In the near future, humanity has reached Mars. But the dream of exploration has fractured into four rival settlements — American, European, Chinese, and Russian. Built on old Earth alliances and resentments, they live under strict treaties that forbid cooperation.

Pyotr Sokolov is a walking contradiction—a chaotic genius wrapped in a slouchy hoodie, whose fingers dance across the keyboard faster than m

The story begins in the silence before chaos. Read the first scene from Icarus as the Vostok outpost faces its last sunrise.