Feeling a bit gloomy, huh?
No worries, Shinji knows everything about this mess!

Our planet was green and lush just a few hundred years ago… but man, things went downhill fast after the Consortium bailed!

They swore the decline in resources wasn’t an issue, said we were gonna colonize Hope. Ha! They sure played us for fools, no doubt about that… and that hunk orbital gate wreck floating in the sky? Yeah, what a nasty daily reminder.