The world of Asertia stands on the brink of a war that threatens to reduce the Zaxon Continent to rubble. The Pythonis Imperium has risen into a dominant continental power, expanding its influence after seizing control of several nations and defeating the Federative Governorates of Etharia, one of the few states once capable of challenging its military supremacy. Meanwhile, the United States of America, still recovering from its sudden arrival in this unfamiliar world, begins preparing for a new and impossible responsibility: to stabilize, police, and survive within a world it never asked to enter.