Chapter begins with Elliot asleep in a cryogenic capsule on GreyArch after 7 years

  greyarch Control: Warning failure of the cryogenic capsule system. Initiating release of inhabitants.

  Elliot: what happened? Has it been 7 years? Hmm

  Greyarch Control: Warning failure of main surface gate system. immediate maintenance

  Elliot: that warning kept repeating what happened?

  Elliot: go to the administrator's office

  Elliot: where is everyone?

  Elliot: uh?

  Elliot: it seems to be the administrator's terminal

  Elliot go to the administrator's terminal

  "2179 my planning for the evacuation of the inhabitants was interrupted by the World Government due to a new threat. The threat was that one of our synthetics had rebelled against the Greyarch and its creators, so the government ordered us to stop the evacuation of the inhabitants, just as I and we were running out of food and water."

  Elliot: so the government locked us in the capsule for a long time

  Elliot: I think I should leave now

  Elliot takes the key to the main gate and leaves the bunker. Elliot encounters a devastated world

  Elliot: it looks like our home has turned to desert ash

  Elliot: there's nothing to do here

  Raider 1: hey what are you?

  Elliot: uh?

  Raider 2: what are you doing on our land?

  Elliot: ground? What are you talking about

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  Raider 1: this is Raiders' land, you shouldn't be here

  Elliot: I'm sorry but what are you talking about?

  Raider points a gun at Elliot

  Raider 1: get out of our territory or I'll blow your head off you dumb fox!

  A plasma shot hits Raider 1

  Raider 1: AGHH!

  Raider 2: but what-

  Raider 1: damn it

  Raider 1: I'll make you pay

  Raider 1: Ahhh!!!

  Raider 1 is dead and a wolf-like figure appears

  Figure: are you alright

  Elliot: yes thank you very much but what are you?

  Yahto: my name is yahto and I'm from Wolf steel

  Elliot: wolf steel?

  Yahto: an anti-imperial organization

  Elliot: empire?

  Yahto: synthetic empire

  Elliot: synthetic empire? You're joking that these machines have become an army

  Yahto: well it's not like that, let's go to the base and there you can find the answers

  Elliot: ok

  Yahto and Elliot Go to the base that used to be a military outpost

  Elliot: are you from the army?

  Yahto: well our members are but not me, I'm a conscript

  Elliot meets general Skah

  Yahto: general

  Skah: yes?

  Yahto: I found a fox in GreyArch's bunker

  Skah: ah a bunker dweller

  Elliot: so you're general

  Skah: yes

  Skah: we have a lot of things to talk about

  Skah: yahto you're dismissed

  Yahto: got it

  Elliot go to skah's room

  Elliot: can you explain to me what this synthetic empire thing is?

  Skah: well the synthetic empire was created by a governor Unaduti but he was a madman who believed that Columbians are impure people and synthetics are pure longing people, so he enslaved people as a synthetic production line

  Elliot: so he was gorvandor of northern Columbia?

  Skah: well he was but he was gorvandor of Belford

  Elliot: but Belford is still active? After the Apocalypse?

  Skah: yes, but it became a no man's land but the government in Belford is still there but we don't know yet

  Elliot: I saw that the government locked us in the capsule for a long time after that accident that happened, but was that accident led by unaduti?

  Skah: yes, it was him.

  Elliot: but why did they lock us up

  Skah: to kill you

  Elliot: what?

  Skah: well that order never came from the North Columbia government that order came from unaduti because he managed to hack the terminals of all the bunkers to stop the inhabitants' exit operations

  Elliot: how could that happen?

  Skah: unaduti has control of the minds of the synthetics, that's why that accident happened

  Elliot: I understand

  Skah: well, since you're here, I'd like to know if you're a mutant or a synthetic

  Elliot: why?

  Skah: well because everyone has their own classification of each species

  Elliot: what are you talking about

  Skah: you know yahto?

  Elliot: yes

  Skah: he's a mutant

  Elliot: what?!

  Skah: interesting, isn't it?

  Elliot: but he doesn't look like one

  Skah: it's because the virus hasn't affected his mental state

  Elliot: so you're allowed to recruit mutants and synthetics

  Skah: it depends on mental state

  Elliot: what?

  Skah: Everyone becomes insane because of their psychological state or because of radiation, if you look at the world around you and see that the world you know no longer exists but still exists but in a different way and in a way that we live in. Synthetics are people who have been killed by accident and mutants are people who have contracted radiation and the virus that spreads. We don't kill because we're not violent like the raiders that spread across northern Columbia

  Elliot: I understand

  Skah: but the only thing you need to know is how to survive this world

  Elliot: but how

  Skah: well my old friend Honovi will train you

  Elliot: ok

  Skah guides Elliot to honovi

  Skah: honovi, I present new recruit, Elliot

  Skah: I want you to teach him how to survive

  Honovi: of course skah, I'll do it

  Skah: thank you

  Skah goes back to his office

  Elliot: well you arehonovi?

  Honovi: yes but are you ready for your first training session?

  Elliot: yes!

  So Elliot, after being almost killed by two raiders and rescued by the mutant Yahto, now decides to train to become a survivor of northern Columbia.