[
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "epilogue_factions",
    "text": [
      { "id": "epilogue_faction_default", "text": "    You are forgotten among the billions lost in the cataclysm…" },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_your_followers_0",
        "text": "    You are forgotten among the billions lost in the cataclysm…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_old_guard_0",
        "text": "    Locked in an endless battle, the Old Guard was forced to consolidate their resources in a handful of fortified bases along the coast.  Without the men or material to rebuild, the soldiers that remained lost all hope…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_old_guard_150",
        "text": "    The steadfastness of individual survivors after the cataclysm impressed the tattered remains of the once glorious union.  Spurred on by small successes, a number of operations to re-secure facilities met with limited success.  Forced to eventually consolidate to large bases, the Old Guard left these facilities in the hands of the few survivors that remained.  As the years passed, little materialized from the hopes of rebuilding civilization…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_free_merchants_0",
        "text": "    Life in the refugee shelter deteriorated as food shortages and disease destroyed any hope of maintaining a civilized enclave.  The merchants and craftsmen dispersed to found new colonies but most became victims of marauding bandits.  Those who survived never found a place to call home…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_free_merchants_150",
        "text": "    The Free Merchants struggled for years to keep themselves fed but their once profitable trade routes were plundered by bandits and thugs.  In squalor and filth the first generations born after the cataclysm are told stories of the old days when food was abundant and the children were allowed to play in the sun…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_tacoma_commune_0",
        "text": "    The fledgling outpost was abandoned a few months later.  The external threats combined with low crop yields caused the Free Merchants to withdraw their support.  When the exhausted migrants returned to the refugee center they were turned away to face the world on their own."
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_tacoma_commune_150",
        "text": "    The commune continued to grow rapidly through the years despite constant external threat.  While maintaining a reputation as a haven for all law-abiding citizens, the commune's leadership remained loyal to the interests of the Free Merchants.  Hard labor for little reward remained the price to be paid for those who sought the safety of the community."
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_wasteland_scavengers_0",
        "text": "    The lone bands of survivors who wandered the now alien world dwindled in number through the years.  Unable to compete with the growing number of monstrosities that had adapted to live in their world, those who did survive lived in dejected poverty and hopelessness…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_wasteland_scavengers_150",
        "text": "    The scavengers who flourished in the opening days of the cataclysm found an ever increasing challenge in finding and maintaining equipment from the old world.  Enormous hordes made cities impossible to enter while new eldritch horrors appeared mysteriously near old research labs.  But on the fringes of where civilization once ended, bands of hunter-gatherers began to adopt agrarian lifestyles in fortified enclaves…"
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_hells_raiders_0",
        "text": "    The raiders grew more powerful than any other faction as attrition destroyed the Old Guard.  The ruthless men and women who banded together to rob refugees and pillage settlements soon found themselves without enough victims to survive.  The Hell's Raiders were eventually destroyed when infighting erupted into civil war but there were few survivors left to celebrate their destruction."
      },
      {
        "id": "epilogue_faction_hells_raiders_150",
        "text": "    Fueled by drugs and rage, the Hell's Raiders fought tooth and nail to overthrow the last strongholds of the Old Guard.  The costly victories brought the warlords abundant territory and slaves but little in the way of stability.  Within weeks, infighting led to civil war as tribes vied for leadership of the faction.  When only one warlord finally secured control, there was nothing left to fight for… just endless cities full of the dead."
      }
    ]
  }
]
