Life in the east struggles to survive in cramped confines. The east banks of the Mississippi have become a line of cannon-studded fortifications, while everything west of the Mississippi was ceded to the automatons. He blew out a thick black smoke and continued in a slight drawl, ”For 11 years humanity has held that line. A small plackarge beneath them read, In Case. By the winter of ‘73, using heavy cannons and armor-piercing Gatling guns, humanity managed to push the robots west across the Mississippi.” Gus pointed a long crooked index finger up to the wall where a pair of large gattling guns hung. Common townsfolk found it impossible to mount effective resistance against the bulletproof horde of fearless automatons. “ His striking blue eyes gaze off into the distance as if remembering another life, ”It was 1871, and a war-weary America was unprepared for a robot uprising that spread across the country like wildfire. Whatever the cause, humanity was not prepared for the cost when the robots that once stood as a symbol of America's bright new future, turned instead into a raving horde of rampaging automatons. ”The rest say it was bound to happen no matter what. Other folks think it was sabotage by a shadowy cabal of nefarious scientists.” Gus shrugged his shoulders and took a long draw on his ivory handled pipe. ” Most say it started with the death of John Henry after his showdown against a steel-driving, tunneling robot. ” You’ve heard no doubt about the robot wars, or otherwise you be the dumbest dub I’ve ever met.” Gus chuckled and struck a match lighting up a pipe.
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