Another week, another new TNO custom event. And if you think the Piazza Fontana Bombing is a bad harbinger for Italy, then you haven't seen what this setting's rendition of the Years of Lead would look like. "Failstate" is putting it lightly.

Also known in Italian as the "Anni di piombo", the period in real life corresponds to a time of immense social turmoil, economic troubles and widespread violence from the late 1960s until the '80s. Radical militants and ideologues on all sides went to war against one another, and anyone who stood in their way for that matter, while outside parties as varied as the KGB, PLO, and CIA (with their involvement related to Operation Gladio gone off-script) using the chaos as a proxy battlefield. In TNO, imagine all that happening, whether it be due to the Fascists losing power, or the fallout of the Piazza Fontana Bombing...only difference being, it is much more pronounced. Not only ending Italy's time as a major power, but also potentially plunging the country into its own version of the Russian Anarchy.

For added trivia, the track used is a distorted version of "Prima Del Diluvio" from the Africa Addio OST ( [ Ссылка ] ), while the barely audible news broadcast is lifted from an TV report in 1978, around the same time Aldo Moro was confirmed as killed at the hands of the Red Brigades ( [ Ссылка ] ). While the ending clip is from an Italian documentary of that era, highlighting how memories of that turmoil haunt Italians to this day ( [ Ссылка ] ).

...It's one of the darkest things I've done, for a reason.

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