Once, they were The Authority - living high above Earth aboard the fifty-mile-wide alien vessel known as The Carrier - guardians of Earth, the multiverse, and everything! But they failed. The 'Number of the Beast' project - countless hordes of superhuman clones - came to fruition, and the Earth was laid waste. Now, with the carrier crashed into London, Hawksmoor and the Engineer powerless, Apollo forced to live outside the Earth's clouded, toxic atmosphere and an army of refugees to feed, how will the Authority adapt? Writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning ("Guardians of the Galaxy"), with artist Simon Coleby ("2000 AD"), take comics' most controversial characters to a dark new world.