As Earth’s capability to support human life begins to decrease at an alarming rate, the Global Space Agency is formed with an individual mandate: protect humanity from extinction by colonizing the solar system as fast as possible. Venus, becoming nearly the same mass as Globe, is selected over Mars as humanity’s first permanent steppingstone in to the universe.

Arik Ockley is part of the first generation to be born and raised off-Earth. After a puzzling accident, Arik wakes up to find that his wife is nearly three months pregnant. Since the colony’s environmental systems cannot properly support any raises in human population, Arik instantly resumes his focus on AP, or artificial photosynthesis, to conserve the life of his unborn child. Arik’s new and frantic research uncovers startling truths about the planet and about the distorted fact the founders of the colony possess built for Arik’s entire era. Everything Arik has ever known is called into issue, and he must find out your path for himself, his wife, and his unborn daughter.