This is the background story for my Roleplay in the Sci-Fi forum, The Seventh Armory. Enjoy.

Earth; 2113 A.D.
The days of peace have come and gone. War has replaced the peace that was vicariously settled at the 2017 Concord Conventions. Strife was inbred by solitude, and treaty after treaty once again formed a tangled web of allies. The past repeats itself, and when conflict erupted, World War was once again upon the globe.

Three factions were the ultimate product of these terms. From the Middle East, Indonesian, and Asian regions, The Iron Covenant was formed. From the Americas, Great Britian, And North Africa, The Marshal Core was created. From South and Middle Africa, Europe, and Australia, The Omega Movement emerged. Each faction carried with it its own supporting countries, leaving none neutral. Political campaigns led to tirades. Words led to actions, and conflict soon became an engagement of arms.
Between the years 2026 and 2085, minor guerilla combat escalated into a fully armed frontal assualt. Strips of no-mans-land miles wide came to seperate the borders, burned barren and raw from years of intense and total warfare. This was not a war of the leaders of politicans, it became a war of militia and people. Bystanders became soldiers, children became couriers. As quickly as a wildfire spreads so did the extremes by which life was led. The upsurp in violence and death tolls forced a ceasefire on the nations. Though the factions remained whole, and tension still hung tight in the air, a respite was finally granted for the innocent lives of those at stake.

Almost 30 years would pass, with mounting clashes between the three groups. The year 2111 held the turning point for the war. Armed insugents inflitrated the Notre Dame Cathedral, destroying it and killing over 4.5 thousand civillians on the Sabbath. The Marshal Core responded with a combat ready force of ten thousand strong, shipped over seas through the frigid Artic Sea from the British Isles. This invasion, named "Operation Free-Man" Attacked four key weak points on the northern shore of Asia. The unprepared Iron Covenant fell in numbers to the swift tactics and raids of Marshal soldiers. The city of Moscow was soon sieged and taken, held hostage by the remainder of the army.

The occupation of their grand city rushed The Covenant into retaliation, upon both opposing factions. While the brute force of Covenant militaries regained Moscow, they also spured The Omega Movement into war. Not only did The Movement viciously defend themselves from the Iron Covenants onslaught, but in holding The Core responsible, they deemed it necessary to fend off possible assualt from them.

This chain of events catapaulted the world back into the depths of WWIII, and caused hate to run even deeper between the factions. In the following two years, combat has penetrated every corner of mans civilization, bringin utter havoc and destruction. Poverty, hunger and crime is magnamously high and still on the rise. A torbid and warped world has spawned a generation of sick and diseased peoples. One man notably stated "Thus has man turned the gun towards his own head, and etched on the bullet reads, 'Armaggedon'".