InfernoBLT11

I just find it is very funny for the PAC troop made of entirely by Russian in BF2142. If PAC stand for Pan Asia Coalation, Russian will only make up a very small proportion of the population. At the moment, their population is already at all time high on declining rate and this is 150 years in the future. A true Pan Asia Coalation should have loads of Chinese cannon fodder instead of the more endangered Russians.

LuckyStrike

Isn't a lot of the former Soviet Union already in an ice-age? Seems like Southeast Asia would still be habitable. How about the battle of Angkor Wat , Cambodia?

Gillespie

Yeeaahhh... it's logical that the Russians would have been hit hard by the ice age, and the Pan-Asian Coalition would have been comprised of a mixture of Arabs, Chinese, Koreans, and the Japanese.

Africans are represented in the European Union, but to date I haven't seen a Chinese skin on a PAC faction member. Just a bit of nitpicking. Maybe the Chinese Army lost after countless battles in the BF2 universe and Russia subjugated them? ;P

As I'm an American, though, I'm left to wonder where the United States is at. Perhaps the North American Federation (Canada and the US) versus the Central Hispanic Republic (Mexico and a few countries from South America)? Canada and a good portion of the US would be hit hard by the new ice age, so they'd be hell-bent on conquering Mexico's territories.

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Acreo Aeneas

The US could have been *cough* frozen over *cough*

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Gillespie

NOOOOO!!!! NEEEAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!1!

Yeah, possibly. ;P

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Pfeil22

The Pan Asian Coalition is only one of six factions said to hold major influence in the year 2142 and, though led by Russia, includes forces from several, albeit smaller, countries from the eastern part of Asia. Since we know the European Union, led by Germany, and Union of African States also exist, it is safe to presume China might lead a separate group comprised of countries from the western part of Asia. This essentially divides the continent of Asia into two factions, which makes sense with the knowledge that North America has been wiped out by advancing ice.

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jepzilla

It's not so bad once you get used to it. On that note I need to start building my winter igloo.

Arf

My theory is that the US is no longer a Super Power in the year 2142. After winning BF2 the US became an Ultra Power. In the year 2107 Congress declared the Earth "Kinda Chilly" so the President packed up the nation and moved it to Mars which had just finished terraformation.

There is no fighting on North America because we took the continent with us. China is not a super power because they never recovered from the previously mentioned whooping in BF2.

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InfernoBLT11

Never know the future aren't we? For Japan to join the Russian instead of their long time US ally. Almost half of PAC weapons and vehicles are Japanese made. The PAC sniper rifle has a Korean name. Nice interpretation pfeil2281, I was kinda presumptively decide that China to be in the Coalition, even now they are too full of themselves to form any real alliance to anybody. And, in 2070 Canada has finally made America her 11th province to form the Maple Directorate just for the shake of it, mwuhahaha!

The manual's words on the six factions thing just make me smell expansion or booster packs from EA. And that is also predictable.

Acreo Aeneas

Well besides Asia, Europe, and Western civilization, what about Central Latin America and South America, what part do they play in the history of the intervening years between 200? and 2142?

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Gillespie

I don't know. Germany's a fairly cold country, and if they survived to lead the EU division, I don't see why Canada and the United States couldn't form an alliance to sweep south into Central America.

After all, the Ice Age didn't happen overnight (the intro movie is just a dramatization).

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Pfeil22

If I remember correctly, a spokesman for Electronic Arts stated at the E3Expo that China has not involved itself in the conflict yet.

I have yet to read anything about Central or South America, but since North America has been wiped out by advancing ice, it can be presumed that these countries are trying to manage a massive influx of refuges from Canada and the United States of America. However, unless something drastic occurred in the unpublished sections of the Battlefield 2142 storyline, it may be safe to presume these nations form one of the six major factions.

There is still a lot of blank parts to the history behind the Ice Age and Cold War, but the PAC being predominantly Russian does seem to fit into the little we know about the future.

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Gillespie

*cries*

And our military kicked so much ass...

Stupid ice.

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LuckyStrike

wikipedia to the rescue..

"Northern hemisphere glaciation during the last ice ages. The set up of 3 to 4 km thick ice sheets caused a sea level lowering of about 120 m. Also the Alps and the Himalya were covered by glaciers. The limit of winter sea ice coverage was much more to the south."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age..._North_America

Telorn

US moved in due to the ice and they no longer had to cross our borders

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