In 2011, with freedom of movement across the oceans already prevented by the co-ordinated action of group intelligence in mutating jellyfish, mankind soon faced expulsion from landmasses when the development of ultrasound technology backfired spectacularly.

Jellyfish Apocalypse
Rise of the Spineless MenaceFor the past decade, the rise of the spineless menace had been relentless.

• 1999 ~ Forty million people abruptly lost power on the Philippine island of Luzon when fifty dump trucks' worth were sucked into the cooling pipes of a coal-fired power plant
• 2006 ~ partially disabled the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan
• 2007 ~ stung and asphyxiated more than one hundred thousand farmed salmon off the coast of Ireland
• 2010 ~ capsized and sank a ten-ton fishing trawler off the coast of Japan

However it was only in early 2011 that a maritime problem that was seen as a nuisance quickly escalated into a species survival threatening disaster of epic proportions. To be continued