The armies of the Union dug vast chains of fortress-cities into the mountains, rigorously keeping their bloodlines pure to prevent the taint of the new world from seeping into them, as it has many of the settlements outside their jurisdiction, resulting in freaks and mutants of all sorts along with those created deliberately. The west broke into myriad warring states led by self-styled presidents and their legions of thugs. The world grew nastier and nastier, and humanity's dominance was eroded away. Cold spots lasting for miles and barren wastelands of scorched earth and bubbling tar spread like the plague, and even the normal parts of the wilderness started to shift and grow odd, with strange and fearsome creatures crawling out of the darkness, most all of them hunters of men. There was something there, in the deep wild country, something old. It was supposed to herald a golden age, one that would catapult the country into the status of world power. The great expansion of the United States towards new, untamed lands for gold, glory, and manifest destiny.
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