[quote=@UltikanaRe]
Hm. Interested. Any details on tech?
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Yep. Plasma/energy rifles. Lasers as precision weapons. Advanced armor and APCs on the ground. Global network security, anti-grav machines (an industry in its infancy)drones etc.Space travel is [i]easy[/i]-the commercial space flight boom happened some ten years before the current year.Space weaponry is a developing field as well-but costly only the superpowers (EU & Russia) can afford to deploy space fleets;  these are knocked out quickly after the initial contact with the Visitor. Orbital platforms are common deploying laser weaponry, surveillance hubs, ammo dumps, etc. Other tech too-trying to think of an analogy to give. If you have an idea for a technology just bring it up.

I should mention that the USA is not the superpower it was. Two costly wars in the middle east eventually split the party bases and the western half of the union seceded without bloodshed. California is the new capital. The eastern USA (EUSA) still has armed forces over seas (germany,japan,italy etc) but at greatly diminished numbers and is closely allied to the EU. The western USA (WUSA) has resumed Pre-WW1 isolationist policy. NATO has been disbanded. The independent nations that were formerly in the USSR have been returned to the Russian Republic. Extremists and terrorists with any number of ideologies,ethnicity and agendas abound in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the Eastern United States.