THE PEOPLE OF FORRS

From the Ashes The world is changing. Large numbers of people seem to be missing, and when the government attempts to find out why, they come across a plan by a group, led by a number of scientists and tradesmen, that has formed its own country—and plans to defect to a new planet named Forrs. But while the group departs and begins a new existence on the planet, Earth is riddled with disasters. Volcanoes, rising tides, and melting polar ice caps leave the planet on the brink of destruction. Everyone is welcomed to Forrs with open arms. But is the new beginning all it seems? The man on the rock walked around the surface of a boulder and studied the descending craft in the sky. He drew an odd-looking handgun from a gun belt and held it in readiness at his side. Dan set the ship at a distance from the man just a few feet in the air above the rock surface. The lower door of the craft opened. Dan stepped out onto the rock shelf and walked slowly across the distance toward the survivor.