In the year 40XX, the entire planet is submerged. The Company controls virtually all territory and all food. Noncompliance means starvation. A fringe group still believes in the Cycene — a mythical relic said to have once ended world hunger. You are an Auger, a Company fixer, assigned to investigate a structure called The Basin. Does it hold the Cycene? Is The Company looking for it too? Does someone like you even care?