In the 23rd Century, Griff Markham is a security officer on board the overcrowded interstellar colony ship ISS Atlas II. The Atlas II has been traveling through space for 200 years and Earth is nothing but a legend to those living on the ship. A powerful new drug called Krysalis sweeps through the vessel, threatening to destroy the fragile balance of power between the passengers, the corporations, and the ship's commander. Griff is swept up in the mounting turmoil as he searches for the drug's elusive creator, Tanner Burgos, and discovers that Krysalis is merely a means to an end -- a way to activate a secret doomsday protocol known as the Tartarus Directive.