𝚃𝙰𝙱𝚄𝙻𝙰 𝚁𝙰𝚂𝙰 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟶

The year is 1980. Fifteen years have passed since humanity brought about its own destruction. The great nations of the Old World have fallen, their governments erased, their cities reduced to ruins, and their people scattered across a continent scarred by radiation, famine, and war. Europe is no longer divided by borders, it is divided by those strong enough to survive.

For decades, the world had lived under the shadow of the Cold War. NATO and the Soviet Union expanded their militaries, stockpiled thousands of nuclear weapons, and competed for influence across the globe. Every diplomatic crisis, every proxy war, and every military exercise pushed the superpowers closer to the brink, until peace became little more than an illusion.

On 14 July 1965, believing a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was imminent, NATO launched Operation Iron Dawn, the largest conventional military offensive in history. Millions of soldiers crossed the Iron Curtain while thousands of aircraft struck military targets throughout Eastern Europe. What was intended to prevent war instead ignited the very apocalypse it sought to avoid.

Within hours, the Soviet Union unleashed a full scale nuclear retaliation. NATO answered in kind, and the world disappeared beneath thousands of mushroom clouds. In less than forty-eight hours, centuries of human progress were erased. The years that followed brought nuclear winter, famine, disease, and the collapse of civilization itself.

Now, fifteen years later, a new age has begun. Kingdoms, republics, warlord states, merchant leagues, and isolated city states rise from the ashes of the Old World, each determined to carve out its own future. Ancient capitals have become dangerous ruins, forgotten military bunkers hide priceless technology, and every decision could shape the future of an entire continent.