Set it in a grimdark postapocalyptic future. Nearly the entire male population of earth has been wiped out by a virus which infects cells containing a Y chromosome, with the rare exception of men who are immune. Gangs of renegade women wander the earth, searching for means to survive and new beginnings. Among these is our pirate crew which commands a stolen Russian nuclear icebreaker.
With the ship, they search for a legendary research base in the arctic sea on which allegedly successful ectogenesis experiments (breeding humans in Huxley-style bottles) have been carried out.
Crewmembers are:
- Captain Alex, who dreams of becoming the emperess of a European empire in the spirit of Napoleon Bonaparte, using ectogenesis to breed billions of subjects and loyal soldiers.
- Atea, a human-rat-hybrid who is a spy from the underground rat empire.
- Sam, a young man who grew up in an orphanage in Novosibirsk and cannot remember anything else from his past. He survived the apocalypse by hiding in an underground ICBM command complex until the male-killing disease died down. It is suspected that he was in fact created in one of the ectogenesis experiments on the research base. Alex hopes he might be of some help finding it.
- Talus, a "biotoy" which was created by a multinational corporation before the apocalypse. He was the prototype of a line of biologically bread toy-creatures, but turned out to be too aggressive and psychopathic to be marketable. He escaped the laboratory when they wanted to kill him, blowing up the compound in the process.
- Uncle Peggy, a paraplegic ex-Marine who is one of the few immune males. He gets PTSD from water vapor because he was once tortured using the Chinese water droplet method.
