The year is 3019, more than a thousand years into the future and the world has become a rather bleak and miserable place. What was once a lush and beautiful planet filled with life, and covered by beautiful blue oceans, is now a wasteland of death and dry dirt. Almost nothing lives on the surface of the planet any longer, and what does is a horrible mutation of what it once was.

People once said that man would wipe itself out if nature didn’t do it first. Such is the nature of man, that when told nature would wipe them out one day, that they rushed forward to wipe themselves out. War engulfed the world laying waste to the planet and civilization as it existed at that time. Billions died during those days and mutations began to across the land.

It was during this time when man was struggling to hold on to existence that Zion was founded. Named for the Christian city of neo zion where everything starts over it was supposed to be greatest haven in the world that all man kind could come and, working together, rebuild their society.

The society flourished and the city grew into a massive world in itself. Technology became an amazing thing within those walls, medical advances helping to eliminate the genetic effects of mutations effectively curing people of the mutations and after effects of the nuclear fallout. That was nearly 800 years ago.

Now however the powerful Zion Corporation, known simply as the corporation, founders of the city, rule everything with an iron grasp. Their military might, originally set up to protect the people from the terrors outside the city, dominates the city with a cold and ruthless martial law.

Nothing happens within the city without the strange leader knowing about it. After his militeristic coup that brought him into power with the brutal power of his second in command at his side.  His overthrowing of the Zion Corporation leader was seen as a blessing and even assisted by many of the rebellions who thought he would create a better world for them.  They were wrong.

A few weeks ago the western factory district of the city was engulfed in a massive black orb and then a huge fireball. Everyone in the area was killed. The media announced that their were no survivors of the blast and that the area had been ‘cleansed’ due to the presense of rebel members there. The explosion however was openly claimed to be the power of the Corporation’s second in command, though no one had seen anyone even resembling her at the location. This was all due to an order and done by the will of the corporations new leader.

 Now more and more people die every day, and rebellions are being either swept away in the leaders brutal onslaught or have gone underground hiding from the massacre.  Between the leader and his second in command everyone was deeply in fear for their lives.  Are you one of them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Dark Requiem: Zion.