Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Civilizations

A group of high-school teenagers in Toronto are living out their ordinary lives when a secret organization recruits them. Unclear of what they have got themselves into, they start fiddling with the deceptively advanced technology at their disposal. With time, they gradually realize how far back in time the story of these genetic tools go. They unanimously stumble upon an old underground archaeological site and meet Rancer, a dazed individual who shows strong signs of association with the Antaracians - a parallel race of humans who live permanently underground and are blissfully unaware of all other 'Extraracian' people living above. One and half centuries later, remains of an extinct alien species are discovered on an asteroid near the outer edge of the solar system, the text describing something terrible that had resurfaced lately. Yet another alien species lands on Earth as refugees, and only a small lineage of people knows about the clandestine events that had happened before. In a world that has just recovered from a worldwide depression, Carl and Sum team up with various Antaracian nations at war, the organization Vaeglt along with a score of intelligent alien species to plan revenge against the destroyer of them all...