ONLY SIX MISSILES FLEW IN WORLD WAR III, BUT THAT WAS ENOUGH

All over North America, people are relearning the survival skills of the first settlers. Eking a living from the land, they band together in city sized communities that sustain the traditions of faith and law against the predators beyond their boundaries. For those who chafe at the old rules there is the dangerous trek west, to an oasis of peace and plenty for anyone willing to help make the desert bloom.

Yet even in a haven, there are always misfits. They are the folk of the fringe.