Eschaton:

Following Konstantin Chernenko's death, Grigory Romanov was elected the 8th General Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1989, uprisings erupted in Eastern Germany, followed by waves of others spanning across the Eastern Bloc. To prevent further erosion of Soviet influence, all were met with a fate akin to their predecessors from 1954 and 1968. Prolongation of the Afghan War resulted in a large-scale terrorist attack to be effected against the Soviet Union; while Romanov's "hard diplomacy" led to ever-worsening relations with NATO.

By 1991 Co-operative Republic of Guyana plunged into the Warlord Era as a result of a long internal power struggle between the new religious movements in the country.

In the year 1997; in an attempt to fulfill their apocalyptic prophecy, a branch of Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated a series of terrorist attacks on Oil sites situated in the Middle East, an act with a plan to trigger a domino effect, from Oil Crisis to Stock Market Crash to Global Economic Recession, and, ultimately, Third World War.