By Bruno Savill De Jong — A key moment in First Knife is when the futuristic techno-organic cyborg asks Mari, a high-priestess of the Yanqui tribe who recently rebooted it online, what year it is. She replies, “Year 432, Oh Fallen Star”. Actually, it is the 33rd Century, but following several cataclysm events humanity has reverted to a more primitive state. The post-apocalypse from Mad Max has endured so long ‘civilization’ has re-emerged similar to Conan the Barbarian fantasy, the future becoming the past. Chicago has devolved into clay-brick area of Shikka-Go, overtaken from the Yanqui tribe by the warring Hudsoni slavers.