Salvation War Table of Contents, Summary, and Reference

[Surlethe]

There's been a lot of commentary in the Armageddon??? thread (27 pages as of the creation of this thread), and there's no table of contents, so I thought I'd create one here as a reference if people need it. What will follow is a list of links to the parts so far published and short summaries of what happens in the given section of the story. This thread will be updated and perhaps bumped every once in a while, unless a mod decides to sticky it.

The first Armageddon??? thread has been locked for length; the second can be found here. The second thread was locked for length; the third can be found here.

Stravo has posted a clean copy of the story here in the Cleaned Up Fanfics subforum. (Thanks, Maya.)

First things first: the SLAM thread that started it all is here.

Updated 4/11/09 and completed; I'll keep this (loosely) updated to serve as a guide for Pantheocide when that rolls out next month, if it keeps to schedule.

Pantheocide has been rolled out; the first story thread is here.



[Please be warned: Spoilers lie ahead in the form of plot summaries for individual chapters]






Armageddon????, by Stuart; some contributions by Stravo, Surlethe, CaptainChewbacca, Alferd Packer, Starglider, and JN1

Part 1: First contact; first engagement; world decides to go to war

Part 2: More engagement; more heralds die;

Part 3: President's briefing; Satan learns the heralds have been killed; Bill kills a succubus

Part 4: Humanity starts to learn about how baldricks work; James Randi recruited

Part 5: Hell launches its first invasion force under Abigor; humanity watches; humanity destroys its first target in hell; Bush gives a speech

Part 6: Satan questions the destruction in hell; Julie is cured of schizophrenia; aluminum hats; Lt Kim kills some harpies and is herself killed

Part 7: Pulling equipment out of mothballs; plans to mobilize US economy for total war; al-Qaida bombs baldricks; strategic situation in Iraq

Part 8: Mobilization begins; Russian mafia; PFLH begins; a demon strikes back against untinned heads

Part 9: Iranians and Brits in Iraq; Petraeus evaluates the situation; Abigor evaluates the situation

Part 10: Morning of the first battle; tankers; airborne battle; baldrick cavalry

Part 11: Airborne battle; bad news to a Duke baldrick; infantry charge; escaped harpies die

Part 12: Reverse-engineering of entanglement done; PFLH meet a resistance fighter; succubus defection

Part 13: Battle continues; baldricks die in droves; baldricks break and run

Part 14: Harpy meets angel; angel kicks ass; angel shot by US army; potential seer into hell comes to Randi

Part 15: Update on situation in Iraq; Lugasharmanka comes to the US; demonologist is drafted into government service

Part 16: PFLH; Tango flight leaves Rahab; kitten contacts Tango flight and PFLH begins properly

Part 17: Abigor learns of the defeat of the flanking forces and rethinks his strategy; Petraeus sees the strategy implemented and redeploys his forces accordingly; Randi institute learns more about Luga

Part 18: Abigor's army begins to charge the Allied center; Abigor nearly dies; groups of baldricks begin to filter into the infantry on the human right flank

Part 19: Infantry beaten back in Iraq; Randi hears workable hypothesis on Nephilim; kitten gets ready to open a portal to Hell

Part 20: PFLH reconnaissance; first portal opens in Hell; resupply; Abigor begins to retreat

Part 21: Old planes begin to be requisitioned; DIMO(N) has a Hell simulator; Bush speaks to the nation and rations gas

Part 22: Dr Surlethe dissects baldricks; random baldrick attack at a mall

Part 23: Governments begin to organize militias; Lugasharmanaska is interviewed in the Oval Office; DIMO(N) analyzes the interview; high-calibre weaponry is contracted

Part 24: PFLH begins striking back; Satan learns of it; PFLH kills an angelic delegation

Part 25: Memnon is fleeing from the human forces; Stevenson and her unit continue to chase the broken army; Abigor is lost in the desert

