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The Crash is the first story mission in Shattered Past and takes place in the Arid Desert on Earth.

Objectives

 * Follow the Rangers to the settlement.
 * Help fend off the Praetorians
 * Get to the settlement

Transcript
{Video}

''The screen fades into a view of a vast desert. The text "EARTH" and "25TH CENTURY" appear in the left hand corner of the screen. A team of Rangers are seen treking across the wastes. The Rangers pause atop a sand dune to survey the terrain when a ship crashes in the distance. The Rangers see the crash and head towards it.''

The screen cuts to black

''A view of Earth from space. A commercial plays in the background as hundreds of people wait on a long line at a facility with the Exodus Logo. In the distance, dozens of colony ships can be seen. The screen cuts to a scene of colonists boarding the ships as families say goodbye to their loved ones. As the ships take off, the scene switches to the colony ships drifting to Mars, then black. The next scene opens with the hatch of a colony ship lifting as the first colonists dismount and children rush into the newly remade world when suddenly everyone is awestruck by the alien landscape; alien structures dominate the skyline and security teams begin urging the colonists to return to the shuttles just as a security unit is shot by an energy bolt. Hundreds of machine units begin swarming across the landscape as the video ends.''

{Cutscene}

''The screen fades in and then to black a few times to simulate the effect of eyes opening. Meanwhile, unintelligible voices can be heard.''


 * Orva: Look, he's coming to.


 * Corander: Hey, hey you alright?

The pilot slowly sits himself up, looking towards the female Ranger kneeling beside him and groans.


 * Pilot: What--what happened? Where am I?
 * Corander: Easy. We're in the Arid Desert. You crashed.


 * Orva: Can you stand?


 * Pilot: I think so.

Corander offers the pilot a hand, helping him to his feet.


 * Corander: Do you remember anything prior to the crash?


 * Pilot: Just fragments, but they're all scrambled. Who are you?


 * Corander: Rangers. I'm Corander, that's Victor, Orva, and Hade. We were en route to a nearby settlement when we saw your ship crash.

Just then, Victor approaches.


 * Victor: Sir, we should get moving. If the settlement's communications systems have indeed gone offline, we need to restore them pronto.


 * Corander: Acknowledged.

Corander turns to the Pilot.


 * Corander: Why not come with us?

The Pilot looks at the burning wreckage of their ship and back at the Rangers.


 * Pilot: Don't think I have a choice.

The Pilot then beckons with his hand in a forward motion.


 * Pilot: Lead the way.

The group begins walking and the screen fades to black.

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