With Earth's ever growing population reaching an interminable tipping point on its exponential trajectory towards a runaway explosion, one group of scientists forced out of retirement believe they have an answer.
Working in secret in an underground bunker in Alaska, team SPACE-MARINE rushes to finish what Project Orion started and launch mankind's only viable last ditch attempt at colonising the stars: refitted, discarded World War II submarines.
One man's journey from the slums of New York to save his family's future becomes a race against time and the laws of physics - and what if the Russians launch theirs first?