Muv Luv Alternative: Desparation

The European continent is a historically rich melting pot of different countries and cultures. Or, it was. Since the BETA invasion, all of mainland Europe has since been lost. The end of World War 2, with the atomic bombing of Germany, split the continent into two major factions before the discovery and developing conflict with the BETA, the UN's NATO and the Warsaw PACT (led by the Soviet Union). Political tensions and mutual distrust meant that the rival powers, while ultimately reliant on one another, often failed to yield important mission info and sometimes actively sabotaging the efforts of the other. The inability to move past petty ideological squabbles led to the ultimate loss of the European mainland. This has left most of the fallen European nations' forces to be folded into the UN's military. What used to be a sprawl of cities, historical towns and different locales have all been left to ruins, now a barren wasteland with Hives of various stages scattering the land.