When they bought this house, all those decades ago, there was nothing around for miles.

The Steen Peninsula is known planetwide for its unbelievable beauty, lushness, and wealth of resources. The issue is, the peninsula (and a good chunk of the landmass it's attached to) is located in what the government has named a magnitude 9.0 Meteorological Hazard zone. Extreme weather events occur at random, ranging in intensity from really bad to downright unsurvivable. It’s under these conditions that past settlers “mysteriously” disappeared, along with all remnants of their earthly existence—swept away in any number of directions, whether right out into the ocean or way up into the stratosphere, where nothing or no one would, or could, ever possibly find them. For decades, the island had only three occupants: a group of seasoned meteorologists living in a house they built and insulated using a newly-discovered extremely weatherproof material: “Element Steen,” an alloy which, ironically, only exists on this particular weather-wracked peninsula. So it was that during extreme weather events, the house stood unscathed, allowing the meteorologists to shelter themselves and their possessions from the natural disaster of the day. From hurricanes to tsunamis to actual proton storms, the house held firm. After a few months, passing government patrols began noticing the unusual persistence of this one house, eventually sending officials to investigate. After this, it didn’t take long for the government (and subsequently the general public) to discover Element Steen for themselves. In a matter of months, the population grew from <5 to over 6000: industrialists and enterprising civilians willing to brave the peninsula’s brutal conditions for the sake of exploiting the environment's wealth of valuable resources. Although the identities of the OG crew of meteorologists have gone undocumented, their house still stands as a bastion of their efforts. Unfortunately, the roof recently caved in after some sort of internal explosion, but NOT TO WORRY: a group of the peninsula’s devoted historical preservationist society is hard at work constructing a temporary Steen-powered force field in anticipation of tomorrow’s projected cataclysm. Experts say it’s gonna be a rough one.