Colton Blake has to kill his soulmate. Cyra Johnson, a 16-year-old, has to rule 2.5 billion people. It's 2084, and Earth has been rendered inhabitable. All of the current generation has been launched on a spaceship; 2.5 billion children now await their arrival to neighboring planet Eden 4 in stasis sleep. In order to keep the childrens' minds stimulated and prepared to run society when they arrive on Eden 4, however, their minds have all been interconnected in an eighty-year-long virtual reality game known as 'Unity' where they learn how to run society and work together. However, there's something they don't know: Eden 4 is three times smaller than Earth, which will surely result in soaring over-population catastrophes, and when programming this evacuation, the adults were willing to trash all ethics in order to ensure the survival of their kind...