The game takes place in the aftermath of the Calamity, a catastrophic event that suddenly fractured the city of Caelondia as well as the surrounding areas of the game's world into many floating pieces, disrupting its ecology and reducing most of its people to ash.
The health effects caused by arsenic poisoning in this area is as catastrophic as any other natural calamity that occurred throughout the world in recent times.
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, one of the world's leading progressive thinkers, explains how catastrophic moments, from wars, to natural calamities, and economic depression, can serve as a perfect opportunity for the political and corporate elite to impose a new social order, exploiting the fears and anxieties of the greater population to serve their own narrow interests.
It opens with the sort of marital shouting match most of us wouldn't want witnessed by our closest friends, let alone anyone else, and invites us into a private world of calamity – a bankrupt business, an ugly divorce, a catastrophic fashion show in Paris.
Gullibility and greed caused this latest calamity, but what allowed those basic human traits to combine to such catastrophic effect was a legal and institutional framework that resulted from deliberate policy actions.
Unfortunately, China's leaders have not fully grasped that Beijing's catastrophic mishandling of the health crisis is as much a political failure as a medical calamity.
We found no significant result when comparing the currently available distribution to either catastrophic or attritional mortality profiles, and therefore a mass death scenario involving some sort of calamity or death trap cannot be completely excluded to explain the Dinaledi assemblage.
Another, sent the day of the attacks, said: "Today's catastrophic act of violence to the World Trade Center, Pentagon and four commercial planes is such a calamity that no words to our cast can express".
Yet, even if the Ruffian calamity resulted in diminishing the popularity of horse racing, there was minimal public revulsion over the catastrophic injuries on national TV to Go for Wand at the 1990 Breeders' Cup or to Prairie Bayou at the 1993 Belmont Stakes.
The large scale, sudden calamity rings our alarm bells louder, which the media senses and feeds, compounding the awareness of and fear about catastrophic sorts of risks.
