After the end of World War II, a strange phenomenon called a "spacequake" devastated the center of Eurasia, claiming the lives of at least 150 million people. Since then, smaller spacequakes plague the world on an irregular basis. Meanwhile, after the Japanese Empire surrendered, the Allies launched Operation Halvanhelev, a series of classified military and scientific operations to study vibrational disturbances around Western Europe, Asia and North America as well as to seize any technology related to it and to find the source of the mysterious Sephira Crystals. One of the first locations of a Sephira Crystal impact was in Norway.