As my grandmother used to say, “The world is going to Hell in a handbasket.” Everyone knows the world is falling apart—right? Well, finally it does.
It starts with the destruction of Austin by F5 tornados during the huge Halloween celebration and an unimaginably huge hurricane smashes into Manhattan. Then it starts to get really bad. The power goes out east of the Mississippi for good and United States brings itself down—no longer a force for good in the world.
In Europe the religious patriarch of the Worldwide Christian Church and a new political leader, Guillaume: the Grand Duke of Luxembourg risen from the dead, use the threat of so-called Christian terrorists to grab power bringing incredible prosperity and a resurrected Empire.