With most cities falling into ruin in a perpetual night of low fuel and no power, street gangs grew into terror patrols, controlling neighborhoods and sometimes entire cities. These terror patrols grew larger and larger, falling under the control of ever more powerful dictators.

All government officials became targets for assassination, the global system of government was getting weaker by the day. As the governments began to fall and chaos began to be a way of life, all governments united and focused on the continuing search for a new energy source. Finally, in 2079, government scientists discovered a new energy source, created from anti matter chemical reactions between the grinding forces of the planets tectonic plates, a new energy source was mined, called ORE. ORE, though not energy producing itself, was able to catalyze nearly any chemical reaction and also amplify any electrical power fed into it. Because of the density of the ORE found, when energy passed through the ORE atoms were sped up to a speed never seen before, increasing energy passed through the ORE as well as creating distortion in time and the known field.

After the ORE became common knowledge, the fighting factions used all means to gain access to the ORE's power. Using the ORE's power to bend time and fold space the MOB left earth in search of more ORE, in the process creating a war between worlds as well as on its own.
Deep in the bowels of UMC research and development, secret experiments have led to the creation of the advanced massively parallel bio-computational neural network, with the ability to emulate higher-level thought processes and simulate the nonlinear processing of computations and complex algorithms. This advanced bio-computational neural network has created a perfect artificial environment, this new system avoids failures from the past and jerkiness caused by computational spasming in older non bio based artificial environments.

One of the first practical uses of this new technology was the development of an advanced combat training emulator. This emulator is a virtual reality where the UMC weeds out the mentally weak and trains the best of the best to be even better. It is so realistic several level 5 marines who first tested it died of cardiac arrest.

The "Meat Machine" termed by the first wave of Marines tested on the neural network, takes the Marine where they have never been, shows them enemies they have never faced, and trains them with existing UMC weaponry, plus weaponry that are yet to be made in the real world.

Date: March 15, 2085, 04:00 UMC Briefing Room A-091

Sargent First Class, Jack Fielding: "What do you know about this Meat Machine Lieutenant?"

Lieutenant Jane Doa: "Not Much apart from the fact it looks and feels real when you're in there. If you get shot you feel it, if your exhausted, you feel it. The only difference is if you die, you get another chance without the pains of cloning and mental reimplantation like
in the real world."

Sargent First Class, Jack Fielding: "Don't know much about dying, but I know pain."

Lieutenant Jane Doa: (surprised) "You've never been killed in combat before??"

Sargent First Class, Jack Fielding: (changing the subject) "Why are these secret service geeks putting us through this computer crap anyway?

General Richter enters: "Because you will be killed a 1000 times over before the end of your training here."

Sargent First Class, Jack Fielding: "Sir"

General Richter: "At ease, sit down Marines, i'll say this only once. You have been chosen from the Ranks of the United Marine corps finest level 5 troops to train for secret service Death Force. Before you're even considered, you must fight the Meat Machine. You must become the Ultimate Soldier."