I mentioned earlier a project I wanna work on
Not much is set in stone just yet
The current working title for this project is “Left Behind”
Some details, such as nation names and character titles or names are left in all caps and bolded to signify that these details do not yet exist.

BACKGROUND

Two currently unnamed nations occupying the planet of Archon(Working name) have historic tension between them for REASON . During the most recent of their many many wars, one of them decides to blow a hole in the side of a mountain under the long-debated pretense that a strategic resource, which could turn the tide of this and all future wars in their favor, lies dormant… The other nation catches wind of this plot and plans to do the same. Both powers end up detonating charges on opposite sides of the mountain, at roughly the same time.
They did not uncover a strategic resource of any kind.
Instead they unearthed something much worse, much more detrimental than any war they could wage. A parasitic network–which would later be known across the continent as “The Blight”– had been feeding away at the decomposing biomass left behind by the victims of war for a very, very long time. The network spanned miles and, as the death toll grew higher and higher, it only expanded more and more. It was only fate that both factions would bomb their way into the heart of the parasite in the name of annihilating the other.

As they watched The Blight eat away at the excavation teams, both nations knew what they had done, and by proxy what needed to be done. It was time to call off all hostility and to put in place a truce so they could figure out how to deal with this threat to society as they knew it. They called themselves “The Coalition of Survival” (Working name).

OPERATION ARK

The plan they came up with would take upwards of a decade of research. Some of which they had, but the more crucial components still had yet to be invented. The Ark Project was a colonization effort. The CoS would build a massive colony ship, one to rival any city on the planet, and they would leave for safer grounds, perhaps one day returning to wipe out the parasite once and for all. Because land travel wasn’t an option and comms towers were constantly being overrun by The Blight, The CoS elected to meet in each other’s major cities to do research and development of the ship, by using air travel as their proxy.

THE EFFORT

Years go by and the Ark is nearly complete. The Blight, however, has finally figured out what The CoS is up to. A new Anti-Air form of the parasite had taken shape, making air travel more perilous. But The CoS was too close to give up. They persisted on the project. But The Blight had other plans. Forms of biomass were now taking to the skies, making air transport nigh impossible. The Blight had been occupying the space between the two nations ever since it escaped its tunnel systems. This area, dubbed by the planet’s populace as “No Man’s Land”, was getting bigger and bigger as more and more cities were lost to the parasite. Nowhere to go, The CoS began doing their research separate from one another at a significantly slower pace. NATION B realized that The Ark, in its current state, was suitable for short-term space travel. They needed only to finished production of the slip-space core. Archon was the only planet in their system, and they knew it. The plan was always to escape to another system where The Blight could never reach them.

THE BETRAYAL

NATION B eventually finished the core and placed it in the heart of the Ark, which was docked in their capital city where it was deemed safest from The Blight. Without warning, they began the departure protocol. TITLE Gage, the leader of NATION A‘s provisional government, however, took notice, and opened up a comms channel with The Ark. He begged them not to leave, and in particular he reasoned with TITLE Steele, the leader of NATION B that if they left, they would be condemning the populace of an entire nation to the worst possible fate, one worse than death. Now exiting orbit, it was too late to turn back now. Steele vowed he would return with the means to eradicate The Blight and save NATION A, and it was then that comms were severed due to a technical fault on the Ark. Gage had lost hope.

THE AFTERMATH

The denizens of NATION A, now calling themselves “The Condemned” had two options. Survive by the skill of their teeth hoping that Steele’s promise was true, or take the fight directly to The Blight. As the leader of The Condemned, Gage would ultimately have to make that decision. Time was running out, and he didn’t know what to do.