[IF Timeline Warning: This story takes place in a parallel UC timeline where the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are locked in a Cold War]
What if Operation Star One ended in a tactical victory at a terrible cost and a strategic stalemate? In this timeline, Zeon's defeat from the official history never happened. Instead, after the Federation and Zeon exhausted each other's strength, they drew a scar deeper than the falling colonies across the negotiating table: the equator.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Federation clings to life amid bureaucratic corruption. In the Southern Hemisphere, Zeon lies in wait beneath an iron-fisted militarist regime, sharpening its blades. The colonies' fate has been settled, but Earth, humanity's home, has been split as never before.
The war never ended. It merely changed its shape.
We are not regular soldiers. We are the “Red Ghosts,” operating in the shadows of this front line. Our job is to handle conflicts the authorities would never admit exist. My new teammates are a mysterious ace sniper and an overenthusiastic heavy-weapons specialist. And I, a mercenary who wants nothing but revenge, climbed into the monster codenamed “Trigger” and pulled the trigger that changed my fate for good.
We are blades forgotten by the world, dark ravens circling the edges of war.
