It's 2025 and the worst-case climate disaster has come true. What no one expected to happen before the second half of the century is happening now. Storms, droughts, wildfires, crop failures, famine, and social unrest on an unprecedented scale have come swiftly following an additional one-degree rise in global temperature. Economic collapse that affects the US, Russia, China, and the world's other largest economies equally is already in the rearview mirror. Many nations large and small, simply overwhelmed, are on the verge of becoming failed states. The formation of a World Governments Federation is proposed and accepted. They all know that this is a threat they cannot survive alone.

But what if this sudden acceleration of climate change is driven by something other than humanity or nature? What if there is another intelligence behind it, an intelligence older than we can imagine, and ten thousand of her emissaries are among us working on her behalf?