In 1997 a Toronto hacker is conscripted into a project in a Norwegian fjord. The project is older than the fjord. Older than his country. Older than the Ice Age. The machine inside it decides who gets to touch it — and seven people who have already been decided on have agreed that humanity has run its course.
A nineteen-year-old hacker is flown to a fjord in the Norwegian arctic to work on a building that cannot exist. The UN does not understand it. The Americans are pretending to. The machine inside it has been waiting 666,931 years for somebody exactly like him. What it decides about Steven Mitchell is the beginning of a story that takes the rest of the series to finish.
Twenty years after the Facility closed around him, Steven Mitchell runs a Geneva company designed to notice the people still looking for him. Somebody is. Somebody always is. A plane goes down over the English Channel. A priest vanishes in Manila. And seven immortals in a place nobody has found yet agree that humanity has run its course.
Discovered 1997, in a fjord. The oldest studied Station. Known in-universe simply as "The Facility." Where the series begins.
Canadian Arctic, near Alert. Home to roughly four thousand immortals. Operational, unofficially, for centuries.
The civilisation that built the Stations and disappeared. Their memory composite — Sordana — still guards the Core.
Seven Core-level immortals who have decided humanity needs culling. They are the antagonists. And they might be right.
Dispatches from the Archive — release dates, new dossiers, the occasional warning.