Deaths in the Faerie Apocalypse, Part III
Jun. 10th, 2013 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigA discussion in several parts of the near-extinction of humanity in my Faerie Apocalypse Setting.
The Gods' Return: here
The Terms Used: here.
The returned gods killed a large number of people by direct or indirect smiting; in the process of claiming the cities, they killed an exponentially larger number with collateral damage.
When those Ellehemaei who had been here on Earth all along (or been born on Earth since the gods departed) got in on the act, fighting back against the returned gods, the collateral damage only got worse.
This is important, because what the humans tended to see was simply two freaks of nature tearing down buildings in their fight (flooding rivers, changing the course of storms, lighting city blocks on fire, and so on). They had - history, at least, had - no patience for divisions of "protecting humanity" vs. "enslaving humanity," because all of these creatures were causing damage in their fighting.
The U.S. National Guard* had begun to mobilize as the first major damage occurred, but it was not until months later, when Los Angeles fell entirely under the sway of The Green Man, that Congress declared war on the invading army of gods.
At this point, the collateral damage numbers skyrocketed once again. War is a messy thing; war on your home territory is a horrible thing. Soldiers were sent unprepared into battle against gods (and there was only so well they could be prepared, even with advisers who knew what the Ellehemaei were and how to fight them); they died by the hundreds, and then by the thousands.
Then some genius discovered that you could kill an Ellehemaei if you dropped a big enough bomb on its head.
* Now with asterisk! - I am familiar enough with the U.S. response to be able to hazard a guess what they would do; I am far less familiar with the threat/disaster response in other countries. If those with familiarity there would like to lend a hand, I'd be appreciative.
Part IV - http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/546168.html
The Gods' Return: here
The Terms Used: here.
The returned gods killed a large number of people by direct or indirect smiting; in the process of claiming the cities, they killed an exponentially larger number with collateral damage.
When those Ellehemaei who had been here on Earth all along (or been born on Earth since the gods departed) got in on the act, fighting back against the returned gods, the collateral damage only got worse.
This is important, because what the humans tended to see was simply two freaks of nature tearing down buildings in their fight (flooding rivers, changing the course of storms, lighting city blocks on fire, and so on). They had - history, at least, had - no patience for divisions of "protecting humanity" vs. "enslaving humanity," because all of these creatures were causing damage in their fighting.
The U.S. National Guard* had begun to mobilize as the first major damage occurred, but it was not until months later, when Los Angeles fell entirely under the sway of The Green Man, that Congress declared war on the invading army of gods.
At this point, the collateral damage numbers skyrocketed once again. War is a messy thing; war on your home territory is a horrible thing. Soldiers were sent unprepared into battle against gods (and there was only so well they could be prepared, even with advisers who knew what the Ellehemaei were and how to fight them); they died by the hundreds, and then by the thousands.
Then some genius discovered that you could kill an Ellehemaei if you dropped a big enough bomb on its head.
* Now with asterisk! - I am familiar enough with the U.S. response to be able to hazard a guess what they would do; I am far less familiar with the threat/disaster response in other countries. If those with familiarity there would like to lend a hand, I'd be appreciative.
Part IV - http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/546168.html
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Date: 2013-06-11 02:41 am (UTC)Which is fair, because for a lot of Ellehemaei, they're mostly the same thing.
You have an asterisk after National Guard but no footnote?
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Date: 2013-06-11 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-11 12:08 pm (UTC)