TOWARDS THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, a series of conflicts broke out on Earth which eventually escalated into World War Three. History recorded that these events were fomented by British diplomat Sir Reginald Styles, a key figure in peace talks held in the mid-1970s at Auderly House, a government-owned property 50 miles north of London. On 14 September that year, a devastating explosion destroyed the house, killing the world leaders Styles had gathered there and paving the way to war.