*30 years into the future*
Religious extremism continues to grow in the middle east. ISIS continues to assert its control over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria as well as the north-east countries of Africa. In a press release by ISIS, they declared Israel their next victim.
The newly elected President of the United States is a deeply religious man, a fact that carried him through the election with ease. His faith was as defiant and uncompromising as the enemy's, and the people loved him for it. Seeing the danger to Israel, he drew parallels to the biblically prophicized events that would precede the second coming of Christ, which meant that the antichrist had arrived. Motivated by his religious belief that the antichrist was the head of ISIS, he makes the last executive order ever issued by a president of the United States.
In the desert of Nevada sits an underground lab, a converted missile silo, with a team of researchers funded by the US government. Their mission was to create a biological version of the atomic bomb and recreate what it did on August 9th, 1945: End the war.
They settled on toxoplasmosis, modifying its delivery and intensifying its symptoms. The result was a bloodborne viral pathogen that caused hyperviolence, sporadic behavior, sensitivity to light, and would cause miscarriages and still bornes at a 95% rate. The idea was obvious, let the enemy fight each other to death, destroy themselves from within (innocents be damned) and give them no chance to produce children. The official lab name was T-42c although after seeing the first human trial on a Syrian prisoner, it became known internally as the Devil's Aperitif.
Several leading researchers objected to its use after that trial subject, but a presidential order is a hell of a thing to fight. They should have closed the doors and torched the god forsaken lab. But...well, humanity has always been hell bent on destroying itself.
More coming...
