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Sturm's Super CO Power was the ability to call down a meteor strike. Sure, he was supposedly killed by Hawke at the end of Advance Wars 2, but we didn't even see anything, just text. And given how mechanical Sturm looked, whose to say he wasn't able to survive that, or perhaps had a backup body somewhere. And thus, he hid and built up enough energy to devastate the world with a massive meteor strike. We could see the next Advance Wars game still set AfterTheEnd with the crew up against a Sturm, now ready to take a world that can barely survive, let alone fend off his attacks.

** It is more of a contigency plan, in the unlikely event that Caulder and his only male clone croaks, the females will attempt to seek out survivors to repopulate and commence a mantis style operation where after having a sufficient population kill their husbands. That or the troops are literal androids.

The answer is that the entire series (Excepting Battalion Wars and Days of Ruin) is actually some form of MMO Strategy game. A very immersive one, possibly somewhat Virtual Reality. [=COs=] are obviously real players logged in. It's debatable if they're the only real humans, or perhaps people start as commanders of platoons, and work their way up to full-on [=COs.=] Given how, sometimes, [=COs=] get status reports from nameless soldiers, these are perhaps actual players doing the legwork. And since they get easily respawned if their platoon is wiped out, there isn't a lot of concern if they 'die.' The [=CO=] abilities are actual abilities given to them in-game, as a result of being high-enough level to earn a name. Each battle is often a programmed 'instance,' hence why you can restart with some advice even if you've lost the final desperate battle. Just respawn and retry.

Eventually, guilds started forming. The most known being Red Star, Yellow Comet, Blue Moon, and Green Earth. This was also when the betatest of enhanced abilities was being implemented. Red Star changed to Orange Star due to too many jokes. Between Super Famicom Wars and Advance Wars, these four guilds decided to form their own servers. They made Cosmo Land as a battle server where the four could just duke it out. Macro Land was meant as a sort of RP/Downtime server, and a home base with a peace treaty in place. Property acquisition was important in this edition, so to prevent the decimation of a guild, they used Macro Land to make sure no guild is completely wiped out. Even if a guild was eliminated in Cosmo Land, they still had Macro Land to come from and reclaim property with. They closed off to all the outside servers to keep out the riffraff and jackasses you'll invariably get with any [=MMO=] game. Now newbies had to fill out an application and wait.

Von Bolt, the new head of Black Hole, was [=RPing=] the 'draining' of Omega Land's health, but in reality the black crystals and Obilesks were sucking the bandwith from Omega Land, and using it for his own purpose, possibly webpages. (Remember, Virtual Reality, where such odd concepts can be represented tangibly.) Hawke and Lash were playing along before learning what this selfish jerk was using the game server for. Finding that out (and annoyed Von Bolt wasn't giving them any bandwidth) they split for the other team.

* Well, there is always the possibility that Days of Ruin was actually a test of a new player created weather effect system, that began wreaking havok with the server it was tested on.

* Or following on that killing someone in game can be dangerous, perhaps the meteors destroying the world is actually a virus which has badly corrupted a server, as well as the artificial hacked creeper virus, both of these cause all units to die permanently, thus why they are more worried about death in Days of ruin.

Only this time, as its a [=DoR/DC=] sequel the person who says it will have grown up post apocalypse and it will make sense they don't aren't fully aware of the concept.

[[WMG:Most of the characters in ''Days Of Ruin'''s have full names consisting of their American and European names.]]

** Hence why I said Most of the characters, not all.
*** In Caulder's case, Caulder is the surname. I believe he's referred to as Dr. Caulder, implying that Caulder is actually the surname. Tabitha Caulder, Penny Caulder and Cyrus Caulder all work. Inversely, Larissa Stolos, Lili Stolos and Cyrus Stolos all work. Plus, the OP did say "most", meaning there are a few exceptions.

[[WMG: The Teddy Bear, Mr. Bear, that Penny, from days of ruin, has is actually [[Anime/ParanoiaAgent Maromi]].]]

The meteors detonated the nuclear missiles silos all over the world, which in turn spread the radiation and created all the mutants and radioactive creatures. After years of fighting, the factories were destroyed and/or broke down, unable to create more units. Because of this, it didn't take long for the mutant creatures to start to populating the Wasteland, and the CO powers dissappeared as time went on.

