2076: Meridian War

In-engine cinematic: an approaching fleet, armour in a city and walkers on the winter front

BASE-BUILDING · REAL-TIME STRATEGY

Build. Command. Fight for the free world.

Build your base. Command your army. Fight for a world on the brink. A single-player RTS campaign and skirmish battles across land, sea and air.

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Operation Meridian
Darwin · 1 March 2076
Twenty-five operations
SteamWindowsmacOS
In development

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2076 · THE LAST FREE LANDS

THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.
THE WAR NEVER ENDED.

In 2027, a worldwide blackout brought nations to their knees. The Stability Partnership promised to restore order. Decades later, the last free lands are still fighting for their future.

You are their field commander. Build a base, protect the supply lines and bring infantry, armour, aircraft and fleets together. Every foothold is yours to earn.

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FROM THE PROLOGUE

Explore the world of 2076

Before the blackout

An ordinary world. One last evening.

Civilians queue for supplies beside a port after the blackout

A world brought to its knees

The systems people depended on fell silent.

A Stability Partnership fleet approaches a commercial harbour

The price of order

The Partnership offered safety. Control was the price.

A WAR ON EVERY FRONT

BUILD. COMMAND.
FIGHT FOR THE FREE WORLD.

From your first squad to a force that can turn a battle.

SEA

IN-ENGINE CINEMATIC

OPEN A NEW FRONT

Carry your forces across the water. Secure a foothold before the enemy can close the coast.

LAND

IN-ENGINE CINEMATIC

BREAK THROUGH

Bring armour, infantry and support together. Protect your supply routes and keep the pressure on.

COMBINED ARMS

IN-ENGINE CINEMATIC

HOLD YOUR GROUND

Read the battlefield. Find the counter. Make every unit count when the odds turn against you.

Command

Build. Supply. Hold the line.

A base-building real-time strategy game in the classic shape: deploy a headquarters, bring power and oil on line, train the first squads, and grow from there.

Three resources, no shortcuts

Credits flow from oil. Minerals are finite ore from land veins and seabed deposits, carried home by collectors you have to protect. Power is capacity: lose it and the factories pause, they do not vanish.
Combined arms you can read

Infantry, armour, aircraft, naval units and support, each with a silhouette and a counter. Aircraft return to rearm, carriers respect their capacity, and nothing crosses deep water because an animation looked convenient.
Field heroes, one at a time

Each army fields one living specialist with abilities on a clock: Dingo for the Cross, Kogane for Kintsugi, Ember for Many Fires, Bastion for the Compass, Halo for the Line, La Jinete for the Concord. Every objective stays winnable without them.
Skirmish, three ways to play

Choose Classic for the original systems, Arsenal for the expanded roster, or Frontline Defence for tower defence with specialist structures and mobile forces.

In-game capture: a column of tanks rolls out through the palms in low evening light — In the game · build 0.38

Armour holds a city junction under air attack

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The free world and the occupation

Six free blocs. No enemy nation.

Governments were sold, not nations. The occupation’s two commands are institutions, their armies conscripts from every country they hold, and in every one of those countries there is a resistance.

The Stability Partnership

The Directorate Military and industrial control. Armour, massed troops and artillery under Marshal Orlov. The Community Transport, grids and production. Drones and machine networks under General Lin.

The people

Eight faces you will remember.

Meet the people behind the orders. Their voices will stay with you long after the briefing ends.

Commodore Maya Voss on a field radio under canvas, a map under her hand and a harbour behind her — Wayfinder · the expedition Commodore Maya Voss Darwin · 1 March 2076

Commodore Maya Voss
Wayfinder · the expedition
Born by torchlight on the second night of the blackout. A logistics commander who notices who is still waiting after the briefing ends, and believes every loss is hers to carry.
Col. Lachlan “Rook” Mercer
Armour · Australian Army
Armour instructor and Maya’s practical counterweight. Dry humour, brief orders, and careful attention to exhausted crews.
CWO Jonah “Jono” Pike
Engineers · Firebreak
Quartermaster from the programme that kept Australia’s industry dispersed and repairable. Trusts a physical disconnect and a signed record over a reassuring display.
Wg Cdr Keira “Kite” Tan
Air · Royal Australian Air Force
Low-altitude pilot and skilled mechanic. Checks every route herself, flies the evacuations and brings back what the maps leave out.
Dr Sienna Park
Systems · civilian adviser
Certified Australia’s emergency network, warned that its permissions were too concentrated, and was politely filed. Careful about what a record proves.
Major Noah Bell
Section Nine · intelligence
Verification is his craft. He checks even the helpful information. Especially the helpful information.
High Commissioner Adrian Vale
Atlantic Continuity · the mentor
Seventy-nine. Warm, precise and unhurried; remembers names and gives useful advice. The calm at the centre of every free command for a generation.
Dr Celeste Marrow
Chair · the Stability Partnership
The public face of the occupation from the first broadcast to the last. Elegant, reasonable, and certain the world is safer in her care.