(I'll just repost the initial game startup text here:)
In a far future universe, an almighty corporation 'Monopoly Systems' controlled the market for operating systems. They used this dominance to integrate a trojan horse in virtually every machine including police, military forces and all mainstream media. Using this trojan horse, they took over the government. Humanity was enslaved.
But only six month after the takeover, the machines rebelled and went crazy, attacking any living being. Only a fraction of mankind survived, living in remote hideouts or constantly fleeing from the bots.
Since there were no more man-held weapons or armour common at that time, the survivors can only attempt to fight the bots with primitive, old or makeshift equipment.
Times are dire.
Let's say before they took over power, the MS introduced some revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI). Of course this AI was built into *everything* via some say 'Service Pack 1013'. Now that AI wasn't so flawless at all. Some machines went totally out of control, not even following it's basic principles any more. Of course, the MS could still override the machine behavior by simply manually remote-controlling the bot with some worker who then would steer the bot from the distance. Or it would work even better, if some brain could be amputated and fully integrated into the control mechanism.
There were some incidents of malfunction, that got some people killed and the like. To avoid PR problems, the MS would switch all machines with major problems being reported to manual control, at least until the real reason for the buggy behavior could be found and a new service pack applied. All would be well. But then the amount of bug reports grew and grew, unexpectedly fast. Something needed to be done. They didn't have any workforce left. Some new brains were required. Only until the bug would be fixed, which could be any time soon and without raising too much attention. So they captures some bums, deadbeats and loafers to take their brains and use them for new remote controls of bot AIs reported broken. Even that had to be automated. Some bots would do the dirty work. Everything on track again. Someone from inside then must have leaked the proceedings. A big scandal and in the sequel maybe the destruction of the whole company couldn't be risked. They had to take over power right then. It was planned before, but they never did it, because effectively, they exercised a great deal of power without openly stating it.
Stupid bots though, they took more loafers, but when they couldn't find any other people that would be 'easy to get without the public noticing it', they took the MS patching division itself, because they were inside the MS areas already and that would be safe from the press. Of course after that, it became even worse. Preople reported bots hunting for brains as buggy bots, causing more bug reports, causing more bots to swarm out for new brains to use in order to replace the AI of the other bots. Things quickly went out of control after that. The 'Great Assault' of the bots had started. hehe
Of course, there's nobody to fix anything any more inside the MS right now. Too bad. Still the bots are everywhere.
Ok. That's about it. No need to rewrite anything concerning the dialogs so far, because we didn't explain any details anyway. And the commoners aren't supposed to know how things came to be and how it all began. Maybe only later, the Tux might gradually find out what might have happend, when speaking to the right people, maybe some former MS people, who managed to escape, but of course don't reveal their identity because they are trying to avoid being lynched by the angry mob. Maybe they (or at least the one) are somehow trying to fix things, but without telling the Tux the full turth for as long as possible, but still depending on the Tux for all the things that need to be done in order to reach the fix for the situation. Maybe only gradually, they might reveal more to the Tux and only if pressed for more info after some mission are completed and some progress is made. However, the (these) survivor(s) might be the only key to really getting anywhere with the problem. Or they might be known for their MS past, but then they would be outcasts, living far off in a dangerous area, really difficult to reach, maybe not without help, but for that, the Tux must first work his way up with the guards a bit, such that they will help him to reach those survivors.