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The Crash is the first story mission in Shattered Past and takes place in the Desert on Earth. After crashing in the Desert under unknown circumstances, the player's unconscious body is hauled from the wreckage of their ship, and awakens to the sight of several Rangers who invite the amnesiac pilot to join them on their way to a remote colony to investigate why it has dropped out of contact with the Protectorate's array stations.

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 dunes.


 * Narrator: What is the sum of human curiosity, but a yearning to venture into the unknown. To uncover some secret purpose in the hopes of achieving a higher power. For hundreds of years, man had looked up into the sky, peering at the stars through their telescopes. As technology progressed, these dreams grew ever closer. Great ships were built to take men into the deep, to carry us into the stars. Soon, we turned our sights to the dead worlds that lay before us. The promises of a new empire. A new age. Colonization efforts were launched to Mars and centuries passed as humanity terraformed its barren deserts. But, buried beneath the dunes, lay the dormant husks of an ancient evil.

Screen fades to black.


 * Narrator: We called them Praetorians.