After a century of bloody warfare, both sides are growing desperate. The Kuiperans, out on the edge of the Oort comet cloud, devise a devastating plan: striking the Earth with a comet. They rig a comet with engines, and divert it’s course towards the inner solar system. They set it on a course that would miss earth at both crossings of the Earth’s orbit, but a strategic burn at the right time near perihelion diverts the comet just enough so it would hit the earth straight on. With the bulk of Earth’s long range nuclear missiles deployed near Jupiter and Saturn’s orbits, they cannot react with sufficient force to annihilate the large comet. Earth forces manage to intercept the comet with several low-power nuclear warheads, reducing it’s mass with two thirds, and vaporizing a good portion of it’s nucleus, they are unable to destroy the engines, and the necessary firepower to damage the comet further did not have time to reach it’s target…
On May 28th 2784, the remains of the comet hit earth. The largest chunk, a 40km diameter monster that contained the fusion engines, hit in the Sahara desert. The direct devastation caused by the impact was incalculable. More than half of the Earth’s population died as a direct effect of the impact, mainly from the devastating earthquake that collapsed many of the worlds’ sturdiest infrastructures.
As retaliation, Earth sent his most powerful, fastest and stealthiest missiles to five of the small Kuiper worlds. The force deployed was sufficient to annihilate those worlds, not just human installations at the surface, but actually break the dwarf planets in smaller rocks.
Each side was outraged at the horrors commited by the other side, but could not risk another similar strike. Gunships and fighters stopped the battles, a ceasefire treaty was singed on Titan, and each side went behind their lines, biding their time.
The Stalemate was reached…
