Strength through connection
Anchors and Power Links create a dependable network for production, repair, sensors, logistics, and powered defense. Expansion is deliberate and becomes formidable once connected.
Choose a belief.
Then make it work.
Every faction changes both the army you command and the questions you ask. Connection, adaptation, and possibility are not cosmetic themes; each one shapes expansion, information, risk, and recovery.
Playable status: Meridian, Kharuun, and Hollow Choir are source-reachable local factions in the current development prototype. Missions 14 and 15 supply tested Choir command-crisis and final-accord routes. This is not broad three-faction balance, final presentation, or a public playable release.
Break the narrow link
A strong position may depend on one exposed connection. Isolate an Aegis Post or cut temporary supply, and a prepared fortress can lose the reliability it was built around.
Survival must be governable
The Ledger Peace prevented local collapses. Compact leaders can point to real cities saved by controlled extraction, even as that control concentrates power over which futures are consumed.
Mara Vey and Cael Rhyse
Mara turns uncertainty into a field problem she can solve. Rhyse wants to restore one stable future for the entire world. Their goals overlap until the cost becomes impossible to ignore.
Change the geometry
Waystones migrate before taking root. Warforms select visible adaptations near Growth Basins. Cairnbacks create temporary mineral cover, and Resonants listen for motion through the terrain.
Read the emergence
Mobility is not invisibility. Uprooted infrastructure is vulnerable, molt sites are visible, and subsurface routes expose predictable emergence zones that an alert opponent can prepare around.
Memory creates responsibility
A society that remembers its past can learn from it. Oruun’s discovery complicates that faith: the record was edited to prevent another civil conflict.
Oruun-of-Seven-Stones
Oruun carries seven accounts that correct one another. The campaign asks whether honest continuity can survive the truth about deliberate forgetting.
Control intervals, not territory
Units maintain declared possible states and must eventually resolve one. Structures depend on visible coherence timing. Missions 14–15 and deterministic tests accept this bounded contract and one recorded ending path; broad matchup balance remains unproven.
No free rewind
The Choir cannot erase hidden information without consequence. Every phase, displacement, or duplicate state must be publicly telegraphed and answerable.
Erased lives still count
The realized world calls other outcomes “possibilities.” The Choir remembers them as homes, relationships, and people denied continuation.
Neme
Neme contains several possible selves with different answers to coexistence. Those disagreements remain real; none is waiting to be revealed as the only authentic voice.
The current Choir prototype includes Threadkeeper, Intervalist, Lacuna Warden, Afterimage, Concordance, Interval Loom, Chorus Loom, Phase Anchor, Held Alternatives, and Shared Resolution. Their authored costs and deterministic mechanics are implemented; final tuning, animation, effects, audio, broad usability, and three-faction balance are not established.
Three things
every army needs.
The factions use the same broad economy so players can read the contest, but they create and protect value in different ways.
Build the force
Strata and reclaimed wreckage become workers, bodies, frames, and basic structures. Workers carry limited cargo back to a valid drop-off.
Spend possibility
Dawn pays for research, adaptations, support effects, and high-impact systems. It is powerful because its source is consequential.
Sustain the position
Headquarters and faction infrastructure determine how much force can be supported. Harassing capacity can matter more than destroying an army head-on.