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The yr is 2144...and the conflict over Earth's beneficial assets has raged for a century. With worldwide economies in ruins and all-out international warfare greater than conceivable, the U.S executive became to the Union Aerospace company, giving it carte blanche at the mythical crimson planet of Mars in a determined bid to build an off-world outpost that will offer assets, an army advantage...as good as whatever so mystery that even contributors of presidency don't have a clue approximately it....
Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane used to be a careerist easily happy to have a task, and couldn't care much less approximately politics simply so long as Uncle Sam's cost cleared. yet that was once ahead of he listened to his moral sense and disobeyed an instantaneous order. Busted all the way down to deepest, Kane has been reassigned to the "U.S. house Marines" -- the non-public military of the UAC -- with the possibility of turning into little greater than a glorified protection protect on Mars....
Now Lt. Kane's destiny leads him to Mars urban -- half environmental neighborhood, half lab heart, and all owned and guarded through the UAC. It's an odd international with a deadly surroundings, and the millions who stay and paintings in the urban have already began to consider themselves as Martians. And clear of Mars urban, on the unusual old websites exposed on this planet, a small squad of marines stand safeguard whereas scientists discover wall glyphs and look for artifacts, having already stumbled on whatever that's to date extraordinary and inexplicable -- together with the relic referred to as "U1," nicknamed "the Soul Cube" -- and unknown to all, the bringer of harmful chaos and unspeakable horror...
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