It is the 21st century. For more than a hundred years, fusion has been twenty years away. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst billions. It is to live

It is the 21st century. For more than a hundred years, fusion has been twenty years away. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.