SCI-FI/PARANORMAL:  Two microbiologists in the icy southern regions of the globe have been babysitting two mysteriously mutated colonies of archaea, the earth’s oldest living organism. When one colony begins attacking members of Base McMurdo, Antarctica, Dr. Bryn McMichaels decides to bring his colony over from South Georgia Island to compare. On the transport ship he meets Kayna Quan, a Chinese/Irish American M.D. on her way to the base for a one-year stint.