[BCOLOR=transparent]Ebony's mother was one of those people who took every single drug on the market. The town doctor warned her about having a child, but she and her husband didn't listen. They (the doctor) feared that the child would be horribly disfigured from the combinations of so many different drugs, but the baby was fine, other than having white hair, an innocent heart murmur, and minor tritanopia. Her mother, seeing her white hair, decided to call her Ebony (she had a sense of humor, obviously). When Ebony was four, her mother died from a combination of symptoms of almost every drug she had taken, and her father died soon after from the few drugs he had taken. Ebony was taken in by her mother's sister, who raised her as part of her family. Her uncle taught her and her two cousins basic skills and all about the technology they possessed, and they also went to school in the small town. The town had a wall around the perimeter, and so Ebony never saw any other people than the two thousand or so living within.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]The town, which had been a major military base in some forgotten war against the Germans and Japanese almost three hundred years ago, had been rebuilt to serve a similar purpose during the most recent war. It had been a last, desperate grasp for new technology, and the US government had poured funding and existing technology into it. It remained closed off to the outside world as the people inside continued their ancestor's task of developing new weapons and technology. They produced their own food, and relied on advanced solar panels for electricity. However, when Ebony turned eighteen, she decided she wanted to venture outside the walls. In fact, many people were curious about what lay outside, because the government had stopped sending messages and supplies many decades ago. No one had left, because it was forbidden, but Ebony convinced them to send a team out to explore. What they found shocked them, and many teams were sent out after that, going farther and farther each time. When she was twenty two, Ebony decided to leave for good and send messages back through her transmitter documenting what she found.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Note: Wendover, Utah actually does exist, and was a military base during WWII, though I have recreated it like Oak Ridge (where the Manhattan Project took place). Major technology development took place there, but it was forgotten about. They were not a supremely advanced town, it had begun to decay with lack of incoming resources, but they continued to invent new projects and preserve old documents in the deteriorating labs. Supplies were becoming scarce, and so they had to produce their own food. This also contributed to the eventual exploration outside.[/BCOLOR]
