Anarchy

"20, even 10 years ago, scenes of bombed wastelands, and scattered mutilated bodies, stretching for 100s of miles, were distant horrors of old world wars. Since the end of the sixty-minute war, the sight of these has become simply a fact of life..."

I have been bunkered down deep within the Kanaki Institute, in the heart of the URSA [United Republic of South Asia], for a number of months now. I was stranded after I had travelled here to attend a conference. I am curretly working on restoring internet services by linking surviving servers and connections. Fortunately much of the connecting hardware is deep underground and much of it is underwater aswell. Although much of the old internet data has been wiped out, there remains enough hardware to link to small areas all over the world.

From these early connections, I have been able to view images and collect data, from surviving people living in these wastelands, to try and begin to piece together what has happened here.

The stories from these people are fragmented at best, and their views are biased and memories blurred by panic and high emotions. Although, many point to military action as a possible source of blame for The Event in what has been dubbed, by some, as the "Sixty-Minute War." The above quotation is a message that I received from one of my sources.

I, on the other hand, suspect that The Event was likely caused by something altogether more complicated which may, or may not, have included military action of some sort.

What is more important now, however, is how people cope with the aftermath. My sources tell me that "order and civilisation has collapsed" in many parts of the world. Many people seem to be struggling to survive, and are fighting each other for resources. Some I spoken to, of obviously lower intelligence, seem to rejoice in this state of what they call "Anarchy," the total collapse of law and order in these areas. They seem to view it as some sort of 'revenge,' or more worryingly, as a chance to "turn the tables" on "The Man." Ignoring the fact, of course, that most of the people killed during The Event were ordinary civilians.

These opportunistic thugs are only interested in distrupting survivors attempts to restore some sort of order, and to distribute basic necessities, such as food, safely and fairly. People are living in constant fear of being attacked for their supplies.

As it stands, I have not been able to establish contact with anyone in my home country of Germany, and I do not anticipate being able to return there any time soon.

Dr. Benedikt Schreiber.