The meteors detonated the nuclear missiles silos all over the world, which in turn spread the radiation and created all humans. After years of fighting, the factories were destroyed and/or broke down, unable to create more units. After that, the mutant creatures started to populate the Wasteland, and the CO powers dissappeared as time went on.

[[WMG:Days of Ruin shares the same universe as {{Videogame/Fallout}}]]
When you think about it, it makes sense. They talk about a "Great War", and after that the world turned into a Wasteland. Fallout takes place centuries after Days of Ruin, with most info lost and/or destroyed to avoid the future generations of repeating the same mistake as them. This means that the meteor shower could be the true reason the entire world almost died, and the lack of info made everyone think that the Great War caused it.

The meteors detonated the nuclear missiles silos all over the world, which in turn spread the radiation and created all humans. After years of fighting, the factories were destroyed and/or broke down, unable to create more units. After that, the mutant creatures started to populate the Wasteland, and the CO powers dissappeared as time went on.

The Creeper virus was kept in a hidden lab by the Enclave and used for the experiments of Vault 22, so that instead of killing its host, the plants would use their spores to spread further and control their victims as mindless zombies. Everything makes sense!

When you think about it, it makes sense. They talk about a "Great War", and after that the world turned into a Wasteland. Fallout takes place centirues after the Great War, and almost all info was lost, which means that the meteor shower could be the true reason the entire world almost died, and the lack of info made everyone think that the Great War caused this.

[[WMG:The entire Blue Moon used to be a part of Orange Star that gained independence and became a country of its own some time in the near past]]
Both Olaf and Grit used to be with Orange Star, after all, meaning the entirety of the Blue Moon military command comes from its rival country. One does not need to take this thought much further to come to the conclusion that there was a civil war, resulting in the country splitting in half.

* That would mean Lin would end up being... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Lin Lin]].

*** And the intro of days of ruin said 90% of humanity died.90%=1\10!

* So does this mean TeamFortress2 is in Advance Wars?

When the meteors hit, Blue moon was sent into chaos. Colin (or so he thought) and Olaf died, Leaving only Grit. The shock sent him into a permanent state of [[LetsGetDangerous Let's Get Dangerous]], allowing him to learn how to use sea units as well as ranged units. He also stopped dying his hair non-blue to fit in with others, as he no longer cared about physical appearances, farms, or his BrilliantButLazy shtick. he now only cares about [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he has to do]], and stopping Eagle and Sami's insane daughter, Zadia/Tasha, from getting what's left of Blue Moon destroyed.

The two [=COs=] have very similar descriptions, and almost the exact same powers. As well, while Flak is in Dual Strike, he isn't anywhere in the story mode. In one of the missions in [=AW2=], Lash makses mention of Flak volunteering to be a guinea pig in one of her experiments. Perhaps said experiment was the classic 'human brain in robot body,' with poor Flak's brain shoved full of {{restraining bolt}}s and electrodes. After all, you don't want to risk a smart CO's brain on a potentially dangerouns transplant like that.

Caulder's only male clone is the one he wants to [[GrandTheftMe hijack]], every other clone (the 3 [=COs=], and the IDS troops) is female. There are only 2 possible explanations, the only other one, ForScience (fascinating!), isn't THAT unlikely though.

Caulder himself is only skilled in Biology. Specifically microbiology (viruses) and cloning technology. All the other high technolgy and superweapons he uses were designed by other scientists working for his company, IDS. He uses them simply to satisfy his curiosity as to their effects, especially on desperate survivors.

As noted in the WMG above, nobody seems to mind the constant fighting (and presumable loss of life), even the most idealistic characters. Then notice that Days of Ruin starts with Will leaving the ruins of his military academy, and that this is the first (and only) game in the series where the [=COs=] actually mention and agonize over the fact that they're sending their men into possible death. Clearly, *these* soldiers are real, but the previous ones weren't: the other games were tactical training exercises Will was going through in the academy, but the meteorite strike interrupted them and made him use that experience in the real world.

