Mission Override

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.