Tanus Shrugged

How It All Happened
When people first started to realize the importance of steel as a whole, it was at the time of the initiation of the world's biggest economic boom: "The Surge" as many called it started on January 23rd, 1995. The London Stock Exchange had reported an increase in shares since yesterday - but tragedy struck only 4 years later in July 11, 1999, when Iran & Saudi Arabia went to war with each other, in a war known as the "Great Middle East War". Regional allies like Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait & the U.A.E were on Saudi payroll, but Iraq, Syria, Palestine & Egypt were formidable Persian allies. The Great Middle East War was the deadliest war the world had ever seen. The Mid East had seen such bloodshed during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, but not in the scale of the Great Middle East War. The war would only end 13 years later in 2012, with the signing of Moscow I & II.

The 13 years of war heavily increased gas prices, and all of a sudden, the world economy collapsed in 2010, after reaching approximately 11 years of conflict. Unfortunately, the later stages of the war (2007 - 2012) were the most bloodiest - suicide bombings, assassinations, chemical gas attacks, massacres - those years were disastrous for the Mid East. In fact, so many people died the past 13 years, the population dropped from 250,385,919 in 1990, to approximately 100,245 in 2011. Chemical & biological weapons were heavily used, especially during the later stages of the war