Invasion — Nathan Hale

For more than three hundred years the Association has slowly grown and expanded despite all of the worldwide volcanism which is being caused by the slow shifting of the Earth's crust. This slow shifting of the planets crust has also caused the location of the poles to shift and by 422ADC the north pole is now located slightly north of where the city of Moscow had once stood prior to the Great War. But what's bad for one part of the planet isn't necessarily bad for other parts. The Association, headquartered in what had once been temperate Ohio prior to the Great War is now sitting in a sub-tropical zone or what passes for a sub-tropical zone under the thick never ending cloud cover that is being generated by all of the erupting volcanoes and great fissures in the Earth's crust that are caused by the crustal shifting. In a world that's become increasingly colder the area that comprises the Association is now one of the most coveted places on the planet. Living in peace and without any real enemies for more than three hundred years has slowly turned the Associations military into little more than a very small police force with fewer than one thousand men. These men are charged with maintaining law and order from Upper Canada in the north to the volcanos and fissures that border southern N. Carolina and from the wastelands along what had once been the Mississippi River to the dead lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean. But there are others, people who are on the verge of extinction, who are being forced to seek new land to settle or conquer. These people, who call themselves the Chong, have been continuously at war ever since the Great War had ended. They have conquered everyone around them only to find that their lands are becoming too cold for them to survive in. They must now risk everything by crossing the deadly oceans in their flimsy wooden ships so they can conquer the Association in order to survive. Because of how dangerous the world's oceans have become where rogue