Iron Phoenix

*"History is written by the Victor."*
-Tagline

## Premises

### ISA and Overseer

Set in 2084/2100, the world is fractured after the events of Iron Wolf III. The player takes control over a person known as "The Overseer", who is employed by the International Stabilization Accord (ISA) to coordinate an effort to re-stabilize the world.

The opening mission sees the Overseer travel back to 1945, engaging in Ungentlemanly Warfare. It is then revealed they can "travel through time", the exact machinations and goals still unknown. The Overseer then can send out Mercenaries, which are player created characters, to complete missions for them to further the ISA's goals.

### The Post-Apocalypse and Feudal Futurism

Set in the aftermath of Valk’s global blackout, where the entire economic and military online grid is destroyed beyond repair, the world is once again in disarray. With literally no money due to CTEN’s erasure, and thus no power, anarchy becomes worldwide and the world reduces to a feudal order, where people revert to smaller city states instead of globalized nations.

Plagued by the continuing effects of climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources from the continuous military rebuilds akin to Dawnbreaker, the reliance of technology becomes a detriment and society slowly reverts to mechanical technology.

With the fall of ARES, there is a global power vaccuum. This becomes oppertunity for remnants of the United Nations to seize the last remaining natural resources. However, the lack of military power actually makes this quite difficult. Combat reverts to the level of Silent War, but it is now city-state versus city-state.

Following Ronin’s luddistic movement and subsequent correctness regarding the reliance on technology, many common people shun technology. The few robotics that are rebooted and people that use cybernetic augments are discriminated against.

However, Valk is also revered as a God to some. They deem the mere existence of Valk as proof that robots can have souls, and that they deserve equal treatment to

### Cicada

Following the meta narrative of Iron Wolf III, the second premise follows the ARC Mind fragment Cicada, as it is looking for [unspecified goal].

Cicada is a fragment of an ARC Mind, meaning it’s a military AI. IW3 multiplayer takes place in a machine learning / evolutionary algorithmic simulation, where the players are the ones running simulations to “improve” and show what the most optimal combat strategy is.

In the World Runes trailer, a man infected by  Cicada is collecting ARC Cores (brains for the ARC minds) to create this computational set up to run the simulations. IW4 takes place when Cicada is (nearly) done and goes into action.

Note: The fact that a rich person has an ARC Core is explained that technology is only reserved for the super wealthy as per premise 1. Similarly, the fact it’s in abandoned facilities unattended is also explained by this post-apocalyptic setting
His ultimate goal is "Iron Phoenix", to reboot the world under complete AI control, as he sees himself and other robots the natural evolution of humanity, just like humans were the natural evolution of apes.

### Time Travel

The last premise would involve a CIA surrogate having its operatives “time travel” to fix the fucked up past. This would be presented in missions set all throughout history (Norway Nazi assassination ex.)

In reality, the CIA surrogate is manipulating the minds of its citizens. The time travelling is in fact rewriting history, but only in the memory of people still wired with Cerebral Implants, who are all part of the ISA's influence sphere.

Replays of missions are simulations, intended to rewrite history to be perfectly in favor of the ISA. The original completion run of those missions are actual combat engagements, and thus fact.

## Modes

### Career

1. Career mode -> Campaign

Level a character, complete missions, engage in extraction shooter, battle royale, campaign-esque co-op and versus.

Characters adhere to the the 5 classes (Dom, Pre, Sec, Res, Ins). Each character is leveled separately, unlocking unique skills as they level up.

### Arena

1. Arena mode -> Multiplayer

Competitive arena shooter, classic mode, asymmetric mode and CSGO mode.

## Super Smash Bros

The game is meant to be pseudo-live service-y, instead of yearly release cadenced. It is meant to include a greatest hits assortment of everything Iron Wolf, from weapons inspired by it, to gameplay mechanics, locations, character types, etc. It's not like Call of Duty, where you actually play like character skins, more that everything is revamped into fitting the setting.

## Locations

* Las Vegas and Lake Powell
* Natural resource rich places (Colombia, Ethiopia, etc.)
* Asia?
* Europe?