"War is a machine. Enter the world of Illal, a planet ravaged by mech warfare and an expanding, viral mass known as The Giga-Structure. Corporate warfare between the two largest ruling powers, Sentium and Prosk, rages unchecked through the streets and ruins of what was once a bustling, promising corporate colony, vying for those precious resources left under the ironclad quarantine of The Uta. But things were not always this way--the ambitions of two men, Rion Lazlo and James Hawken, came together with hopes of building a better tomorrow, only to collide and collapse into betrayal, leading to a sequence of events that would bring the entire planet to its knees. Who would have believed that the fate of millions would be written by just one man ...? Hawken: Genesis tells the tale of those events that formed the world inhabited by the free-to-play multiplayer online first person mech game Hawken, developed by Adhesive Games"--Page 4 of cover.