Editing TheStarsAreRight:Introduction (section)

==GAME HISTORY OVERVIEW==

As of this writing the timeline is currently in Fall 1932, in an alternate timeline where fascism has spread more quickly than in real-world history.  

Within the United States, the great economic depression occurred about six months later than in the real world, with the result that the effect has been deeper and more far reaching than expected.   The US president is currently Charles Curtis, President-Elect Hoover having passed away after contracting The Kansas City Influenza.  

Within Europe, Germany's fascists/Nazi's are coming to power quicker and earlier, having been given help from unknown sources to in reestablishing their industrial base. 

Rumors have been filtering out of India and China, with people claiming that the old gods and ancestors walk the countryside.

The lost Czar Alexi has been found, and with the help of dedicated royalists, is attempting to reestablish a Romanov rulership in the face of the Communists.  The borders of Russia have now completely closed, with rumors of a massive purge wiping out all foes to the true Russia.  

Above and beyond all of this - the "Stars Are Just Coming Right" - for those who know where to look.   Strange occurrences and Fortean events happen on a daily basis. (A rain of fish over New York, unexplained disappearances, etc.)   Factions of the US Government are beginning to exploit the new understanding of just what these changes imply. 

An underlying tension seems to be gripping society world wide, as if in preparation for some cataclysmic event.   Only a few who delve into forbidden knowledge have some inkling of what it might be.