Resistance Storyline

1898-1921
The United States was on the brink of war with Spain following reports of Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the sinking of the USS Maine. President William McKinley, a pacifist, was reluctant to get involve and eager to save face, sent an ultimatum to Spain and grant Cuba's independence or face US military action in all Spanish territories. Spain accepted the terms in order to retain what is left of its empire, and avoiding war with the U.S. This set the course of the United States' favoritism towards isolationism.

By 1914, the Great War was initiated when British and French forces invaded the German colony of Togoland. The United States did not participated in the conflict despite President Woodrow Wilson's request for a declaration of war against Germany in response to the German Navy's unrestricted submarine warfare as isolationist sentiment in Congress prevented America intervention without an overt threat to the U.S. In October 1917, the Russian Revolution was brutally crushed by forces led by Tsar Mikhail, resulting in Russia to continue to maintain its autocratic state and continuing in its involvement in the Great War. The conflict ended with a German armistice and an Allied victory following the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. A key point of the Treaty of Versailles called for the formation of the European Trade Organization (ETO), in which the organization was dedicated to encourage all European nations to work together to establish peace. Russia, however, did not agreed with the established policies of the Treaty of Versailles and becoming extremely wary over the growing face of European anti-imperialist propaganda.

Relationships between Russia and Western Europe exacerbated after twelve French spies in Russia were founded in Russia and hastily executed for allegedly encouraging insurrection. This culminated in Russia isolating itself from the outside world and sealing its borders as the Russian Wall, a large fortified barrier, was constructed along the Russian/European border.

1921-1940
In 1908, an unknown object, presumably a meteoroid, crash landed in the Tunguska region in Siberia became known as the Tunguska Event. The alien parasitic race known as the Chimera originated from this impact. Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik led a scientific expedition into the Tunguska region to investigate the Tunguska Event in August 1920. Kulik's expedition interviewed the local Evenki people, who witnessed the event, and learned that something ominous entered Earth's atmosphere and created the explosive impact left behind. A month later, Kulik and his expedition mysteriously disappeared and were never seen again after an intensive search. In the years that follow under Russia's isolation, mysterious incidents occurred ranging from bizarre weather changes and a deadly slick enriched with radon contaminated the Volga River. By 1927, the Chimera made themselves known in Russia and began their attack on the country. Desperate to turn the tide of the war against the invaders, the Russian government turned toward to scientist Dr. Fyodor Malikov, who have foreknown knowledge about the Chimera, and created an experimental vaccine which shows promise in creating a resistance to the Chimeran virus. The Russian government then ordered all surviving soldiers to be vaccinated with Malikov's vaccine.