The Crimson Tide swallowed the stars, but humanity refused to become specimens.
So the judge donned his elder brother’s coat and used the law to pass sentence on a dying civilization; the blasphemer gripped his longsword and collected the blood debt on behalf of the believers he had once mocked. A scientist forged himself into a bridge to the gods, while an engineer tied a young girl’s hair into a ponytail amid the ruins. A frozen warrior awoke from an iron coffin, and deep in a bamboo grove, an amnesiac leader secretly kept a piece of his homeland’s moonlight for his mecha and his beloved.
Beneath Mars’s steel dome, two hundred thousand people farmed, calculated, argued, and prayed. Some burned away their humanity to wield divine power; some forged love into rings; and some set their mad genes to verse. This is no heroic epic. On the frontier at the edge of a precipice, an entire civilization struggles to save itself beneath the flames and moonlight: clumsy, brutal, and magnificent. (Based on the world of Punishing: Gray Raven, with extensive fan-created lore. It’s both heartbreaking and sweet, with an ensemble cast.)
