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[NOTICE: Major rewriting of story from Chapter one. Sorry for the sudden changes, but I want to make this story as good as I possibly can]
[Mature descriptions, gore, themes of war, and political conspiracy, read at viewer discretion]

The year is 2059, the world is still recovering from the chaos that is The 2nd American Civil war. Great Britain proclaimed hard Brexit, invaded and annexed Ireland. Russia proclaimed ownership of both Crimea and Chechnya. Hong Kong is in ruins, as China doubled downed on military occupation. Paris is a boulevard of guerrilla warfare, as Yellow Vests demands a government change. Germany succumbed to Russian oil embargoes, trading black gold with allowance for full warfare in Syria. Palestine and Israel is still the same as it was in 1960s, just skirmishes between the two rivals. 

Because of the massive war effort the supposed 'Allies' brought, technology rapidly advances yet again. Cybernetics keep disabled soldiers fighting. Machine learning allowed environmental recognition. Nuclear power allowed naval railguns to be viable, and used extensively as high-priority missile interceptors, thus rendering ICBMs useless. Exoskeletal suits, though still in early development, allowed a single personnel to carry and fire 40mm and up AA guns, acting as an extremely long range sniper, if bombing was out of the question. War kickstarted fusion research, as trillions upon trillions are funneled into the project. The result is a semi-profitable energy source from deuterium and the extremely rare helium-3 in a helical stellarator reactor, projects about returning to the moon a third time has been proposed. 

In this story, we follow Natalya Nevinnaya, an ex-SAS sniper living off military benefits and 'retirement' as she attempts to deal with the deaths of her teammates, using alcohol, anime and violence as coping mechanisms. 

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