Title:  The Plantation

Filename: plant.zip

Version: 1.0

Date: 1/8/99

Author:  ATOMIC MONKEY

E-mail:  monkeytrial@juno.com

Map Description:

			Spring, 1864...

	The Civil War had been raging for four terrible years. Union General
Ulysses S. Grant, so impressed by supporting officer William Sherman's
command performance in the recent Battle of Shiloh, promoted him to the
rank of General. Sherman believed that he could end the war sooner if he
could destroy the south's war supplies, rather than just spilling the
blood of more of America's sons, brothers, and fathers. So, in the spring
of 1864, General Sherman began his famous "March to the Sea". By
September 1, Atlanta had fallen, and on December 21, Sherman's brutal and
destructive march to the sea was completed with the capture of Savannah.
	
	Hezekiah Walker could do nothing but watch his house and all his
possessions go up in flames, along with all of his neighbor's houses and
the entire town -- fields, barns, everything. It seemed after the last
four years that this war had lasted an eternity, and may not end at all.
And this unstoppable Union General Sherman had now taken everything he
and his father had worked for, and burned it to the ground. He and his
family had nothing left. Hezekiah realized he still had one important
thing 
left -- his family. He, his wife, their two daughters and son would one
day find another place somewhere, and rebuild the Walker house and lands,
just as they were before the Union General's invasion.


			Oklahoma, 1893

	Settlers had been pestering the federal government for years to open up
the rest of the Oklahoma territory for settlement, but the government had
held back because the land belonged to the Indians, and they didn't want
to risk an all out war with the Indian tribes. Finally, the federal
government opened up the remainder of the Oklahoma territory for
settlement by the white man. This became known as the Oklahoma Land Race.
Men, women and their children raced  for miles across the Oklahoma
countryside in order to stake out the best claims they could; everyone
fought for the land claims that were considered the best; few actually
ended up in possession of them. 

	Among one of the lucky who ended up in possession of one of the land
claims considered to be the best was Hezekiah Walker, his wife and
daughters and their families, and his only son Jonathan. The Walkers had
virtually nothing to begin their new lives with, but over the next
decade, Hezekiah and his son managed to build their new land and home
into a virtual replica of the one which had been destroyed nearly forty
years earlier in Sherman's now famous "March to the Sea" during the Civil
War; the Walker Plantation had been reborn on the windswept Oklahoma
plains.


			Oklahoma, 1933
	
	After the end of the first world war, life seemed to be going well for
everyone. The "War To End All Wars" had come to an end, businesses were
booming, and everyone was making money. Suddenly and unexpectedly in
October of 1929, the stock market plunged to a record low. Hundreds of
thousands of people lost everything; banks closed, business empires fell,
and jobs vanished. Work was scarce; any job was worth having if it meant
having a little food to eat. America seemed to be falling apart...

	Michael Walker recalled his father Joseph Walker, and his grandfather
Jonathan Walker  telling him how the house in which he now sat had been
built. His grandfather had worked long years to help his father Hezekiah
rebuild Walker Plantation after the famous Land Race for the Oklahoma
territory back in 1893. The struggle in the years after the Civil War had
been tremendous, and it saddened him now to think about losing it. 
	Since the crash four years ago, Michael and his family had been behind
on the payments to the bank. He had borrowed heavily from the bank
against the property, and still owed a great deal of money. The bank had
been threatening them with foreclosure for the last 10 months;  finally
the official notice of foreclosure had come just this morning.
Representatives from the bank would be here any minute now; then Michael
and his family would have nowhere to go, and the family's legacy would be
lost...


			Colorado, 1978

	Serious shortages of petroleum products in the early 1970's, and the
violent gas wars that ensued brought nothing but fear and mistrust to the
midwest. No one seemed to trust anyone else, and no one seemed to be
safe. If you owned something that someone else wanted, it was likely that
it would be taken from you -- any way it could be taken.

	After losing the family home to the bank in the 1930's, Michael moved
his family to Colorado. The second world war came, and with it came the
opportunity for shrewd businessmen to make a lot of money. Michael Walker
made a ton of money off the war, and by the early 1950's he had rebuilt
the Walker Plantation in a beautiful mountain region of Colorado, and
included a family mission church nearby on the property. This time he
made sure that the land was his and his family's forever -- free and
clear.
	Robert took over the Plantation from his father in the mid 1960's, and
things went fine until several years after the petroleum shortages and
the gas wars. By the mid 1970's, a high degree of lawlessness  had taken
hold of the land. People were killing other people for nothing more than
a few gallons of gas, or a vehicle in good working order. No one was
safe, no one was untouchable. Now these violent, lawless people --
commonly known as creepers -- wanted to take the Walker Plantation right
out from under Robert and his family. How could Robert let down his
family and betray a 135 year old legacy his ancestors had worked so hard
for, and virtually given their lives to build? He couldn't let it
happen....
	Robert went to the family room, and hit the #3 memory  re-dial button on
the telephone. He had a good friend -- a mechanic -- in a nearby town.
"Skeeter? Hey, this is Robert Walker, over at the Plantation; you know
those friends of yours you were telling me about?...."


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