The Unknown Interdimensional Anomalous Waves or simply waves, is an unknown phenomena that remains a mystery to the world despite the advances in science and technology, in which otherworldly monsters would drop down from it. The first wave appeared on 2nd of March, 1951, directly above New York City, and seven hours later the city was engulfed in nuclear fire as a certain General used his position and influence to push for the dropping of not one but three atomic bombs towards the city of New York. The General was sacked from his position and the United States was forced to face the United Nations in Geneva for dropping an atomic bomb at their own city. One of the Soviet delegates accused the United States as an attempt to justify sparking a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and that delegate was immediately removed.
The Americans presented video evidence to somehow justify their actions, albeit they admit it was the result of a former General abusing his station that resulted in the atomic bombing of New York. Many nations remained sceptical of otherworldly monsters appearing from the sky but the United Nation at least spearheaded the investigation of the monsters that came from it. One thing that wasn’t noticed during that time is that the waves introduced an unknown element to Earth, which was later called magicules or simply “magic”. The Second Wave would hit exactly 4 months after the first one, and this time the waves would appear in New York once again, as well as this time in the city of London, United Kingdom. The chaos the waves brought caused a total casualties of 4 million plus people.
It is during this time, due to no one opting to drop the sun on their own cities, found several discoveries such as that the weakest of the monsters, standing at an average height of 3 to 5 metres, with looks looking like a hybrid between an arachnid and a human, except extremely deformed. It was later classified as Grunt Class and the most numerous, would require at least a ratio of 3 soldiers facing off against 1 Grunt Class and that the 25 metres tall in average, later classified as Tank-Class, were large gorilla like creatures, with again abnormally deformed features, are able to take at least 2 to 5 AP rounds fired from a 105mm rifled gun of main battle tanks and these monsters are able to tear through steel as if it's paper.
One thing all the anomalous monsters have in common is the desire to eat every single living organism in their way, and it has been recorded later on that cows are effective for luring away those monsters as they seem to prioritise on feeding on the cow before humans. The next following waves would hit every major city in the world and would cause countless deaths as humanity is forced to adapt against an unknown enemy that simply acts like a mindless mob running straight to a hail of bullets to simply eat. The few monsters that actually employ different tactics first appeared in the 19th wave in Athens, Greece when the first avian monster appeared, which has similar appearance to wyverns in works of fiction, but with very disfigured features, a common physical characteristic of all monsters that appeared from the waves.
This is also the wave of final confirmation of the appearance of magicules or magic, when a soldier from the Hellenic Armed Forces managed to conjure some sort of shield when a Grunt Class monster was about to pierce one of its legs towards the soldier. The soldier managed to survive the wave in Athens and was later brought to Brussels for experimentation a week later. It would take at least 7 years for magic to be fully understood and it boiled down to one’s ability to create an image of what one wants to conjure. It was also discovered by NASA together with Soviet Space Program 3 years after the full understanding of magic, that by drawing with the use of magic in an object also imbued with magic, one could create a tool that could easily conjure whatever magic was programmed in the drawing. It is however a time intensive process until the creation of precision lasers and advancement in computers.
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Then in 1965, in the 45th wave in Manila, Philippines, a monster that defies all logic appeared at the entrance of Manila Bay, standing at 150 metres, a giant blob of flesh with parts of its skin resembling the distorted faces of people. The first thing it did that delayed its coming to the city and allowed for almost the complete evacuation of the city, is that it mindlessly ate the fishes underwater. It took 4 days for a force that could deal with the monster arrived, a United Nations Combined Fleet from the US, British, Soviet, Japanese, French, Italian, Philippine and Australian Navies. The battle raged on for an entire day and one night and resulted in the sinking of the battleships USS North Carolina, USS Illinois, HMS Duke of York, HMS Howe, Richelieu, Duilio, and Novorossiysk as well as 6 aircraft carriers, 19 cruisers, and 37 destroyers but the monster was killed and its remains would offer a breakthrough that would make the next waves slowly become easier for humanity to handle.
These gigantic monsters would later be called Behemoth Class due to all of them never getting shorter than a 100 metres. They also appeared every 25 waves after it. The appearance of the Behemoth accelerated the need for a much more unified response and what followed is the eventual formation of a much more United Humanity. Development in space developed at an extremely fast rate as contingency plans of escaping the planet if ever the waves become too much for humanity to handle became one of the priorities of the United Nations. Research on magicules was also performed, although it is considered a rare resource as it can only be collected during the onset of a wave or from the organs from the carcass of monsters.
By the 100th wave, year 1983, humanity has developed more or less effective strategies in tackling the waves that occur everywhere all at once in the world in every country’s major city, although it would take the 163rd wave or in 2004, for the first ever wave to have zero casualty to occur as technology advanced to the point that before the monsters could even get to the ground, they get obliterated with either from missiles, railguns, or other weapon platforms from the ground, essentially “spawn killing” the monsters. It was also in 2004 when the serious missions to send reconnaissance missions toward the waves started and from 2004 to 2010, 24 unmanned missions, the first ones from drones simply flying towards the entrance of the waves then to later ones launching rockets carrying rovers similar to those sent to Venus and Mars a decade before. None of them ever returned a single image the moment they entered the wave entrance.
In 2009, it was decided to send a manned mission towards the wave, as it is expected that the personnel could be able to potentially return after 4 months entering from a wave. So from 2009 to 2015, the development for the deep reconnaissance mission occurred and for six months in 2011, a selection process, in which has to be voluntarily, begun with a Private First Class from the United Nations 13th Mobile Task Force, part of the United Nations 3rd North America Mechanised Division, named Cassandra Ivystone, who was chosen instead of a Major from the United Nations 1st Orbital Divers due to the Major deciding to back off last minute as he got a girlfriend.
On the 13th of December, 2016, the 200th wave occurred and at the same time, the launch for humanity’s first manned exploration beyond the waves was set.