Engine Summer .
Long past is the promise of spring when humanity s potential first budded and bloomed.
Gone too are the heady exultant days of high summer, when Men strode the Earth as its lords and masters. Came a great Storm, a cataclysm that annihilated the infrastructure of civilization and cast humanity out from its industrial Eden into a chill early winter. Engine Summer is a gift of brief reprieve from harsh winter that will inevitably arrive. And as it is with the seasons of the year, so too is it with the seasons of Humanity. Rush that Speaks is born in Little Belaire, a warren-like commune established generations ago by a community of neighbors fleeing the Storm.