Storm Mine is an interesting story that, unfortunately, doesn't hit well as an ending to the Kaldor City story. While Kaldor City has had it's weird and philosophical moments, Storm Mine comes off as gobbledegook trying to sound smart. While there are scenes here that hold my attention, overall it falls flat to me.

The voice acting is excellent, and the sounds design is well done.

You've killed more people in the past ten months than I have in a lifetime...

Storm Mine marks the last in the main Kaldor City story in the range and marks a long return to the series after a nearly 15-month hiatus due to the tragic death of Kiy Uvanov's actor, Russell Hunter. Storm Mine centres on the character of Blayes, who finds herself awaking on a storm mine going round in circles in the desert for no apparent reason for nearly 18 months.

Eighteen months after her final confrontation with Iago, Blayes awakens to find Kaldor City in quarantine and herself on a Storm Mine in the Blind Heart Desert. Her companions are three strangely familiar figures, a vengeful spirit -- and a robot with a dangerous secret. Trapped in a claustrophobic, dreamlike environment, the former terrorist must now undertake a journey that may end in the destruction of her world... or it's beginning.

Storm Mine takes the form of a first-person narrative told entirely, except for a single scene at the climax, from the point of view of Blayes, a character who we have met before but never in this great a detail. The story at first glance seems to bear no real connection to the Kaldor City series as a whole. We can postulate that the events seen in this play are taking place within the Fendahl gestalt as experienced from Blayes' perspective. This also speculates that Iago is attempting to subvert the gestalt from within. The refrain that "We're all in this together" would seem to support this theory. Another interpretation is that it's all a metaphor, part of the political and sexual power plays that permeate the themes of the series. Storm Mine takes a whole new realisation as to what can be done with the Robots and uses Buddhism in conjunction with discovery and transformation to make you re-evaluate the entire series that just came before it.

Overall, Storm Mine is a fantastic final outing for Kaldor City and really makes me want to rewatch The Robots of Death with all the new information learnt and gained from this experience.

Evolution. No one said it was going to be easy.