EO eastern territory gateway city. Transit hub for NCB border operations. Strategic buffer between EO core territory and NCB Pacific expansion.
Deep Siberia still exists — retreating permafrost, vast resource deposits, and the constant pressure of NCB expansion from the east. Siberian Gateway is the EO's easternmost major settlement, a transit hub managing the slow territorial negotiation between two powers that have never resolved their border.
Most EO operations in the eastern theaters route through here. It is also where EO and NCB intelligence services maintain the most active counter-intelligence operations against each other.