Earth is dying. The planet's resources are nearing exhaustion, all around the planet civilisation is disintegrating, and the only solution the Future Consortium can devise is to abandon Earth before it's too late. But designing and building a starship, the pinnacle of human technological evolution, is only the first, and perhaps least challenging, of the problems Project Exodus faces in trying to find a new home for humanity among the stars. What are the odds that life evolved on Earth over millions of years could fit into the ecology of any other planet? And what can the people aboard humanity's first, and last, star ships do when they discover that the universe really wasn't designed for Man?