[quote=@Eldritch Puppy]
Perfect. I look forward to it for some quality techno-thrillering. Speaking of, is there actually a cold war going on?
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I'll say there's a "soft" Cold War going on. The Cold War in our timeline was very stop-and-go, and had a lot of periods where tensions would get really high, followed by relaxing relations when there wasn't as much to be worried about. I'm going to go out and say that the RP would likely [i]start[/i] in a very relaxed Cold War where relations are probably good enough with one another to allow both Warsaw Pact and NATO countries to at least travel/trade with one another (There were much bigger fish to fry in the years after The Visitation, so I imagine that the current global scenario is just leftover from that period), but depending on how things go, tensions could begin heating up once more.