Terra Nova is at the brink of war. The The Confederated Northern City-States and The Allied Southern Territories are at odds, forces quietly spreading out in a game of chicken. With the assassination of Second Follow Hutchison, the world teeters on the edge of disaster, the fragile peace that had held the world together in the passing cycles since the War of the Alliance threatens to shatter into a million pieces, and with it plunge Terra Nova once again into war.