Eventually, guilds started forming. The most known being Red Star, Yellow Comet, Blue Moon, and Green Earth. This was also when the betatest of enhanced abilities was being implemented. Red Star changed to Orange Star due to too many jokes. Between Super Famicom Wars and Advance Wars, these four guilds decided to form their own servers. They made Cosmo Land as a battle server where the four could just duke it out. Macro Land was meant as a sort of RP/Downtime server, and a home base with a peace treaty in place. Property accquisition was important in this edition, so to prevent the decimation of a guild, they used Macro Land to make sure no guild is completely wiped out. Even if a guild was eliminated in Cosmo Land, they still had Macro Land to come from and reclaim property with. They closed off to all the outside servers to keep out the riffraff and jackasses you'll invariably get with any [=MMO=] game. Now newbies had to fill out an application and wait.

Not content, this excrement-disturber Sturm decided to revisit, this time with several other hackers in tow. And now Sturm managed to hack the game in very interesting ways, most notably with his 'pipelines,' seemingly normal terrain that blocked ALL movement. And this time, he decided to attack where people weren't expecting him to, in Macro Land. The piping away resources plot ties back to the virtual reality aspect of this world. How could a pipeline suck away such a nebulous concept as 'resources' unless it's a computer medium, where 'resources' is literally the world economy? The missile assault was just the plot for an instance, though. After that, Sturm was threatening to destroy the entire server, but Hawke manually logged his ass off and 'eliminated' his virtual avatar (In a sense, [=IP=] banning him) The rest of Black Hole, now getting swept up in this [=RPing=] that the nations are known for, willingly left.

Von Bolt, the new head of Black Hole, was [=RPing=] the 'draining' of Omega Land's health, but in reality the black crystals and Obilesks were sucking the bandwith from Omega Land, and using it for his own purpose, possibly webpages. (Remember, Virtual Reality, where such odd concepts can be represented tangibly.) Hawke and Lash were playing along before learning what this selfish jerk was using the game server for. Finding that out (And annoyed Von Bolt wasn't giving them any bandwith) they split for the other team.

* Agreed. Urge to write fanfic...rising...

* well, there is always the possibility that days of ruin was actually a test of a new player created weather effect system, that began wreaking havok with the server it was tested on.

[[WMG:[[LukeIAmYourFather Hawke is Eagle's Father]] ]]

[[WMG: "CO"'s are given that position because they have powers that can affect the outcome of wars]]

[[WMG: Andy had his memory erased between the first and second game.]]

[[WMG: The Geurilla forces Lash didn't take seriously were actually being led by the Supervisor.]]

Using blanks, fake tanks and explosives of course.

When the meteors hit, Blue moon was sent into chaos. Colin (or so he thought) and Olaf died, Leaving only Grit. The shock sent him into a permanent state of {{LetsGetDangerous}}, allowing him to learn how to use sea units as well as ranged units. He also stopped dying his hair non-blue to fit in with others, as he no longer cared about physical appearances, farms, or his {{BrilliantButLazy}} shtick. he now only cares about [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he has to do]], and stopping Eagle and Sami's insane daughter, Zadia/Tasha, from getting what's left of Blue Moon destroyed.

When the meteors hit, Blue moon was sent into chaos. colin(or so he thought) and Olaf died, Leaving only grit. The shock sent him into a permanent state of {{LetsGetDangerous}}, allowing him to learn how to use sea units as well as ranged units. He also stopped dying his hair non-blue to fit in with others, as he no longer cared about physical appearances, farms, or his {{BrilliantButLazy}} shtick. he now only cares about [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he has to do]], and stopping eagle and sami's insane daughter, Zadia, from getting what's left of blue moon destroyed.

When the meteors hit, Blue moon was sent into chaos. colin(or so he thought) and Olaf died, Leaving only grit. The shock sent him into a permanent state of {{LetsGetDangerous}}, allowing him to learn how to use sea units as well as ranged units. He also stopped dying his hair non-blue to fit in with others, as he no longer cared about physical appearances, farms, or his {{BrilliantButLazy}} shtick. he now only cares about {{IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he has to do}}, and stopping eagle and sami's insane daughter, Zadia, from getting what's left of blue moon destroyed.

As noted in the WMG above, nobody seems to mind the constant fighting (and presumable loss of life), even the most idealistic characters. Then notice that Days of Ruin starts with Will leaving the ruins of his military academy, and that this is the first (and only) game in the series where the COs actually mention and agonize over the fact that they're sending their men into possible death. Clearly, *these* soldiers are real, but the previous ones weren't: the other games were tactical training exercises Will was going through in the academy, but the meteorite strike interrupted them and made him use that experience in the real world.