Avernus is a planet ravaged for generations by the Armageddon Wars. Avernus was once a prosperous planet in a golden age of man and machine working together, but it has been reduced to endless deserts and chemical seas. The Apokalypse Virus, the most feared weapon of the ancient wars, causes machines which once served the populace to go rogue; rogue panzers roam the deserts killing anything that moves. Due to the virus, Avernus has been quarantined by the Galactic Compact and anything trying to leave the planet is blasted into dust by a series of orbital fortresses.
Avernus is a planet ravaged by ten millenia of total war, where five gigantic city-states are locked in a deadly struggle for control of the most preciouws substance in history: Drakonium, the ultimate energy source. Without Drakonium, the automated factories would cease to function, the lights will go out, air will become unbreathable, and people will starve. And everyone knows that Drakonium is running out.
Beyond the five megacities, life is short and brutal. The air is poisonous, the seas are dead, and the land is a desert. The world is littered with the ruins of extinct civilizations. Mutants roam the poisonous wastes, mechanized barbariansplunder the scattered settlements, and sentient death machines stalk the survivors.