Following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions “Dutch Boy”, a system of climate-controlling satellites. After it neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai, a US Senate subcommittee reprimands chief architect Jake Lawson, who brought Dutch Boy online without authorization. He is replaced by his brother Max, who works under US Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom. Three years later, a U.N. team stationed in the Registan Desert discovers a frozen village. Mahmoud Habib, an Indian engineer working on the International Climate Space Station, copies data from the satellite responsible for Afghanistan onto a hard drive before being killed in a supposed accident when window panels are blown off.