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Superevents[note 1] are events in The New Order: Last Days of Europe which are triggered by important in-game incidents. They consist of an image pop-up accompanied by unique audio, along with a quote, a label for the event, and another text for the close button.

List of superevents[edit | edit source]

Africa[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
African Crisis "Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well." - Frantz Fanon Violence is man remaking himself Added in Toolbox Theory: Unfinished Business.
The African Devastation "My guilt, is that I am still here. That is my guilt." - Franz Stangl The horror! The horror!
End of the Reichsstaat "Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others." - Joseph Conrad Africa Breathes
South African War "No one starts a war-or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so-without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it." - Carl von Clausewitz The Dominoes Shall Stop File:Tno se south african war.ogg Quote formerly misattributed to Hal Moore's "We Were Soldiers Once… and Young". Fixed in unknown update.
"A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism." - Machado de Assis A Roda Viva Gira File:Tno se south african war brazil.ogg Unique variant that only appears from the Brazilian perspective, added in Silicon Dreams.
West African War "Only the liquidation of neocolonialism will unite the entire continent under one government at the service of the African people." - Osende Afana Africa Bleeds WAA vs PALF variant.
"So true is it that, in the face of great perils, salvation is only in greatness." - Charles de Gaulle FMA vs PALF variant. Formerly had a bug in which it would fire multiple times at once.
"You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly." - Dwight D. Eisenhower WAA vs FMA vs PALF variant.

Americas[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
Fall Rockwell "He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;" - Julia Ward Howe God Save Us All
The Hall Presidency "We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For the union makes us strong" - A Traditional Folk Piece Solidarity Forever
The Yockey Presidency "A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole force of the Common Enemy." - Samuel Adams It Happened Here

Asia[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
End of the Yokusankai "Whether the rage of heaven or the cries of earth, the roar of the epoch is thundering now." - Ode of the Showa Restoration, 1930 Storm Clouds Gather Military (Muto) coup variant.
"The Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining in Himself the rights of sovereignty, and exercises them, according to the provisions of the present Constitution." - Article 4 of the Meiji Constitution When All Else Fails Palace (Jushin) coup variant.
The Great Asian War "The Chinese have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet." - Mao Zedong Two Suns, One Sky High legitimacy variant.
"If and when the war starts, wherever or whoever you are, all have the responsibility to protect our home and repel our enemy, all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice!" - Chiang Kai-Shek Low legitimacy variant.
Fall Dämmerung "If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we also not value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile." - Yukio Mishima A Clash of Civilizations
Indonesian War
Yasuda Crisis Event formerly titled "The Economic Wars".

Europe[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
The Burgundian Spring "Don't beg for the right to live - take it." - Unknown Frenchman, 1968 Sic Semper Tyrannis
Fall Schwarz "Mutinies are crushed in accordance with eternal and unchanging iron laws." - Adolf Hitler Tying Loose Ends
The French Reconciliation "The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks." - Charles de Gaulle Brothers Once More
German Invasion of Italy "Europe shall be dominated by Germany. Defeated states shall be nothing more than colonies." - Benito Mussolini Europe's last stand
The Iberian Wars "In war there are no winners or losers - only victims." - Michel del Castillo Iberia's dusk
Operation Sealion II "The most terrible of all legends had come to life out of the darkness. Yet now it stood smiling in ebon majesty, and with a human child resting trustfully on either arm." - Arthur C. Clarke Wo Weilest Du?
The Piazza Fontana Bombing "At dawn it is not just night that dies, it is man and his becoming, and the warm blood staining the pavement is a word that is just starting." - Ricardo Mannerini Hot Autumn Ends
The Reclamation of France "History does not teach fatalism." - Charles de Gaulle Home At Last

Germany[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
2nd Night of Long Knives "Life does not forgive weakness." - Adolf Hitler To last forever. Audio and button text are identical to The June of Deceit.
German Civil War "It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation." - Adolf Hitler So it begins
The June of Deceit "Situation very serious... Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere... Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble." - Martin Bormann, in his Final Telegram. To last forever. Audio and button text are identical to 2nd Night of Long Knives.
The Slave Revolt "One people will be, - a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves." - Friedrich Schiller, "William Tell" Freedom beckons

