Before the Storm

Before The Storm is the first chapter in Invasion. It is authored by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Cody Martin, and Dennis Lee. The events in Before The Storm occur in a variety of key locations: Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; and Moscow, Russia.

Synopsis
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Key Events
The chapter is broken down into sequential "snapshots" of characters in the hours before the invasion begins. These snapshots have timestamps and callsigns to indicate the point of view character in each piece.


 * Atlanta, GA, USA: Callsign Eisenfaust - I Minus 24:00:00 and Counting
 * Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Callsign Belladonna Blue - I Minus 6:37:22 and Counting
 * New York, New York, USA: Callsign John Murdock - I Minus 6:22:17 and Counting
 * ECHO Headquarters Atlanta, GA, USA: Callsign Eisenfaust - I Minus 2:32:15 and Counting
 * Atlanta, GA, USA: Callsign Victoria Victrix - I Minus 2:23:56 and Counting
 * Atlanta, GA, USA: Callsign Red Djinni - I Minus 1:58:27 and Counting
 * Moscow, Russia: Callsign Red Saviour - I Minus 1:18:05 and Counting
 * Atlanta, GA, USA: Callsign Handsome Devil - I Minus 1:02:15 and Counting
 * ECHO Headquarters Atlanda, GA, USA: I Minus 00:32:15 and Counting

Cast of Characters
In this first chapter, many of the major characters of the series are introduced, either by appearing in the story or mentioned by other characters. Characters are listed in order of appearance/mention. This table may contain spoilers.

Other key entities first mentioned in this chapter:
 * ECHO
 * ubermenschen
 * Thule Society
 * the Vault (ECHO)
 * CCCP (Super-Sobratiye Sovetskikh Revolutzionerov)
 * ECHO nanoweave