In InnerSpace, the Third World War is not an event — it is a condition. A long, grinding epoch marked by depletion, fragmentation, and the slow collapse of the systems that once held the world together.
This war is less about missiles than entropy. It is a war of supply chains instead of trenches; a war of energy, scarcity, and exhaustion rather than ideology. It unfolds through direct clashes, proxy conflicts, markets, information, and attrition — and it continues precisely because it cannot afford to end. It is the perfect postmodern war: diffuse, deniable, undeniable, continuous, and everywhere at once.
The Third World War persists until there is no fuel left to fight with or for. It is a self‑terminating system, but one capable of stretching across decades because its “fuel” is not limited to oil or gas. It feeds on attention, fear, identity, data, territory, minerals, water — even narrative itself.
Across this long war, battles are not only fought with machines and steel. They reveal the emergence of functional magic as a practical force, deployed openly and decisively against the familiar arsenal of classical technology.
In InnerSpace, the Third World War begins in the night between 30 and 31 January 2026, with a war between USA and Iran. Our assessment: the global destruction will last for three decades.
