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BACKSTORY 2049 sees the world’s leading energy corporation, ROAD CORP, begin the exploratory mining of methane clathrate on the Alaskan North Slope. A borehole explosion, instigated by the terrorist sect, GREEN GAIA, has methane explode up the borehole, initiating a methane burp and subterranean fire that cascades across the arctic. The event proves apocalyptic. The world left to labor under a permanent, black-clouded, pollutant flaring cloud, the north and south polar ice masses are reduced to zero, and the surviving land masses transformed into tropical swamps. The resultant world’s surviving 2.5 billion citizens are placed under the authoritarian rule of a single world governing body (WGB). To maintain order, the WGB engineers the bodily implanted registered profiling chip (REP), to be monitored by the specialist enforcement arm, citizen profile security (CPS). On the approach of the 22nd century, the world looks to a savior. NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN US EAST ARCHIPELAGOS North Atlantic...