For more than 20 years, the Coalition and the Nationalists fought their bloody war. With war comes technology, and it developed at an astonishingpace. The two armies fought each other with ever more powerful weapons, yet neither side gained the advantage. Ultimately, the two sides ran out offunds, willpower, and men. As the armies collapsed leaving the country inanarchy, a new power rose. Sweeping down on the exhausted country, PSI'sforces obliterated the remaining armies and began its conquest of the East. Now, the Western territories, mostly unaffected by the civil war, findthemselves suddenly defenseless against a new and quickly growing east coast power.