I Walked on Mars — Volume 2

I Walked on Mars — Volume 2

The Starship Endurance has landed on the plain of Arcadia Planitia. Ninety-eight days of transit. Fifteen humans per ship. Six Starships. A planet that had been waiting for them for three billion years.

David and Stella discover their new place of life. Before them are the beginnings of a semi-buried city: hexagonal cells, a biodome, pressurized airlocks, Optimus robots that have dug without rest for three years to prepare the ground.

First Martian year. Build. Survive the 6 millibars of the outside atmosphere, the –80 degree winter nights, the cosmic radiation striking through the void. Start the first Kilopower reactors. Cast the first ingot of Martian metal. Grow the first bread. Map the silence.

And learn to live together. When air, water and light depend on an iron-willed commander, a network of silent humanoids and a fragile chain of supplies from a planet three months away, the community becomes a foundation.

From Sol 1 to Sol 365 of Arcadia, the immersive and meticulous story of a colony taking root.

A realistic anticipation novel nourished by official sources, from NASA to SpaceX. Volume 2 of a quadrilogy.