The main battles for the future of the world are still ahead; for now, Europe and its surroundings are in an unstable lull. The Russian Empire is very angry, and Yugorossiya isn’t any kinder. To keep them from getting bored, they invited a third… Germany. In the newly formed Continental Alliance, Germany has industrial might and financial capital; Yugorossiya has many new technologies and political knowledge for the next hundred years; and the Russian Empire has endless expanses, natural resources, and human capital: many Russian brilliant scientists, inventors, and engineers who will now work only for their native country. Pulled into the same harness, these three countries will do everything to bring closer the day when this world changes irreversibly.
Meanwhile, on the surface, there’s calm, and everything has been decided—yet nothing final has happened. General Skobelev’s Persian Corps marches toward Basra. The Yugorossians, having rented a base in Guantánamo, test the North American United States—our main opponent in the coming clash. And on the Atlantic island of Corvo, an Irish royal army trains to one day bring freedom to the suffering Green Island. Britain is also not sleeping. Gentlemen remain true to themselves: having neither the strength nor the means to reach the main enemy and suffocating under the sea blockade, they turn to murdering the unarmed and defenseless.