Second Sun

Prologue
"Get to Whiskey Hotel." — Description

Characters

 * Lieutenant Sandman
 * Sergeant Foley
 * Corporal Dunn
 * Private Rameriz

Enemies

 * British OpFor

Plot
The player starts out where "Of Their Own Accord" left off: Pvt. Ramirez's team has just been shot down by a SAM site and is making a last stand around the crashed helicopter. As Russian forces approach, the search light of an enemy helicopter whites-out the screen. When the screen comes back into focus, the player briefly takes control as Sat1, an unnamed astronaut on a EVA (Extra-vehicular Activity) mission outside the International Space Station (ISS). Mission Control in Houston requests a video feed from Sat1's Helmet Cam. ISS instructs Sat1 to look towards the dark side of the Earth for an unknown missile (the SLBM that Captain Venables launched in "Contingency").The player can observe the missile's path, until it eventually detonates in the upper atmosphere above Washington D.C. The shock-wave soon reaches the ISS and unintentionally destroys the station and kills the player. The HANE (High-Altitude Nuclear Explosion) causes an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) that blacks out all the East Coast (except some parts of Florida), but saves the lives of many U.S. Armed Forces still fighting for control of Washington.Back in Washington, the player regains Ramirez's perspective and can see from the wreckage both the detonation of the EMP and its effect on the surroundings; jets and helicopters start to fall from the sky. Ramirez is freed from the helicopter's wreckage, and the player's team frantically makes its way to a building for shelter whilst dodging debris bombarding the street. After everything goes quiet, The team moves up towards an office building and encounters Pvt. Vaughan, almost mistaking him for a Russian. He tells the team to get to location Whiskey Hotel (The White House), where Colonel Marshall is assembling a task force to retake the building. After entering the office building, the team encounters several Russian troops taking cover in office cubicles, whom they must eliminate. The Rangers exit the offices via a collapsed wall and move up towards the Eisenhower building. They sneak up on three Russians, and take them out. The team then goes down some steps into the street, where they alert a group of Russians by throwing a red flare over to the bus where they are gathered. The Rangers take out this group, and then enter the Eisenhower building. Ramirez is instructed by Sgt. Foley to take point, going down flights of stairs until they reach the President's bunker. The team enter the bunker, and the screen fades.