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Empire Defense Directorate Situational Assessment
The following report has been compiled
from Empire Defense Directorate agency
documents examining the Rip event as well
it’s results, the Post-War Psychic
Phenomenon, and the overall impact to the
British Empire.
Background Report
(Source: ORE, Date: 17 th March 1949)
The event that changed the
world, later to be known as the
“Rip”, was set in motion when the
Enola Gay dropped the Uranium-based
“Little Boy” atomic bomb on
Hiroshima on August 6 th , 1945. The
devastating immediate destruction
of 80,000 souls’ results in an
almost translucent ripple that
radiates out from the impact point.
Its effects go unnoticed, the
reaction of the surviving animals,
which cowered and whimpered as the
wave passed, being attributed to
the explosion and resulting blast
wave. Even the continued subdued
behavior of pets, livestock, and
all wildlife throughout the
surrounding 500 miles, all the way
to Kagoshima in the southwest and
Tokyo in the northeast, was masked
under the on-going effects of the
bombing and war with the Allies.
The scene was set.
When Bockscar carried Plutonium-
based “Fat Man” to Nagasaki on
August 9 th no one could have
predicted the result. As had
happened at Hiroshima the combined
energy release both nuclear and
that due to the violent death and
suffering of over 75,000 people
traveled outward, until it reached
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