With tensions running high following NATO’s Able Archer exercise of 1983, various branches of the Soviet scientific apparatus are tasked with improving military capabilities or finding ways to ensure continuity of the Communist Party in the event of nuclear war. Project Shlyuz is a group that straddles both objectives, having found a means to open gateways into parallel universes.
Mir-711 is a colony established by Project Shlyuz on a world that is very similar to Earth in many ways, whose native inhabitants have reached a medieval level of technology, hardly tapping into the vast natural resources available. Paranormal phenomena are common in this place, as are strange creatures and races; most striking are the Blyudtse, vast flying discs of ice, the upper surfaces of which are carved into cities. Abandoned by the beings that created them, these cities are nonetheless riddled with strange dangers, and can have devastating effects on the body and mind of those that explore them.
Project Shlyuz is equipped with technology from shadowy departments across the USSR, technology considered science fiction in the 1980s; micronised computer systems, massive transport VTOLs, powered armour. With science and Russian spirit, the bizarre new world will be conquered for the benefit of the USSR.
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