THE SHIFT OF 2012 shattered civilization as we know it. Governments crumbled as quickly as the granite buildings that housed their bureaucracy. Electricity soon escaped man's thralldom and the internal combustion engine quickly went the way of the dinosaurs. Humanity totters on the brink of a new Dark Age. Prior to THE SHIFT, a group of high-minded individuals armed with determination and foresight founded a community to promote life as they envisioned it should be. These spiritually devoted individuals recruited members with knowledge of medicine, agriculture, and engineering. In addition,...