Territory that neither EO nor PCU controls and both need. Infrastructure collapsed genuinely in the 2030s and 2040s. The people who stayed built what they could from what remained. Sons of the Serpent were born here.
Territory that neither EO nor PCU controls and both need. Infrastructure collapsed genuinely in the 2030s and 2040s. The people who stayed built what they could from what remained. Sons of the Serpent were born here. A Heralds of the Storm operative has surfaced with pre-dating intelligence on the headwaters Lumicite formation — and wants passage to Istanbul.
The infrastructure failures of the 2030s and 2040s left stretches of Iraq and eastern Syria in genuine collapse — not managed decay but actual structural failure. The people who stayed built what they could from what remained. People who have survived actual collapse are significantly harder to threaten than people who have only imagined it.
Sons of the Serpent are embedded here — providing security and logistics while the communities provide legitimacy and the knowledge of the land that keeps both alive. The PCU has been attempting to establish governance over this territory for nine years.
A Heralds of the Storm operative has surfaced, offering IPFZ radiation management protocols and pre-dating intelligence on a Lumicite formation in the headwaters highland corridor — in exchange for passage to Istanbul and introduction to the Bosphorus Compact. The 72-hour window before whoever made her acts is running.