Setting Part 2 

The Islamic Nation

A union of common religion has drawn much of the Middle East and North Africa into a multi-country entity whose expanding capital at New Babylon is the envy of the new age. The Islamic Nation is still experiencing the growing pains of unequal development but the immense natural wealth and populations of the countries it encompasses and its relative freedom from conflict make it the first global power.

Russia

Bouyed on hopes of stunning military success of its rapidly mobilised armies, Russia expected to march into the early years of the century as a vibrant and powerful player in world politics. Instead, hard on the heels of military reversals and massive population displacement, the monarchy was destroyed and Russia dissolved into warring states. There are a dozen powerblocks in Russia at any given time and dozens of warbands and petty kingdoms. Only one territory has retained any form of permanence, the Warlord Stainslav’s Sevatopol island fortress.

America

The Re-United states left the civil war behind and set records in modernising and railroad development that even the Islamic Nations were hard pressed to match. By the turn of the century the landscape was reshaped and military might was on the rise. Pursuing an involvement with the world policy as a defender of freedoms, America looked to spread her influence across the globe. Where the existing powers were waining America would be the shining light of the new era. Triditional roles were challenged and new scions of business and industry rose to prominence.

The call to war, to save the allies and rescue a subjugated Europe from the grasping Prussian Empire, would be the tolling of the bell on the old world and the emergence of America as the new.

The Radium device changed everything.

In the green firestorm hundreds of thousands of men were turned to white ash. Dozens of Airships and millions of tones of supplies joined them in the darkest day of the Great War to date.

America has withdrawn her manpower but pledged her industrial might. Ships guns and ammunition sails across the ocean to Europe, but perhaps never again the American soldier.