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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." -- Joseph Conrad

Seattle, Friday 14 Feburary 2070, 0800

Seattle is a weird place- a place where worlds collide. On a clear day from the deck of a ship you can see the Cascade Mountains in the East, full of life and natural beauty. They stand like a geological reminder of a way life people actually used to enjoy. They're only about 30 clicks away as the crow flies, but any sprawl dweller knows they might as well be in another world. The reality is it's almost never clear, and the world of the average sprawl dweller is filled with concrete, pollution, poverty, crime and violence, all under the sickly glow of artificial lights. It's a world of long hour drudgery, short life spans, and even shorter expectations. A world where corporate-driven consumerism is the only meaningful religion left.

Today its raining, just like yesterday and the day before. The "Emerald City"? it's called- supposedly because of the way the buildings shine after the acrid rain rinses off the dust and grime kicked up from the city streets below. Inside those towers is another world, equally far away despite the minute spacial separation afforded by a thin pane of mirrored glass. The corporate world is full of luxury, excess, intrigue and sometimes just as much violence as the streets. They just don't tend to call it crime when it draws a profit.

And then there is the world you live in- a world in between, a world in the shadows. The sea affords you a kind of freedom that neither the sprawl-dweller nor the corporate wageslave can claim. Freedom from the oppressive control of the corporate sphere. Freedom to come and go as you please. Freedom to travel the world in search of your own truth. Freedom to think, to feel, to be. Some come to the sea in search of its secrets. Others come to the sea fleeing their own. But everyone who comes to the sea is changed and once you cross into that world there is no going back...