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1998 a series of disasters that had plagued the world came to a long-awaited
end. The future of Earth remained uncertain. People realized the desperate
situation the were in, and began to use the energy they had once saved
for fighting each other to help the poor and the homeless. Gradually, through
the efforts of a great many caring human beings, the standard of living
rose to a tolerable level.
A few years later, in a small Eastern European nation called Kazafu, unusual activity was reported by a rancher. He said that he had seen several 'red dots' move across the sky and disappear behind a mountain. They made no sound at all, he said. Three days after the sighting, though, creatures that no one had ever seen before surfaced in the capital city. They leveled the capital in a matter of days! Nothing remained but the rubble of demolished buildings and the occasional desperate cry of someone trapped beneath them... The creatures marched across
the entire European continent, doing the same kind of damage they had in
Kazafu. Not long after, North and South America met the same fate. Just
weeks after the beings had first exposed themselves, 5 entire continents
had been completely wiped out! Any survivors were taken and used as slaves.
Their lives had become a horrible nightmare from which they might never
awaken...
The wicked mind behind the
devastation was Meio, the Grand Master who studied the life patterns of
Earth's inhabitants from his home on a distant nebula. His ultimate plan
was to rule the world from a space station he had built between Earth and
its loan moon. The "Third Moon" would serve as his control and planning
center.
News reports told of the sheer annihilation of 80% of the living things on the planet. The report was picked up by the inhabitants of a small island called Moralos, somewhere in the South Seas. Moralos was the secret training location for the Striders, the last defenders of justice on Earth. Hiryu, the youngest man ever to achieve the rank of A-class Strider was assigned the incredible task of getting through the armies of creatures and stopping Grand Master Meio from carrying out his plans. |
