Dark Sky over Paradise

Adventure Workshop, The , Interactive Technology 1990

Language:: English
Authors:: Martyn Westwood
Systems:: GAC , STAC
Platforms:: Amstrad CPC , Atari ST, C64/128 , Spectrum
Genres:: Science fiction
Related:: 1: Dark Sky over Paradise, 2: Opaline
Entered by:: Alex, Dorothy, Gunness, Strident
Added:: 20-10-2010
Edited:: 22-06-2018

Synopsis

Plot

2045 and an ecological disaster rose from the growing fire of modern civilisation, the Earth's population expanding to an un-supportable number, and fuelling a growing crisis that buried the once fierce rivalries of its foremost nations as they devised a plan, a blue print for survival drawn up by the scientists and thinkers and funded by the newly formed Four Nations (the USA the USSR, the European Community and the Peoples Republic of China). From its first conception the Plan had as its goal the colonisation of Mars, a civilisation to be created there that would provide a haven for the overspill of humans now without a future on Earth.

The Plan rolled into full operation quickly, factories producing such diverse goods as high-grade steel, flexible plastics and indoor furnishings turning a percentage of their products over to the Four Nations. But soon the invoice had to be considered and this act lowered the Earth into a deepening economic recession that threatened to destroy the Plan and lower the Earth back into its despair. This is the point that you step into the story, January 2062, a mere Citizen summoned, overnight, to a Moon is crisis, rocked by bombings and intrigue that cast a dark sky over this prospective paradise.