Within all this despair, Stel keeps believing there is a better future and mankind can be saved. Even Stel’s son Marik turns out to be a bad seed, he’s a junkie cop that abuses prostitutes. Meanwhile, in the third underwater city the doomed population is entertained by gladiators fighting in the arena, while being controlled by their dictator Rolm. Being on the brink of dying of bad air, the Senate has resorted to a lifestyle full of debauchery and self-indulgency, waiting for the coming end. Rick Remender, scribe of titles such as Black Science, Deadly Class, Venom and Uncanny X-Force, gives us a bleak picture of humanity. In a few months the air in the city will be toxic because of being recycled too many times, and therefore all inhabitants are dead meat anyway, so they haven’t got a lot to lose. Determined she sets out to travel to the surface to reclaim the probe, taking her reluctant son with her on what is basically a suicide mission. When a probe returns from space and crashes on Earth’s surface, Stel is convinced it contains information about a inhabitable planet. Now, ten years later only Stel and her son are left. The pirates leave Johl for dead, steal the helm suit and kidnap the daughters, for only the Cain family’s DNA will activate the helm. Their leader is the infamous Rolm who has a personal score to settle with the Cains. When the family goes out in their ship so Johl can train his two daughters to become helmsmen as well, they are raided by a group of pirates. Stel’s husband Johl Cain is the last helmsman of the city of Salus. Except for Stel Caine, who believes there is a life-supporting planet out there. People have given up hope that one of the probes in outer space will ever find another place to stay. The sun’s premature expansion has irradiated Earth, and humanity has fled to the lowest depths of the seas, hiding within radiation-shielded cities.įor millennia mankind has been hiding in the cities with no hope of finding a new planet to inhabit. 1: The Delirium of Hope, the future of mankind seems bleak. If we can believe Rick Remender’s and Greg Tocchini’s Low, vol.
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