Part 26: The UK is mobilizing; Bush Administration institute home defense militias; the UK keeps mobilizing

Part 27: Randi is warned of Uriel; UK is mobilizing and conscripting veterans

Part 28: Dawkins is murdered, rescued; PFLH is resupplied

Part 29: Abigor is nearly captured and returns to Dysprosium; Dr Kuroneko joins DIMO(N)

Part 30: Rahab talks to PFLH; Abigor and Memno go to Satan; Memnon relates his story; Satam orders Abigor to attack the humans once more

Part 31: More UK mobilizing; Abigor sallies forth; Abigor surrenders and defects

Part 32: Baldricks are closely related to humans; Michael in Yahweh's temple; Abigor is taken to a POW camp; "highway to Hell"

Part 33: PFLH destroy a castle; USAF mobilizing

Part 34: Satan orders Asmodeus to wipe out PFLH and hears Abigor has defected; Dr Kuroneko tells the military they can't nuke portals; UK mobilizes

Part 35: Asmodeus begins to plan the assault on PFLH; Belial proposes using WMDs; Lugasharmanaska plans to contact Deumos

Part 36: DIMO(N) considers the problems vehicles have in Hell; thunder run into Hell

Part 37: Belial and Euryale begin planning the attacks; Luga uses Randi's tech to contact Deumos and demonstrate human power

Part 38: Directions and an assault on the Phlegethon from the Hellmouth; in Tartarus, problems finding human cities to assault; UK mobilization

Part 39: Tucker McElroy rescued; Belial continues planning for the assault

Part 40: Assault on the Dysprosium Highway bridge over the Phlegethon; Lakheenahuknaasi continues putting into effect Belial's plan to subvert human slaves; McElroy converses with kitten

Part 41: A jackass and other new recruits for kitten's position; a human in Tartarus decides to betray humanity; Satan learns of the assault on the Phlegethon bridge and that Asmodeus has died

Part 42: PFLH plans to take down Asmodeus; betrayal to Belial; Belial continues putting his plan into effect

Part 43: Humans begin putting up Camp Hell-Alpha; Stevenson gets some leave; random baldrick attack in China; Yulupki on her way to the volcano; Belial's court finds an unshielded human

Part 44: Petraeus and Abigor talk; Dorokhov learns of Beelzebub's force from Abigor; Abigor learns Asmodeus is dead; McElroy and his cell rescue Aeneas

Part 45: Aussie F-111 recon flight over Hell; Lakheenahuknaasi arrives in Sheffield and begins to target the portal

Part 46: Aeneas, Ori, and others in McElroy's PFLH cell interact; Ori kills a baldrick; recon photos arrive at Hell-Alpha and Petraeus makes Abigor doubt more

Part 47: Sheffield gets nuked

Part 48: Sheffield and the UK emergency response to the lava attack

Part 49: Dr Kuroneko learns of Sheffield and determines to prevent the next one; more emergency response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi hides; Belial parties

Part 50: More UK response at Sheffield; Lakheenahuknaasi engineers an escape; scientific research team at Hell-Alpha reports

Part 51: Abigor is questioned regarding Belial; Oval Office conference re. Sheffield; McElroy and co. attack a lone baldrick

Part 52: Memnon is sent to Tartarus; McElroy and co. attack a baldrick village, bring back fetuses, are sent to Camp Hell-Alpha; Karl Rove screws up politically

Part 53: Beelzebub plans the assault on the Phlegethon salient; Sheffield status meeting in Oval Office; Michael updates Yahweh; Rahab comes to Caesar

Part 54: Lakheenahuknaasi escapes Sheffield; Kuroneko, the Targeteer, and the portal-closing device; Dawkins goes to Caesar

Part 55: Belial and Euryale <3; Russians prepare for battle; Megaaeraholrakni arrives in Detroit; Free Hell is truly established

Part 56: Beelzebub orders the advance on the Phlegethon salient; Russians open up artillery; fighters engage harpies; Beelzebub's forces push forward; the Grey Lady is coming

