Adam is an machine built for combat and defense and equipped with an artifical intelligence. He was deployed to New York City during World War 3 and was taken offline during a nuclear explosion.

Human society was segmented after the war, split off into tribes. They reject technology and have returned to a much more rural and basic agricultural life without all the machinery. Any people who take interest in technology are cast out to become scavengers or raiders.

You take the role of one such human who has been kicked out of their tribe. Whether as a raider or scavenger, you were exploring the ruined great city. You were spotted by opposing raiders and in an attempt to evade them found yourself in front of Adam, a massive machine of war. As the raiders approach your location you spot a power override switch on the back of a massive robots neck and you press it, awakening the machine for the first time in centuries.