It's only 2049. Scientists were off; climate deniers were wrong, and Mother Earth was pissed. Scientists miscalculated how extreme climate change was and in 2029, every volcano — from La Fortuna and Marsili to Yellowstone — erupted across the globe. Everyone suffered and Earth was now a desolate landscape stippled with precarious crab-pot cities brimming with survivors.
​
Over the next 20 years, those same scientists streamlined their doomsday experiments. The darkness killed off almost 80% of the population and flora and fauna, but it didn't kill the spirit of the Human Race - there were new ways of living.
Although only a known 1 billion people remained, as Humans do, they adapted. However, there was no way to naturally absorb the photic processes needed to live a healthy, happy life. Their bones crumbled, their teeth fell from their faces, and almost everyone was bald.
​
Initially, tanning beds fostered some benefits but were looted and sold for millions, leaving most without the D their bodies needed to flourish. However, with the expansion of nano-technology and lipophilic molecule vitamin-infused light, a glimpse of hope grew -- but there was an even darker cost.