On Mars, a vast technocratic city known as Eridania sprawls across the terraformed Maʼadim Vallis outflow channel. Guarded by artificially intelligent sky machines and a super soldier known as Alpha X, the custodians of this society rest assured that their dominion is secure.
Little do they know that deep in the void of space, in Messier 105, a calculated alien intelligence has received a signal detailing their ill gained scientific progression.