"text":"The year is 2104 [pause=1]\n\nThe Earth is eating itself alive [pause=1]\n\nNuclear winter, famine, and climate catastrophe have left all but the wealthiest of Earth’s 10 billion inhabitants stricken by poverty, illness, and hunger [pause=1]"
"text":"Agricultural conglomerate IngestiCorp has developed and patented the DNA of radiation and cold resistant crops and livestock[pause=1]\n\n But cloned food’s unpredictable side effects and high costs leave it undesirable or unaffordable to most [pause=1]\n\nAnd so, humanity still starves"
"text":"Two decades ago, lunar observatories made recorded an astonishing and weird phenomenon[pause=1]\n\nThe icy surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, a satellite of Neptune, began to thaw and break apart revealing an enormous organism hibernating below[pause=1]\n\nScientists called it the most important scientific discovery of the twenty-first century[pause=1]"
"text":"Eight years ago, the first probes were sent to investigate the organism. These returned with samples of the organism’s flesh which proved to be a highly nutritious and bioavailable protein source less likely to mutate after repeated cloning[pause=1]\n\nTo feed Earth, IngestiCorp now sends mining expeditions to harvest the meat planet’s flesh. Unknown to the public, many expeditions end in disaster…"
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"text":"To protect its image, IngestiCorp hires \"Recovery Specialists\" to retrieve neural scans and DNA samples from miners who meet gruesome ends on the “meat planet,” as it has come to be known[pause=1]\n\nIn labs on Earth, miners are cloned from their samples, implanted with memories from their neural scans, and returned to their families as though nothing had gone wrong"
"text":"Publicly, Recovery Specialists are known as researchers that recover and transport specialized tissue samples from Ceres to improve their agricultural cloning technology and increase yields[pause=1]\n\nInternally, it is a known fact that cloned miners face a dramatically increased risk of genetic damage and cancer, suicide, and severe mental illness. Rumor has it that miners cloned more than once inevitably succumb to “Meat Madness,” deteriorating into raving mad, violent husks of their former selves"
"text":"You are John Stuart. Age: 27. Condition: Stable [pause=1]\n\nYou are a Recovery Specialist hired to recover samples from the crew of Deep Space Vehicle (DSV) Provender, an IngestiCorp mining vessel[pause=1]\n\nWhether you find them dead or alive[pause=1]\n\nOr worse..."
