The detonation of American atomic bombs in Tennessee however, followed by German and Soviet atomic bombs in Europe, succeeded in halting the Scinfaxi advance. Without any conventional means to defeat the Scinfaxi, “doomsday” settlements in Antarctica were developed in the event of complete defeat. At the height of their advance, the Scinfaxi had reached as far north as Edmonton in North America, and Berlin in Europe. The Southern Hemisphere was lost nearly immediately, having been previously been devastated during the Virus Crisis. The initial landings of the Scinfaxi were centered around the specific areas in which Earth’s climate best suited their terraforming virus, most notably in Australia, Africa, and South America.
A war of extermination on the part of the Scinfaxi, every nation entered a state of “total war” in which the entire economic, industrial and scientific capabilities of each country were dedicated to the war effort.
It was the most widespread and devastating war in history, with over 650,000,000 casualties, nearly a third of the total human population at that time. It involved the entirety of the world’s nations that had survived the Virus Crisis forming a common front against the extraterrestrial Scinfaxi. The First Scinfaxi War, also known as the Great Scinfaxi War, was a global war that lasted from 1943 to 1947 with sporadic fighting until 1951.
