Mars. What should have been a routine patrol has ended with a Ranger flyer wrecked in a dust storm—20 klicks inside the Quarantine Zone.
With your fellow rangers stranded inside the Zone, your station was preparing to deploy a search team to their last known position, but someone high up in government has had other ideas. Rumour is the patrol officers saw something they shouldn’t have, and now you have been ordered to leave your comrades to their fate.
But fate seem to be favouring you. The dust storm is preventing the Consortium tasking an orbiting kill-sat to target and drop a tungsten rod on the crash site. There is a window of opportunity.
Can your team reach the downed Rangers in time—get them the hell out of there while their cortical stacks are still intact and perhaps learn what they saw?