The Starters

In a Dark 26th Century when Earth is being decimated by a series of cataclysmic super storms, diminishing civil and economic solidity. Nations that were once in league have either collapsed or been wiped off the maps entirely. In due course, desolation of economic and geological resilience would lead to the transpiration of World War III. Regime War engineers introduced biological WMD's into the playing field, but it wasn't a flesh eating bacteria, or a catastrophic nuclear arm. It was the contrivance of a super soldier known as "Starters". These soldiers experienced expedient increases in pineal performance receiving 1 or more of an array of mental and physical super human abilities. With this biological breakthrough , the Regime ended the conflict and the affair of reconciliation could begin. With the hostility concluded the Starters operation was terminated. Yet, something went wrong. The effects of a once cellular operation had become viral, passing it on to any descendants of those exposed to the genetic modifications, and even infiltrating foreign bloodlines to ensure it's survival. Once again the globe was swept with terror. Any offspring concepted with this congenital inheritance were deemed "Subhuman". Violent precautions were taken to assure that any discovered with the abnormality were located and "expunged". (This novel will tell 4 parallel stories of a Mercenary , an Orphan displaced by war , a Serial Killer and a homocidal Military A.I. as Mankind's Darkest Hour untangles.)