<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Information: the Setting</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Background History</strong></span></span><br/><br/>In 2050 a meteorite crashed into the Pacific Ocean and caused devastating tsunami along the Pacific rim. But the deaths and damage from that natural disaster paled in comparison to what happened months after the impact. Monstrous entities emerged from the global ocean and attacked. Some were no bigger than a dog or a bus, but some were as long as trains. They swarmed villages, towns, and cities and seemed to ruin without reason or purpose. There was no way to negotiate with the beasts. Military forces around the world fought back against the tides of these mysterious invaders, but their numbers never seemed to diminish. These spawn continually rose up from the depths of the ocean. Yet large pockets of humanity and their nations managed to survive against the relentless onslaught of the spawn.<br/><br/>Until something much bigger appeared.<br/><br/>A year after impact something emerged from the ocean, same as the monstrous spawn, though it was far more horrific and dangerous. It was vaguely humanoid in appearance and stood over 80 meters tall. It possessed destructive capabilities so severe and unlike anything humans had ever seen that its weapons and defenses were attributed to magic. More followed in the wake of the first one. Humans named them demons and learned to fear them well. The demons were nothing like their spawn. While spawn were numerous and attacked as one mindless mass they were able to be put down with conventional weaponry, but the demons attacked independently and were wholly unique. The appearance of a demon made weather patterns go haywire, they generated strange anomalies around the world, and humanity's greatest weapons of destruction couldn't even touch them due to a strange shielding capability. And most terrifying of all was the intellectual capacity the demons demonstrated. Unlike the spawn they could learn and utilize tactics in combat. The apocalypse had arrived.<br/><br/>But humanity made the decision not to go down without a fight. The nations of the world pooled their resources together and united their greatest minds to make humanity’s most complicated and deadly achievement of technology: the Grigori Units. Large humanoid constructions made of mechanic and organic components. Humanity’s bravest co-piloted these inventions in a last bid effort to defeat demons. And they succeeded. While conventional human weaponry left nary a scratch on the demons the Grigori possessed the ability to break through the demon's unique shielding and deliver killing blows.<br/><br/>For 44 years humanity has used the Grigori Units to battle demons and their unending spawn. While the nations of the world have not united into one massive collective, they have fractured into cooperative unions based on continental location. And they have managed to come together as ADAMS: the Allied Defense Against Malignant Spirits. This organization, globally funded and supported by all the unions of earth, leads humanity’s war against the demonic invasion. ADAMS might not to be able to cancel the apocalypse, but they’ve gotten good at getting it renewed for another season.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Technology</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The technology level of the world is certainly advanced compared to modern times, but it's not to the level of high or hard science fiction. There are functioning lasers and plasma canons out there, but they are rarely used. The technological feel of the world is more industrial. Prosthetics and that like do exist and are advanced, but they are prohibitively expensive. Because of that prosthetics are mostly used by the military. In general, most of the technology is impressive by our standards, but it was made in a desperate, war-ravaged economy. It will have scifi functions but it may not look particularly pretty, have an acceptable success rate, or even be safe. Most weapons are pushed through development out of necessity.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Metatron</strong></span></span><br/><br/>A supercomputer developed and created by ADAMS. Metatron is humanity's most advanced and intelligent computer. It was created prior to the birth of the Grigori and was an instrumental tool in constructing the Grigori. It is considered humanity's second greatest achievement of science. Metatron helps with the maintenance, setup, launching, and tracking of the Grigori Units due to the complexity of operating them. Without Metatron's assistance it would take ADAMS an obscene amount of hours of continuous manual labor to get the Grigori Units ready for combat. Metatron is a huge shortcut in preparing the Grigori Units and ensuring safety regulations are followed. During combat missions Metatron helps track and analyze the pilot’s synchronization and fidelity ratings. It is remotely connected to all the Grigori and helps with communication between the Grigori pilots and ADAMS. It can calm pilots in emergency situations as Metatron often retains contact with the Grigori even if visual and audio contact with pilots is otherwise lost due to unit damage.<br/><br/>It also preforms a variety of other functions as well. Metatron assists the ADAMS Board of Representatives in their deliberations, oversees the security systems of ADAMS, oversees the lighting and energy use and oxygen levels in buildings, stores and compiles essential data, and works closely with Administration and Research and Development on many projects. In general Metatron is consulted to determine the best courses of action when ADAMS encounters time sensitive problems. It routinely offers tactical and strategic recommendations. Metatron has been integrated directly into the buildings and design of ADAMS Headquarters in the city of First Haven, on Watcher's Island.