Unification

The year is 2042 and humanity has finally found proof that life has existed elsewhere besides Earth. It has been six years since the discovery and the first human settlement, Ares Prospect-1, has gone silent. Its last transmission hurled across space in a frantic message with a single statement: stay alone; stay alive.

Microbiologist Sarah Hutson, Astroarcheologist Jonas Salk, and A.I. Specialist David Baltimore, along with the highly advanced A.I. personality, ANI, man the three-person reconnaissance and rescue mission to the dormant Ares Prospect-1 on Mars, and to reestablish communications, and to see what went wrong, all the while keeping their wildest dreams at bay.

"If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar." - Richard Feynman