Editing The Machine (section)

===Beginning of II / Summary===
In the thirties, a British explorer manages to find a passage to the very center of the Earth deep in the jungles of South America. Eager to prove his theory correct, he leads a small expedition down the tunnel. When he emerges, he tells a story that will change the world forever.

The entire center of the planet is just one gigantic machine. A ticking, grinding, pounding machine so large that it can't even be expressed in words. Of course this causes a massive outrage as people try to make sense of it all. What does it do? Who built it? How does something like that even work?

Fast forward 30 years, and the finest minds on Earth have made very little progress. The Machine should be impossible, and yet it still works. It's simply too alien for us to even begin to comprehend. So the Union makes a unanimous decision to sponsor expeditions into the Machine, hoping that something, anything, new about it could be uncovered. Driven by promises of riches and adventure, the explorers, known as Delvers, boldly journey into the depths of the Machine in search of answers.

This has been going on for nearly 50 years, and we're still far from the breakthrough we hoped for. We understand the Machine a lot better now, but it's still the barest of fractions of knowledge. We've mapped out some of the static sections of the Machine closest to the entrance and we've established various base camps to help the Delvers with supplies, but most of the machine still remains uncharted territory.