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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 471882" data-attributes="member: 2205">Hmmm... maybe that's a good point.  The US has been a burgeoning potential superpower, hoarding its influence in the American hemisphere, but is now striking out to make a stand with the other three powers and really struggling to go toe to toe with them...  I like it.I was also thinking of putting Japan on tight skids: they're probably stretched pretty thin over a large area, without the manpower to really control it.  Given their policies in conquered territory, they have to assume that all of it is hostile as well, and requires a lot of resources to maintain.  Mix these together -- US trying to step up and be recognized as a new superpower and Japan desperately trying not to lose influence, and you've got some great conflict.  The Soviet Union is also probably a financial vacuum -- in my setting it's already lasted a good 10-15 years longer than it actually did without a collapse, so the Russians could be a bit desperate as well.  Perhaps the Germans, seeing weakness in the other two superpowers is also stepping up the pressure to expand eastwards, or control the oil supply, or something like that.  This could really be a world on the brink of a big-time hot war.Add, of course, a little bit of occult threat to that: grays have been visiting/shot down providing some advanced technology, demons or whatnot have been summoned from dark worlds, and this could make for a really interesting setting.</blockquote>

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