devastation transcript

Overview

The game intro video showing the NASDA system failing and leading to The Collapse.

The NASDA system was developed to protect us. It was to be the ultimate nuclear deterrent. As it turned out, it was our executioner.

Reports said that NASDA developed a fault during a routine systems check.

Don't believe it! Someone wanted to take us out.

Those nukes were targeted on every major city around the world.

NASDA was programmed to start The Collapse.

When the counter strikes launched, it's laser defences and anti-missile ground sites failed.

The world as we knew it ended.

The nuclear winter hit hard.

Disease and famine claimed most of us who'd survived the nuclear strikes.

Wars over cans of dog food took even more.

We fled Seattle in '86. We'd heard that the Rocky Mountains were relatively rad' free.

After fighting off bands of marauders, we came across the base.

It's personnel were dead, killed by any one of a number of virulent diseases. We cracked the doors and cleared out the bodies inside.

We knew that things would never be the same again.

But we were determined to build a new world out of the ruins.

We rebuilt the landing pads and brought the old systems back online.

We were finally ready to begin The Project...