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(W) Matt Kindt (A) Clayton Crain, David Mack (CA) Clayton Crain. The most ambitious comics event of 2016 brings war to the 41st century - with Rai leading the charge! One hundred years from today* Father - the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan - will gain sentience. To defend its borders* Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space...where its people will thrive in isolation* away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries* as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world* it will become a model society - one built on peace* prosperity... and Father's control. A thousand years from today* Father will create the first Rai* founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future* the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan's justice well...and serve Father without question. Now*