num_pages: 400
description: Mars is supposed to be dead.Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to rollseemingly of their own volitioncarving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majestys Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man of modest beginnings doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus a frigate sailing the high seas between continentsand the immense Void between the Known Worlds.With the aid of his fierce captain a drug-addled alchemist and a servant girl with a remarkable past Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planetsthe consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System threatening the very fabric of space itself.
language: English
title: The Daedalus Incident
publisher: Night Shade