MUSIC: Ominous music building in intensity.

SFX: Rain on ocean waves.

DANIEL: The great city of Lathe is carved into the eastern shores of the supercontinent, overlooking the great Well of Sighs and its floating monolith counterpart, The Dipper. 

SFX: rain and waves fade, while sound of wind fades in.

DANIEL: From its seat in Lathe, the nation of Corpus has spread far. Stretching its borders to the edge of the western wastelands, the vast expanse of this empire is the envy of the other nations to its north and south. 

SFX: Wind fades.

MUSIC: Haunting electric guitars begin to play

DANIEL: But all is not well in Corpus. The eternal sea storms grow more fierce...

SFX: Thunder and rain begins.

DANIEL: ...and constrained by both the wastelands and the formidable borders of its neighbors, expansion is stunted, and the nation struggles to maintain its political and economic power.

SFX: Rain intensifies.

DANIEL: There is unrest in the cities, with some speaking of revolution.

SFX: Unhappy people in the rain coughing and the sound of train hydraulics.

DANIEL: Others worry that soon the great hurricanes will not keep to the distant horizon, and even more fear the strange gases that have begun to rise from the earth. 

SFX: Ominous groans and hissing rise and then fade.

Music: Haunting guitars build in tempo and intensity.

DANIEL: All empires fall, but who will Corpus take with it?

DANIEL: We're about to find out.

MUSIC: Guitars fade and transition to _Ninth World_ by Dave Sterling.

DANIEL: Join us for the second campaign of Explorers Wanted: Hearts in Orbit.