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The year is 1999. The
place is California - or rather, what's left of it after the
Big One. California has separated along the San Andreas fault
from that devastating earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter
scale. Four hundred seconds of hell has changed the face of America.
The ensuing tsunami tidal wave shattered the coast and the ocean
rushed in, filling the enormous fault from Baja to Death Valley
- giving birth to the "New Eastern Sea"and a new island
off the coast of Arizona-"Mohave Island" - born of
the desert wasteland of Central California. Hovering over the
new Eastern Sea is a perpetual dustcloud, a toxic mist of gas
and mineral deposits that effectively jam communication with
the rest of America - if it still exists. The coastal waters
are contaminated, leaving navigation virtually impossible. Old
California is gone, the old way of life is gone and a new order
has begun.
While quartz-charged lightning
licks between the blue mountains to the earth, the battered western
outpost stands like a silent sentinel to the south. "Fort
Edenberg", a lone Marine reserve depot, is a desert boneyard
filled with surplus equipment from forgotten conflicts, WWII,
Vietnam, Korea, Desert Storm...a military junkyard poised for
closing just before the Great Quake. It now represents a haven
in a desert land of perpetual fires, liquefaction, quicksand,
danger and dunes.
Out of this ghostly fort
rides a group of high speed nomads, defenders of an old world,
saviors of the new, determined to survive: Army Captain Nick
Preston, Airforce Captain Sarah McBride, Marine Gunnery Sargeant
Lucky Simcoe. Three branches of the military, three different
philosophies, one mission: Survive, Restore and Rescue in the
aftermath of the Great Earthquake and draw the last line of defense
for the new western front of the United States.
Armed with their ingenuity,
they scavenge from the past to create something new for the future.
They map their new world, rescue the forgotten and defend the
coast. Always searching
for food, fuel and fellow survivors. And
maybe even a bridge back home. They are the only law in a lost
land and the only hope, living by they're wits, guts and above
all, invention. These
are America's last defenders. And
this is their LAST PATROL.
- from official site |
