Stopgap

In the near future, climate change has drastically affected the course of the world. Immigration has worsened, with many countries reacting negatively, their conservatives making large gains as a result. Economies actively plunge into hell, the average man has seen a massive decline in living standards. Resource scarcity has caused starvation, poor water quality, and access to electricity has become a privilege in nations where it was once available to most. The nations of the world seek a quick solution, the secret work of a group of scientists assembled by the Chinese, the best the southern hemisphere has to offer, has found a way to change this. Compiled research for significantly more efficient batteries, renewable energies, carbon capture, all the solutions that don’t require anyone to culturally change in a neat bundle, not released publicly so that they could capitalize on any systems produced as a result. But one man has snapped the chain, attempting a quick auction to sell this information, and he wants no governments involved. He wants to see it wasted on a corporation. The global superpowers would like to see this benefit themselves, to sell the technology that would save the world. None of them have been patented because they haven’t been able to reach China, the safe haven, where no foreign military might sneak in. This is because a defector has snapped the chain. He waits for NATO to save him. At the top of a skyscraper in sits the hard drive that holds this information. It’s been sitting while the two SIC nations organize the swap, but a tsunami has changed plans. It’s gotta move now, and disguised counter terrorist organizations of the northern world and mercenaries alike have been circling for this moment. The party represents an anomaly, three cops sent by an old ex-counter terrorist, disconnected from the governments of the world?