The Western Front, Earth, 1916... The Great War has been raging for almost two years, with no end in sight for either side. One ordinary bloody day on the Somme, a British Private by the name of Thomas Hargreaves has his world turned upside down when the Separatist droid armies land on Earth after a miscalculated hyperspace jump. It soon becomes apparent that the world war has become intertwined with a galactically larger one...