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Part one

I guess if one were to go back and try to guess where it all started, they'd say right after they bombed us. Wiping it off the map, they'd say, is what caused this stupid messed up state we're in now. Erasing criticism for the ongoing wars, unifying the country in a march against the perpetrators. What's this? You don't remember what happened? I keep forgetting I've lived so long that the entire war, slaughter more like it, is now just a history books in what went wrong with humanity.

The Enemy, the spooky, nebulous description was what we called them, from there after. The extremists that decided to take their religious fanaticism to an extreme and detonate a nuclear bomb off in the city. It was that simple. It was that complex. Anyway, for the short version: They weren't some simple backwater terrorist organization, these were state sponsored, the worst of them all. We were leafleted right after, in all the major cities, telling us that this was our own fault. Should never have provoked them, they said. Weep not for those who were sacrificed to their ridiculous god, they declared; it was only to show us the true path!

But this is nowhere near when the actual problems started.