When climate change and resource scarcity collide, will humanity survive? A group of British scientists stumble upon a solution, but with it comes a dilemma.
In 2039 a US led coalition reluctantly engages in another military intervention, only this time old enemies lie in wait. Britain, a long time in decline, is defeated in battle and soon finds herself isolated as adversaries and former allies alike wait to pick over the carcass.
Energy rationing and forced labour camps brought about by a military coup turns Britain into a pariah state, but in a twist of fate the outcast island nation finds herself spectator to a world ripped apart by extreme climate events and resource wars gone nuclear. Meanwhile, a group of young British scientists, with help from an unlikely source, propose a radical solution to global resource and environmental threats.
Time after time, the inheritors of the protocol finally see it realised, only to make a shocking discovery, which carries with it a dilemma. A dilemma so momentous, so fundamental to mankind’s place in the universe, and so carefully balanced between two equally divergent outcomes that whatever decision the inheritors make, it will fundamentally alter the destiny of the human race forever.