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Eurasian Steppes

1,000 miles of grassland and mountains. Dense autonomous platform network. Standing Order 7 suppression protocol concealing 12% ore diversion for three years.

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As of2060
Coordinates50.010, 71.470
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Field record

Thousand miles grassland and mountain ranges. EO doesn't occupy — it instruments. Labor compounds at extraction sites. Prefab strongpoints at chokepoints. Ceramic plate walls. Workers on six-month rotating contracts.

Steppe Post 9 autonomous platform management runs Standing Order 7 for three years — suppression protocol burying flagged anomalies. Drones logged 847 discrepancies: headcount gaps, cargo variances, off-route movements. All suppressed. Variance describes ore diversion — 12% of Ural-7 output diverted to buyer MERIDIAN through Dmitri Volkov's procurement network.

Place

Districts and sites

Steppe Post 9
place · site · as of 2060
Autonomous platform relay managing 400km Eurasian Steppes surveillance. Standing Order 7 suppression protocol running 3 years. 847 anomaly flags buried.
Ural-7 Extraction Compound
place · site · as of 2060
EO rare-earth ore extraction compound. 12% of output diverted to buyer MERIDIAN through Dmitri Volkov's procurement network for three years.

Who is here

People

Elena Kirova
person · character · as of 2060
EO internal security. Running parallel investigation to Dmitri Volkov ore diversion for 18 months. Has not disclosed findings to EO military command.
Nadia Sorokina
person · poi
ARCHITECT · Eurasian Steppes. Lead architect of the EO's Siberian gene-forging sub-facility. Calls it the reduction of suffering.
Vasil Dorenko
person · poi
WARLORD · Eurasian Steppes. Logistical, not ideological. Still filing accountability requests for four operators lost off the official map in 2061.

Archive

In the press

Second Set
narrative · filing · as of 2066
The second set of prints Grouse logged off the record in June came back grown, testing a drained water station a valley over from the Iron Grass den.
Second Litter
narrative · filing · as of 2066
Six weeks ago Grouse let a Grunt-tier Vepr Ferox juvenile scatter into the steppe grass rather than spend a round on it.
Into the Walls
narrative · filing · as of 2066
A black-ops site purge on the winter steppe, a target conventional rounds cannot kill, and a rival who wants it crated alive. RIME cracked it open one round from the kill, then it went into the floor it lives in.
Last Box
narrative · filing · as of 2066
A solo kill order on a veteran boar that already walked off two contractor teams, won on the last die, on the operator's last health box.

Stories set here

Cold Storage
narrative · story · as of 2066
Sixty kilometers of open steppe, a fourteen-minute hole in the drone schedule, and a sealed bunker only one of two trucks can open first.
Fourteen Minutes
narrative · story · as of 2066
The ore truck smells like something that used to be alive, and the drone net that should catch it was told, once, years ago, to stop seeing.
Headcount
narrative · story · as of 2066
A saiga-forged runner takes a cold case off a night truck on the ore road and finds the strain designation inside printed on her own stock card.

Play

Bury the Count
narrative · mission · as of 2066
An EO command relay crawls across the open steppe to re-anchor a suppression order and rebury three years of logged thefts before a buran dust front switches off the long guns row by row, and two autonomous formations fight to

Connections 11

contains
Steppe Post 9 · nearest theater; no city within 60 km
Ural-7 Extraction Compound · nearest theater; no city within 60 km
controlled by
Eurasian Oligarchy · globe faction tag as of 2060
setting of
Bury the Count
Cold Storage
Fourteen Minutes
Headcount
Into the Walls
Last Box
Second Litter
Second Set

Sources

Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id eurasian-steppes