Faces of Janus
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In the last decades of the twenty-first century, the wealthiest, most powerful families on Earth choose to escape the increasingly failing planet by constructing ten vast ships that would ferry mankind to colonize Mars.
But it was not the whole truth.
Piecing together leaked and stolen information, a handful of people learn the truth and seek to become a part of humanity's greatest adventure.
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