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The Seven Hour War RR?

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Setting: The seven hours during the Combine invasion of Earth.
Duration: Probably a single day or maybe two if we wanted to go beyond that?
Resources: We literally have everything we need already.

Honestly don't know why or how I hadn't thought of this until now.

Thoughts on this? We can kind of expand into an immediate setting and plot structure for the event as we go but I'm just curious if there'd be an interest.
 
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Keep in mind the "seven hour war" probably lasted several years. It took 7 hours for the UN to formalize a surrender, apparently under the impression that fighting was futile (even if it was still capable of fighting), but that doesn't mean there were no military holdouts or that the Combine had anywhere near total domination for a long time.

In short, examining only those first seven hours would be really boring and you'd be missing a ton of potential.

e: To clarify, I'm saying there's no clear line at which point the "war" was over. It's a War of the Worlds scenario - governments quickly folded under the pressure of an alien invasion, but pockets of fighting from pre-war organized holdout forces continued for weeks (in WotW), months, or even years.

I think it'd be a lot more interesting to examine the period after the first 7 hours.

Union propaganda chooses to draw the line at the capitulation of the UN - seeing the UN as humanity's representative government - because "we knocked you down in 7 hours, why bother resisting now" is a powerful way to keep a population pacified.
 
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Keep in mind the "seven hour war" probably lasted several years. It took 7 hours for the UN to formalize a surrender, apparently under the impression that fighting was futile (even if it was still capable of fighting), but that doesn't mean there were no military holdouts or that the Combine had anywhere near total domination for a long time.

In short, examining only those first seven hours would be really boring and you'd be missing a ton of potential.
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The first seven hours I imagine as a whole lotta this:

 
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