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>New Recap
<span class="mu-s">2031</span>
Entering into the new millennium, and going to even 2008, we thought the world was a specific way. The US was a global superpower, Russia was a failing nation, Eastern Europe was going to join the EU and NATO, everything was increasingly made in China, and China was spending more and more on the PLA every single year.
The first sign people's assumptions were wrong, was when Pretashinko was elected into office in Russia, back in 2000. By 2008, "Peace in Africa" had established new regimes in country after country in Central and South Africa, all allies of Russia and all with military advisors from Russia. The KNG (Confederation of Independent States) rose from economic alliances that existed before, to bring in Baltic nations.
In 2008, the American Housing Crisis happened, and it turned out that the EU was more exposed to the crisis than even Americans were. Within years, Greece was in turmoil, Germany was shattering into pieces, and the Southern Europe had a massive rise in Corporate Fascism. China faced a second Tiananmen Square Massacre, and after that the powerbrokers of the Peoples Republic of China turned on each other and struggled for power.
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In 2030, NATO and the EU were dead. Eastern Europe joined the KNG, North America was in the "North American Union", China was carved into 4 weak nations, and the world was unrecognizable.
The first 'Advising Reading And Suggesting Interface' (ARASI) was built, sometime before or during 2030. A small, underpowered version was smuggled into Germany and decided who would unite Germany into one Democratic Federal Republic of Germany. The same system was smuggled into Paris during the 4 way civil-war that broke out, and decided who would form the new Fifth French Republic.
Nuclear Weapons are almost obsolete and the SDI systems that can shoot them down, are almost fully online. Nothing is safe from an ARASI, the ARASI sees much, reads much, and multiplies the intelligence and command ability of anyone who uses it. It takes smart civilians and makes them into generals, it takes generals and makes them into conquerors, and takes conquerors and makes them into men that could grind Napoleon, Alexander, or Julius into dust.
No more wondering where your forces are deployed, no more wondering where the enemy is, no more wondering what your forces see, no more hoping your orders or transmissions are not intercepted. In fact, you are breaking into the enemies communications, assuming your system has enough processing power.
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In a world carved up into spheres of power and ideology, the ARASIs will decide who gets to prevail and write history, and who is lined up before a wall to be executed.
