It began without warning -a force from the farthest reaches of space that ripped the fabric of time asunder. Rippling walls of mist swept across America, slicing through history, smashing fragments of the present into a distant, baffling future, ending civilization in a instant.

But a few were spared. And for a soldier of fortune named Marc Despard, a fateful odyssey began. Accompanied only by a friendly leopard and a nameless, voiceless girl, Despard struck out across this deadly patchwork landscape to find answers -and wake the world from a nightmare of cosmic dimension.