Welcome, Recruit.

You are about to enter the Red Timeline. In this reality, the Space Race never ended. It became a relentless, generation-spanning struggle that reshaped geopolitics, technology, and human destiny. This guide will prepare you for the key differences, factions, technologies, and philosophies of this world.

July 20, 1969. On the Sea of Tranquility, Neil Armstrong is the first human on the Moon. But in this timeline, his famous words are followed by a terrifying, world-changing event: The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov lands fifteen minutes later.

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