Mariner Twenty

When Roger Haines acquired the technology to send the first manned mission to Mars, the success of the Mariner Twenty landing was greeted with euphoria and relief in equal measure. For over fifty years the human race had sent a variety of probes, satellites and landers to the mysterious red planet of Mars.

It glows a tempting hue in the night sky, almost inviting us to reach out and explore it. However, during those decades only a small percentage of the technology had successfully fulfilled its mission; over half failed, resulting in not particularly favourable odds for humankind to physically set foot on our neighbour. Roger Haines defeated those statistics.

Whilst the world watched the mission unfold, hidden from their gaze a parallel priority was unfolding. The crew were unaware of what was being discovered back at Mission Control, and what they would eventually uncover on Mars would have drastic consequences for the future of the human race. Nobody would have predicted that history would dictate the future...