Prologue

Life was very different to what had been imagined it would be just a few hundred years ago. An asteroid called Apophis had hit New York, devastating Old Manhattan. A pandemic had erupted a few years later and had roared around the world, killing over fifty per cent of the population, and then a massive category seven hurricane had ripped through the southern United States and the eastern seaboard, leaving an almost total trail of devastation and destruction. Birth rates had plummeted, and humans were in short supply.

Those events had been two hundred years ago, and now mankind was rebuilding, restoring and progressing to a new future. New Manhattan was thriving, the Eastern Seaboard now a destination for the rich, who built large homes believing that the catastrophes of before would not strike in the same place twice. Governments as the Old World knew them no longer existed. The territories, countries and states all still existed, but now the world was run by mega-conglomerates who paid no mind to the old ways of democracies and socialisms.