"It's 2015".  Wow.  I can't believe I picked 2015 when I wrote this thread.  Now it's here, and no giant spiders.  Damn!  Ok, so here's the edit.  Sorry, not restarting the thread (unless I get loads of pm's), just tidying up.<br/><br/>It's 2030.  You're in San Francisco, or the other Cities by the Bay, like Oakland, Berkeley or San Jose.<br/><br/>You're Prey.<br/><br/>“But I'm a predator, a hero, genetically engineered to stop the spider menace.”  you say.<br/><br/>Yeah, right.<br/>You heroes are outnumbered a hundred to one by Tarantulas the size of Tanks, Trapdoor spiders as big as men, Jumping spiders the size of Rottweilers, Orb Weavers the size of English Bulldogs and the Black widows...<br/><br/>The Widows are the Spiderbrains.  They're only the size of plums, but they ...get inside you.  They don't mind control you, they aren't skilled enough to convincingly control a human.  They just make you forget what happened to you.  So you walk up to a hospital or a cop or a soldier or a friend or loved one and you say “Please help me, I'm hurt”.  And your victim walks up to help you.  But you've got a hundred widows in your stomach, trained to crawl up your throat when they hear the sound of human voices.  Then they jump onto your Samaritans, and paralyze them with their bites.  And force their mouths open with their scratchy, hairy legs.  And the Plum sized widows with the scratchy, hairy legs crawl down their gagging victim's throats and hide in their stomachs.  They suck their juices from the inside, to breed and lay their eggs in your guts, where they hide and wait to “recruit” more humans into the spider army.  Until they get so hungry that they just eat you from the inside out.  The horrible thing is that these victims could actually be saved.  If you could figure out a way to cut them open and remove every single spider and egg from their intestines, and put them back together.<br/><br/>Maybe you don't remember how this happened.  The GenGeneering process can induce amnesia.  So here's your re-briefing.  In 2000, it was discovered that the space Aliens which had discovered Earth in 1940 had set up a trigger to awaken the spider army in 2025.  Kept in Area 51 since it crashed in 1955, humans had deciphered the language and discovered its history.  It was a scout ship sent to survey new worlds for conquest and set up some form of distraction to weaken the populace for invasion when the Alien Fleet returned to “save” them if they surrendered.  Since the humans were occupied with fighting each other, it was simple for the aliens to sneak in under cloaking devices and arrange a plan.  Realizing that many humans had an irrational fear of Chelicerate Invertebrates, or spiders and their relatives, the aliens GenGeneered spiders into giant predators that also lay eggs deep into the colons of their human prey to  maximize the horror effect.  Using analogous proteins that mimic the functions of terrestrial compounds like Chitin, but are far stronger, the aliens were able to bypass the laws of physics and chemistry that prevent normal arthropods from reaching giant size.  They set up underground bases worldwide, designed to awaken the giant spiders between 2025 and 2030, giving the spiders years to decimate human resistance before the alien's expected return in 2040 (the expected travel time to/from their homeworld).  But a stray spider had escaped and attacked the crew as they were preparing to return home.  Thus the crash in the desert.<br/><br/><br/>The bases were triggered to release the spiders by decay of radioisotopes that provided the power to the cryogenic “cold sleep” chambers for the monsters.  This prevented a single lucky “hacking” attempt from shutting down all the bases, and allows a variability so the humans can't predict the attacks.  The first chambers to open were in central California.  The bases released their hungry cargo which began to eat the humans in a line roughly following I-5, from Davis to Modesto.  It was quickly discovered that the aliens had made the spiders immune to Organophosphate insecticides like DDT, common in the time they were setting this up, but not to modern toxins like pyrethroids and  Insect Growth Regulators.  A plan was in place within days of the attack to saturate spray the spiders to death and save mankind.<br/><br/>But this was California.<br/><br/>The aging Hippies, Eco-Nuts, Religious Freaks and Conspiracy Theorists slapped restraining orders on the spray faster than the spiders could suck a corpse dry.  Each had their own reasons, the spiders shouldn't be stopped because they were the Judgement of God; there were no spiders, it was all a Government conspiracy; the spray would poison the earth for years so other methods should be used, and so on.  The effect was to delay fighting the spiders for a year, until they had spread far enough to eat the idiots unwittingly protecting them.  By this time the spiders had made central California a “Wall of Webs” and had multiplied into hundreds of thousands.  The spray killed 99% of the spiders.  But the surviving 1% were immune to all pesticides.  Another method was needed.<br/><br/>That's when the idea of GenGeneered warriors came about.  Using the Alien's own technology, humans have at least been given super strength, speed and fortitude.  Others have been merged with spider predators DNA, a desparate biocontrol to try and save mankind.<br/><br/>That's you.<br/><br/>Now do your duty Warriors.  Save Mankind.