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Parts 24
Time 2h 33m

Redhairedsniper

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Steam and a burgeoning fuel age power a world where people struggle to make ends meet. This globe of industry and smoke is on the brink of war as tensions between nations begin to boil over.

In the annex of Londinium, the automaton Kath-E learns about the life she can't remember and the world she struggles to understand with the help of a woman from her past.

Cecylla, disparaged and homeless, tries to find some sense of self-worth as the nation of Gaul prepares for war. She is determined to keep Gaul from this path of destruction even if it means bringing down her own nation around her.

The cyborg Axel lives under the glowing lights of Neon Nation, but nothing is quite as pristine as the rest of the world makes this hyper-advanced country out to be. Inside of its closed borders people are worked like slaves and lead lives unfulfilled in the neon glow.

These disconnected people try to survive in this harsh world as all that they know crumbles around them and the world sets down the course of its first world war.All Rights Reserved

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