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This is not the world we know... The setting of Machines of Destiny: Everyone remembers where they were when the first plane hit. They were sitting by the radio, mowing the yard, looking up with blinking, blinded eyes at the plume of smoke that became a black cloud. It began with the World Trade Center. It ended less than an hour later, with the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Washington. In less than an hour, the United States of America was gone, sacrificed to the ideals of a group that most knew nothing of. The world of Machines of Destiny: There have been changes that no one would have expected, over the course of the last seven years in America. It hasn't so much been the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as many would have foretold, in the scare movements and witch hunts of the fifties; it's been subtler than that. Key Settings: The politics of Machines of Destiny: The vast majority of Americans support the president's decision to set America on an imperial course. There is very little room for dissent, and those who do dissent are often witchhunted, either by the government or by vigilantes. There are occasional reports of lynchings, but only rarely are they verified, and there is never a punishment leveled. But it is more complex than this. |
