The temperature and radiation spike killed much of life on the surface and resulted in DNA mutations of life forms as small as viruses. The game takes you to a not so distant future, in which Earth has been devastated by a Solar superstorm known as coronal mass ejection. Storm pushed Earth's magnetic field beyond planet circumference, allowing huge amounts of solar radiation to penetrate to the ground level. White Sands is a single player RTS. When CME ended, the earth's magnetic field had re.
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