IOT: Into the Fire 2
In late 2013, the world began to collapse. It started well before then, to be sure, but at that point, it was finally obvious that it was beginning.
The defining sign? The Terran Revolution - a shadowy movement, with little known motives, so disjointed as to be held together by a single leader. With no government capable of stopping such a widespread organization - or capturing its leader - the world began to come apart at the frays.
With the aid of genetically altered organisms - the 7-foot tall monsters, with disturbingly distorted builds, nicknamed "Ahuizotls", the Revolution struck out at any and all governments, crippling the unity of nations across the planet.
This continued into about 2020, when Earth encountered yet another threat - the beings known as the Maáskab - came from the skies. Touching down upon the surface in relatively abandoned locations - the Amazon, Australia, some islands in the Pacific - the Maáskab tore across the planet, ravaging the remainders of civilization, and driving the leader of the Terran Revolution into hiding from his own people.
Around 2030, the Maáskab rule of the Earth became challenged by yet another outside force - the Pah, an insectoid hive mind, spreading like a disease across the surface of the Earth.
In 2035, early forces started warring and expanding, though the fragile state each faction existed in forced them to quickly retreat from their early gains.
Now, it is 2050, and the forces of each sect have regrouped, and are planning the final assault - out of the frying pan, and Into the Fire...