The Somalia Incident

I've just posted the first teaser for this game on my site (which immediately hit a bump with Google's "let's check for terms-of-use violations" thing even though I'm well in the clear, so I may as well give it to you guys as well.
If you click, it'll take you to the big version where you can actually see the fancy stuff, this one has pretty low detail.
The Somalia Incident will come before Orchestra in the same universe but along a different timeline, and basically is everything moving horribly toward where things in Orchestra start out.
Some quick notes:
Technically, ITER is supposed to provide profitable fusion in 2019, but the listed event is more akin to DEMO on a military level. This will be noted in the text of a "how we got here" section.
A lot of people will wonder why Israel didn't get a whole ton of military help-this is due to their usage of chemical and biological warfare to try to keep the invaders at bay, which in turn led to people not wanting to help them militarily. This doesn't mean they're entirely without allies, however, as we see by 2030.
In addition, the US wanted to ensure an oil supply despite being on generally good terms with Israel, hence not doing much.
The game is very US-Middle East centric, but there will probably be a supplement or a section talking about other parts of the world. Since the US was the first to really use the tech that inspired the game, at least in-universe, they get most of the focus on the timeline because they're facilitating their production and use.
Trivia: Right after I made Al-Shabaab the really, really bad guys in the timeline I checked the news and discovered they had placed a bounty of 10 goats on President Obama. Fluke or savvy?
If you click, it'll take you to the big version where you can actually see the fancy stuff, this one has pretty low detail.
The Somalia Incident will come before Orchestra in the same universe but along a different timeline, and basically is everything moving horribly toward where things in Orchestra start out.
Some quick notes:
Technically, ITER is supposed to provide profitable fusion in 2019, but the listed event is more akin to DEMO on a military level. This will be noted in the text of a "how we got here" section.
A lot of people will wonder why Israel didn't get a whole ton of military help-this is due to their usage of chemical and biological warfare to try to keep the invaders at bay, which in turn led to people not wanting to help them militarily. This doesn't mean they're entirely without allies, however, as we see by 2030.
In addition, the US wanted to ensure an oil supply despite being on generally good terms with Israel, hence not doing much.
The game is very US-Middle East centric, but there will probably be a supplement or a section talking about other parts of the world. Since the US was the first to really use the tech that inspired the game, at least in-universe, they get most of the focus on the timeline because they're facilitating their production and use.
Trivia: Right after I made Al-Shabaab the really, really bad guys in the timeline I checked the news and discovered they had placed a bounty of 10 goats on President Obama. Fluke or savvy?