Alternate History

August 6th 1945 - Bombing of Hiroshima, “Little Boy” Detonated with a far greater efficiency than in real life resulting in a 30KT explosion instead of 15.

August 9th 1945 - Bombing of Nagasaki, “Fat Man” fails to detonate in air and instead detonates on impact. Less damage but greater fallout.

August 18th 1945 - Japan Surrenders

December 15th 1945 - Bombing of Hamburg, "Slim Lady" detonates with a yield of 15KT.

December 17th 1945 - Nazi Germany Surrenders ending WWII

July 13. 1950 - Lebanon, Ohio a B-50 was on a training mission from Biggs AFB, Texas. The aircraft was flying at 7,000 feet on a clear day. Aircraft nosed down and flew into the ground setting off the 50 KT Bomb destroying the town.

May 19th 1957 - Feriflexite is created while trying to make a new ultra durable alloy of steel.

May 5th 1959 - Scalonthan Movement is founded by [DATA RETRIEVAL IN PROGRESS]

February 26th 1963 - Second American Civil War over Reptilian Rights. Started by the Scalonthan Movement in Brooklyn, New York

October 23rd 1966 - Scalonthan Victory. They take the Rust Belt, Great Lakes and New England. 

October 25th 1966 - After a countrywide poll Montpileier, Vermont is selected as the nation's capital

November 8th 1966 - First president of Scalontha, Joe Heirn, is elected.

October 6th 1973 - Tau Base Constructed on Kergulean for naval missions in the Indian Ocean.

April 12th 1977 - Paper on “Radiation based Artificial Intelligence” by Federick Dalton published as his thesis.

July 22nd 1978 - Federick Dalton hired by USA Military to work on Rad-AI in Los Alamos.

September 3rd 1978 - Project Caramel started to create a self deliverable attack robot. 

December 17th 1984 - Neural Foam created by Federick Dalton marking the first major success in Project Caramel

Jan 11th - March 18th 1985 - Nukites conceived in Los Alamos. Gets approved and Project Caramel is restarted with this as the primary focus to achieving its initial goal.

1986 - Major breakthrough in Nukite development when Cherri gets himself captured for a few days in Albuquerque after time travel. Loses Recompiler there.

December 31st 1988 -  A large astroid hits the front of the moon. A particularly large piece of ejecta falls to Earth the following year landing on the southern island of the plateau.

March 13th 1989 - French expedition team finds the meteorite and discovers its composed of an highly radioactive unnamed element. 

July 3rd 1990 - Nukite prototype design finalized.

October 3rd 1991 - Gadget (1) constructed, First Nukite

December 25th 1991 - USSR Collapses. Despite the main inciting force behind Project Caramel now ceasing to exist it caries on with the new purpose of infultrating and initiating a surprise attack on Scalontha

November 13th 1992 - 2  (Half-Life) Activated

September 10th 1993 - 3 (Radiation) Activated

July 31st 1994 - 4 (Ground Burst) Activated

August 14th 1994 - Operation Goldenrod proposed and accepted.

February 5th 1995 - First 4 Nukites sent to Kerguelen

March 19th 1995 - Nucleus founded by 1

July 4th 1995 - 5 (Air Burst) Activated

June 25th 1996 - 6 (Fallout) Activated

February 24th 1997 - The Richenbacker runs aground on Kerguelen right near the Nucleus 

June 15th 1997 - 7 (Firestorm) Activated

January 9th 1998 - 8 (Isotope) Activated

November 12th 1998 - Spain captures 3 Moroccan officials suspected of planning to steal information from them.

December 3rd 1998 - Tensions between Morocco and Spain peak and Morocco attacks Spain starting war.

March 18th 1999 - 9 (Neutron) Activated

2000-2010

December 31st 2000 - 10 (Gamma) Activated

May 11th 2001 - 11 (Fission) Activated

June 15th 2001 - Marrow is born

September 7th 2001 - NYC ordered to evacuate from an incoming Hurricane Amber, a previously unseen category 6 storm. 

September 12th 2001 -The hurricane hits NYC at roughly 6pm causing serious damage and flooding. Thousands die. An American battleship named the USS REMINGTON filled with munitions to assist Spain in their war against Morocco its washed into the southern tip of Manhattan by the hurricane at 11pm impacts Battery Park. It catches fire from sparks generated by impacting a building on the lowest decks and slowly smolders at first. 

