Prologue: Down Under - 2000AD prog 589

Sydney, Australia: December 31, 1987: Ruby is having lunch with Lux and Spook in a parallel universe. They chat about various things - about Spook not having seemed to age in the last twenty years, about Zenith’s reliability in the coming war, about Peter’s distrust of them since their disagreement about ‘The Plan’ in the sixties, and about the coming Alignment of the Omihedron. They visit the circus, where they watch dinosaurs being hunted by men with big guns - Lux sees it as a metaphor for ‘the plan’: “If we survive the Alignment, 1990’s going to be a red letter year in the diary of evolution... Ring out the old...and ring in the new.”