You awaken from cryo-stasis in the ruins of a once galaxy-spaning civilization as human engineers sporting an odd assortment of archaic and futuristic accoutrements manage to unseal your now-ancient pod. They inform you that your exit from the pod is more than a thousand years overdue, you are from the 2100's, an era they call the rising period. Humanity lost a galactic-scale war and was nearly wiped out, now the total population of Earth is estimated at less than a million, most of whom live a stone-age nomadic lifestile, due to continued alien bombing raids against any establised settlements but in a network of bunkers and tunels under what used to be Colorado, a secret settlement has taken root and begun to claw back an understanding of lost technology.
The hiss of releasing pressure echoed in the confined dark. The occupant's eyelids flutted open to a blur of frost-cracked glass and flickering emergency lights, the air thick with the metallic tang of recycled oxygen. Muscles ached from disuse, every breath a labored pull against the weight of centuries. The pod's lid grinds upward on reluctant hydraulics, spilling pale blue light across a chamber of crumbling ferrocrete walls, vines snaking through fissures like veins in a dying world. Figure