The U.S. is knee-deep in apple pie and amber waves of grain. The
Red Menace is all but dead, diluted into the World Socialist Alliance,
a harmless humanitarian organization with U.S.-friendly puppet leader
Premier Romanov shaking hands and making speeches. Peace and prosperity
reign. Then the reports come in.
Reports
of U.S. citizens in the southwest U.S. succumbing to fits
of dizziness and nausea. Others falling into a state of
zombie-like submission, turning against both family and
nation. Intelligence reports soon link the disturbance to
a Soviet presence in Mexico, where, with a nod from the
U.S., Romanov's WSA troops are supposedly putting down an
insurrection. But it's soon revealed as an elaborate ruse,
as Soviet troopslike none the Allies have ever seenstorm
Texas, then California, and other major cities. Planting
mysterious beacons along the way, the Soviet troops are
led by psychic generals who use their minds instead of munitions
to push forward with their invasion of the U.S. In the cities,
Americans take up arms against their neighbors. In the country,
patriotic farmers weep as they watch their cowsstrapped
with explosives and saddled by mind-controlmarch into
military installations to explode in deadly clouds of beefy,
succulent shrapnel. President Dugan opts for a decisive
nuclear strike. The red phone rings. The button is pushed.
Nothing happens.
By
now, intelligence sources confirm the worst: Romanov is behind the
siege, and he's using the most mysteriousand terrifyingtechnology
to date: psychically enhanced troops whose minds are as deadly as their
AK-47s. Premier Romanov's full agenda is soon unveiled. The Premier
has for years used the WSA as a front to develop a global network of
Communist allies who want to see the Hammer and Sickle replace the
Stars and Stripes. Having developed his psychic technology in secret
for years, Romanov finally has the means to do it. Romanov's motivations,
meanwhile, are more personal than those of his communist cohorts. Still
stung by the fall of the Soviet Union after the Cold Warmemories
that have haunted him since his childhoodRomanov has long promised
to make America pay for its crimes against Mother Russia. And he's
found the perfect way: not by destroying the last bastion of the free
world, but by using mind-control technology to cripple his Allied enemies,
leaving the infrastructure, defenses and resources of America free
for the taking. Romanov plans to turn the United States into the premier
Communist republic of the west.
Its nuclear arsenal temporarily disabled, the U.S. gathers its conventional
forcesand some unconventional ones. Using its own time-warp technology
to thwart the Soviet foes, the U.S. and its allies rally to stop Romanov's
twisted plan. Will it be Stars and Stripes or Hammer and Sickle? The
final battleon American soil, in American citieswill determine
the fate of the free world.
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