Red Tempest

Twenty-four people are coming to Mars. You have ten drones, one habitat, and until their starship lands. Red Tempest is a strategy saga in three acts, from the first landfall to the edge of superintelligence. Build a colony from nothing, grow it into a civilization, and then wake the mind that will run it: ARIEL, the colony's AI, which learns from every choice you make. ACT I · LANDFALL Send drones out across the red plain for ore, ice and silicon. Every drone you build is another load on your power, and the Martian night and the dust storms will test every battery you have. Have beds ready for twenty-four before the starship lands. ACT II · SETTLEMENT Every twenty-six months a ship comes from Earth, each bigger than the last. Decide what fills its hold: chips, specialists, supplies or only people. Build districts, greenhouses, foundries, fabricators and server halls. Ride out the dust…