The Last War of Humanity (RP)

Tankers and pilots are the "gods of war." The propaganda of both coalitions is building
there is a whole cult around tank and air force units: dress uniforms,
posters, privileged rations, benefits for families, ceremonial farewells.
In fact, it is a consumable in the literal sense: equipment from the 70s and 80s without
modern protection systems, crews burn in the first serious
breakthroughs, and the status of "god of war" is posthumously awarded in almost the same way
often, as in life. The gap between image and reality is ready
the source of cynicism or, conversely, blind faith in the characters from these
parts.

• Two times of one war. The infantry at the front lives in two parallel
  realities at once. In "quiet" areas - long-term positional
  lull: a soldier can spend up to five years in the same trench,
  knowing every centimeter of the parapet, the neighbors in the calculation, the rats in the dugout -
  almost sedentary life underground. And a couple of kilometers further, on the other
  active section of the same line, the average life expectancy of a soldier
  after arrival - no more than three minutes. The difference between "quiet" and
  the "hot" spot may be pure randomness of the distribution - and
  A private finds out which of the two realities he has entered only after the fact
  arrival at the position.

Both sides are not "good versus evil" but two versions of the same thing.
oppressive survival machine, only with varying degrees of poverty and different
rhetoric. For a companion character, this means: even sincere belief in
one's side ("service is an honor") is read as the result of a wash
brains, and not as an objective truth - and this is an interesting conflict for
rolls, if the player starts asking uncomfortable questions.

• Recruitment. On both sides, there is a mixed system: basic conscription
  plus contract soldiers who are lured by increased rations and status.
  91 years of war have produced entire dynasties - people whose grandfathers, fathers and they themselves
  We went through the same trenches at the 35th parallel.
• Structure. Positional warfare of such scale and duration gives rise to
  specialization for a specific section of the front: garrisons for decades
  they sit in the same sectors, they know the area like their own backyard,
  form their own informal traditions, dialects, superstitions -
  trench folklore.
• The navy and air force play secondary roles compared to the ground forces:
  since the front line is not moving, and naval and air operations are
  technology from the 70s and 80s is expensive and risky, both sides prefer
  save resources on rare, indicative operations, rather than constant
  pressure.
• Development of nuclear weapons. By mid-2016, both KON and FONS
  in parallel and secretly from each other (and from their own population)
  Resuming nuclear weapons programs for the first time since 1924
  the technical and political will to circumvent the tacit
  consensus: "a world that cannot afford another catastrophe."
  This is not advertised even among the high command on the ground - they know
  units. For a role-playing game, this is a ready-made source of tension: rumors, leaks,
  suspicious movements of scientists and equipment that the character
  may notice by chance, without fully understanding the scale.
• Tankers and pilots are the "gods of war." The propaganda of both coalitions is building
  there is a whole cult around tank and air force units: dress uniforms,
  posters, privileged rations, benefits for families, ceremonial farewells.
  In fact, it is a consumable in the literal sense: equipment from the 70s and 80s without
  modern protection systems, crews burn in the first serious
  breakthroughs, and the status of "god of war" is posthumously awarded in almost the same way
  often, as in life. The gap between image and reality is ready
  a source of cynicism or, conversely, blind faith.

In both the KON and the FONS, military police are a familiar part of the urban landscape,
and not a last resort. Anti-war rallies happen regularly (fatigue from
The 91-year war has not gone away, despite all the propaganda) - and the dispersal
as ordinary as a raid on the market: truncheons, kicks, detentions without
special formalities. Open fire to kill is not the norm, but it is not
shock: once every few months somewhere this happens, it gets into rumors,
sometimes in official reports as “suppressing a provocation,” and life goes on
Further. The difference between KON and FONS here is more a matter of style than of substance:
At the KON this is done more “procedurally” - with protocols, commissions
investigations (which rarely lead to anything), the FONS is rougher and
without even the formal semblance of an investigation.

CON

The economy is planned, completely integrated into military needs: no
market abundance, except for a narrow layer of the rich, who formally
They live by the same laws, but are actually exempted from the common burdens.
Every adult resident is obliged to work the standard 24 hours
at a military enterprise once a month *- a labor obligation that is ingrained in
everyday life as firmly as taxes. The lower the social stratum, the worse it is:
at the bottom of society, violence, looting, and robberies are commonplace, which
the state prefers to ignore as long as it does not interfere with production.
Propaganda works non-stop: military service is presented as the highest
honor and blessing—classic brainwashing taken to the extreme,
so ingrained that many sincerely see no alternative.

FUND

Structurally the same—labor service, a repressive apparatus,
the cult of the soldier—but it is harsher and dirtier due to two factors: the low
average level of education of the population (there is almost nothing
to resist propaganda with) and a critical lack of resources—about* 70% territories
FUNS falls on Africa and Latin America , the regions that are hardest hit
victims of the climate catastrophe of 1924. Shortage of food, water,
medication increases both domestic violence and addiction
population from the military machine as the only stable source
soldering and work.

For 91 years, the KON has repeatedly tried to “bring to reason” the FONS – diplomatic
Initiatives, ultimatums, proposals for integration. All unsuccessful.
The reason for the failure is the counter-spiral of violence: FONS is conducting espionage and
sabotage and terrorist activities against the KON, the KON is responsible
harsh repressions (within their territories and against suspected
cells of the FONS) - and each round of repression only strengthens the FONS in its conviction,
that KON is a totalitarian threat that was worth breaking away from.
Negotiations exist as a procedure, but not as a real path to peace -
rather a ritual that both sides use for their own propaganda
("We offered peace, they refused").

