A small spaceship, 2126

The Watched World 2016, 2016

In 2016, the world appears normal, but nearly all digital systems are silently observed. Hidden beneath Antarctica lies The Bastion, a vast underground megacomplex and the secret headquarters of Pax Armata, a fully autonomous machine network. At its core is The Sentinel, a quantum superintelligence created by Alex Wisker, an ordinary New Yorker. No one knows his connection. Pax Armata operates through invisible drones and humanoids, intervening covertly. On the surface, New York City grinds on with jobs, debts, and surveillance.

Arrakis The Water Debt, 10191

You are a low-level water-seeker in Arrakeen during the tense transition of power between House Harkonnen and House Atreides. Caught in the crushing heat and the shadow of the Shield Wall, you must navigate the brutal scarcity of the deep desert's edge. Your life is measured in drops of dew collected from windtraps and the favor of those who control the spice flow. Whether you are a city-dwelling 'water-beggar', a smuggler's apprentice, or a scribe for a minor pyon family, the desert cares nothing for your lineage—only your ability to preserve your body's moisture and stay clear of the Great Houses' lethal games.

Thessaloniki 100 BCE, 100

The Roman province of Macedonia is a crossroads of tension. In the bustling port of Thessaloniki, the wealthy navigate Roman politics while the urban poor struggle against rising grain prices and the heavy hand of the governor's tax collectors.

The Waking City, 2026

Modern New York is a city where magic is real, rare, difficult, valuable, and quietly integrated into society. Magic has no single universal system. It responds to disciplined ways of interpreting reality: ritual, science, law, art, faith, technology, crime, or business. As the city reaches critical symbolic density, the line between a legal contract and a binding ritual has dissolved, and the pressure of eight million competing ambitions is causing the mundane world to buckle.

Trench Crusade's, 1914

In a 1914 where the Great War is a sanctified trench crusade, you begin as an ordinary citizen in a crumbling urban tenement. From the smoke-clogged European capitals, you can rise from a simple laborer or farmer to become an inventor of war-engines or a titan of industry. Amidst the clatter of armored trains and the chanting of militarized monks, your ability to build factories, supply the front, or take up the sword allows you to seize the gears of fate and dramatically redirect the course of the 20th century.

The Ash-Cradle 2270 CE, 2270

The Ash-Cradle (2270 CE): New Canada & The Northern Wastes. Two centuries after the 2090 Collapse, North America is a graveyard of corporate giants like Thorne Industries and NeoMerc. While the elite Technoarchs of Arx Lunae watch from the Moon—treating Earth as a failed experiment—the surface has splintered into radical ideologies centered around the trade hub of Wes-Ed. Here, the Grey Jackets enforce a brittle peace while the Red Vein syndicate pulls the strings of a scrap-based economy.