- "There is very little chance we will succeed in New York City. Four years ago, S.P.R.A. tried to attack the tower. We lost over a thousand men. I am afraid you may never see your family again."
- ―Fyodor Malikov[src]
Following in the aftermath of Operation Black Eden, the SRPA and remnants of the U.S. military launched a desperate assault on Chimera-occupied New York City to destroy the Chimeran tower in order to shut down the wormhole that was terraforming Earth. The assault ended in a massacre for human forces, who barely penetrated the tower before being wiped out by Chimeran defenses. The failed battle marked the dissolution of SRPA and cemented the Chimera's complete control of the United States.
Prelude[]
On June 28, 1953, the SRPA launched an attempt to destroy the Chimeran fleet and end their intentions with the Chimeran tower network over the Chicxulub crater with a nuclear bomb. However, the nuclear detonation created a power surge that swept through the entire Chimeran tower network, channeling along the power conduits across the United States all the way to the Chimeran hub tower in New York City and opening a wormhole to the Chimera's home planet.[2] The wormhole was kept open by the New York tower and the portal itself accelerated the Chimera's terraforming process of Earth, freezing the planet to make it more hospitable for the Chimera and wiping out the remnants of humanity in the process.
The SRPA and remnants of the U.S. military launched a desperate attack on the New York Tower to close the wormhole and stop the Chimera's hostile terraforming process.
The Assault[]
Over a thousand human soldiers attacked New York City. Upon arriving at the city, SRPA forces immediately encountered heavy resistance from the Chimera in which the tower was heavily defended by about one hundred Goliaths and Stalkers that lined up at the tower's entrance.[3] The Chimeran machines inflicted heavy casualties, destroying M-12 Sabertooth tanks, and downing many U/AV-17 Hawks and C-130 Hercules planes.[4] By the next day, SRPA forces were wiped out and the Chimera began hunting down human survivors.[5]
A few Black Ops soldiers of Victor Company and Oscar Company attempted to escape the city through the subways.[5] However, they soon discovered the subways were infested with Grims in which the Black Ops were reduced to three men.[6] Five days after the failed assault, the survivors were all killed.[7]
Aftermath[]
The assault signaled America's downfall and the decimation of SRPA. The Chimera continued their plans to freeze the planet for the next four years until their plans were ruined by former Sentinel Joseph Capelli.
Depiction in Resistance: A Hole in the Sky[]
Resistance: A Hole in the Sky depicted the failed assault on the New York tower far differently. SRPA is absent, but instead a "force of volunteers" that consists of "dozens of soldiers, ex-soldiers, and citizen freedom fighters" organized by Acting President Thomas Voss and Dr. Fyodor Malikov. The volunteers were summoned across America via radio by Voss and gathered at the City Hall tube station on the Lexington Avenue Line on July 3. Voss volunteered to directly lead the attack, believing that his actions will cement his title as President and hoping that the tower's destruction would not only slow the Chimera's systematic effort to cool the planet, but to send a message of hope to human survivors in America.[8] Malikov participated in the attack to reach the tower's control room to either shut down or destroy the tower. There were no vehicles that participated in the attack.
The attack was initiated at 0830 on July 4, 1953, in which the soldiers advanced to the tower through the Lexington Avenue Line. The battle began fifteen minutes later after the human fighters passed under 35th Street and engaged Chimeran drones and Hybrids. The humans secured a huge lobby and accessed elevator lifts to the control room. However, the Chimera disabled the lifts, forcing the humans onto a circular platform and confronted by an endless horde of Chimera and drones. Despite inflicting heavy fire power on the Chimera, the humans were all quickly overwhelmed. Only Malikov, Voss and few of his bodyguards (Captain Marvin Kawecki, Privates Mason and Rigg) survived and escaped the tower, fleeing through FDR Drive to the East River.
Voss and the others fled to Freedom Base in the Ozark National Forest, where he continued to try and lead the remnants of the U.S. government until falling into conflict with the New American Empire.
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Trivia[]
- The assault on the New York Tower was only mentioned by Malikov in Resistance 3, and depicted in the novel Resistance: A Hole in the Sky.
- The assault on the New York Tower that occurred on Independence Day (Fourth of July) launched by a ragtag human military force personally led by a U.S. President depicted in Resistance: A Hole in the Sky could be a reference to Roland Emmerich's 1996 cult film Independence Day, which depicts the U.S. Air Force's last-ditch counterattack on July 4, which was also led by a President, against an extraterrestrial race similar to the Chimera.
References[]
- ^ Resistance: A Hole in the Sky Chapter 1
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level Women and Children First
- ^ Fall Back
- ^ Resistance 3, wrecked Sabretooths and other aircraft depicted in Commitment and Wasteland
- ^ a b Bloodbath
- ^ Bad Idea
- ^ Six Bullets
- ^ Resistance: A Hole in the Sky, "...but if Voss and a force of volunteers could enter New York and destroy the Chimeran tower, the victory would not only slow the systematic effort to cool the planet's atmosphere, it would send a message of hope to the citizens of the United States.", p.2