Before the world ended, facilities were created to house its citizens and preserve the future of humanity. The brainchild of billionaire Levin Nevsky, he saw the inevitable path to our destruction and with his global corporation TRICOR, built underground structures called Human Preservation Communities to house the best and the brightest. But it came with a price. Once society had broken down it was easy for him to adopt the role of leader and years as a cutthroat businessman bred him to be a tyrannical despot. Deep within the bowels of the HPC, teams of scientists work to figure out a way to reclaim the Earth. The culmination of years of development, Nikko is their masterpiece. A genetically advanced human, he is endowed with abilities that not only allow him to survive on the radiation polluted surface but also with enhanced physical and mental capacities.