"This is more than anyone can bear, but we will persevere." Follow Faraday's history, a Vortigaunt located in City 10, a city destined to fall into disgrace for the Combine force, while Faraday does everything in his power to provide the support that the rebel resistance needs, even if the path is more turbulent than he expects, even with his incomplete mastery of the Vortessence and all that it entails.

A man with memory issues finds a city covered by a smoke and sandstorm sphere mainly of dark green with different tonalities in the deserts of Africa, in a world who lost his shine for reasons unknown for many, studied by some few ones, who has something else to do than finding the way for having a day more for living. Welcome to an broken world, favorable be the ones who finds the fragments in diary entries from their protagonists.