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...