When the Order of Nations seized control in the mid-21st century, people around the globe believed this seemingly all-powerful, world-spanning government to be a new political force. But the Order is far older than most know. The roots of the movement extend back to the end of World War II, and to its chief architect, a man named Pierre Frenay.

Frenay, a member of the French Resistance during the war, witnessed first-hand the horrors dealt out at the hands of the Nazis. He held out hope that a fair and just society would rise out of the aftermath of the war, but felt those dreams were betrayed by what he saw as the ineffectual efforts of the then-newly-formed United Nations. So Frenay set out to reshape the world, working clandestinely within the halls of the United Nations itself.

He slowly amassed power with a single goal in mind: to topple all of the world’s individual governments and replace them with a restructured U.N. that would rule as he saw best. To achieve his dream, Frenay and his operatives fostered terror and mayhem in every nation and continent throughout the second half of the 20th century.

In the end, they succeeded, and government after government fell by the wayside. The U.N. was rechristened the Order of Nations, which took control and enforced its totalitarian will across the world.

As chaos spread, the leaders of the nations of the world were commanded to sign over leadership of their people to what would become the Order. Some resisted. One such dissident was Mary Dickinson. Then serving as Lord Chancellor of England, Dickinson led the charge to resist the new regime. Through the distribution of digital pamphlets released under the code name “Sentinel,” Dickinson maintained contact between the widespread branches of the Liberation Front and coordinated their struggle for freedom.

The Liberation Front holds strong to the belief that people should be free to elect their leaders and form their own governments — a belief they will fight and die to uphold.

Some within the ascendant regime’s upper echelon who felt their oppression of the masses was too harsh. Those who dissented were slain, including Donald Poole, who oversaw rule of Eastern Europe. Poole’s son, Robert, along with Sabal Dasgupta, one of the surviving members of the Order’s inner circle, knew that open opposition would result in their execution. So, with battle forces drawn from many other disillusioned Order soldiers and operatives, they secretly broke ranks and formed a clandestine faction known as the Shadow Revolution.

With stolen armaments and technology, and a deep understanding of the inner workings and weaknesses of the Order, the Shadow Revolution is dedicated to taking power themselves, realizing Pierre Frenay’s vision of firm but benevolent rule.