OVERVIEW

The year is 2097. There are 25 billion people alive on Earth and each month fifty million more are born. Border disputes erupt into chronic wars; refugees of changing climates circle the globe; disease and starvation spread and refuse to disappear. Rich governments, rich corporations, rich people have all turn inward, building up their own slice of the world while keeping the rest out. Eventually, even these will begin to fight over resources and room. It is only a matter of time before a local conflict goes too far and nuclear fires cleanse the world.

But there is some sort of hope. One day, a starship will be built, and the new worlds that it reaches will be the salvation of humanity. Someday, star travel will arrive, but it is anyone's guess whether it will arrive in time. Meanwhile humanity survives, plummeting into the future, not knowing whether to prepare for star flight or extinction, knowing only that, one way or the other, this Dark Age will end soon. Welcome to the Chron X universe!

DOMAINS

Just as the 20th century could be described as a conflict between two major powers (the East and the West), the events of the 21st have been influenced mainly by five major powers: the Corporate Hierarchy, the Former United States, the United Nations, the Monasteries, and the Nonames. In many ways, each power is a world onto itself, sometimes sharing the same physical space, but never wholly interacting with each other.

• The Corporate Hierarchy
• The Former United States
• The Monasteries
• The Nonames
• The United Nations