Russia[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
Fall Rot "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live." - Adolf Hitler One Final War
Russian Reunification "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka No More the Fool Amur variant.
"In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted." - Adolf Hitler Triumph of the Will Aryan Brotherhood (Vagner) variant.
"A thunderstorm was in our air; the nature that we are became dark - for we had no way." - Friedrich Nietzsche Hail Perun Aryan Brotherhood (Velimir) variant.
"My actions are guided by only one desire: to do what is in my power so that our people, a good, mighty people of our Motherland, wake up from political hibernation." - Valery Sablin Lenin Lives Again Buryatia (Bolshevist) variant.
"Be strong in the belief that life is wonderful. Be positive and believe that the Revolution will always win." - Valery Sablin Buryatia (Communist) variant.
"However doomed a man may be, he still has the freedom of thought that can carry him over the past and the future, the attribute that cannot be taken away by tyrant or circumstance." - Dmitry Volkagonov God Save the Tsar Chita (Mikhail) variant.
"Russia has only two allies; the army and the navy." - Alexander III Chita (Shepunov) variant.
"Our party, like any other political party, strives for political supremacy for itself." - Vladimir Lenin To the Union! Irkutsk (Bessonov) variant.
"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified." - Leon Trotsky Order Above All Irkutsk (Yagoda) variant.
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfourtunate(sic) Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings." - Catherine the Great Long Live the Tsar! Kemerovo (Lydia) variant.
"Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes." - Peter the Great Kemerovo (Yuriy) variant.
"Tremble, robbers! Your hour has struck. The world of oppression, slavery, and tears is being replaced by the bright world of the international brotherhood of workers!" - Alexandra Kollontai A Fresh Revolution Komi (Bukharina) variant.
"He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him." - Jordanes Binding the Continents Komi (Gumilyov) variant.
"We are with you, but we are not yours. Do not think that we have changed by acknowledging your red banner; we recognized it only because it blooms with national colors."- Nikolay Ustryalov Class and Nation Komi (Serov) variant.
"So long as the moral tone is preserved, the sun of our glory will not set; there will come no national decay and death." - Frederick William Robinson From the Ashes Komi (Shafarevich) variant.
"When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness." - Svetlana Stalina A Nation of Steel Komi (Stalina) variant.
"You cannot make a revolution in white gloves." - Vladimir Lenin The Red Fist Komi (Suslov) variant.
"Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus." - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor The Eleventh Hour Komi (Taboritsky) variant.
"If the present were not so horrible and grim, and the future so mysterious and enigmatic, one could go mad with joy." - Konstantin Kavelin To a Better History Komi (Yakovlev or Katushev) variant.
"All our knowledge - past, present and future, is nothing compared to what we will never know." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Accept No Limits Komi (Zhdanov) variant.
"Power comes all by itself to the strong man. We will accept our freedom and our laws from the Russian patriot who leads Russia to salvation." - Ivan Ilyin The Will to Power Magadan (Matkovsky) variant.
"In these days of doubt, in these days of painful brooding over the fate of my country, thou alone art my rod and my staff, O great, mighty, true and free Russia!" - Ivan Turgenev Land of the Free Magadan (Petlin) variant.
"If one holds his state based on mercenaries, he will not be secure or peaceful; for they are, divided, ambitious and without discipline... they fear neither God nor are loyal to fellow men..." - Niccolò Machiavelli Fortune and Glory Magadan (WerBell) variant.
"You will be required to do no wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity." - Philip K. Dick Land of Strength Novosibirsk (Pokryshkin) variant.
"Something remains in us from the homeland that it lives in us all our life, now gladdening, at times tormenting, and it always seems that we will someday see it, our homeland." - Vasily Shukshin Dreams of Federation Novosibirsk (Shukshin) variant.
"Hatred of the invading enemy is a most humane feeling. But it is born with such a pain of heart and torment of the soul that God forbid anyone to experience it a second time." - Pavel Batov The End Begins Omsk variant.
"Do not drop from your hands the arms you have received, fight with the enemies of the people. You are being expected by the tortured peoples of Russia. Liberate them!" - Andrey Vlasov An End to Weakness Samara (Bunyachenko) variant.
"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing." - Aesop A Soldier's Fortune Samara (Oktan) variant.
"The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning." - Alexander Kerensky From Darkness, Light Samara (Zykov) variant.
"By the anarchist spirit, I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims for the good of all, freedom and justice for all, and solidatiry and love among the people." - Errico Malatesta No Gods, No Masters Siberian Black Army (Anarcho-Communist) variant.
"The problem is the more difficult to solve that there are a good many individuals who are at the same time 'bandits' and 'anarchists'." - Georgi Plekhanov We Ride On Siberian Black Army (Vanguard Anarchist) variant.
"One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country." - Alexander Suvorov To Serve Russia Sverdlovsk (Batov) variant.
"A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame." - Boris Yeltsin End of an Era Past Sverdlovsk (Yeltsin) variant.
"I am interested only in 'nonsense'; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - Daniil Kharms Order and Justice. Tomsk (Bastillard) variant.
"Yes, a strange, brilliant, unearthly vista indeed do you disclose, O Russia, country of mine!" - Nikolai Gogol Wisdom and Growth Tomsk (Decembrist) variant.
"The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow." - Dmitry Shostakovich A Russian Symphony Tomsk (Humanist) variant.
"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power." - Horace Mann Per Aspera ad Astra Tomsk (Modernist) variant.
"If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." - Joseph Stalin Land of Steel Tyumen (Kaganovich) variant.
"We must finally understand that of all the precious capital in the world, the most precious capital, the most decisive capital, is human beings." - Joseph Stalin Dream of a People Tyumen (Khrushchev) variant.
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles A New Empire Vyatka (Liberal) variant.
"The Right of Nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."- Thomas Hobbes Life is a Cycle Vyatka (Conservative) variant.
"So far as he is able, a Prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil." - Niccolo Machiavelli For the Empire Vyatka (Solidarist) variant.
"The war can be concluded only with the coming to power of the dictatorship of the proletariat, since the bourgeoisie will not permit the socialist island to live in peace." - Mikhail Tukhachevsky A Red Dawn West Russian Revolutionary Front (Tukhachevsky) variant.
"We will do all we can to ensure peace... but if war is imposed on us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind."- Georgy Zhukov West Russian Revolutionary Front (Zhukov) variant.

