New World

The basic premise is that humans are essentially flawed and incapable of entering into the full spectrum of what the universe really has to offer. The human race basically has no idea of what is out there in the universe, and they do not realize how insignificant they are in the big picture. Human nature blinds us from the truth of the universe because of our need to know, understand and explain everything, more importantly to control it! Religionists on Earth for the most part speculate on one beginning and one end. The Evolutionists of Earth have another beginning and ending philosophy. •
The real story is that we are merely a test. A simple experiment in a long line of experiments that have spawned myriad species that have been entered into the full consciousness of the universe. The big difference is that some humans are broken. Our human nature is flawed, and we are incapable of fixing what is wrong with us without taking away free will. Evolution as we know it is not possible for the vast majority and has stalled for all. We have reached the full limit of what is available to us without changing our inherent nature.
The universe has set an amount of time to allow for any possible fix. That time has come and gone and the universe has decided to end the experiment. This is solely because of human nature. This planet has been utilized as a breeding ground for many new life forms in the past. We should be "ripe and ready" for inclusion into the universe however our human nature has not allowed us to proceed.

The universe is completely free of human nature's most destructive elements. Greed, vengeance, lust, hatred etc. etc. simply do not exist in the universe and cannot be allowed to infect the universal society as a whole. Human nature being generally destructive and uncontrollable would infect the universe like a rogue plague or virus and destroy in short order millions and millions of Earth years of positive, peace filled and exponential growth.

Book Two picks up with the selected humans who can overcome human nature and they meet up with a group of miners who had been trapped miles underground while the Earth as they knew was cleansed and the selected humans reintroduced to the planet. This creates some drama and difficulty for the group and the Universe. They allow for the experiment to continue but this awakens a deeper truth in the Universe which threatens to undermine the stability that had been in place in the Universe as a whole for Millennia.