The Kapital continues to chase the elusive signals and sightings of sister ship the massive, with one or two digressions and adventures on the way. It begins to resemble a strange mix of Moby Dick, the Flying Dutchman and the Marie Celeste. Captain Callum Israel is also searching for a purpose and some sense of meaning to life and to Ninth Wave post-Collapse. Perhaps it's to be found in the ad-hoc collection of oil-rigs in the Indian Ocean, an independent autonomous, pacifist community with a dark secret. With a crew losing heart and The Massive distant phantom, the oceans burning and clogged with waste and debris, and with some bad news of his own, Israel is finding it harder to keep a grip on things.

A crisp, vivid tour through a collapsed world trying to reshape itself, asking the big questions about violence and activism and environmentalism through an increasingly interesting cast of characters. Epic.