Klyuchevskaya Goes on the Offensive

(A beginner's practice work! Two female leads! Mostly action! It will never be paywalled, but I can't promise I won't abandon it! Please think carefully before reading!) (Arknights is just a fictional setting here and does not represent any country. The characters aren't based on real people either. If you came here for Arknights, let me apologize in advance.)

Since the Ursus Salvation Committee deposed Emperor Mikhail, relations between Columbia and Ursus have grown increasingly tense. Large numbers of troops have already been deployed to the tense front lines where the two sides are set to face off. Meanwhile, across the ocean on the other side of the world, Columbia's ongoing FleetEx 88 naval exercise has further unsettled Ursus.

Ursus has quietly moved its navy out into the ocean. The Klyuchevskaya Battle Group, the core of the Ursus Ocean Fleet, centered around heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, has been dispatched to wait offshore. At the same time, TF77.3, a unit of the Columbia Ocean Navy's 77th Task Force, has temporarily withdrawn from the exercise following a training accident and is heading to the southern tip of the Eastern Country for repairs and resupply.

The Cold War has turned hot. The curtain rises, and the God of War is about to begin a bloody game that will shape Terra's political landscape for the next half-century. The oceans, too, will boil...