The New Martian: Abandoned on the Red Planet

He thought he was part of the mission.

Now he knows, he was the mission.



Eren signed up to deploy a drone. Nothing more. A straightforward orbital drop, in and out. But when the ship crashes on Mars , a planet humanity still claims is uninhabitable, everything spirals into chaos.



A deadly sandstorm rises. Communications die. The crew panics. And when a mysterious machine falls from the wreckage, Eren rushes toward it, believing it’s their only shot at survival.



Then the launch sequence starts.

And the ship takes off without him.



Left choking in the thin Martian air, Eren watches the two crewmates he trusted disappear into the sky — without hesitation, without a second glance. In that moment, the truth hits:

They didn’t forget him. They sacrificed him.



But Mars isn’t empty.

And death isn’t what finds him.



Dragged from the dust by the K’tharis, an advanced alien race living in the shadows of a forgotten world, Eren begins to unravel a conspiracy buried deeper than the Martian crust. The mission wasn’t about data. It wasn’t about exploration. It was about him. He was the variable. The test subject. The bait.



Now Eren holds knowledge no human has ever touched.

And he’s no longer the man they left behind.



He’s the weapon Mars created.

And he's not coming back quietly.