StriXern: Red Sea Intervention

Premise

The year is 77 of the Aeon of Orion (abbrev. A.O.), and humanity has begun the great projects to conquer the Orion-Cygnus arm of the galaxy. In preparation for the new era of exploration, much of humanity has emigrated from the overpopulated Earth and now dwells in the plates, disc-like worlds arranged around a near orbit of Sun in a Dyson swarm. Resources shortages, overpopulation and territorial disputes are seemingly exacerbated by influx of valuables being produced cheaply and cleanly by the plates, causing these habitats to become warzones for the various powers.

Politically the system is split between the militaristic neo-Byzantine and neo-Hellenic nation of the Hegemonia tou Alexandros (or simply, the Hegemonia) and the fiscally powerful Global Thirty-Thirty power bloc formed by the leading economies of Earth. Much of the world is in minor power blocs such as the United Solar Emirates that seek to resist Hegemonia incursions in the Middle East and recapture the Islamic golden age through their plateworld industry, or the upstart Union of Trans-Siberian Commonwealths which has usurped power from a now ecologically devastated Russian Federation (and the other CIS states) and finds itself embroiled with the Hegemonia for control of Crimea.

The remaining habitats in the Solar and countries on Earth are members of the unaligned pan-national movement known as the Free Nations, which is made of former UN states that didn't join one of the large alliances in the wake of its dissolution, primarily lead by the an alliance of the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Japan and their fifty-two shared plateworld modules.