-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- the immense desolation of this future time is measured in the small yet bustling community of kawanbi in chronix bay , the broken earth and sky , as it reads on a faded sign that occupied a large field outside of the small town , the electric diodes that once illuminated the sign having long since died out .