War of 3008

The War of 3008 also reffered to as the War of Defence, is a short but significant event that happened in the Voltex Universe. The event is the turning point where ASWS set their grand plan into motion and is the starting point of other VU's events.

Before the war
in 2995, the ASWS Corporation was formed and from an outside perspective they were manufacturing military materiel and providing private security for a world still recovering, they were also secretly amassing a massive stockpile of weapons, vehicles, equipment and a mechanized army of robots. The United States was largely unaware of the stockpilling of weapons despite launching undercover investigations. ASWS attacked various military installations in secret to weaken the United States before initiating their grand plan of taking over the country.

Start of the war
On October 23rd 3008, ASWS unleashed its surprise attack on the United States from the state of Colorado. News quickly spread across the country of large airships dropping off large robot armies over important military sites and high priority locations. The United States immediately launched a counter attack with its own military. However, within the first day of the war, ASWS wipes out over 100 military sites and overrun several military bases. The United States continues thier counterattack but news later came out of that ASWS had established its presence in a several major cities in the west. They slowly pushed towards the eest while also sending robots to Alaska and Hawaii and by the second day, the west half of the United States fell into the control of ASWS and had fortified its defences. On the east half, the United States military had regrouped and recieved reinforcements from other countries. Most prominently the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

Conflict among robots
While the major conflict occured in the east, in the west a large community of robots were attacked by ASWS robot army. Among which, Wall-G, Lass-E, Doc-E, Wall-E, Eve and Reece were caught within the crossfire who fought back the incoming army while trying to safeguard the safety of seven colored emeralds. Slowly each of them fall victim to the army rampage and Reece was only able to seal away two of the seven emeralds he had on hand before abandoning the rest for his own safety.

United States Surrender
On the final days of the war, ASWS continue to overpower the military might of the United States and the reinforcements it had recieved and, as a last ditch attempt to end the war, launch ICBMs towards ASWS's robot army to disable them with EMPs. The explosions had limited effect on the robots and caused more human casualties causing controversy. In the final hours of the war, ASWS launched an assault in Washington D.C where ASWS robots simply occupied the streets while attacking any attempts of retaliation and surrounding the White House where they force the United States to surrender. Soon after, ASWS at the United Nations Headquaters announce their plans to the world and majority of nations comply out of safety and economics while some nations refuse which resulted in their takeover or destruction.

Aftermath
After the war, ASWS took control over the United States and intergrated itself into the government with the agreement of total control over the country's military affairs for little to no intervention in political matters. In which the United States Armed Forces was merged into ASWS's private security forming the United Advanced Special Forces (UASF) and initiated global peace by constructing a vast network of satelites and military installations to establish their presence as well as taking over video surveillance, effectively watching over every nation and other military forces. Protests and civil unrest due to this quickly form and were often dealt with quickly.

Various military companies were either assimilated into ASWS or were closely monitored. Other non-military companies were often left alone but some benifited from ASWS's new rule. Buy N Large was however destroyed due to their past history and companies affliated with them were either assimilated into ASWS or destroyed. Some countries had came forward to sign agreements with ASWS to show their loyalty towards them while some countries were destroyed when they continued to defy ASWS's rule.

Global transportation also saw heavy surveillance with harash regulation over the sales of weapons and materiel to certain nations. During ASWS's new rule, an underground resistance group consisting of both robots and humans called the Anti-System Force (ASF) in which through the black market amass power and used guerilla tactics against ASWS and increased in size over the years all while remaining hidden from detection.

The robot Reece, having witnessed all of his friends and the community he knew destroyed infront of him, suffers from severe PTSD and fear of ASWS and he attempts to distance himself from the war's events by assuming a new name and color all while getting a new job to gain a new body.

Trivia

 * The War of 3008 is inspired by the Seven Hour War event from Half Life 2 where the attacker (ASWS/Combine) invades and takes over the world with ease within a short timeframe (Three Days/Seven Hours).