Mars: the awakening

Athena had seen it all. The indescribable worldwide c*****e of hundreds of millions and destruction as the long-awaited global conflagration-the final war was finally unleashed upon mankind and human civilization slid so suddenly back to a hopeless dark age. With her tens of thousands of electronic eyes orbiting the planet Earth, she witnessed the nuclear detonations on most of the world's cities and other vital locations as the thousands of thermonuclear warheads homed in on their respected targets that were programmed so long ago. Athena had been witness, or at least, her thousands of remote camera detectors hovering in low orbits above the Earth to the incalculable scale of destruction and c*****e, when finally, after a century and decades of tense anticipation, the long-dreaded Third World War-the Nuclear Armageddon erupted in the midst of global uncertainly and widespread political conflicts. The thousands of orbiting satellites silently witnessed the global catastrophe that unfolded with unrelenting fury and inhuman cruelty as the world powers exchanged and exhausted their thermonuclear warheads on against each other's cities, important bases and colonies and downloaded them all to Athena's waiting servers. Athena devoured everything, every terrabit of data she stashed away into her cavernous storage systems and make backups that were secured in the servers of powerful submarine drones swimming deep in the oceans. The future generations might one day see the images of thousands of warheads soaring up to the stratosphere from their underground silos in various places like central United States, England, Russia, India, France, Germany, and China and zeroing down on their programmed targets that were vaporized within microseconds of detoration. As millions and millions of innocents were incenerated into oblivion in the major population centres all over Earth, billions of acres of land around the deadly ground zeroes were burned and reduced into smoldering, radioactive wastelands after firestorms caused by the intense heat generated by the nuclear explosions enveloped all over the countrysides of the leading urban targets of Earth Athena cataloged everything that her video sensors and camera drones sent to her servers hidden hundreds of meters beneath the earth as the world was immersed in the fires of a full-scale nuclear warfare and enraged and ruthless leaders gathered their armies and prepared for fierce, no quarter battles once all the nuclear bombs were exhausted and the strategic maneuverings began in earnest.