From the back cover: Distant Shores, the fifth Heavy Gear Storyline Book, is the newest installment of the critically acclaimed Storyline series. It traces the cataclysmic events on the world of Terra Nova, the setting of Heavy Gear, through a collectino of journals, articles and conversations. Distant Shores also features a useful appendix with a full time-line of events, advice for Heavy Gear players and profiles of important characters.