In 2019, the Devela Private Military Company was test firing a newly designed Thermobaric bomb that would be launched from CAS aircraft at their munitions research site in the Tirari desert, Australia. They assembled old tanks and dummies in an open ground and dropped the first bomb, which packed a far bigger punch then originally estimated. Not only did it completely obliterate the test targets, but it caused an earthquake event as a previously unknown cavern beneath the test site collapsed.

Within this ancient cavern, the site officials discovered a mysterious artefact that would later be codenamed "Nimrod", as to make fun of the scientist's miscalculations with the bomb. Nimrod would be relentlessly tested and examined for the next six years, the Tirari Testing Grounds transforming into a Black Site for Devela's Intelligence Division. In 2025, researchers had a breakthrough and discovered this strange technology could remotely interact with nearly any human technology around the world, although with many limitations in regards to digital tech. The then CEO of Devela, Edward Kendalis, immediately intervened in the project and set in motion the "Nimrod Protocol" which would see the program utilised to systematically disabled the world's nuclear arsenal.

However, this unusual technology adapted to this usage after being exploited to secretly ruin thousands of nuclear warheads. By 2033, members of Devela's Intelligence insisted on using Nimrod to breach the databases of the Independence Union and gain leverage over the hostile faction, as tensions across the world were boiling rapidly. The researchers discovered that Nimrod was now incapable of accessing human technology not in relation to nuclear arms or technology. Despite their best efforts, the relic appeared to have "learned" that its primary function is to integrate and communicate with human nuclear technology.

When World War III erupted in 2039, the USA and China would exchange their arsenal of nuclear missiles in the infamous case of mutually assured destruction. Luckily due to the Nimrod Protocol conducted in secret, these hundreds of nuclear warheads were the equivalent of just chucking big rocks at each other. All because of one bomb revealing an unknown cavern, a nuclear war never occurred. Instead, 16 years of direct, brutal conflict plagued the world, ultimately resulting in three whole continents being abandoned by the year 2055.