The world was decimated by nuclear war in the year 2071, now known as the Flash. Nobody is sure how many people died in the flash, but far more people lost their lives in the chaos that followed. For 90 years, the post-flash world has been ruled by relentless bandit gangs, nightmarish mutants, and overzealous militias. In the year 2161, there exists a set of two islands in Lake Erie called the Sunrise Islands, slightly north of mainland Ohio, it is an nuclear winter, go forth watelander rise