5 years ago, ordinary Americans sleepwalked to a secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that becomes one of the last outposts of civilization. The survivors have a dream of rebuilding human society. But they are not the only survivors, and the world they are building is fragile. The forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. who imagined the apocalypse. Against these threats, everyone has only one hope: one another.