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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2425249" data-attributes="member: 14159">The game was an amusing political commentary on the world of 1993, as expressed through a vision of the world in 2021.  I believe the tagline was "It's 2021 and the dream is dead" (referring to the American Dream).Some of the jokes/commentary:An excerpt from the inaugural speech of President Darryl Gates which said "As an old friend of mine once said, 'Why can't we all just get along'"?The Democratic and Republican parties fused together into one party, the Republicrats, whose only political agenda is to oppose anything promoted by the dominant Plutocrat party, founded by Ross Perot, which believes that the rich people are always right and what's good for the wealthy is good for everybody.Loads of new constitutional amendments, complete with corporate sponsorship (as in an actual clause of the amendment says something like "this amendment brought to you by suchandsuch corporation "<insert ad slogan here>".Constitutional amendments restricting free speech to requiring a license, so that if you want to say something potentially controversial you have to get a license from the government first.  Now, this isn't technically supposed to be limiting free speech, just the government regulating the time, place and manner you can make that speech in.Scientology has conquered Europe, and rules most of Europe with an iron fist, it has sent the Vatican into exile in Central America.The most popular resturant chain in the country is Tastee Ghoul, which serves prepared human flesh.  Cannibalism is the hot fad in 2021, and instead of an organ donation card on the back of your driver's license, there is a cannibalism consent form that pays your next of kin money if you sell your corpse to a food distribution center after you die.  There was some disturbing art of a teenager's first job being working at a Tastee Ghoul franchise and the meat locker there with arms & legs hanging from meathooks that still sticks in my mind.The PC's are genetically superenhanced ex-mercenaries who were given superpowers by reverse engineered genetic technology recovered from a UFO crash that happened in 1996.  People are given extensive genetic modifications, along with psychological conditioning in the form of a VR simulation that looks just like a 4-color superhero comic book, except it's ultra-violent, as they are taught how to use their new powers and become desensitized to violence.  Then after being augmented they work as mercenaries for any one of several private armies, fighting in small wars around the world (mostly Africa and South America as I recall).  A PC's playing career begins as he's discharged from service, a genetically enhanced warrior conditioned to think of himself like an ultraviolent superhero, into a decaying ruins of American culture with civilians who fear and hate them and a corrupt and totalitarian government, so the PC's often join up to form underground organizations.</blockquote>

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