FMO version 5.4.7

October 7th, 2327.

"Full Metal Online. The shooter that took over the streamed VRMMOFPS world. Thats 'Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter'. Yeah it's a mouthful. Anyway, then Aergo Interactive Technologies managed in only 7 years to corner the entire genre. And was then forced to split due to sheer size and processing power. Now, Aergo Interactive Holdings with several subsidiaries managing the awe inspiring amount of hardware, software, and manpower needed just to keep up 4 virtual earth's. Of which each earth has 100s of battles that are spanking the crust of the earth all at the same time."

"Like I said. AWE inspiring. I never miss a weekly trip to see the Battle of Cape Matapan. But that's a story for another time. "

"Yeah, don't tell me you wouldn't want to go from muskets and lead balls from one hour, to EMRs and tungsten shards in the next. Riding in a motorcycle sidecar with an French HMG, then sitting on a battleship deck holding the trigger of an anti air cannon in the next battle"

"Simply put. This was our dream made real. My buddies and I were having fun. Living it up like we were the time traveling Expendables come to life. We played the game with a competitive spirit. Making friends, making enemies. Traveling the worlds from battle to battle. Looking for the next hidden weapon, perk, or upgrade to add to our deadly arsenals."

"Ships, aircraft, ground vehicles, loadout bags, environment gear, Surge tech, AI hardware, blueprints, research cubes, etc, and etc. We had it all at our fingertips. You just had to go get it"

"There was so much to do, across any time period, that you could never truly beat the game. PvP to PvE."

"Life was good. My buddies and I were about to finish up our gun run mission with the Arabs in 1948 and.... well, again ill get to that another time."

"Im getting carried away and you came for a bigger story. So I'll need to start from the beginning. Lets go back to when I was still learning the rules. There's a lot that we didn't notice back then. Maybe you can notice what we all missed."