Prologue

The novel starts as Imperial troops land on the Chatham Islands a small settlement 680km southeast of the New Zealand mainland it signals the start of a new world war with the United American Empire against the United Nations. Leading to the takeover of the small outpost, the UAE had annexed Central and South America all in the name of securing the Empire against immigration, drugs and native population violence. With nowhere else to go it was a choice between crossing the South Atlantic into Africa or west across the Pacific into New Zealand. With UNDF forces left in Africa after the combined Imperial and UN War of the Warlords it was a harder nut to crack. So it was a matter of time when the cold war between the two forces started. The story focuses on soldiers on both sides as the UNDF lands in the top of the South Island and the UAE forces land in the bottom of the South.