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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Fusion Fic]] ''[[Renegade (fanfic)|Renegade]]'', this is the state of affairs between [[Mass Effect|the Citadel]] and [[Command
== [[Literature]] ==
* The first two ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' novels have a cold war going on between the Star Kingdom of Manticore, and the People's Republic of Haven, that has been ongoing for half a century before the first story starts.
* ''[[Embedded]]'' has a Cold War ongoing between the NATO-style United Status and the Warsaw Pact-style Central Bloc. It's mostly identical to the original Cold War, except that the two powers are more opposed politically instead of ideologically. Also, thanks to the vast room available on the hundreds of colony worlds, the two factions aren't brought into conflict very much.
* A significant portion of the ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' falls into this, as by beginning of the series the centuries long war between [[The Empire]] and [[The Federation|the Alliance]] generally devolved into the Cold-War-with-occasional-skirmish mode and it took the rise of Reinhard and Wen-Li -- the titular Heroes -- to the top of their respective societies, for conflict to intensify again.
* Urras in ''[[The Dispossessed]]'' is in the midst of a cold war intentionally reminiscent of the real one, with the players being the liberal, parliamentary republic A-Io and the socialist totalitarian regime Thu. When a war breaks out, they don't attack each other but rather help different sides of a conflict in the underdeveloped country of Benbilli, which bears a suspicious resemblance to [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]].
* [[C. J. Cherryh|CJ Cherryh]]'s [[Alliance Union]] has one with three factions: Sol(Earth)/Alliance/Union. All are capitalist, though it is noted that Union citizens mostly descend from eastern block.
* In the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], the [[Star Trek: Typhon Pact|Typhon Pact vs the nations of the Khitomer Accords]]. Six previously antagonistic races, the Breen, Gorn, Tholians, Tzenkethi, Romulans and Kinshaya, formed new galactic superpower the Typhon Pact, which is a rival to the United Federation of Planets. The Federation responded by expanding their alliance with the Klingons to also include the Ferengi and the Cardassians, while also courting the Talarians. Now there are two large political blocs competing politically, economically, and technologically.
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* ''[[X (video game)|X3: Terran Conflict]]'' has a cold war between the Terrans (Sol system human government) and the [[Lost Colony|Argon Federation]]. The Terrans are paranoid that the Argon are dabbling in [[AI Is a Crapshoot|artificial general intelligence research]], and the Argon fear the Terrans' extremely advanced technology. ''Terran Conflict's'' main plot follows some of the events that set off the [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|war]] that takes place in the expansion pack, ''Albion Prelude'', when the Argon blow up the jewel of the Solar System, Earth's [[Big Dumb Object|Torus Aeternal]] and sic artificially intelligent fighters on Earth's fleet. This war ends up being a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: as the Argon push the Terrans back to the inner planets, the [[Precursors|Ancients]] shut the whole jumpgate network down and trap everyone in the entire X-Universe where they are.
* The entire premise of [[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone 1998]], with the U.S.A. and USSR duking it out on various planets and moons of the solar system with advanced Hovertanks realized with a biometal of alien origin.
* This is a possible interpretation of the relationship between [[Command
* Despite being a declared war, the fighting between the [[The Empire|Federation]] and the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Auroran]] [[The Alliance|Empire]] in ''[[EV Nova]]'' has devolved to this, with frequent border skirmishes. Reason being, the last time the war went full-scale, both sides struck far behind the lines and millions of innocents died, forcing the combatants to devote the bulk of their forces to [[Home Guard]] duty.
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