Humans are a sentient species native to Earth. By the 1950s, humanity was on the brink of extinction during the Chimeran War.
History[]
Over 60 million years ago prior to humanity's existence, Earth was inhabited by an alien race known as the Chimera before they mysteriously abandoned the planet. Humanity eventually became the dominant species on Earth until the Chimera's return in the early 20th century.
In 1914, the nations of Europe waged a devastating war against each other known as the Great War. The conflicted ended in 1918 and the war victors chartered the creation of the European Trade Organization to establish lasting peace in Europe. This new status quo in Europe alienated Russia and leading to its isolation from the world.
While humanity experienced three decades of peace, the Chimera began their take over of Russia. Due to Russia's isolationism, humanity remained unaware of the Chimeran threat that inevitably conquered Russia and converted millions of its people into Chimera. However, some human governments soon became aware of the Chimera and began making preparations against their alien foe. In the United States the U.S. Department of War created the SRPA to develop advanced weapons and the Sentinels.
Chimeran War[]
- Main article: Chimeran War
Beginning in December 1949, the human race was suddenly at war with the Chimera. Throughout the war, it became a struggle for the survival of the human race, as the Chimera cares nothing more but the extermination of humanity and their control for Earth. Within a few months, the Chimera conquered Eurasia and infected millions with the Chimeran virus.
The onslaught against humanity was temporarily halted during the Battle of London on July 14, 1951 in which human military forces destroyed the Chimeran tower network in Britain and thereby killing all Chimeran forces on British soil. Humanity's first victory against the Chimera revealed the weakness of their enemy's dependence on the Angel strain which controlled the Chimeran hive mind, thanks to the actions of Nathan Hale, a Chimeran virus-enhanced soldier who later became a Sentinel. The victory in Britain led to the liberation of Western Europe on September 6 and the eradication of the Carrier strain, temporarily grounding the Chimera's conversion process.
Despite humanity's victory in Europe, the Chimera relentlessly continued their advance across Earth. The Chimera freed Daedalus, a byproduct of SRPA's attempt to create the Sentinels, who became their leader and influenced the Chimeran expansion to quickly conquer Africa and South America within a span of two years. The Chimera eventually invaded the United States on May 15, 1953 and reduced its population to seven million. Although the SRPA launched a desperate attack that destroyed Daedalus, they failed to stop Daedalus from achieving his plan to open a wormhole to the home world of the Chimera's progenitors, the Pure Chimera. Humanity suffered another major blow from the death of Nathan Hale, who succumbed to his infection and was killed by the Sentinel Joseph Capelli.
Post-War[]
Following the appearance of the wormhole, humanity lost the war to the Chimera. By 1957, over 90% of the human population were either killed or converted while the Chimera continued their genocide of the human race by terraforming Earth into a harsh, cold environment. Only small pockets of human resistance survived, either hiding in hidden communities or waging a guerrilla war against the Chimera. Despite humanity's grim situation, a vaccine for the Chimeran virus was synthesized from an antigen found in Nathan Hale's mutated body, aptly dubbed the Hale Vaccine, and was vaccinated to the remaining human population.
Humanity's demise was suddenly averted in August 1957 by the actions of Joseph Capelli; the former Sentinel with assistance from the Remnants resistance group permanently closed the wormhole which in turn reversed the Chimera's terraforming process. With the loss of the wormhole and Earth returning to its normal temperature, the Chimera were left severely disorganized and vulnerable to human resistance groups. Eventually, the human survivors eradicated the Chimeran threat and began a long process of rebuilding their world.
Culture[]
Humanity in the Resistance universe never experience the rise of political extremisms and economic consequences resulting from World War I as in real-life. The ETO restored political and economic stability in Europe and thereby preventing Nazism from taking hold in Germany. Communism never gain international significance after the Russian Revolution was crushed by the Russian government. The socio-political and cultural implications from the absence of these ideologies is unexplored.
Female characters such as Rachel Parker and Raine Bouchard are accepted in the chain of command of their respective military, which is presumably due to the high human death toll inflicted by the Chimera and thereby forcing the human armed forces to accept women beyond non combatant roles.
Technology[]
Human technology in the 1940s to the 1950s is advanced than its real-life counterpart, as vehicles and weapons such as tilt-rotor aircraft and assault rifles with rail-mounted grenade launchers were developed decades ahead than in real-life.
Nuclear weapons were first developed and detonated in June 1944 while in real-life the first nuclear weapon was detonated on July 16, 1945. However, further advancement to improve nuclear weapons such as nuclear armed rockets never came to fruition due to the American nuclear weapons program failing to produce sufficient quantities of enriched uranium to create large energy yields.
Humanity's technological advancement that began in the 1930s was attributed to the governments' response to the Chimera. Some weapons, such as the Marksman and HVAP Wraith, are either reverse-engineered or enhanced from Chimeran technology.
Organizations[]
Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance 2
Resistance: Retribution
Resistance 3
Resistance Burning Skies
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