 Rumors that both sides are assembling nuclear weapons in space and that a nuclear weapon has been detonated increase public and international tensions . At the abbey , the current abbot , Dom <unk> Zerchi , recommends to New Rome that the Church reactivate the Quo Peregrinatur <unk> Pastor <unk> ( " Whither Wanders the Flock , the Shepherd is with Them " ) contingency plans involving " certain vehicles " the Church has had since <unk> . A " nuclear incident " occurs in the Asian Coalition city of Itu Wan : an underground nuclear explosion has destroyed the city , and the Atlantic Confederacy counters by firing a " warning shot " over the South Pacific . 
