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Twenty two fifty nine AD, the Earth is a barren wasteland. It wasn't always this way obviously; it was until 2098 that the human race on Earth was flourishing. In November of '098 Earth's deep space sensors picked up a large asteroid that was heading straight for the third rock from the sun. Despite all of the technology and advancements in science, there was nothing the humans could do to stop the inevitable. The asteroid was going to hit the Earth, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Only after exhausting all options did the governments of the world inform the public of their impending doom. Panic followed. Calculations made by the best of the planet's scientists suggested that, in the worst case scenario, everything would be destroyed; the best case scenario was that not all of the earth would be obliterated, and that a few pockets of life would survive.

The humans wouldn't just sit around and wait for death however; they came up with a plan. Thus the Cryo-soldier program was created. There was very little time to prepare at all, but cryogenic technology had been perfected in the past half a century. The plan was this; groups of ten to twelve all put into pods and buried in the Earth's crust, inside mountains and other places. These people, would be the last bastion of humanity if all went well. They would emerge from their pods and reestablish the human race on the planet Earth, whatever was left of it. Of course, with very little time to prepare, the human race needed ideal candidates with the ability to survive in extremely harsh environments; leading to the fact that most, if not all of the candidates were soldiers and/or specialists. Since there was no idea what would await them after the impact, the ability to repopulate the Earth was also considered. The groups that made it into the pods were literally humanity's last, best hope, the most physically and mentally suited to survive in the harsh environment that awaited them.

One hundred and fifty eight years later, a cryo pod is forced to open its doors to the world. What they find will surprise them and most likely shock them. Humanity is still alive. Thriving they are not, but they are surviving. Not everything is as it seems however; Bandits roam the wastes, killing settlers, travelers, and other bandits. The well meaning people who live in the makeshift towns and villages all fall under the self declared rule of The Bastion; originally a group of well meaning military officials that has turned into a corrupt and dangerous organization that oppresses and subjugates the people of the wastes in order to remain dominant. The rebels are a small organization, and heavily outgunned by The Bastion. The Bastion hunts and captures any Cryo-soldiers they can find, no one is sure why; they never see or hear from the Soldiers again...

Our story starts in this chaotic wasteland, with a pair of Cryo-soldiers waking to find a hostile environment that even the best and brightest minds of humanity couldn't have predicted. A sadistic and oftentimes deadly land whose inhabitants want nothing more than to maim, torture and kill them.