But is there more to Captain Ahab’s obsession with the beast than a desire for vengeance? It’s rumored that he lost his leg to the beast years ago and that he’s now consumed by revenge.
Only it isn’t a life of luxury that Ishmael dreams of it’s a way to get his foster parents safely off the crumbling Earth before it’s too late.īut though easy prey abounds, time and again the chase boat crews are ordered to ignore it in order to pursue an elusive monster-a beast so enormous and deadly that few who’ve seen it have lived to tell the tale.
He’s there to work, risking his life to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth-and getting paid handsomely in exchange.
But Ishmael isn’t there to marvel at the fresh air, sunshine, and endless blue ocean. When seventeen-year-old Ishmael wakes up from stasis aboard the Pequod, he is amazed by how different this faraway planet is from the dirty, dying, Shroud-covered Earth he left behind.
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