September 13th 2001 - At 7am the munitions on the ship catches fire and explodes with the force of 5 Kilotons. Firestorm (7) witnesses its detonation on Live TV. The explosion levels all nearby buildings and causes enough damage to the mostly vacant south tower of the world trade center that it collapses a few hours later. Operation Goldenrod is postponed to October 1st.

October 1st 2001 - Day of the operation Firestorm refuses to cooperate after witnessing what happened on the 13th and results in all currently built Nukites getting shipped to Kerguelen in the following year.

January 5th 2002 - Nukites 6-11 shipped to Kerguelen all consecutive attempts in persuading Nukites to go along with the operation fail resulting in each one getting sent away the following year.

April 2nd 2002 - Moroccan-Spain war ends with Spanish victory and the country annexing Morocco.

July 5th 2002 - 12 (Fusion) Activated

August 2nd 2002 - Details on Operation Goldenrod leak online. Everyone thinks its a hoax given how the idea of living nukes is “Absurd and straight out of science fiction”

July 3rd 2003 - 13 (Megadeath) Activated

November 18th 2003 - Cleanup of the damage from the Remington Disaster completed. 

August 16th 2004 - 14 (Ion) Activated

June 20th 2005 - 15 (Fireball) Activated

April 29th 2006 - 16 (Implosion) Activated

September 19th 2007 - 17 (Explosion) Activated

October 1st 2008 - 18 (Radiotoxicity) Activated

March 3rd 2009 - 19 (Sievert) Activated

April 5th 2009 - A soldier posts a photograph on Brik.com of the terrible food rations they got. 19 is barely visible in the reflection of the polished floor. In the following years this results in a ‘conspiracy theory’ about that leak being legitimate from several years prior and “Living Nukes” being real.

2010-Present

November 7th 2010 - 20 (Decay) Activated

April 1st 2011 - 21 (Yield) Activated and he detonated shortly after, destroying Los Alamos and several cities. Reported as an asteroid strike. Project put on hold as new facility is built near Kerguelen.

October 12th 2012 - Sievert Detonates

November 11th 2014 - Isotope and Explosion Detonate. Ion destroys Tarot Base in an absolute rage.

January 3rd 2015 - An earthquake strikes the Plateau causing damage to Tau Base and the scrap towns.

May 4th 2018 - Marrow learns of the “Living Nuke Conspiracy” from a Uutube video and becomes obsessed with getting to the bottom of it.

July 3rd 2019 - A diagram from 2005 about an object called the NAW Sensor Array is leaked. (The sensors in a Nukites head) Causing some action in the conspiracy community relating to the living nukes

December 30th 2020 - Marrow gets a lead about a possible secret island in the ‘Sea of Fog’ when pouring over a poorly scrubbed declassified document on military shipments from 2010. Document specifically mentions transit from Los Alamos of a NAW to the sea. He decides to save money to investigate.

September 29th 2021 - Marrow arrives in Argentina 

October 1st 2021 - Marrows ship departs from Argentina to the ‘Sea of Fog’

October 9th 2021 - Early in the morning Marrows ship is struck by a torpedo and sunk. He survives and is later washed ashore nearly dead where he is found by an Aeromorph passing through Nucleus. He runs to the nearest presently occupied shack, in this case Firestorms, and alerts him. Firestorm then warms him up with the heating ability nukites possess by cuddling in his bed.

December 7th 2021 - Nukite rebellion occurs and succeeds at overthrowing the military gaining them freedom. World learns of their existence and the leaks are confirmed as true.

May 24th 2022 - Nukites get ownership of the subcontinent and found the nation of Silverstrech 

September 8th 2023 - Detonated Nukites recompiled after the Recompiler is found in the ruins of Tarot Base

November 15th 2023 - Yield steals the Recompiler and nukes 10 major cities across the globe starting a minor year long nuclear winter. Major setback for Nukites acceptance by the world.

January 12th 2024 - Yield convicted for genocide, banished to Creators Island, Silverstrech by all countries of the globe for 1000 years.