Gas shortages led to inflated prices. Inflated prices led to depression. Depression led to civil unrest. Civil unrest led to bank panic. Bank panic led to loan foreclosures. Loan foreclosures led to unemployment. Unemployment led to crime.
In less than a year, the world became savage because Mankind was naively optimistic about the abundance of oil and the ease of which 'alternate fuel sources' could be developed. When the wells mysteriously ran dry, one after another, in the course of 9 months, the cornerstone of modern technology fell apart. Air traffic was grounded, shipping lanes grew vacant, and all avenues of modern distribution stalled worldwide. It was global system-shock. This historic, life-altering event became known as "THE BIG BLEEDOUT", referring to the rapid depletion of the planets lifeblood: oil.
Explanations for the drought varied from high-tech conspiracy to Mother Nature's revenge. Had a series of subterranean fault openings been sign or cause of oil wells burning from the bottom up? Had bio-terrorists succeeded in their threat to unleash crude-oil-eating bacterium in the wells? Or were we just wastefully naive? Frankly, it didn't matter anymore. Societies worldwide were caught with their pants down, and it would be a hard climb back to anything normal again.It was dawn on a New Age of Ruin.
Rebuilt by a tenuous agreement between six of the city's biggest criminal organizations, Sunrise City maintains a facade of normalcy through its puppet government, THE MUNICIPALITY. Although filled with corrupt politicians and crooked cops, it appears to run like a well-organized police state, with armed guards patrolling the 40-foot tall, double-thick security walls that were constructed to protect the citizens from the many threats gathering outside - invading FEDERAL RE-UNIFICATION ARMIES, near-native tribes of wild ROGUE MARAUDERS, and bloodthirsty CORPORATE SYNDICATES, all of whom want nothing more than to rape and pillage the citizens for their own profit.
And this is where you find yourself upon entering Sunrise City. It is a minefield of violent powerplays, but if you can navigate through these dangerous waters, you could uncover the secret of the Bleedout and become King of your own urban empire...
In less than a year, the world became savage because Mankind was naively optimistic about the abundance of oil and the ease of which 'alternate fuel sources' could be developed. When the wells mysteriously ran dry, one after another, in the course of 9 months, the cornerstone of modern technology fell apart. Air traffic was grounded, shipping lanes grew vacant, and all avenues of modern distribution stalled worldwide. It was global system-shock. This historic, life-altering event became known as "THE BIG BLEEDOUT", referring to the rapid depletion of the planets lifeblood: oil.
Explanations for the drought varied from high-tech conspiracy to Mother Nature's revenge. Had a series of subterranean fault openings been sign or cause of oil wells burning from the bottom up? Had bio-terrorists succeeded in their threat to unleash crude-oil-eating bacterium in the wells? Or were we just wastefully naive? Frankly, it didn't matter anymore. Societies worldwide were caught with their pants down, and it would be a hard climb back to anything normal again.It was dawn on a New Age of Ruin.
Rebuilt by a tenuous agreement between six of the city's biggest criminal organizations, Sunrise City maintains a facade of normalcy through its puppet government, THE MUNICIPALITY. Although filled with corrupt politicians and crooked cops, it appears to run like a well-organized police state, with armed guards patrolling the 40-foot tall, double-thick security walls that were constructed to protect the citizens from the many threats gathering outside - invading FEDERAL RE-UNIFICATION ARMIES, near-native tribes of wild ROGUE MARAUDERS, and bloodthirsty CORPORATE SYNDICATES, all of whom want nothing more than to rape and pillage the citizens for their own profit.
And this is where you find yourself upon entering Sunrise City. It is a minefield of violent powerplays, but if you can navigate through these dangerous waters, you could uncover the secret of the Bleedout and become King of your own urban empire...
