Due to the raging corporate greed of a future planet Earth, the land's resources have been usurped and used until nothing left remains. Most of the planet is now a scorching hot wasteland. The Survivors have moved to high-tech bunkers underground as to not get burned to a crisp, yet it is still difficult to live below.
Dr. Robert Hall, a bright yet blunt scientist/inventor has created the crowning jewel of his inventions: a robot that can convert martian soil into breathable air on Mars! With the help of his brilliant assistant, Dr. Katherine Leblanc, his long-time friend Podder Siedov and his robot companion RASPA, he is ready to take the remaining human population to space.
The Earth is dying, yet humanity survives. Pollution and radiation run rampant on the surface. The government rations food and clean air for everyone. The glass domes provide some sense of security, but they are only for the rich who can afford the astronomical price of providing precious clean air to a whole city.
Nym and her family live outside the dome when the disease breaks out. Spreading through the Minor City Shelter and then to Shelter's around other cities, nothing seems capable of stopping it. People are going mad and dying off like flies. There's no cure they can find. They only know one thing.
Their last precious resource is going to be the death of them.
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