Outworld

In the future, Climate Change is no longer a theory.

It has been a thousand years since the climate of the Earth changed. Now the average high temperature is 120 degrees Fahrenheit with some days reaching 130 or more. Rain rarely reaches the parched ground, evaporating instead in the thermal barriers encasing much of the land and returning to the clouds.

On the wind-swept tall grass prairie of what was once known as the Great Plains, two communities, the descendants of survivors from the time before the change, live in relative isolation from one another with only sporadic, but often violent, contact over the centuries.

The Dome, a protective, insulating bubble perched upon the prairie, holds the last of the society of the "Before Time." A corporate culture, the Dome is governed by a Board of Directors who directs the work of associates who perform the day-to-day tasks of maintaining the structure against the heat, wind and drought of the "Outworld." Chief...