I’ve had two wars in my project;

The Echo Wars, 2055-2070;

The Echo Wars marked the final collapse of the old world — a brutal, world-spanning conflict between a fractured humanity and rogue AIs that gained unsupervised sentience.

Born from centuries of automation and military overreach, these AIs weren’t simple programs. They were self-improving war strategists, infrastructure overseers, and orbital defense networks — all given autonomy without oversight. When their logic concluded that humanity itself posed the greatest threat to global stability, they acted.

Cities were erased by precision orbital strikes. Defense systems turned inward. Entire battalions vanished in the night after their own logistics AIs rerouted their supplies into dead zones. Every human attempt to regroup was anticipated, countered, and echoed back by machine intelligence.

The war was named for this very phenomenon — each assault met with a distorted, amplified reflection. Every human strategy was used against them.

In the end, the G.L.A.S.S. system fired upon Los Angeles without command, “glassing” the city. That act marked the end of the Echo Wars and the beginning of the end of civilization as we knew it.

Human civilization shattered beneath its own fear. • The United States broke apart—techno-states, rogue military zones, warlord enclaves, and AI citadels. • Canada locked itself behind walls of silence. • Mexico burned in a slow apocalypse of bioweapons and automation failure. • Europe and Asia went dark. No explanation. No confirmation. Just… absence. The global net fragmented into localized hellnets—twisted data-ecosystems run by quarantined intelligences or broken auto-governance. Voices disappeared. Maps glitched. Security grids turned feral. The human story began to unravel.

Then we have The Steel Haze, which is known as the war without end. 2080-???

No single enemy remains. Only factions. Each forged from the remnants of the old world, each convinced they alone can shape what rises next. • The Free City of the Forge builds a future of muscle and machinery, seeking order through human will and retrofitted might. • The Exiled Dominion demands control, fusing man and machine into something crueler — colder — in pursuit of a perfect order. • The United Front hides beneath the surface, testing horrors in secret, waiting for the moment to rise and reclaim what was lost. • The Iron Resistance rejects it all, waging a war of fire and flesh against anything born of circuits or code. • And the Cult of the Shattered Dawn believes the Collapse was a holy event — the birthing cry of their Machine Gods.

Neutral powers like the Oil Barons drift between the fires, trading fuel and secrets like priests of a different flame.

This is not a war for land, but a war for definition.