Thread:FranceSwitzerland/@comment-32721669-20170827040655/@comment-32721669-20170827225707

FranceSwitzerland wrote: I don't know. I never played the game Overwatch. Well, this is the game's story in case you'd like to know what it is about:

''Over thirty years ago, without warning or explanation, a decommissioned set of automated megafactories re-activated themselves and launched a worldwide military campaign against all humanity dubbed the Omnic Crisis. Despite deploying new technologies including powered armour and super-soldier programs, no nation alone could stand against the growing omnic army.

It was the United Nations that turned the tide by bringing the best operatives from each nation together to form Overwatch. This strike team was both small and nimble and powerful enough to deal devastating blows to the omnics, leading the way for the rest of humanity to fight back. In the end, Overwatch succeeded in ending the catastrophic war and went down in history as heroes.

After the Omnic Crisis, Overwatch experienced a tremendous rise in prominence. The core members of Jack Morrison, Gabriel Reyes, Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm, Torbjörn Lindholm, and Liao, were bolstered as more and more prominent and expert people with different backgrounds, ethnicities, professions, and ideals joined Overwatch, including Dr. Angela Ziegler, Winston, Lena Oxton, Jesse McCree, Genji Shimada and Mei-Ling Zhou. For twenty years, Overwatch served as a global peacekeeping force and an engine for innovation, making advances in scientific fields as varied as space exploration, environmental protection, and medical research.

But glory came at a cost. Controversial missions stoked public outrage, forcing some of the organization’s most famous and celebrated agents to retire in disgrace. Two decades after it ended the Omnic Crisis, Overwatch was dealt a heavy blow by a series of allegations: negligence resulting in high-profile mission failures; corruption and mismanagement; weapons proliferation; human rights abuses. Worse still, the existence of "Blackwatch" - a top secret covert operations division within Overwatch - was uncovered.

A special UN committee launched a lengthy and highly secretive investigation into the claims. During the investigation, Overwatch's Swiss headquarters was destroyed in an explosion that claimed the lives of its two leaders: Strike-Commander Jack Morrison and Blackwatch Leader Gabriel Reyes. Although the United Nations claimed it was an accident, the explosion at the headquarters was revealed to be the result of an internal clash between Morrison and Reyes. Nonetheless, the UN shut down all of Overwatch's operations and put forward the Petras Act, which declared all Overwatch activity illegal and punishable by prosecution.

Since, the world has begun to fall toward chaos. Local political leaders have accused certain corporations of using covert operatives to force government officials into accepting exploitative deals and going as far as hiring mercenaries. Some notable cases of this are the Vishkar Corporation destroying Calado Tower and its surrounding favela to gain absolute control of Rio de Janeiro, and Hyde Global hiring two international criminals, known as Junkrat and Roadhog, to swindle insurance.

The actions of criminal groups have also become more brazen and unrestrained, from the smuggling activities of the Deadlock Gang to the terrorism and assassinations carried out by the sinister organization known only as Talon. Even Overwatch's former bases and assets have been targeted. An individual known only as Soldier: 76 attacked Watchpoint: Grand Mesa and stole the Heavy Pulse Rifle and several other high-tech prototypes, and a Talon infiltration team led by the fearsome Reaper broke into Watchpoint: Gibraltar to procure the database of Overwatch's former members.

Worse still, the tensions between humans and omnics that has simmered since the end of the Omnic Crisis have begun to boil over; the assassination of the omnic spiritual leader Tekhartha Mondatta by the Talon agent Widowmaker may have sparked the human-omnic war in Russia known as the Second Omnic Crisis.

Nonetheless, several former agents of Overwatch continued to aid the innocent and deliver justice. Their example has inspired a new generation of unique individuals, including Brazillian DJ Lúcio Correia dos Santos, who used his well-known music to inspire and lead Rio de Janeiro's citizens against the Vishkar Corporation, and South Korean professional video gamer Hana Song who employed her skills at the controls of a mech unit to defeat a colossal invading omnic.

And now, one former agent of Overwatch has decided that the time to sit by is over. After foiling the Talon attack on Watchpoint: Gibraltar, Winston, the gorilla scientist who helped usher in Overwatch's golden age, has chosen to defy the Petras Act, open the database Talon attempted to steal and send a message to his friends and former allies.''