EMP... Electromagnetic Pulse. When it happened it came fast; most people figured it was just a local outage, a minor problem, and oh, the power will come back on shortly... it didn't. Hours passed, then days and finally weeks, then panic. The government tried to calm the masses by saying that the electric grid needed up grades, and that this was a planned event that was just taking longer than expected. People knew that something was really wrong when the military showed up in every neighborhood, because roving armed bands of looters were going from house to house taking what little food people had left. Society continued to sink deeper into depravity, and then it got worse...