Part 57: DIMO(N) detects a portal over Detroit; Detroit citizens shoot at Megaaeraholrakni and hit her; the portal is out of control and Euryale opens it

Part 58: Michael delivers an ultimatum; Abigor learns about nukes and meets the Targeteer


Part 59: Detroit damage mitigation efforts; Oval Office emergency meeting

Part 60: Air combat over the Phlegethon salient; wyverns dump sulfur; naga hit with white phosphorus

Part 61: Detroit emergency efforts; Euryale survives and rescues Yulupki; Kim meets with Caesar in Free Hell; baldricks plan amphibious assault on Free Hell

Part 62: Sheffield search-and-rescue efforts; special forces in the Sixth Ring

Part 63: First lines in the Phlegethon salient start to fall back; Russians use sarin on harpies; the wrath of the Grey Lady arrives

Part 64: Caesar, Pullo, and Vorenus watch Rome; Kim learns of the baldrick force; USAF prepare to bomb Satan's castle; Belial prepares to enter his castle; Russians and Germans prepare to fight

Part 65: Detroit firefighting efforts; Euryale subjugates Yulupki; Detroit escape efforts; search for Lakheenahuknaasi continues; preparations to open a seagoing hellgate

Part 66: US military has fucked up Beelzebub's army (he retreats); 4 MOPs fuck up Satan's Palace; Caesar fucks up a British power grab in Free Hell

Part 67: Beelzebub's second-in-command presses the attack; Caesar plans the defense of Free Hell; Deumos decides to switch sides; Oval Office meeting

Part 68: Dead Russian reports as a translating liaison; Belial begins the digging-out of Satan's palace; F-105s bomb Xisorixus' army

Part 69: Vulcan pilots watch the "Grey Ghosts" arrive; Earth-side closing of Detroit portal fails; Satan returns to his palace to find Belial organizing the rescue effort

Part 70: McElroy plays cards; Americans and Russians prepare for the final charge against Beelzebub's army; they execute the charge; Belial contacts his Wyverns and learns of the fate of Beelzebub's army

Part 71: Beelzebub observes the destruction of his army and dies; Lakheenahuknaasi continues to grow her cult; human rebellion in Tartarus; Xisorixus' forces are destroyed by Caesar and Free Hell

Part 72: Memnon arrives to Tartarus; McElroy and his team go there and plant the beacon; Deumos, Dagon, and others plan to betray Satan; Euryale contacts Lakheenahuknaasi

Part 73: RAF over-Hell reconnaissance picks up the Tartarus beacon; humans bomb Dis and orcs begin to revolt; B-1Bs get ready to go bomb Tartarus

Part 74: Ship Turner Joy sails from Seattle to the meeting point for the seagoing portal to Hell; Belial orders the evacuation of Tartarus; Palelabor has iron tools

Party 75: British discover Lakheenahuknaasi's cult; B-1Bs en route to Tartarus

Part 76: Siege of Dis; sky volcanoes destroyed; bombing of Tartarus; Lugasharmanaska joins the human team and Deumos is offered unconditional surrender; RCC excommunicates God

Part 77: Humans take over Plateau of Minos; rescued dead people put to work

Part 78: SAS take down Lakheenahuknaasi; Euryale learns of Lakheena's death; Michael enrages Yahweh into releasing Uriel and goes to get stoned with Jesus; Oval Office briefing

Part 79: US fleet goes to Hell; drive "north" meets resistance and frees serfs

Part 80: Satan dies; Abigor takes control

Part 81: Broomstick & Caesar hook up; Belial has a new weapon; ceasefire issued

Part 82: Navy forges toward northern Hell; Dis occupied; Belial picks up resistance; Julie Adams gets her revenge

Part 83: Belial's forces destroyed; Euryale turns on Belial and sues for peace with humans

Part 84: People start to adjust to post-Message, post-Armageddon life

Part 85: Occupation of Palelabor; death of Simplicius; Caesar & Kim; clearing of the Pit; letter from R. E. Lee

Epilogue: Belial defects to Heaven; the effect of Hell's occupation is felt on Earth.


