From the introduction: Terra Nova is a game about the disastrous end of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 Antarctic expedition, which claimed the lives of Scott and his four companions en route from the south pole. In it, the players will assume the roles of Scott's team, beginning on January 18, 1912 and ending with their destruction several months later. In the interim they will be forced to make brutal decisions that balance survival with humanity, the immutable laws of nature with the facile laws of men. In the end, they will fall one by one.