WWW2.
Konflict ’47 I think that the radio signals are from Earth’s future as they dabble with time travel. They don’t appear to have perfected sending matter through into the past, but sending signals to the past seems possible. It is still unsure why this period was chosen to make a change. Why endeavour to change the manor of victory or the result of such a conflict? The senders could be irrevocably changing their reality through causal after effects of their fuelling of this technological arms race in their own past. It begs the question just how bad can their current reality be to risk destroying all? The peoples of 20th century just know that they can’t turn down this information, not having the luxury of wondering why they are being manipulated or corrupted by their own future. It is truly a time of total war and the devil take the hindmost.
I made up my own scenario.
Professor Verflucht is a criminally immoral and ambitious scientist. While the rest of the scientists have been embracing technological improvements garnered from the rift messages, it was Professor Verflucht that was most interested in the reanimation of the Totenkorps, chemical warfare and mind manipulating weaponry. German high command found him conducting experiments on German soldiers in the African campaign where he felt he was beyond the watchful eyes of Berlin’s influence. Lucky for the abused dutiful soldiers of the Reich, Professor Verflucht was wrong and the Professor was arrested and stopped. Or was he?
Sadly Professor Verflucht escaped his captors before trial. During interview Professor Verflucht proved to be crazed and felt hideously betrayed by the arrest and stabbed at the double standard the German high command were judging him by. The professor raged that if he had experimented on ‘untermenschen’ subjects as the Nazis had done instead of on soldiers he would not have been rotting in a cell.
Professor Verflucht appears to have found a new pay master. A Finnish army, under the leadership of a passionately anti-Soviet General, recently found unexpected successes against the Soviets in the far North. Professor Verflucht’s influence seems to be at hand in some new weapons used. An airborne virus has been developed to be fired by mortar round. Once detonated the unit affected quickly mutated into a zombie-like state and attempted to kill their comrades. The virus at the moment seems too virulent. The effected unit rotted and crumbled very quickly once the initial source of human blood ran dry. In the latest battle, just as the Soviet’s began to rally in the midst of the terrible infectious mortar barrage, packs of infected Rottweilers were set upon them. Some of the animals were gunned down, but somehow twitched back into life. Reenergized and reanimated the zombie dogs bounded into the enemy and created panic and savage wounds.
A Finnish unit found itself overextended and exposed to punishing fire from the last remanence of the Soviet defensive line. A Finnish officer got as close to the pinned unit as he could and used a sonic weapon – a loud hailer of some kind – and the unit suddenly ignored the danger, picked up their weapons and returned fire on the enemy with new ferocity. Sadly this ignoring of cover and incoming fire made the Finnish easier to pick off, but the fire power coming back from the unit began to keep the Soviet’s heads down. Soon the mortars and fresh packs of Rottweilers brought around their flanks took their toll and the Soviet line and it finally fragmented and broke. Who knows what other dastardly weapons Verflucht has created?