2030
The Stop
The big oil fields dried up one after another, and there was nothing behind them. Ships
stalled in harbour, trucks died on the highways, the grid failed. Nobody was bombed. The
world simply stopped, and in six years eight and a half billion people became a few hundred
million.
2036
The Accord
A last survey team found the Aegis Basin: a remote archipelago with a century of oil under
it, the last on Earth. The armed states and industrial groups that were left signed the
Accord, formed the Coalition and built cities over the water. The price was obedience.
Obey, or be exiled to the wastelands.
2056
The Coldwater Breach
Twenty years of quiet, then a single raid revealed a new power: the Syndicate. One night
their party crossed the strait in the dark and captured the Coldwater fuel terminal. It was
the first Coalition ground lost in twenty years, and it started the war.