Prologue: ( 2100 to 2125 ) Earth was in the midst of wars with the remnants of nexus. The climate changes that came about were a bigger threat to humanity than nexus ever was... and they were getting worse by the year... Earth was dying and in some areas already dead. The Project had received a coded burst transmission, that did not originate from earth... subsequent transmissions, in most cases scrambled by interference, appeared to come from a source in the general vicinity of Mars... World leaders decided to investigate the feasibility of traveling to mars with available technology ( hyper transport ) to establish a base with forward thought to eventually colonize that planet. Of the 6 transports sent only 4 reached their destination, ( the whereabouts of the 2 ships that did not arrive