Four years had passed since a massive asteroid collided with Earth and triggered an environmental disaster that obliterated nearly all forms of life. Monumental tsunamis demolished coastal cities worldwide, and a 3,600-mile-long fissure incessantly belched out sulfuric smoke that girdled Earth, enhancing and extending the asteroid-induced dust pall that caused a new ice age. In this forbidding world under an orange-tinged sky, small groups of humans managed to survive, as the first book in this trilogy, Ark: Asteroid Impact, describes. Amid crushed buildings buried in snow on the beaches of California, survivors at Halcyon pieced together the means to begin exploring the wounded world to see who else may remain. Other survivors they rescued included NORAD personnel marooned in Colorado. A Russian missile installation that intercepted their radio transmissions saw an opportunity to use thermonuclear weapons to assert world domination. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the canyons of the Central California coast rumbled and the sky erupted in a brilliant flash of light that jarred the American survivors from their sleep. But the younger Russians revolted, and repented?.