For more than 20 years the Coalition and the Nationalists fought their bloody war. With war comes technology and it developed at an astonishing pace. The two armies fought each other with ever more powerful Gears yet neither side gained the advantage. Ultimately the two sides ran out of funds willpower and men. As the armies collapsed leaving the country in anarchy a new power rose. Sweeping down on the exhausted country PSIs forces obliterated the remaining armies and began its conquest of the East. Now the Western territories mostly unaffected by the civil war find themselves suddenly defenseless against a new and quickly growing east coast power.