About Tactica

Ask in real. Answer in fictional.

You ask a real-world question — “What if tensions escalate in the Taiwan Strait?” Tactica answers in a fictionalized theater: a three-path forecast (de-escalation, status quo, escalation) you can run as a live 2D theater simulation, issue natural-language commands to, and resolve decision cards in. The question is real; every force, location, unit, and outcome in the answer is invented.

The synthetic-data guarantee

Nothing in Tactica represents real forces, operations, or events. The theaters, units, personnel, materiel, supply routes, and intelligence are generated deterministically from a seed — they are fiction by construction. Names of real people, places, and formations are never used; a fictionalization layer translates any real-world input into an invented equivalent before it reaches the model or the simulation.

The ethics posture

Three commitments shape how Tactica handles sensitive subject matter:

• Fictionalization, always. Real-world references are deterministically substituted for fictional ones; a real name that slips through is caught and replaced, never regenerated, and the incident is logged.
• A sensitivity boundary. Queries about ongoing real-world tragedies are declined and redirected to the nearest fictional scenario, rather than dramatized.
• Honest modeling. Casualty and probability figures are clearly labeled synthetic estimates from a simple model — never presented as real intelligence, and never played for spectacle.

Open source & the story behind it

Tactica is a portfolio project, built in public, and open source. The architecture, the simulation engine, and the cost-disciplined LLM pipeline are all readable in the repository. If you want to see how it works — or run it yourself — the code is on GitHub.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or a personal-data request? Email support@tactica.dev. Our data and privacy commitments are spelled out on the privacy page.