Chris Taylor: "After the Seraphim, a very powerful and mysterious alien race were defeated at the end of Forged Alliance, there was a period of peace that set in. The tensions that had always existed between the factions certainly took a back-seat while fighting off the Seraphim, but these tensions crept back in during peace time. Our game begins when the newly elected Coalition President is assassinated, by an unknown assailant… kicking off the in-game story."