On his 17th birthday, Thunder discovers his parents aren't really his parents at all - in fact they're not even real people but automatons tasked with his care by his true father - the mad, time-traveling geneticist, Dr. M. T. Hart. And he's not the heartless Dr. Hart's only child - he also has "siblings." A family of hollow gods with incredible yet flawed powers created by Hart from a genetic jumble of geniuses, mystics, and saints from the past. In his mad desire to create the perfect being, Hart throws his creations into The Sequencing. Lose the game and you may be wiped clean - stripped...