Moscow

Moscow is a city of strategic weight, repeatedly cast as a prize or target in conflicts that span continents and systems. During Wotan's campaign, it was the third capital marked for seizure by War Machines, with Major Green scouting construction points to link its networks to the supercomputer's command—a decisive step in humanity's subjugation. Later, Earth Control's operators tracked chronic T-Mat breakdowns through Moscow, rerouting synthetic proteins from New York after Fewsham's Moonbase errors sent them to Canberra, while fuel reserves sat inaccessible, isolating the rocket mission. In a bunker lit by fluorescent lights, a map of Europe hung behind Millington's desk, its eastern edges clustered with red pins around the capital; Moscow became a chess piece, its Kremlin walls reduced to a target for poison gas and coded betrayals, divorced from human consequence. The city endures not as a living place but as a concept—a lever in machines designed to topple empires.