General

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Introduction

"Nuclear Option is a combat flight game developed by Shockfront Studios set on a dynamic and realistic battlefield of the near future. Use an array of advanced weapons to change the course of battles as you intercept bombers, duel fighters, fly under the radar, or unleash the fury of nuclear weapons on enemy formations.

Each aircraft comes with an immersive cockpit featuring a situational awareness HUD, identifying nearby targets and threats. Aircraft can be flown with various controllers or with a mouse-controlled "virtual joystick", requiring no special hardware.

Experience realistic flight dynamics, with stalls, spins and g-force effects fully implemented, as each aircraft is composed of up to 50 individually simulated physics parts. A highly detailed damage model means that the condition of each part affects the way your aircraft flies.

Build your own missions using the included mission editor, and then fly your mission solo or with friends in PVP or PVE multiplayer combat."

- Steam page

Geography

The islands

The Boscalian Archipelago is a chain of islands located in an yet unknown location.

It is composed of several landmasses :

• The largest island, named Boscali Major, covering the East and South corner of the Archipelago, covers a surface area of approximately 3300km²;
• A second, smaller island, named Boscali Minor, to the North West of the first island, covers a surface area of approximately 970km²;
• An island named Vigil Cay is located West of the strait between the two landmasses, with a surface area of 16km2, on which a Naval Base has been built;
• A small island is located North West of Boscali Minor, with a surface area of only 4km²;

The large channel separating Boscali Major and Minor, named the Lake by inhabitants of the Archipelago, can be crossed with 2 bridges across the narrowest parts of the Southern and Northern straits.

See the Map for more details.

Infrastructure

Human colonization of the Boscalian Archipelago is of unknown origin.
The islands are home to an estimated total population of 500,000 inhabitants of various origins.

Settlements

There are some towns on Boscali Major and Minor, such as Port Maris and Nexus Point.
See Settlements for details.

Airbases

Multiple airports and airbases have been built in several locations, such as Maris Airport or Desert Airbase.
See Airbases for details.

History

Currently, little is known on the Historical Background of the current conflict, except that it pitches the Boscali Faction against the Primeva Faction.

Economy

The Boscalian Archipelago became famous during the XXIst century when it managed to develop a reliable industrial process to produce large quantities of Metallic Hydrogen.

"In 1935, physicists Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington predicted that under an immense pressure of around 25 GPa (250,000 atm / 3,600,000 psi), hydrogen would display metallic properties." - Wikipedia.

The exploitation of this new technology brought considerable attention from the international scientific community, as well a large amounts of money being invested to develop and sale the resource.
The Refinery is the main production center of the resource.

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