Saint Liebowitz

Goal: It's 1830 years after the Magna Civitis (Great Civilization) was destroyed in the flame deluge. Moral and technical knowledge, preserved in the Abbey of St. Liebowitz, is slowly being reborn.

Author's Comments: In Walter Miller's classic novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" we find the development of a post-nuclear civilization in the 2000 years after the "Flame Deluge" of the 21st century. Los Alamos scientist-turned-hermit Albert Leibowitz hides a library of science volumes from angry "Simpletons" bent on erasing all vestige of the technical civilization that had brought down the Flame Deluge. To do this he enlists the help of Christian missionaries from the exiled church in New Rome. Leibowitz has the science volumes translated into Latin and disguised as religious texts. The Simpletons eventually die out, but over the centuries the monks of St. Leibowitz recite the texts religiously even though they have no idea what they mean. Eventually the imperfect moral influence of the church fosters a civilization that begins to discover the true nature of the Leibowitz texts. Included in those volumes are the secrets of steam power and electricity. As Hannegan Emperor of Texark it is your vision to unite the continent from coast to coast and to be the founder of a new "Magna Civitas" or "Great Civilization". If in my dyslexic haste I sometimes transpose the ie to ei in "Leibowitz" or vice versa, please remember this is only a game.