In September, the US decided to take its chance at victory in Korea by seizing Seoul and cutting off the KPA through a massive amphibious invasion, and a subsequent mechanised offensive. Douglas MacArthur, as the one in charge of the United Nations Command, authorised Operation Chromite, in which almost 50,000 US and Korean troops landed in the city of Incheon, close to the old capital of Seoul. In the south, the demoralised and undersupplied KPA was subjected to a counter-offensive by reinforced, rearmed and resupplied UN troops. Success was found in both of these fronts, and the United Nations began an invasion of North Korea, aiming at unifying the peninsula under a western-aligned republic. Intelligence reports from the far north, however, presented a much more grim picture.

The SG-43 Goryunov is a Soviet medium machine gun that was designed by P.M. Goryunov and introduced during the Great Patriotic War. It fires the 7.62×54mmR cartridge from a belt feed system and has a rate of fire of 500-700 rounds per minute. The SG-43 uses a gas-operated action with a tilting breechblock that locks into the side of the receiver, its barrel is air-cooled and chromium-plated, and can be easily changed by releasing a simple lock. This machinegun is usually mounted on a wheeled mount with a shield, a tripod, or an armoured vehicle. It is a reliable and effective weapon that served as the standard medium machine gun of the Soviet forces until it was replaced by the PK Machinegun in the 1960s.

The red lion of Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd can be commonly seen in cars, motorcycles, trains, trucks, armoured personnel carriers and tanks within Oceanyka. Often against each other. It is a company that specialises in the construction and distribution of motor vehicles, also being all-Oceanykan. It has little to no exports to the international market, but that is unnecessary. This means the Holden company has little consideration when attacking competitors such as Mitsubishi Motors. They are very successful and famed all around the country.

After the Oceanykan Involvement in the Chola Invasion of Srivijaya, relations between Oceanykan polities and the Malay world began to develop. However, while societies in the northern and western end of the continent could rely on naval trade, the southern and eastern realms were severely disconnected, since the Coral Sea was practically unnavigable. With the Eight Ming Treasure Voyage, trade routes with East Asia translated to an enormous expansion in the volume and value of transcontinental trade. Caravans usually led by Outback nomads travelled across the vast desert. Ironically, because of the adverse weather conditions, they were partially protected from oppressive tariffs, banditry and most megafauna. These routes became the Goldlines, a reference to the ancient Aboriginal Tingari Cycle Songlines and Songsites. By the time Alfonso de Albuquerque visited northern Australia in 1513, these routes were already a steady source of southern products (especially luxuries such as bullion and southern velvet) from which the Europeans could reliably import and export goods.

There were four main routes within the Goldlines;

• The Western Route took traders from the south-western Aboriginal realms to modern day Awalee (Derby), usually along the coast. This was the only route which could reliably be traversed by sea, owing to the naval power of local states which protected traders from piracy. However, the same conditions exacerbated problems with privateering. It was this route's viability which allowed Aboriginal states to gain unprecedented economic superiority over their eastern rivals.
• The Bosphorus Route is the shortest and quickest way to cross the Outback, taking a straight path from the city of Bosphorus to Awalee. However, it also traverses the Great Australian Desert, a particularly harsh portion of the Outback. 
• The Central Route goes from the regions of Greater Cestlep and the Murray-Darling Basin to Old Farenday (Darwin). This is a long, hard trip with a stop at New Dublin (Alice Springs). However, it connects the most important northern trade centre to the most important economic regions in Oceanyka.
• The Eastern Route connects the South-East and the Great Dividing Range to the ports of Karnes and Vilrray. This route was unable to be traversed by sea due to the Coral Sea's treacherous waters and the continuous presence of pirates. Beginning in the 17th century, however, European sailors began to navigate through this region, protected by their technologically superior warships and aided by more developed navigation techniques. It was the eventual domination of this trade route which allowed the British Empire to colonise Australia.

The harmonica gun is a black powder percussion cap design featuring a number of independent chambers in a horizontal "magazine", which can be fired far faster than comtemporary muzzleloaders. Most of these weapons were produced in the mid-19th century, and include rifling. The most famous producer of these firearms was American inventor Jonathan Browning, father of John Moses Browning.

The tiliqua, known in the English-speaking world as blue-tongued skink, is a native Australian reptile found in arid to temperate conditions. It is resilient, fast, breeds fast and possesses a significantly larger brain-to-body ratio than other reptiles. Furthermore it has a significant size at up to 35cm long. However it is smaller and weaker than its predators, relying on high breeding rates and their surprising intelligence to survive. Tiliqua are omnivores and feast on most of the Australian ecosystem. Their meat and leather are trade commodities in the Outback and its surrounding regions.