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The Seven Hour War, 2020

Modern collapse, Urban survival focus

In 2020, the Combine arrived. Within seven hours, every world superpower had fallen. Now, in the aftermath of the orbital bombardment, the remnants of modern militaries—deprived of GPS, satellite comms, and air superiority—engage in a desperate urban holding action. In the district known as The Last Redoubt, soldiers from across the globe fight alongside local police and civilians to protect the last departing evacuation convoys against an foreign empire that perceives human life as mere collateral data.

Created by Mike Hawk

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World premise

A playable world seed with consequences.

The Seven Hour War is humanity's final stand against the Combine. Since their arrival in May 2020, the alien empire has liquidated global powers with clinical efficiency. In the district known as The Last Redoubt, the remnants of modern armies—stripped of GPS, satellite links, and air superiority—engage in a desperate holding action. Tanks that once dominated the horizon are now stationary pillboxes, and soldiers who once relied on real-time drone feeds now pass hand-written notes through the ruins of high-rises. As a survivor in this urban collapse, you are no longer fighting for global dominance, but for the safe departure of the final civilian convoys. Every bullet is a non-renewable resource, every radio transmission is a beacon for orbital death, and every hour holding the line is a victory against an enemy that sees human life as mere collateral data.

Highway Interchange Zero is buckling under pulse-fire; the barricade needs technical support to stabilize the heavy shielding.

A fuel shipment is stranded at the Port Logistics Hub; without JP-8, the last transport vehicles won't make the sunrise departure.

The Metroliner Subway Tunnels are seeing increased activity of alien bio-weapons, threatening the only safe route between sectors.

A Colonel at the Bunker Command is recruiting volunteers for a 'dead-man's run' to recover a crashed satellite downlink.

Map

Locations

authority

Highway Interchange Zero

A massive fortification of burnt-out tanks and buses blocking the main arterial route into the city center; the asphalt is scorched by plasma fire and reinforced by Hesco barriers.

social

Saint Jude Medical Plaza

A partially collapsed hospital lobby serving as the primary triage center for high-value civilian refugees and wounded soldiers, running on vibrating diesel generators.

market

The Port Logistics Hub

A hazardous zone of shipping containers where the last stores of JP-8 fuel and 5.56mm ammo are guarded under heavy sentry; the air smells of salt and burning rubber.

urban

Liberty Financial Center

Glass-strewn plazas where Combine dropships have established tether-points and suppression turrets, turning the center of commerce into a lethal, open-air kill-zone.

travel

Metroliner Subway Tunnels

The only remaining safe passage for infantry, though it is increasingly infested by Headcrab canisters and leaking sewer lines that pose a constant drowning risk.

residential

The Bunker Command

The reinforced basement of a government building where the local Colonel maintains a maps-and-pins command center amidst failing lights and the hum of a shortwave radio.

Power

Factions

political · influence 70

Task Force 17

A coalition of local National Guard and international military remnants attempting to keep the civilian withdrawal organized and the perimeter intact.

political · influence 98

The Overwatch

The supreme alien authority, currently deploying Synths and Hunter-Choppers to decapitate the remaining human command structure.

social · influence 35

The Scorched Society

Paramilitary groups and deserters who believe the Seven Hour War is already lost and are looting modern tech to trade for survival.

Pressure

Opening rumors

Credibility 42

Bunker Command leak

Rumors are circulating that High Command is drafting an instrument of total surrender to stop the orbital bombardment.

Credibility 89

market talk

Supply runners say 5.56mm rounds are being traded at the Port Logistics Hub for ten times their weight in medicine.

Credibility 65

patrol debrief

A full mechanized platoon vanished near Liberty Financial; they didn't report contact, they just stopped existing.

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