Seventh Creek has been a peaceful, agricultural city state since the end of the Pulse War. For over a century it has been a thriving sanctuary against the worst horrors of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Now the mysterious Xocate Empire is menacing Seventh Creek's borders. You're a Civil Defense squad, on a dawn patrol beyond the outer farmsteads.

As the sun rises you enter Hugoton Hollow, a supernatural scar in the landscape….