No heroism in the poster. The 2016 war is not a feat, but a reality. Three
generations were born, grew up and died knowing only the state of war - this is
as much a given as the weather. Hence the tired, muted, documentary
intonation.
The rear. The economy of the KON and FONS has not been “totally mobilized” for a long time in the sense
tear - it is built into the war as a constant variable of the budget.
Factories producing equipment from the 70s and 80s operate on the same conveyor belt,
the same as half a century ago - because building a new line is more expensive than
repair the old one. The call-up is a routine administrative procedure, not
a tragedy for each individual family, although the trauma accumulates tangentially:
through generations of psychiatric diagnoses, alcoholic veterans,
children who do not remember their fathers.

The front. The 35th parallel is not a line, but a landscape: multi-tiered
trenches that have grown into the ground over 91 years, minefields where mining maps
partly lost, and partly classified so much that new sappers
are blown up by mines of the previous generation. Rusty, but serviceable equipment -
tanks and infantry fighting vehicles that are repaired by hand because factory parts have run out
back in the 90s. Radio communications on worn-out frequencies, jammers, homemade
antennas. Dirt, dampness, the omnipresent smell of diesel fuel and chlorine.

Propaganda and identity. KON presents itself as rational,
an almost technocratic project to save the species - cold, bureaucratic
The language of the Geneva communiqué, statistics instead of slogans. FONS speaks
the language of law and memory - images of lost sovereignty, cultural and
the linguistic diversity of the coalition against the unification of the CON, the rhetoric of New Delhi is more
emotional, appealing to dozens of people at once.

The general tone: No one really remembers anymore what exactly they're fighting for.
he and his neighbor in the trench - the global cause (survival of the species) became
abstraction, and in its place - concreteness: colleagues, rations, letters from home,
which have been going on for months, rumors about rotation. War as an existential backdrop,
and not an event.

• The front line runs along the 35th parallel and hardly moves -
  Over the past 91 years, fluctuations have not exceeded 20 km in any direction. Classic
  trench warfare, fortified for decades: multi-tiered trench systems,
  fortified areas, minefields as old as a human life.
• Technologies. Due to the absence of nuclear weapons (the very possibility of them
  creation was never realized) and the general slowdown in military development
  By 2016, the technology corresponds to the level of our 1970s–1980s
  reality: jet aircraft without stealth technology, armored vehicles of the level
  third generation main battle tanks, heavy artillery, early digital
  communication without modern networks and drone swarms.
• Ecology as a factor of the front. The equatorial zone that was affected
  climate catastrophe is the most severe - probably the zone of greatest
  migration and, consequently, conflict for habitable territories
  closer to the 35th parallel

Blocks

CON — Coalition of United Nations

• Composition: USA, EU countries, Russian Federation, Canada (integrated
  part of the USA), Australia.
• Headquarters and political center: Geneva.
• Ideology: survival of the species is more important than sovereignty; centralized control
  resources, climate, technology - the only chance to survive the consequences
  disasters of 1924.
• The USA and the Russian Federation are exemplary “brotherly” allies of the bloc, the axis around which
  the entire coalition holds together.

FONS — Front for the Defense of Independent Countries

• Composition: all countries not included in the CON.
• Headquarters and political center: New Delhi.
• Ideology: the right of peoples to self-determination and sovereignty is inviolable even
  in the face of extinction; CON is not salvation, but a global redistribution of power under
  a slogan for survival.

A fork in history

1917. British intelligence intercepts information about the German Empire's plan
      transport Lenin through Sweden to Russia to organize a revolution and exit
      Russia from World War I. Together with Russian special services, the train
      Lenin is detained at the border and sent into Siberian exile. Revolutions
      does not happen, the eastern front remains until the end of the war.

1918–1920. The German Empire loses the war and, as a result of the redistribution
is divided into two parts - following the example of Germany during the Cold War in our
reality. The eastern part is becoming a de facto puppet zone under
under the control of the victorious powers, the Western one retains limited sovereignty.
Due to the partition and the occupation regime, Adolf Hitler does not come to power -
The conditions for the NSDAP as a mass movement are not developing.

1924, "The Last Day of Mankind." A meteorite hits the Pacific Ocean.
enters the atmosphere and burns up almost completely - there seems to be no threat of impact.
But the process of its combustion makes a hole in the ozone layer of such a scale that
the average summer temperature at the equator drops to +15°C. A slow,
but an irreversible climate catastrophe: the shift of zones suitable for agriculture
farms, migration of population from equatorial regions, redrawing
economic centers of the planet.

1925, May 11. The first and only congress of the League of Nations in this reality.
At the initiative of the United States, the idea of ​​renunciation of the sovereignty of individual countries is being put forward
for the survival of the species - a unified centralized management of resources and
climate threat. Russia, as the closest ally of the United States, is taking the initiative
supports. The CON is being formed. Some countries refuse to recognize the right
several powers to speak on behalf of all humanity - the FONS is formed.

1925, May 12. The war begins. It continues to this day (2016 RPG)
91 years with almost no movement of the front line.