Era III · NEARSIGHT
Errack is ensnared in a relentless flow of information. Satellites carve pathways through the heavens, their digital eyes tracking Myrkild movements in a choreographed dance of surveillance and strategy. Drones, remote vehicles and exoskeletons extend the reach of armies, while every screen promises that distance has finally been conquered. Humanity can see more of its world than ever before—and mistakes that visibility for understanding.
NEARSIGHT: ErrackErrack beneath the sensor netExplore maps The world right now
Satellites track Myrkild movements, remote-controlled vehicles cross ground too dangerous for crews and rapid-response formations race between borders before conventional armies can mobilise. Technological marvels illuminate the battlefield, but their light is narrow and directed. What falls beyond a sensor cone, a budget line or an authorised feed can remain invisible even while the planet is saturated with observation.
The common folk remain shackled to a military-industrial complex that hoards progress. Behind the walls of megacities, civilians pay more for safety while relying on outdated technology and government agencies for superior protection. Rival blocs conduct false-flag attacks, sabotage and proxy wars beneath a relentless barrage of propaganda; better information has created more ways to manufacture certainty.
Primer
Enough context to enter the era without front-loading the encyclopaedia.
People & power
Governments, defence contractors and infrastructure monopolies control the networks that keep megacities supplied and defended. Genetic enhancement, advanced medicine and military hardware reach civilian life through contracts designed to preserve dependence rather than distribute power.
Read the genetic bidding programmeThe Wyrd
Resonance is modelled as a tactical phenomenon and opposed with short-range Noise Field Generators, engineered materials and specialist doctrine. These systems can disrupt a manifestation without explaining why it exists, what it connects to or what prolonged interference changes.
Enter the Nearsight BlackoutBeyond the feed
Myrkild are divided into recognised families, mapped through migration signatures and targeted by specialist units. Yet moving subterranean signals, impossible replies and coordinated sensor failures reveal a recurring weakness—the instruments are excellent at confirming what analysts already know how to name.
Follow the Kraal Nine signalPowers of the age
NEARSIGHT is shaped by multinational blocs and specialist forces whose doctrines reveal what they value—speed, endurance, civil compatibility or control of the information surrounding a war.
A fast-moving multinational specialist force built around advanced equipment, rapid intervention and asymmetric operations.
A continental bloc whose slow, mutually supporting armoured formations are designed to become mobile walls.
A multinational expeditionary coalition pairing boxy, modular military systems with unusually strong civil and logistical compatibility.
A democratic maritime and economic alliance whose influence reaches through trade, intelligence sharing and the wars fought by smaller partner states.
What people know
Each age interprets its evidence through the institutions, instruments and fears it possesses. Greater visibility does not guarantee a complete explanation.
The record of the age
The timeline below follows deployments, contracts, quarantines, recoveries and system failures that define NEARSIGHT. Nearly everything is recorded; far less is released without alteration.
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10,903
Several threatened states combined specialist forces into the fast-moving Allied Special Tactics Union.
Þrimilcimanuthur, 10,914
The AESIR Mk-2 exoskeleton entered operational service during a live border interception.
Annarrmanuthur, 10,922 — Elleftamanuthur, 10,931
States auctioned exclusive enhancement contracts to corporations in exchange for population-scale genetic services.
13 Blodmanuthur, 10,938 — 8 Ostermanuthur, 10,939
A mechanised exclusion cordon sealed the Garmir basin after instrument stations detected a moving subterranean signal.
Ostermanuthur, 10,947
The TCSC formally adopted slow, mutually supporting armoured formations designed to become mobile walls.
16 Sólmanuthur, 10,963
An RD-76 Dart completed a controlled near-orbital nose-down plunge and recovered under its own power.
9 Áttandimanuthur, 10,971
The Jade Current Compact deployed a civil-compatible expeditionary force after a coastal infrastructure collapse.
6 Níundimanuthur, 10,982
Karoo Recovery Group contractors extracted a damaged sensor core from a collapsed underground relay.
6 Níundimanuthur, 10,982
The recovered Kraal Nine core transmitted a reply to a signal no monitoring station had recorded sending.
23 Tíundimanuthur, 11,096 — 7 Niewmonath, 11,097
A coordinated systems failure blinded military, civic and orbital sensors across multiple continents.
States auctioned exclusive enhancement contracts to corporations in exchange for population-scale genetic services.
The AESIR Mk-2 exoskeleton entered operational service during a live border interception.
The Jade Current Compact deployed a civil-compatible expeditionary force after a coastal infrastructure collapse.
Several threatened states combined specialist forces into the fast-moving Allied Special Tactics Union.
A mechanised exclusion cordon sealed the Garmir basin after instrument stations detected a moving subterranean signal.
The recovered Kraal Nine core transmitted a reply to a signal no monitoring station had recorded sending.
Karoo Recovery Group contractors extracted a damaged sensor core from a collapsed underground relay.
A coordinated systems failure blinded military, civic and orbital sensors across multiple continents.
An RD-76 Dart completed a controlled near-orbital nose-down plunge and recovered under its own power.
The TCSC formally adopted slow, mutually supporting armoured formations designed to become mobile walls.
