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China
"The truth is much more complicated than you think."
This article is written from a Lore perspective. It contains spoilers and different reference materials might be contradictory.
The People's Republic of China is a country in East Asia. The city of Shanghai is where the Beilan Island Incident of 2030 occurred (Girls' Frontline developer Sunborn is also based in Shanghai). Despite being the origin of this world-changing event and many Dolls using Chinese weapons, the country only has a minor presence overall in the story.
Characters of Chinese descent in the games include Mayling Shen, Uncle Lin and the unnamed test pilot. Dolls who use a Chinese name include Ai, Chanzhi, Daiyan, Jiangyu, Liushih, Mai, Qiongjiu, Qiuhua, Sangoma, Souchun, Xinghuan, Yuwang, Zangyin and Zhaohui.
History
The territory of China is considered one of the cradles of human civilization, and the country has a long and complex history encompassing various states and dynasties going back before 2000 BC. The People's Republic of China was established in 1949 after a transitional period away from imperial dynasties.
The PRC was involved in the Vietnam War, which occurred south of the country and opposed two local governments backed by the Soviet Union and the United States. During the Soviet-American Relic Technology Arms Race, the US negotiated a mutual withdrawal with China in May 1972. The Soviet Union reacted to the US-China agreement by making a display of its Pike Relic weapons later in the year, leading to the US' complete withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973.[1]
Beilan Island Incident
The Beilan Island relic site was where the GAVIRUL specimen was found in 1962. After the site was abandoned, buildings were constructed over its entrance during Shanghai's urban expansion in the 1970s.[2] To defend relic sites and handle ELID infections outbreaks, the Chinese government created the national paramilitary organization called Special Circumstances Armed Police Force (SCAPF).
Decades later, the site was accidentally breached during a civilian drilling operation and Collapse radiation leaked to the surface, infecting humans with ELID. The SCAPF was deployed under the name Extraordinary Circumstances Peacekeeping Police Force to avoid public outrage, and the administration of Shanghai quarantined Beilan Island without reporting the infections to the central government, underestimating the gravity of the situation. The incident was forgotten until the Beilan Island Incident of 17 January 2030, the massive Collapse Fluid explosion that leveled the city of Shanghai.[3] The tremor of the explosion could be felt as far as Hong Kong. As ground zero of the incident, Shanghai became the very first Red Zone, making any investigation of the relic impossible for dozens of years.
Aside from Shanghai, the cities of Suzhou, Wuxi and Nantong were also instantly leveled while China's eastern seaboard was quickly hit by the collapse fluid cloud that expanded over a 1500 km-wide area, causing 400 million ELID casualties within the first hour. The total contaminated zone first estimated at 1.5 million square km was limited to 1.1 million square km due to a northwestern high-pressure anticyclone strengthening the westward wind. Telecommunications remained usable since the explosion did not generate an electromagnetic pulse, and 15 million people were evacuated from the contamination zone while government members who had taken refuge in the Beijing bunkers moved into the new capital of Xi'an. About 870 million died as a direct result of the explosion and panic spread in the region, with Hong Kong enforcing a curfew the same day to control looting.
The United Nations Relics Agency (UNRA) quickly became involved in the situation due to the presence of several members in Hong Kong at the time, including Raeder Rossartre. They launched Operation Noah to evacuate citizens from contaminated regions, but the Chinese government initially refused international help.[4]
According to the government,[4] seven middle schoolers had gone past the quarantine wall and were attacked by ELID infected. The SCAPF had deployed four agents equipped with AA-03D police weapon platforms. The small task force proved incapable of fighting the infected and tried to seal the relics site entrance with explosives, causing the secondary Collapse Fluid explosion.[3] Later investigations have put the true origins of the incident into question, due to the SCAPF team not having enough firepower to ignite the armored collapse fluid crystal capsules in the first place.[4]
Aftermath
As upwards of 36% of the world's surface became unlivable,[5] Europe started a new era of colonialism in Africa,[3] while China and Russia focused on reclaiming contaminated industrial regions instead of abandoning them. The Soviet ALR-51C (T) Automatons from Havier Witkin's Universal Labor Robot Project were a core part of their rebuilding strategy.[6] Witkin had already opened companies in the China, the US and Ukraine to support the foundation of his new company called IOP.[7]
During World War Three, the United States conducted operations in China, but by May 2049 they were retreating from Guangxi according to the Chinese Prometheans.[3] it is listed as one of the country that entered negotiations to stop the war after expending all their resources.[8]
After the war, Griffin & Kryuger opened a branch in the fictional city of Dijiang (帝江).[9] Under the Commander, the Dolls of the Area S09 Griffin base who used a Chinese weapon and identified with Chinese culture organized events such as the Spring Festival.[10] The reporter Doll Willow worked in Jinghai City.[11] An expatriate who contributed to the Purification Project in Europe followed the wine-burial traditions of the Shaoxing region.[12] The Jiutian Sector of Magrasea was probably owned by a Chinese company or agency considering its theming.
References
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 4
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Confidential Files, part. 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 3
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 1
- ↑ Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, Secret Documents#The Establishment and History of the Rescue Foundation
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 2
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Confidential Files, The First Generation of Tactical Dolls
- ↑ Codename: Bakery Girl, Secret Documents#The Third World War and Antarctic Independence
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Official early promotional wallpaper
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Notebook, Year of Memories, Type 81 Carbine's costume story
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Gastronomic Journey
- ↑ Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, Classified Briefings#Peace and Happiness
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