Exocrisis Blue - After the Alien War

Summer time!  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I'm painting the front step.   I'm also writing but this is the worst time of year to be productive as you have to enjoy the 2 whole months of summer weather in Canada before it snows again.  Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but it feels that way some years.

Work on Raid on Kahamba continues and I'm still aiming for that end of August / September time frame to get the next installment of Excocrisis out.  Today, I'm going to show a front and side concept drawing of the HARM unit and talk a little about the world of Exocrisis Blue.

The actual mecha design started out as an abstract drawing of the robot's head for the cover of HARM.  I then thought, what would it take to make it into an actual robot.  This drawing was for the original HARM unit X-14, and the mecha design will have become more streamlined and armoured since then.  For Raid on Kahamba, the HARM unit involved will be a second generation model that will incorporate elements of the prototype, but it will be different.  Each set of countries will also have their own types of HARM units, all based off the original prototypes, but taken in sometimes vastly different directions.

So what is the world of Exocrisis Blue like ten years after the story HARM takes place?  Here is a little background for the upcoming story.

Post-War Years
Ten years after AA  (After Armageddon or After Arrival).

• European Union is now lead by France as the Germany was greatly devastated by the war.  A great deal of rebuilding has happened.
• Brazil – or the Brazilian Empire.  It rules South America except for neutral Chile. Brazil has a Guyana Space Base that was captured from the European Union and works with them for space launches.
• The former eastern United States of America – also calls itself the True United States. A very conservative Christian religious democracy originally started in the power vacuum at the end of the Alien War.
• China has fractured into a southern block which is now the PRC, and multiple northern factions.
• The former western United States is now Pacifica and represents the ideals closest to the nation from which it originated.
• Japan is once again an economic powerhouse with close ties to Canada and Pacifica.  Japan has had brush fire wars with the PRC even though it has simmered down.  They support the northern Chinese factions.
• The Pan-African Alliance which is lead out of South Africa.  This block is allied with the PRC which provided aid to the African continent.
• Australia is independent along with New Zealand.
• India and Pakistan have set aside differences to be their own power bloc with ties to the Middle East, Russian Federation, and PRC / Northern Chinese.
• The middle east, the -stan countries, Iran, Iraq all have ties to the Russian Federation.

That's all for now.  Stay tuned.