Worldwide[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
Oil Crisis "People do not want words... they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny." - Gamal Abdel Nasser Black Gold, Red Sand
Thermonuclear War N/A So long
World War III "I demolish my bridges underneath me... then there is no choice but to move forward." - Fridtjof Nansen And so we go

Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]

April Fool's[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
big_event_hitler_die i mis him already Easter egg only accessible from console menu.
Russian Reunification "We can stay separated by fear and distrust, or we can choose friendship. We can choose love. That's the true magic." - Sunny Starscout Friendship is Magic Ponylon (Sunset) variant. A part of April Fools 2023: Project Ferus.

Old Audios[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
British Reunification "The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head, and became Tyrant in his stead." - William Blake Who Dares Wins File:Tno se british reunification stirling old.ogg Replaced replaced in Toolbox Theory alongside a general rework of David Stirling's character.
Russian Reunification "And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history." - Alexander Vasilevsky For the Union! PRC variant. Replaced in Toolbox Theory for unknown reasons.

Scrapped[edit | edit source]

Image Event Quote Button Audio Notes
British Reunification "Only workers' Soviets, not parliament, can be the instrument enabling the proletariat to achieve its aims; those who have failed to understand this are, of course, reactionaries." - Vladimir Lenin To Make Lenin Proud Birch variant.
"Come all the threats, come all the violence, come all the insults. We will keep marching and they will not stop us." - John Tyndall They Won It Back Chesterton variant.
"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics." - David Lloyd George The Return of the Old Jellicoe variant.
"I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at." - Oliver Cromwell Light from Darkness Macmillan variant.
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people." - Abraham Lincoln Democracy Beckons Maulding variant.
"The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head, and became Tyrant in his stead." - William Blake Who Dares Wins File:Tno se british reunification stirling.ogg Stirling variant.
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them." - Queen Victoria Rule Brittania Thatcher variant.
"Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew, we are many, they are few." - Percy Bysshe Shelley Cable Street Avenged Wilson variant.
The English Catastrophe "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." - William Shakespeare God Save England
German Collapse "We lacked self control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise the Reich would have lasted more than 4 decades." - Wilhelm Frick Unter allem... Titled "german_warlord_era.dds" in game files. Removed in Toolbox Theory.
Indian Civil War "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mohandas Gandhi Another nation gone
Indian War "One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives." - Subhas Chandra Bose India is calling
The Mars Landing "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky The Journey Begins Removed alongside the whole of John Glenn's presidency.
Russian Unification (Omolon) "I work now as I have always worked: with my face into the wind... I'm only an instrument that God is using for the moment. Afterwards, things will be as God wants them." - Alexander Men Blessed are the Meek
Russian Unification (PRC) "And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history." - Alexander Vasilevsky For the Union! (Pre-Toolbox Theory) Superevent audio and music was changed in Toolbox Theory for unknown reasons.
(Toolbox Theory)
Second German Civil War "Why, of course the people don't want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along." - Hermann Göring Europe in Flames Removed in Toolbox Theory. Not to be confused with the Second West Russian War superevent.
Order 44 "The Way of the Warrior is to be found in dying." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo It is down to this. Replaced with End of the Yokusankai superevent.

Unused[edit | edit source]

Unimplemented, scrapped, or otherwise undocumented images leftover in /gfx/superevent_pictures.

Image File name Notes
english_civil_war.tga Likely unused due to proximity to German Civil War and South African War superevents.
indian_civil_war2.tga Unused variant of scrapped Indian Civil War superevent.
iraniancivilwar.tga Likely unused in favor of Oil Crisis superevent.
omolon_aprilfools_unification.dds Unknown purpose.
omolon_aprilfools_unification_sunset_alt.dds Unknown purpose. Variant of standard Ponylon unification superevent without color or human silhouette.
yemenicivilwar.tga Likely unused in favor of Oil Crisis superevent.

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Often referred to as super events. They are officially referred to as one word in patch notes and ingame files.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • World War III and Thermonuclear War are the only currently-implemented superevents in color.
    • Thermonuclear War is also the only animated superevent, not counting the big_event_hitler_die easter egg.
    • The only other colorized superevents was The Mars Landing.