A Victorian Uchronia…

London, 1888. A stubborn smog is stretching over the city. The combined powers of steam technology and etheromancy have made the British Empire the world’s leading nation. Day and night the chimneys of the factories vomit their heavy smokes. Walking the sprawling streets of the city, you never know who you shall meet at the dark corner of a squalid alley... Agents of the Club, scientists of the Mechazylum, freaks from the Pit, gipsies of the Wheel, opiumancers of the Dragon and warlocks of the Cult... All are fighting over power while Queen Victoria has sought refuge at the court of Oberon, King of the Fairies. When ambassadors from another world arrive, the year 1888 plunges headlong into madness...

The 20th century was still young when the 'Forever War' begun. Alliances were forged and often betrayed... Within a decade most nations were involved in a global and deadly conflict, it seemed, would last eternally. 1938. The World has been at war for more than a quarter of century. The Pacific Empire of Japan has established its reign of neo-feudal terror over most Asia and north-western American shogunates. Following the lead of their new messiah, Grigori's fanatical crusaders from all over the Union of Soviet Theocratic Republics spread their new One Faith. Thuleomancers of the Great Reich have unleashed their dreadful trench puppets and terrifying U-bots over Europe. Super heroes of the British Commonwealth and United Free States of America, supported by their Newark alien allies, fiercely fight for democracy and freedom. However, according to the H.O.P.E. Manifesto, none of these economical and mediapolitical empires actually means to achieve victory ! For war, as a system, serves their upper interests. War prevents national collectivist and liberal democratic ideals and ideas from taking hold, meanwhile war supports industrial and economical development at the expense of all individual rights. War is control. And as powerful as belligerent nations think they are, they all live in servitude for the Consortium and its secretive Directorate are actually the true masters of mankind. The H.O.P.E. proclaims that time has come clear-sighted and determined heroes rise and make the difference between everlasting slavery and freedom.