Jack of Harts

International chaos erupted as the long-running Chinese-American Cool War escalated into a full-scale economic war. Most of it involved no violence all, with either the Chinese or the Americans simply walking in and declaring they now owned whatever facility they were claiming that day. Often the local operators running it remained at their posts contingent upon background investigations. But sometimes they included special action teams and weapons fire, and sometimes those resulted in shed blood. People died all around the world as the economic superpowers tore at each other. Foreign countries stopped lending to either America or China, and the global economy simply came apart. So it was that the Second Great Depression came upon us all.