Mission Override

The Mission was a triumph. The discovery is a death sentence.

In 2035, the Arcadia-1 reached the red dust of the Northern Lowlands. It was meant to be

a year of discovery, but deep within the Martian Crypts, Commander Jeff Hammond and

his crew breached a silence that had lasted for millennia. They didn't find life—they found

an ancient architecture of data. The Cypher.

The 4.2-terabyte secret claimed the life of a crewmate and triggered a desperate,

unauthorized emergency override. It was a discovery that changed the crew forever, but

it's a secret the Agency wants for itself.

Now, the four survivors are trapped in a high-tech containment ward, isolated by a

government desperate to seize the Martian data. To Director Sarah Miller, the crew are

merely biological hazards—liabilities to be scrubbed. To the survivors, they are the

guardians of a truth that predates humanity.

The Agency has the power. The crew has the encryption. But Martha Lawson has a secret

of her own, hidden in plain sight. In the cold silence of the isolation ward, the mission

hasn't ended—it has just reached its most dangerous phase.