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<span class="mu-s">State of the World</span>
Canada abruptly experiences an electromagnetic pulse that takes out the power grid centered around Quebec. As expected, there’s a death toll from infrastructure and life support failure. The country is thrown into chaos. With weakening fields, more regions will be prone to assaults by solar winds in the future.
To combat this, nations look into further developing their technology. EMP resistance has never been a priority till now, but the magnetic disturbances will be affecting everybody. It’s made clear by the debut of Buddy that the humans are innovating as fast as they can, in an arms race with these gigantic monsters that are rampaging across the world.
Japan begins its own project as well, using the discarded body of the Kaiju that wrecked China. China insists that they hand it over, citing the role of Qinglong in its defeat, but Japan refuses. The dragon itself doesn’t seem interested in their geopolitics, despite how strongly the CCP decries the refusal to pass them Dewa-Penyu’s corpse and The Hive Mind’s psychic remnants.
<span class="mu-s">TURN 16: INNOVATION</span>