felix (07/04/82)
The following is quoted from The Morrow Project Train- ing Manual which describes the background and object of MP: In 1962 a mysterious man known by the name Bruce Edward Morrow, origin unknown, gatnered nine of the country's leading industrialists into an ori- ginazation known as the Council of Tomorrow. What method of coercion he may have used to achieve this feat remains a matter mostly to conjecture. The concesus of noted historians indicates that Morrow was a rare form of esper. He seemed to have possessed the ability to transport himself and some small amount of nearby matter into or out of the furture, he and the council structured an organazation dedicated to the continued survival of the human race beyond the point of destruction. This organization brought forth the concept of the Morrow Project; an ambitious plan to cryogenically freeze special teams and equipment to aid in the reconstruction of the U. S. after nuclear war. . . . With their control base inoperative the Morrow teams continued to sleep for 150 years. With their long-delayed wakeup signal was finially sent by a damaged computer they found themselves in a hostile world. Survival was the keyword for most of the remnants of the battered U. S. Of course, WWIII was assumed to have broken out as a train- ing program was fed into the NORAD computer by mistake and the command center detected a false Russian nuclear attack force coming over the north pole so they launched a counter - attack and wiped out most of the Soviet missles. That's why there is part of the U. S. left after the real Soviet strike. As outlined in the introduction, the Morrow teams are supposed to help to rebuild the civilization in the U. S. but not going around hacking and slashing. The campaign (or whatever) generally start out as the team waking up from their deep sleep and wander out to the country side to do reconnaissance. It spreads out as the team (luckly) find some trace of human activity and decided to follow the trace...