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Synopsis:
The Inner World was built to protect us. In a world that was suddenly overrun with disease and famine, a world whose own air had become poisonous. It was what had been needed. The solution to the world's problems.
Every detail had been carefully thought out. Air was carefully uncontaminated and our diets were filled with vitamins and nutritional supplements.
It worked. Disease was rare in the Inner World and practically unheard of in the very center of it, the community which was dubbed the Upper World. Air and water were clean and usable and breathable.
To anyone looking from the outside in, the Inner World was paradise.
Maybe it was.
The only problem was the Inner World had never been meant to last forever.
In fact, the Inner World, built on top of the fallen City of New York would never hold more that 12 million people.There wasn't enough space and our resources wouldn't last an eternity.As babies were born and the elderly lived longer, our numbers slowly inched their way to our limit.
We needed another solution. Thankfully that had already been thought out, and had been for years the main goal. Our ancestors had looked toward space. Another planet.
But getting there wouldn't be easy.
With a plan that involves a collection of families that occasionally like each other and a ship that will destroy the Inner World as it departs, there a million things that could go wrong