- The Control Voice: Every child born is linked in a chain to generations past and future. But what happens when that chain is snapped?
After a chemical war leaves most of humanity sterile, the government attempts to capture a couple who manage to conceive.
- The Control Voice: Just as we inherited the Earth of our forefathers, we too will bequeath this world — so long as there are children to claim the inheritance.
Tropes:
- Childless Dystopia: A rain of some toxin causes people to become mostly sterile, resulting in this.
- Government Agency of Fiction: The Federal Reproductive Board.
- Sterility Plague: A chemical war has left most of humanity sterile. The rare women with viable pregnancies are sought out by the US government and confined to hospitals so the newborns can be seized as wards of the state.
