ArdenLynn_1980
When Dr. Mara Kepler steps aboard Weyland-Yutani's orbital research station Acheron-Theta, she believes she's walking into the future she's always dreamed of-one where science makes humanity stronger, safer, and capable of surviving the harshest worlds. But behind the polished laboratories and pristine corridors lies a truth even her optimism can't mask for long.
Assigned to study Z-01, a mutagenic compound extracted from xenomorph-linked pathogens and once nicknamed Prometheus Fire, Mara becomes part of a breakthrough that promises to reshape human physiology forever.
Until the Company demands the unthinkable: human trials. When the experiment spirals into a nightmare-birthing a hybrid creature with the instincts of a xenomorph and the fury of a cornered human-Acheron-Theta descends into chaos. Locked inside a failing space station, surrounded by corporate lies and acid-scarred metal, Mara must confront the horrific consequences of her own work.
With only Rook-7, a synthetic navigating the boundaries of programmed loyalty and emerging conscience, Mara must choose:
obey the Company, or survive the monster they forced her to create.
In the darkness between Alien: Romulus and Aliens, Mara Kepler learns that evolution always comes with a price-and that sometimes the most dangerous creature in space is the one holding the patent