Starsea Projections

A gamma-ray burst wiped out Earth, leaving the Martian colony as humanity’s last spark of life. Eighty thousand survivors. Four hundred and seventy days on the survival countdown. Supplies are being stolen, morale is crumbling, and Earth’s armed fleet is closing in. Zhou Yan, a shift engineer who only knows how to talk to an orbital terminal, finds a simulation System in a deep-space beacon. Information sets the ceiling; computing power determines the level. Simulation is not prophecy. He calculates supplies, morale, and orbits. He drives back Earth’s warships with solar panels, topples the parasites in the council with an account book, and awakens his kind 37 light-years away on Mars’s far side. Earth says Mars is full of defectors and must be purged. Zhou Yan says, "Let the fleet settle the accounts first. Then they can come." Once the accounts are settled, a string of characters lights up at the edge of the solar system. The gate is about to open. Interstellar civilization simulation, fleet rivalry, survival on Mars. From a single spark to humanity’s ascent to supremacy.