% Start-The-Game Arc  Intro Text 1
August 21, NT157
 
All your life you have toiled in the Dead Zone.
 
Scarred by the great war, these lands can no longer sustain life.
It's just barely possible for people to survive here. There is no
oppurtunity, no chance for a better tomorrow, no hope at all
for the future.
  
Your home is a solar farming community. It's not much, but you
know that things would be much worse if you were born outside the
confines of the fortress wall. It's safe in here from both bandits
and the night predators of the wastes. Food is usually avaliable,
though not always plentiful and hardly ever palatable.
  
The other citizens seem resigned to their fate, content to work
at the solar collectors until they grow old and die. Not you,
though. You've always known that there's a better life beyond
these walls. You dreamt of the Federated Territories, the new
center of human civilization, and after many years of hard labor
have finally saved up enough money to go there.
  
You hitch a ride on a fuel transport. The trip takes several days,
during which time you are fortunately not attacked by raiders.
As the truck nears the Federated Territories you are amazed to see
lush green forests of vegetation for the first time in your life.
  
This is the place where you will forge your destiny.
