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        This Warlords 2 Scenario was created by Lord Sorian.
        
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              scenario spot at the following URL...
        
            http://www.gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sorian
                http://www.dragonfire.net/~sorian
        
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      This scenario is the first in the "Sorian Realm : Series 1"
       scenarios.  There will be 4 scenarios in the series, all
        using the same setups, same army sets, city sets, and
            played best with the same suggested options.
        
                       Suggested Options :
                         
                         diplomacy -  off 
                   city razing -  on capture only
                      military advisors - no
                         map hidden - yes
                           quests - on
        
                     I'll leave everything else
              up to you to modify however you like it.

                         Always remember -

       "War is mereley an extension of politics by other means."


                  Scenario Background Information :

        Towards the middle of the 22nd century, a great plague began spreading
across the planet Earth.  Despite science's many bold eforts to combat the
disease, it would constantly mutate into a gradually more destructive strain.
In a desparation effort, many of Earth's governments and corporations decided
to abandon their homes on Earth, to leave the poisonous atmosphere bioscience
had created in favor of the prayer for a new world.

        In deep cryogenic sleep, many vast starships departed their separate 
directions, all hoping to land upon a fertile world, far away from the horrors 
mankind had created in the Sol system.  One such vessel landed on a small world
in the Draconis system.  There, after years uncountable, the people awoke to 
find their mission had been a success, but only partway.  Virtually all their 
supplies had spoiled and were no longer of use.  Scattered power cells and 
ammunition were all that was left.

        Many efforts were made to find more survivors of 'the escape' but no 
attempts met with success.  Eventually, it dawned upon the survivors that they 
would have to gradually try to recreate the world they had left while learning 
the ways of their new home.  After numerous generations, mankind had colonized 
the world and formed a basis of society.  Much of religeon and technology had 
been lost for the original survivors were unable to explain the functions of all 
their equipment to their children nor were they able to share all of their 
beliefs.

        After hundreds of years, society had gradually became a combination of
technology and mysticism.  Some tried to retain and understand the mysteries 
of the ancient technology.  Others had declared the mysterious technology to 
be innately evil in nature and that it should all be destroyed before it came 
to kill them all.  Still there was one leader who strived to unite all these 
people under one banner, that man was named Lord Sorian.  His family was 
unknown and his whole life was shrouded in mystery.  It came to pass that 
after numerous treaties and minor military conquests, he had persuaded 
virtually all the people of the young planet, known as Source, to join
together for the greater benefit of mankind.

        There were two groups who opposed him.  The first was those who felt
that peace was simply weakness.  They worshipped technology of all kinds. 
These people called themselves the Brothers of Chaos.  They would attack 
innocent cities, burning them to the ground, stealing all valuables.  Their 
war machines attacked every city they ever encountered, killing all it's 
inhabitants.  Eventually, they grew powerful enough to rival the Aliance of 
Soria.  Their leader at that time was an old dying man who called himself Ara, 
nothing more.  

        The Brothers of Chaos were preparing for a final battle with Lord 
Sorian when their leader passed out, days before the planned onslaught.  They 
launched the attack early and were crushed.  Lord Sorian, seeing their great 
weakness proceeded to force them back to their base, reclaiming every city 
along the way.  Eventually, they held a front outside of their base.  Not
willing to risk any lives, Lord Sorian retreated, leaving many soldiers to
defend the numerous cities his alliance had freed from the tyranny of Chaos.
In jealous anger, the Brothers of Chaos vowed revenge and renamed themselves 
in honor of their valiant leader, becoming ArChaos.

        The second group who opposed Lord Sorian's alliance was a group 
calling themselves Gaea, a religeous sect afraid of the destructive powers of 
machines.  They departed from the lands of Soria far into the East where they 
founded their capital, thier religeous home, NeoCamelot.  As time passed, they 
became more and more restless and afraid of the advances in technology and 
renamed themselves to NeoGaea and declared war upon all those who used these 
demonic machines.

        Despite these two disturbances, their was one much greater, another 
religeous sect who vowed that all people who who were not of their lineage
must be put to death.  All those who worshipped gods other than those of 
their people were to be put to death.  They were a fanatical religeon who 
belived in human sacrafice and trial by fire.  Their leader was named Ne'Vyhr.  
So was his cult.  In time, he amasssed great power and lusted for the power 
Lord Sorian had gained.  He declared Sorian to be the ultimate evil and started
the Sorian civil war.

        This war destroyed many cities and left millions dead.  In time, Lord 
Sorian's alliance faded into virtual nothingness.  Cities left the alliance to
escape the brutal wars and others left to side with the Alliance's enemies.  
Lord Sorian decided that times had changed and so must his beliefs and founded 
NeoSoria, declaring it to one day be a glorious empire that would shine for a 
thousand years.  That is the present.  Your job is to bring an end to this war 
for whichever side you feel is right : The environmentally conscious NeoGaea,
the religeous fanatics of Ne'Vyhr, the destructive warlords of ArChaos, or the
valiant NeoSoria.

                                 Good Luck.


