Numbers

Prologue

Year 2783.

Society has crumbled in the year 2306.

The elders built back everything from the bottom. The world's most talented engineers and scientists came together to build a new civilization, called Arvale. Arvale consisted of fifteen provinces: Aldbush, Belwall, Bridgecoast, Brighton, Eastborough, Esterhaven, Freywynne, Lynhurst, Marrowport, Northden, Norhill, Orford, and Wyverness. With the most intelligent members of the human race, ignorance was all but destroyed. Little room was left for error and miscommunication among the people.

People were stripped of their feelings and individuality when they reached the age of 18, the same day they were allowed to select a name for themselves. Parents were not permitted to name their own children, much like the way they were kept from choosing a job, a house, and the direction their lives were steered in.

Houses were all the same; rows of cookie cutter residences, duplicated over each other to form identical neighborhoods. The only variation in buildings were in the cities, where skyscrapers contained the major businesses, such as HQ.

Security in Arvale was as advanced as possible. Police enforcers ceased to be human, but instead, genetically modified canine units were trained to protect the streets. Food was not made for taste, but rather for functionality. People were granted the nutrients required for basic human needs depending on their weight, height, body type, and genetics.

As an assistant to the communist-like system, the adult citizens of Arvale were prevented from feeling extreme emotions; mainly love and hate. Love was dangerous to the engineers of the society, and as anything dangerous, the threat would be eliminated. To have such emotions eliminated from the mindsets of the citizens, scientists developed a serum to calm the chemicals in the human brain. When a teenager came of age, not only would they decide their name, but they would receive an injection with the serum.

Between the borders of the fifteen provinces existed the Badlands, where people who loved and escaped the system resided. Badlands were lawless places where people could live the ways of the old humans, those who had lived in Arvale before it became such. Schoolchildren were taught that the Badlands were dangerous, deadly places that were to be avoided at all costs.

Despite all of these restrictions placed on this new society, there are a few teenagers (pre-shot) that have created the fragile beginnings of love, and planned to do the unthinkable...

Cheating the system.