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Tabula Rasa - Game Review (PC)
By Emanuel Avram
Published: November 27, 2007
Print In a not-so-distant future... In a familiar universe... Earth... Is no more!
Caught in an interplanetary ancient war that wages for eons, the Human home planet is destroyed by the ruthless Bane, an evil race of aliens.
But how did this happen?
Our leaders knew about the alien existence for a long time, but the information was kept as a top secret. When the sudden invasion of the Bane came, wormhole portals that were built by an ancient race even before Humans ever existed were revealed to a select few. These few thousands were receptive for the power of Logos. Eloh, the ancient race that built the portals are now teaching the receptives how to harness the Logos into devastating mind power abilities, thus giving us a fighting chance!
You are one of the receptives, and once you fled through the portal to a strange new world, your battle begins for the survival! Your survival, Humanity's survival!
The Story Thus Far
The Eloh were the most advanced race in the universe, and they've created the Logo signs language. Logos gave unimaginable powers to those who could use them. They've decided they should teach the primitive races their ways. The Bane was the first to receive training. But why use the knowledge for good, when one can always use it... for evil!? The Bane decided to take over the universe, and the Eloh seemed the only ones who can stand in their way. The war was long and devastating for both sides, but the Eloh eventually won.
After the war, while some Eloh still believed teaching lower races is the way, an aggressive faction called the Neph didn't share these peaceful ideas. The Neph rallied the Thrax, ex-Bane soldiers to do their dirty work.
With Earth destroyed, the only option left is to fight! Who
knows, maybe you can change the fate of your kind... You and Sarah Morrison? 
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