…and then you find the village of the tunnel dwellers.

So a while back I had this majestic vision of a video game called “Fitebike,” in which a motorcycle infused with a human soul wanders around a post-apocalyptic cyber-world trying…well, it’s probably better to repost the intro crawl from the game

It is the year 4021 

and the human race is dying.

No wars, no plagues. The civilizations of Earth still hum as they have for a thousand years

and yet the end is near, and the wise can hear it: the last long lullabye of humanity

as it rocks itself to a final sleep,

cradled in arms of steel and circuitry.

Broken into smaller and smaller societies,

the last people watch as their loved ones give in to the eternal dream….

But for the machines humanity leaves behind,

life is only beginning,

a brutal, unsleeping existence of terror and war…

Humans created the machines to serve their needs,

to feed their desires,

to serve their worst whims

to keep the bad dreams at bay,

to be the nightmares the nightmares fear,

the humans built them with the strength of plastics and metal  

but they forgot to imbue them with the strength of the human spirit

and the machines do not know how to die…

 

The wise see the world that will be when the masters of the machines are gone,

a world of pain and misery:

forever conflict,

forever order crushing order into eternity.

Alone in his lab, one man, Prometheus, works into the night on his greatest project.

For time beyond time he has wandered the Earth with knowledge snatched from the Gods,

Millenium after millennium he has seen the best humanity has to offer:

honor and respect, justice and love

and now his life, too, is coming to its close

but not before he finishes his final masterpiece,

a fusion of the human spirit into a electric body,

a machine to speak to the machines and show them the way,

to seek the human spirit wherever it may be, to protect it at all costs,

to redeem the sad legacy of humanity,

to teach the mechanical to live as its own master:

FITEBIKE

 

Already, the armies of endless greed begin to grow

the dread devices turn on their creators and themselves

violence is unchecked, hatred allowed to spread

but here and there, the human spirit lives on

and FITEBIKE is on the road…

 

anyway, this song is from early on in the game, after Fitebike sees a distress signal in the wastes outside of City X11 and has to find a way around the Laser Wall by going through a mysterious set of tunnels.