By Matthew Costello
The yr is 2144...and the conflict over Earth's necessary assets has raged for a century. With international economies in ruins and all-out international warfare greater than plausible, the U.S executive grew to become to the Union Aerospace company, giving it carte blanche at the mythical pink planet of Mars in a determined bid to build an off-world outpost that would offer assets, an army advantage...as good as whatever so mystery that even individuals of presidency don't have a clue approximately it....
Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane was a careerist easily happy to have a task, and couldn't care much less approximately politics simply so long as Uncle Sam's fee cleared. yet that used to be earlier than he listened to his sense of right and wrong and disobeyed an instantaneous order. Busted all the way down to deepest, Kane has been reassigned to the "U.S. area Marines" -- the personal military of the UAC -- with the chance of turning into little greater than a glorified protection safeguard on Mars....
Now Lt. Kane's destiny leads him to Mars urban -- half environmental group, half lab middle, and all owned and guarded by means of the UAC. It's a wierd global with a deadly atmosphere, and the millions who reside and paintings in the urban have already all started to think about themselves as Martians. And clear of Mars urban, on the unusual historical websites exposed on this planet, a small squad of marines stand safeguard whereas scientists discover wall glyphs and look for artifacts, having already chanced on whatever that's up to now notable and inexplicable -- together with the relic known as "U1," nicknamed "the Soul Cube" -- and unknown to all, the bringer of damaging chaos and unspeakable horror...