西方联盟,Western Coalition
成立时间:1967年
总部:比利时,布鲁塞尔
领导人:联盟军事委员会主席,帕特里克·斯坦曼将军(General Patrick Steinmann)
控制地区:北美、西欧和南欧、北非、澳大利亚
宗旨:保护其成员国的安全和利益,特别是防范对自由世界的威胁。
Western Coalition is NATO's successor in the post-Shift world, where technological growth spurred an ever-accelerating arms race between the East and the West. Concerned that the balance of power could end up tipping in favour of the Soviet Union in light of the rapid technological advancements being made in the aftermath of the Shift, the leaders of NATO nations collectively agreed upon and signed a treaty that when put into action would transform the organization into a much-tighter knit political, military and economical alliance. In 1976, an incident later dubbed 'the Annihilation' that resulted from Soviet military covertly transporting an experimental and unstable weapon created using little known aftereffect of the Shift - the so-called Exolis Crystals, detonating prematurely in outskirts of Istanbul, destroying large parts of the city and exposing the existence and potential of these crystals to the world at large, sparking a conflict that would become known as the Resource War, with Western Coalition ultimately triumphing over the Soviet Union, if only because the latter fell apart due to internal conflicts and ultimately dissolved as a coup took over and created the Eurasian Dominion. An uneasy truce between the superpowers lasted for a few years before the inevitable happened and the second Resource War begun, with no real end in sight.
西方联盟是在世界剧变后北约的继承者,在那个时代,科技的发展刺激了东西方之间不断加速的军备竞赛。考虑到世界剧变后的科技飞速发展,力量平衡最终可能会倒向苏联,于是北约国家的领导人集体同意并签署了一项条约,该条约一旦付诸实施就会把北约转变成一个更加紧凑的政治、军事和经济联盟。在1976年,苏联军方秘密运送了一种不稳定的实验性武器,这种武器使用了那场世界剧变后鲜为人知的产物:Exolis晶体,这种武器在伊斯坦布尔郊区被提前引爆且摧毁了这座城市的大部分区域,因而向全世界暴露了这种晶体的存在及其潜能,由此引发了一场后来被称为“资源战争”的军事冲突。最终苏联因为内部冲突的分崩离析和政变者的上台并建立了欧亚帝国而解体,西方联盟由此获胜。两个超级大国之间的不稳定休战状态持续了数年。然后不可避免的,看不到真正结束迹象的第二次资源战争开始了。