Society has four classes: People, Evermores, Middlemore and Burners. The latter die at a median of 25. Therefore they "burn" their candle at both ends. Of course, they have the promise of 30 days of 'heaven'. But nothing is as it seems.

1. During the Chaos, which destroyed
most of the world, a virus of unknown
origin, the Phage, spread rapidly,
killing the vast majority of the
population except for a small group,
which would become known as the
People.

2. During the Chaos,
in order to survive,
Mankind
surrendered
control to Dealer, a
powerful computer
that has now kept
society running for
centuries.

3. Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

4. In PRIME, a Cyborg
and female twins try
to discover the truth
about what caused
Chaos, where the
Phage came from,
and what exactly is
the Spice of life.

5. Many desire to live
longer. That was
Before Dealer (B.D.)
After Dealer (A.D.)
that wish came true
for 1% of the
population. Everyone
else? They paid the
price with their life
spans.

6. 98.7% of the
population are
burners, dying at an
average median of
25, doing the work to
keep society going.
They are promised
Heaven for 30 days
before Deathday.

7. But Heaven isn’t
exactly the promised
land. Things are not
as they should be
and the only thing
that can restore the
world to the proper
live span balance is
PRIME, twins, Millay
and Grace, born to
different lifespans,
something that
should be
impossible.

8. But who are they and
how can they reverse
the effects of the
Phage on all of
society?
Only one man holds
the answers, Ryker.
But he can’t
remember. The only
way to unlock his
brain is to find the
keys he has hidden,
but first they all must
know what happened
Before Dealer (B.D.)

9. B.D., in our present,
Michael, one of the
richest men in the
world, believes he
can grant himself the
elusive wish of living
longer.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats

10. But in order to do so,
he first must find
records from the
infamous Unit 731, of
the Japanese Army,
where horrific
atrocities were
inflicted, and more
importantly,
something very
strange is
discovered.
“The darkness drops again.”
William Butler Yeats

11. B.D. After the
Second World War,
the results of those
experiments are
secreted in Area 51.
They don’t stay
there.

12. B.D. For the next
step to living longer,
Michael uses his
brother Ryker, to
develop the world’s
most powerful
computer, Dealer.
They succeed, but at
what price? And what
will Ryker do when
he finds out the truth
about what he helped
his brother create?

13. A.D. During the
Chaos, Ryker
becomes aware of
his brother’s
intentions and they
fight. Ryker is
mortally wounded,
but manages to stab
his brother with the
knife their father
bequethed.

14. Michael, in order to survive
and secure his plan, uploads
his consciousness into Dealer.
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
William Butler Yeats

15. Ryker, in order to survive, had his
brain harvested and he became a
cyborg, but not before he set a
“Backdoor” inside Dealer. He
secures the code to the backdoor
via a Prime, but the twins must be
together to reveal the Prime.

16. It is now over three hundred years since the
Phage and the Chaos.
The perfect society, developed by Dealer, is
beginning to deteriorate. burners are
questioning and even revolting against Dealer
as some learn that on board a remnant from
Before Dealer, the USS John F. Kennedy
super-carrier, that something is being done to
burners on their Deathday.
Something very bad.

17. The only hope to shut down Dealer permanently
is for Ryker to unite Prime, Grace and Millay,
and use the Backdoor before his brother Michael
does.

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