Chapter 4Much had happened in the past one hundred and fifty years. Society and governments, as they had been, had fallen apart, and new leaders and regulations had risen. Borders in most of North America were almost totally revised.
After the Disaster of 2124, much of the Pacific Northwest changed. In the spring of that year a nine-point-seven earthquake ripped apart the area and toppled Mt. Rainier, causing the old volcano to spew its magma all over the landscape, devastating many towns and reforming much of the land around it, mainly to the south and west. The northwest part of Washington was severely changed. Only the middle to western portion of the Olympic peninsula remained intact.
Millions of people perished as the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia were totally leveled. Many
