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Against a destroyed world civilization and large numbers of cybernetic zombies, the novels focus on the efforts of humans to survive and eventually move past the events after the Third Great War. The first novel primarily deals with small numbers of survivors and individual survivors; the focus gradually scales as new alliances, tribes, and social institutions are built among survivors, such that by the end of the third novel, ''Into Ploughshares'', the main conflict shifts from survival from hunger and cybernetic zombies to conflict between groups of survivors and, eventually, newly formed states. By the time of the fifth and final mainline novel, ''Next Great War'', most cybernetic zombies are gone and society has largely rebuilt, and thematically the novel depicts the so-called "Final Great War" and apocalypse as just another event in human history as the post-war states shed their "survival alliances" of convenience and prepare to resume war and conflict. | Against a destroyed world civilization and large numbers of cybernetic zombies, the novels focus on the efforts of humans to survive and eventually move past the events after the Third Great War. The first novel primarily deals with small numbers of survivors and individual survivors; the focus gradually scales as new alliances, tribes, and social institutions are built among survivors, such that by the end of the third novel, ''Into Ploughshares'', the main conflict shifts from survival from hunger and cybernetic zombies to conflict between groups of survivors and, eventually, newly formed states. By the time of the fifth and final mainline novel, ''Next Great War'', most cybernetic zombies are gone and society has largely rebuilt, and thematically the novel depicts the so-called "Final Great War" and apocalypse as just another event in human history as the post-war states shed their "survival alliances" of convenience and prepare to resume war and conflict. | ||
The series makes references to places and events in [[Sarpedon]] and [[Ultmar]], particularly in the prequel ''Beast of Seven Heads'' and finale ''Next Great War''. The primary narrative, however, takes place in the lands formerly of the Levantine Social Republic, largely modern [[Urcea]], [[Burgundie]], and [[Rhotia]]. Several post-war polities in modern [[Fiannria]] and [[Faneria]] are named in ''Next Great War'', and some characters from those places are introduced in that novel. Geronato has stated he intends to write several spin-off movies focusing on post-war events in other countries and places. | |||
==Novels== | ==Novels== | ||