Now the world stands at the threshold of a new age. Battered and exhausted, the scattered remnants of humans struggle to reclaim what they have lost. The future of the human race is once again in its own hands, for good or for ill. Viewed in some quarters as a time of redemption and in others as a time to rise above what they presently are, nearly all have dubbed this new era the Age of Ascension.
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