares of the deaths of his friends and those he killed and the innocent he couldn't help. In the last year, he was seeing a counsellor because of them, which was slowly helping. He was glad he kept his body in top from, he wouldn't say he had a body of a weightlifter, but it wasn't one to scoff at, it was better than most people's bodies.

As he looked at his body, he thought about the last few years, and what he had been up to. Since he left the war, he had been working for Commonwealth Council, as part of one of their of their Offices, the Commonwealth Security Services - or as the public better known as, C-Sec. C-Sec was a police service answering only to the Commonwealth Council, who answered to the President of the USA.