Isolated in an institution for twenty years, Thomas Atwater has grown up away from the horrors of the Mutation Plague that swept the globe after the Final Transmission was sent. Now an adult, he makes his way into a strange new world inhabited by mutant communities, fanatical cults, and genetically engineered assassins.When he finds himself targeted, he is taken in by a mysterious woman - a humanoid salamander - who claims to be a bodyguard sent by a secret group which hopes to use his unique talents to initiate a plan that could change the world. In order to make the journey to the group, they must locate pieces of a missing technological puzzle, then trek across a deadly contaminated wasteland while avoiding human supremacists and the programmed mutant hunters sent by the all-powerful Ordex conglomerate. This special re-release contains two additional short stories set in the world and timeline of Assimilation Protocol.
