The average temperature has risen by some 10.5 degrees centigrade, destroying entire ecosystems and creating a sand-covered planet constantly whipped by hot, dry winds of hurricane-like intensity. Indescribably powerful storms have leveled the cities and decimated the population.
No one even imagined the opening of a new world would lead to the downfall of the old.ĭeveloper Silver Style's The Fall - Last Days of Gaia takes place some two decades later. Everyone simply took success for granted. Indeed, much of the populace had come to expect regular leaps forward, so much so that the announcement of a plan to colonize Mars produced little excitement or even reaction. However, with each new instance, the resistance to them based on moral issues weakened, gradually but inexorably diminishing until it was little more than an echo of a distant and largely forgotten past. Many of these crossed the line that had always separated living, breathing flesh from manufactured machines. The first human clones had reached adulthood and the pursuit of ever more advanced knowledge and technology had had driven Earth's scientists to achieve numerous breakthroughs. By the year 2062, the concept of humanity had become blurred.