Cosovan's Last Resort

Cosovan's Last Resort
"Even with our combined forces, those damned Arcanians will not fall! Time to show them not to fuck with Giuseppi Volga!"

-Giuseppi Volga speaking to Hans Compton, the leader of Germania

The Decision
In the last year of the Second Cosovani War, Cosovan and Germania were getting very desperate to defeat the Arcanian forces. Before a meeting of the Cosovan High Senate, Volga delivered a speech suggesting a nuclear strike:

"My fellow citizens of Cosovan. The conflict in which we are immersed has obviously drawn on for much longer than we have participated. We have inflicted heavy losses, including the death of their leader, Jules Verdi Arcan, but the Sharp Shooters, their elite forces, are respectfully deadly, inflicting nearly twice as many losses to us. I believe that in order to rid us of this threat and to bring us peace, I believe that total elimination is necessary.

By "total elimination," he meant a nuclear strike. The Cosovan High Senate, which is made up of 200 members, passed the strike 198-2, vastly clearing the 75% majority required.

The Strike
June 5th, 2041 was a cheery summer day in Arcania. People were out celebrating school getting out and going on vacation. However, no one was prepared for what was to come. An CA-10 Strategic Bomber, armed with nuclear weapons, flew undetected over Sarajevo and released its payload. The chaos was overwhelming. Within 10 seconds of the blast, nearly 120,000 of the town's 2.5 million people in the city were killed. Another 2.3 million were injured and of them an estimated 1.5 million will die from the effects of the bomb. The survivors ran from their homes into the streets, many of which were blocked off by rubble and fire. Arcanian Nuclear Troopers were sent to the area to perform cleanup and comfort the citizens. Cenort and the other High Command, fearing a strike, fled the city and urged others to, but few listened.

The Aftermath
The world was appalled. Nuclear weapons were only used once, and those weapons were weaker and used on smaller populations. Such a large scale attack was never before initiated. In response, the United Nations went to war with Cosovan; Germania backed out and helped with the attack. Giuseppi Volga fled Athens, Cosovan's capital, and went into hiding; his current location is still unknown. Afraid that all-out war will follow, Cenort and the High Command fled into a secret cave system, where the magnificent story of the Sharp Shooters ends and a new one begins.