Millions of years ago a council met, to decide the fate of their entire race, shrouded as to obscure their identity they made a decision. To sleep.
Aeons later.
A research team in Antarctica are desperately trying to gather the last samples before the weather becomes impossible to work in. Their drilling for ice cores goes further than anyone before. Hurrying back to shelter they know not of what they broke open, and the fate they had sealed for themselves.