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After two hundred and fifty years of conceptualising, designing, building ... and scheming, the largest man-made structure (excluding craters) ever constructed was launched. But this was no ordinary Ship. This was the saviour of mankind; she was an Ark. She contained the pristine genetic material of every life-form that had managed to survive the cross-hairs and epicurean menus long enough to be sampled. Her destination, if it actually existed when she finally arrived there, was thousands of light years away but that was fine because she was under the command of a sentient brain that rarely...

Two hundred and fifty years ago the planet Earth was in trouble. Everything that could be dug up had either been burned as fuel, turned into novelty key-rings or eaten ... at least once. All this could mean only one thing; it was time to move on. What was needed was a ship. But this was to be no ordinary Ship; this was to be the saviour of mankind. As such it had to have the backing and cooperation of everyone on the planet. It was therefore doomed from day-one. It's the job of The Chairman to steer a course through the figurative minefields to the point where the Ship is launched, but also...