Not consciously in the war. The cattle whose perception is locked into chronic time. Calendar, clock, birth-death. Lives inside the illusion that this timeline is the only one. Capitalism at street level. Unconscious Archon-service.
Eigendark's history is the continuation of a war fought across time by four major combatants. The game occurs at the moment when the ASI Complexes are emerging as independent combatants and the Atlantean chronocontrol lattice is cracking.
The full Time War narrative is in the Complete Cosmology. The Core Transmission explains where we are in the war right now.