World War 3

World War 3 was a global war fought entirely on Earth and in space against every global superpower on Earth. The war invasion was the largest in military history, with almost a hundred million troops taking part, including mercenaries, androids and militias. The conflict raged on for five years, from 2020 to 2025, and resulted in complete devestation to the entire planet from nuclear and chemical strikes around the planet, devestating the planet completely.

1944-1950
The war was a direct result of the sudden of the Hope mineral that crashed landed via meteor showers all across the globe during the second world war. Hope proved to be the most baffling of scientific discoveries in the area of energy resources since it is able to power up the largest of machines with only a kilogram, as well as powering an entire nation with only a tonne. The nations of Earth were quick to exploit this in the war, where giant weapons of war were built.

When Nazi Germany fell, the western allies commenced Operation Unthinkable in a bid to eliminate the threat of communism once and for all. The war lasted for more that five years and was ultimately won by the allies, who forced the Soviet Union to return to the Russian Republic, under the White Russians, who led a civil war in Russia.

Early Technological Advancement
It was soon discovered that the Hope was capable of miracles that were almost outlandish. In light of this, the humans of Earth were able to advance technology at an alarming rate that would have taken them decades to accomplish. This lead to the makings of space-ships, advanced computering, robotics and automated machinery in the wake of the 1960s. The 1970s, the militaries of earth were given access to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, nuclear fusion and fission technology, orbital facilities, and other advanced technologies it had pioneered. Colonies were established on other planets in the early 2000s.

The Great Panic and the Rise of Ultranationalism
In the year of 1963, it was released to the public that the low amount of Hope minerals spread across the world cannot keep sustaining their large, complex, advanced technologies for more than a hundred years, which would lead to a massive energy crisis that would doom humanity as a whole unless an alternative resource can be thought up in time.

In the years of recovery, Konstantin Rodzaevsky founded the Eurasian Party in the 1st of July 1964, based entirely on his fascist views, becoming a legal politcal party on the 25th of July. In many speeches from then on, the Eurasian Party provided the solution to the energy crisis was to imbed all territories, cited to have originally belonged to the Russian Empire, of Hope-rich nations in order to sustain themselves until an alternative resource to their problems. This line of thinking was greatly supported in comparison to the White Party's idea of dismantling all advanced technology in order to create technologies based on simplier designs, which only increased their support even further until they became in charge in 1979 under a coalition government with the White Party.

Events
The war began in the year 2000 and ended in 2025. In light of the unveilment of a massive submarine fleet in the Black Sea, the European Union mounted a preemptive strike against the Eurasian Union, which involved a massive nuclear attack against each of their valid enemies - which was every other nation on Earth - leading to every nation in the world declaring war on one another.

Last Humans
The impact on humanity and civilization was severe and traumatic, leaving next to nothing alive. The last remaining survivors were, ironically, in the rival nations of the United States of North America and the Eurasian Empire. Prior to the final nuclear detonations, several leaders of both sides met together in a very secret meeting to discuss the future of humanity. The talks ended up leading to two solutions; the Eurasian Empire was to bult a enormous underground city deep in the Caucasus Mountains to hide thousands of people for hundreds of years in cryogenic stasis before being reawakened; the United States was to build a massive generation ship to take a selected amount of people into space towards Alpha Centauri. These talks were extremely confidential to prevent corrupt power-players from getting in on their plans.

When the bombs finally fell, the plans came into fruition as humanity as a whole was completely wiped out, leaving those who fled into the American generation ship and the Russian underground ark were all that was left of humanity.