Dates
- Cover date
- July 2008
- Pages
- 28
Editions and covers
Creators
script: Josh Finneypencils: Kat Rocha, Josh Finneyinks: Kat Rocha, Josh Finneycolors: Kat Rocha, Josh Finneyletters: Josh Finney
Stories
- Chapter 1: Alert Five · 23 pages
A fireteam runs through a combat zone in a city in Sichuan Basin, China, pursued by twelve mobile infantry mech suits. Their captain requests air support, but is hit by fire from one of the mechs. Cut to a fighter pilot at Mamoru Air Base on Hainan Island, staring at a dead seagull while monologuing about Darwinism. Another pilot asks him to the Alert Hut, where they and three other pilots play a variant of poker based on the current "Sino Conflict", each of them representing a nation. The game is interrupted by a scramble signal, and two of them prepare and take off in Hellcat fighter jets.
- Balkanized China, 2031 · 1 pages