In the future (3636) we've all changed, but we're still the same. Except for the Cutters, genetically improved races populate the world. Underlying all is the long forgotten work of the ancients: us. A shortage of hephaestium has arisen -wondrous crystals that have 'the power to work machines,to give light, to see the future'. A group of people - the Gennans- declare war to secure it.