Pantheocide, by Stuart, with contributions by Surlethe, __, __, __, and __.

Part 1: Yahweh sends a tornado to attack an airbase in Missouri, destroys the entire US B-2 fleet

Part 2: The captain of a cruise ship regards the destruction of the Bahamas by a hurricane enhanced by Yahweh

Part 3: Heavengate closes; a couple feel the financial ramifications of dead people still existing as persons

Part 4: Uriel, unable to attack the First World, destroys a village; briefing of President-elect Obama; sending a big F-YOU to Yahweh on Christmas

If you have any pertinent information to add as a reference that will help people understand the story better, please feel free.

Thanks to: GrandMasterTerwynn, for a correction on the link to the original SLAM thread.

[Starglider]

I've been making some notes, to try and avoid missing anything relevant to the section I'm working on. Here's what I've got so far;

Characters

Politicians

United Kingdom

Gordon Brown (Prime Minister)

United States of America

George Bush (President)
Robert Gates (ex Secretary of Defence)
Condoleezza Rice (Secretary of State)
John Warner (new Secretary of Defence)
Margaret Spellings (Secretary of Education)
Michael Mukasey (Attorney General)
Henry Paulson (Treasury Secretary)

Bill Clinton (former President)

Singapore

George Yong-Boon Yeo (Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Japan

Nishamura (Ambassador?)

Scientists

James Randi (James Randi Educational Foundation)
Doctor Surlethe (National Science Advisor)

Other Government

Robert S. Mueller, III (FBI Director)

Military

Eagle Flight (flying off CVN-76 Ronald Regan)

Lieutenant Michael Wong (F/A-18E)
Lieutenant Anthony Squires (F/A-18E)

HMS Astute

Atkins (Sonar Operator)
Lieutenant-Commander Michael Murphy (First Officer)
Captain Phillips

Tamanskoya Motor Rifle Division

Colonel Mikhail Suranov

US 1st Armored Division (Task Force Iron)

Major General Wilkens (Commanding)
Brigadier General Boothe

Other

'The General'

Demons

Leadership

Satan Mekratrig, Lord of Hell

Abigor (commander of 60 elite legions)

Deumos (commands most or all of the succubi)

Succubi

Sheba (blown away by Bill Cliton's shotgun)
Lugasharmanaska (Surrendered in Bangkok)

Corps of Diabolical Heralds

Shingroleth (Greater Harpy, shot down by Eagle Flight off California)
Prigrathrath (Greater Harpy, shot down by Eagle Flight)
Caranaskatos (Greater Harpy, shot down by Eagle Flight)
Quellarastis (Greater Harpy, shot down by Eagle Flight)
(two unnamed heralds, probably greater harpies, killed in Singapore and Bangkok)

Ralaraspanathsis (Kraken, torpedoed by HMS Astute)
(unnamed kraken killed by JSDF near Tokyo)

Berwaniklasnin (Titan, killed by Russian tanks)
(unnamed titan killed by IDF near Jeruselum)

Demon Species

Greater Harpies - 30ft tall humanoids with horns, tails, functional bat
wings. Breath fire. Highly flammable acid blood, possibly internal
hydrogen sacs. Can visually spot fighters 15 miles out. One or two
AAMs or a decent cannon burst to kill.

Lesser Harpies - Similar but much smaller.

Leviathans - >100 feet long, 20 feet in diameter, six flipper-legs, can
shoot high-pressure jets of water. Two heavy torpedoes will blow one
apart.

Behemoths - Humanoids over 100 feet tall, vestigial wings. 30 hits from 125mm
AP tank gun rounds will take one down, but don't kill it.

