Robots are used to excavate Amalthea to provide more protection in a project that is run by mining and robotics engineer Dinah MacQuarie. The ISS is already bolted onto an iron Arjuna asteroid called Amalthea, which provides some protection against Moon debris. The Cloud Ark is to be based around the International Space Station (ISS), currently commanded by American astronaut Ivy Xiao. Each nation is invited to choose a group of young people, dubbed "Arkies," for training to join the Cloud Ark. The world's leaders decide to evacuate as many people and resources as possible to a "Cloud Ark" in orbit, including a swarm of "arklet" habitats that can avoid the debris from the Moon, both to attempt to preserve the human race and to prevent civil disorder from breaking out before the Hard Rain. A large number of Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides, causing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that the number of collisions will increase exponentially. At some unspecified date in the near future, an unknown agent causes the Moon to shatter into seven pieces.
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