By the turn of the 26th century, Earth had nearly fully recovered from the End War over four hundred years earlier. By then, the world had changed radically. Many myths came to describe the decaying old world, as many of the mounments of the bygone age have been destroyed. The story mainly takes place in the former United States of America, the Russian Fedaration and the Commonwealth of Australia. There are robots, albeit they are few in number, and thier are no more cars or planes. People rely on Slepnirs to get around fast, and there are ships sailing the globe's oceans. The world's tempature is up by 10 degrees, and so the globe's ice caps are greatly reduced. Many of the world's greatest cities lie in ruins, and new ones have taken thier place.