The asteroid Apophis has annihilated Earth, and only a small percentage of humanity's best and brightest have been saved. After hundreds of years below ground in life-sustaining Arks, Lieutenant Nick Raine emerges into the world. His mission as with the other chosen, is to restore civilization to the devastated world. With only his combat training and survival instincts, can Raine overcome the primitive new society and the would-be-tyrant trying to impose his will on the planet?