Red Shift: Spectrum

The barriers between Government and Industry have always been weak, lines of morality are blurred as one attempts to influence the other. It is not a concept that has been born within the pages of fiction, it is a daily occurrence in the world we now live. Most people have become complacent because they feel the core purpose of the antagonists is for personal wealth and fame. But, this is not always the case; when a cause becomes more than a selfish means to gain wealth, when a cause is guided by a vision that transcends generations, and when a cause seeks to change the very fabric of what we know as humanity, wealth and fame are but a means to and ends.

Jack Prince knew a lot about ends. He had spent the best part of the last decade trying to find the end of every bottle of whiskey he could get his hands on. His life had lost purpose, the one-time tactical specialist had lost his military stripes at the same time he lost his wife, and shortly after that, his daughter. It wasn’t until he was set up by an Alpha that he found a new cause. He had decided he was no longer going to let others dictate his destiny, that it was time to take his life back, and deal out a little street justice in the process.

It had only been a matter of months since Jack, Blake, Cindy, and Ping collectively brought down one of the most influential Alphas in the region. Since then, however, the team seemed to have more to manage than ever before. Jack knew they were a disparate crew of misfits, with their back to the wall more often than not. There was much they didn’t know, but they were determined to take a stand; waiting for the Government to act was never an option. The law-makers had become impotent figure-heads, allowing the Alphas to do as they pleased, regardless of the consequence to the people.

Everywhere they looked, the corruption of the elite Alphas stamped its mark. Arisen from the commercial battleground of the early 21st Century, the Alphas were a secretive group that controlled most of the industrial and commercial activity in the region. With the decline of most countries and governments around the world, there were only a few places that any substantial industrial development. The Alphas controlled this exclusively.

In a sequel as fast-paced as the original story, Red Shift: Spectrum takes you back to what will be left of Sydney in a hundred years. As relationships are tested and new ones forged, knowing who to trust and what to believe becomes more important than ever. The struggle to keep ahead of technology clashes with the struggle to dominate the streets, as Clans fight for the privilege to work for the Alphas, an ever increasing amount of technology has moved across the table.
Now Jack, Blake, Cindy, and Ping have to decide if they can play the game, or try to change the rules. They may have unlocked the key to Biotronics technology, but they weren’t the only ones, and they all knew the consequences of the technology getting into the wrong hands. Not only were they trying to stop the Alphas and their diabolical plan, whatever it was, they also had to play cat and mouse with Osiris and the Feds, who hadn’t let them off the hook for their past indiscretions.

Being on the outside, renegades, outlaws, however you wanted to put it, had its advantages, but they all knew they had limitations too. These were about to get tested. As the team enter a new phase of their ongoing fight, the truth of the situation was about to become apparent; the more they discovered, the less they knew.