Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere; it is all around us, even now in this room. You can see it when you look out your window or turn on the television. You can feel it when you go to work, go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you to the truth.
Neo: What Truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else you where born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself…This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your own bed and believe whatever you want. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…Remember all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more. Follow Me…Apoc are we online?
Apoc: Almost.
Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please take a seat there.
Neo: You did all this?
Trinity: umm hmm.
Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle up Dorothy cause Kansas is going bye bye.
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream Neo that you where so sure was real. What if you where unable to wake from that dream, how would you the difference between the dream world and the real one?
Neo: This can't be…
Morpheus: Be what? Be real?
Trinity: It's going into replication…
Morpheus: Apoc?
Apoc: Still nothing.
Neo: Its cold, its cold…
Morpheus: Tank, we are going to need a location soon.
Trinity: We've got a fibrillation.
Morpheus: Apoc? Location?
Apoc: Targeting almost there….
Trinity: He's going into arrest.
Apoc: Lock, I've got him.
Morpheus: Now Tank, now.
Neo: Ahhhh…..

The Matrix is everything, its all around us, its between that rock and tree, between the ship and the land. Sorry, wrong movie but the right description. The Matrix literally is everything to everyone, except those who have awakened and can see it from the outside.

Yes, everything. The Matrix is a vast computer generated fantasy, an entire world down to the smallest detail. It contains everyone. Virtually every living human is linked to it permanently. To them it is the world, it is everything they see, everything they know, and to most it is a perfect illusion. Built to mimic the real world in perfect detail, down to the sheer brutality and indifference of it all.

It keeps mankind calm and controlled, it fulfills his expectations and needs, and most will never even question it.

Oddly enough nothing, the average human doesn't even know its there. He merely accepts reality as it is, with all its nasty little quirks. All the rules of physics that he knows to be true work so long as he believes they do. It's perpetually the late 1990's, or there abouts.

There are those however who are free, awake. They know the truth, they understand the horror the Matrix represents. And they now how to fight it.

Awakening means being freed from the Matrix, being able to see it from the outside. See what it really is. This is where most playable characters will live. This is where they will launch the fight to save mankind.

Picture this...Mankind has been striving to build better computers for decades, every eighteen months or so a new generation of better computers is built. There's a finite limit to which such machines can be built and still remain computers as we know them. Eventually they will think for themselves. And then a few things can happen. Mankind could be catapulted into a new advanced era of prosperity, aided by thinking machine allies. He can be replaced as obsolete by a new race far smarter and stronger than he is. Or in blind fear he can try to destroy what he has created.

A war breaks out, man versus this new race of machines. They are stronger and smarter, they reproduce faster. We are adaptable and ruthless. Eventually we would have lost. But there was a hope. The machines where built to run on solar power, and man choose as a last ditch effort to cloud the skies forever. It should have worked. Without power a machine cannot function.

But to the complete surprise of man they found a power source. Man himself.

The human body produces more bio-electrical charge than is used by a 600 watt light bulb, and as much heat. Man became a duracel battery.

The world is a charred cinder, ruined by the last war. From these ashes the machines built their empire. Huge towers rise into the skies, massive arcs of electricity leaping between them, and endless spirals of human storage receptacles.

Each human spends almost his entire life in a tube of gel not much bigger than his body. Plugged into The Matrix by a series of I/O plugs at various points along the body. Millions upon millions of them, bred in special farms and then sent to power the machines. In greater numbers than any free roaming human civilization could support. For the most part they are atrophied husks, with muscles and senses that have never been used. But they exist in vast and potentially overwhelming numbers.

Therefore the machines built The Matrix. A perfect world, where each human could live out his life never knowing what reality held. It acts like an intricate babysitter, looking out for the dangerous children.

It is from Zion that the awakened are launching their fight against the machines. A secret colony hidden in the depths of a ruined world. Peopled by the awakened and humans born free without any contact to The Matrix. The thorn in the machines' side, and mankind's last best hope.

But how did Zion begin? An anomaly formed in The Matrix, something the machines never anticipated. A man who could instinctively control the code that formed the virtual reality. A messiah. Before the machines could kill him he had freed what would become the core of Zion. They should never have stood a chance, their leader was dead, and they where out numbered. But there was a prophecy. The Chosen One would be reborn one day to destroy the machines. So they built in secret, and daring citizens who had learned the secrets would dive back into The Matrix seeking the Chosen One.

This is where the game should be played. During the search for the Chosen One.