Succubi - Human sized females, jet black skin, long pointed tails, blunt
stubby horns. Illusion and invisibility abilities work by mental suggestion;
can only affect one species at once, blocked by faraday cages, don't affect
technology. Numerous rounds of point-blank shotgun fire required to kill.

Misc Details on Hell

Army of Abigor; 60 legions (56 infanty, 3 cavalry, 1 flying)
6,666 demons per legion, total force >400,000 including command staff

Armies of Hell; 6,666 legions (999 elite including Abigor's?),
44,500,000 demons under arms

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

There's been a lot of commentary in the Armageddon??? thread (27 pages as of the creation of this thread), and there's no table of contents, so I thought I'd create one here as a reference if people need it. What will follow is a list of links to the parts so far published and short summaries of what happens in the given section of the story. This thread will be updated and perhaps bumped every once in a while, unless a mod decides to sticky it.

First things first: the SLAM thread that started it all is here.

Your link is missing the last digit. Correct link here.

[Surlethe]

Part 13 up and added to the Table of Contents.

[Surlethe]

Part 14 added to Table of Contents.

[Surlethe]

Part 15 up.

[LadyTevar]

Surlethe, you need to update the list of Succubi with Luga

[Surlethe]

Surlethe, you need to update the list of Succubi with Luga

I'm afraid that's not possible, since I'm not a moderator and therefore cannot edit Starglider's posts.

[LadyTevar]

Surlethe, you need to update the list of Succubi with Luga

I'm afraid that's not possible, since I'm not a moderator and therefore cannot edit Starglider's posts.

*facepalm*
My mistake.

[Ritterin Sophia]

Awesime as always Stuart, and proud to do my part in the fight against the Baldrick Hordes.

[NecronLord]

*facepalm*
My mistake.

I on the other hand...

[Mayabird]

Also, Stravo just posted everybody's favorite Bible/real life crossover fanfic into the Completed or Cleaned Up Fanfics subforum here. It'll be a lot easier to read the whole story there in one sitting rather than having to go through a bunch of links or go through the whole thread.

[phongn]

Also, Stravo just posted everybody's favorite Bible/real life crossover fanfic into the Completed or Cleaned Up Fanfics subforum here. It'll be a lot easier to read the whole story there in one sitting rather than having to go through a bunch of links or go through the whole thread.

I don't know if you could call this fanfic, per se

[Gullible Jones]

Unfanfic?

Whatever it is, it's fucking awesome. Please, keep it coming.

[Darth Yoshi]

AU fanfic of Christian mythos, crossed-over with contemporary historical fiction? It's not like there isn't a glut of bible-fanfics.

[Jadeite]

This needs to be updated badly.

[Surlethe]

And it has been, at least through Part 28. Apologies for the delay; I'm going to finish updating this by Sunday afternoon. If anyone would like to post and add more character lists, locations, maps, or other references, please feel free.

Jesus. I can't believe I haven't touched this since March 2.

[Surlethe]

Updated through Part 50.

[Surlethe]

And, update complete.

[JBG]

Good work Surlethe. This Board wasn't "set up" or structured like HPCA for these long, multiple book length stories but as always there are many ways to skin a dead cat!

Perhaps an Armageddon!!! fact file thread to lay out, for instance, the military equipment being used.

[Surlethe]

Perhaps an Armageddon!!! fact file thread to lay out, for instance, the military equipment being used.

This thread is intended for all sorts of references to accumulate here, not just to serve as only a table of contents. If you would like to contribute anything, feel more than free.

[Surlethe]

Part 66 added.

[Darth Wong]

Should you point out somewhere that the table of contents could be considered spoiler material, since many of the plot developments are revealed?

[Surlethe]

Thanks. I updated the title to reflect that the ToC contains a summary, and edited the OP to indicate that spoilers lie in ambush.

[ray245]

Sorry for the necro...I was wondering if this thread should be sticked...given the following it has on this board.