The Project URS

In the year 2130, sixty-two years after the twin punches of world wars IV and V, humanity tasted peace once again. They struggled to rebuild while enduring radiation storms, famines, droughts, and a devastated atmosphere. They were toughened by the struggle, and, for a time, they survived.

But the cities never stopped burning. Radiation rode the smoke plumes into the stratosphere for years. Rads coated the farmlands. The rivers. The tundra. The oceans. Civilization retreated and retreated until there was nowhere to go but the underground.

The surface died.

Years went by. Mammoth machines carved tunnels under the remains of the old nations and a new era of humanity began, but it couldn’t last long. There was plenty of water, but not enough food or fuel for so many survivors. Life could not thrive in the darkness.

Humanity needed a miracle.

When the drilling machines punched through to existing chambers deep underground, scientists discovered an ancient technology that offered the hope they sought. The giant vaults were empty except for countless people-sized bore holes on the stone floors.

Who built them? Why were they there? When were they last used?

The dwindling number of survivors set forth to discover those secrets before their time ran out.