Introduction: The Mars colony was meant to be humanity鈥檚 next step. Instead, it became a bureaucratic failure鈥攂arely surviving until Aetherion, the world鈥檚 most powerful giga-corp, arrived with a gift: Nova. An AI of staggering scale, fueled by an underground exawatt fusion core, Nova turned survival into expansion.Now, ten Martian cycles later, the colony thrives. And Ronan Vale鈥攁n orphan turned AI architect鈥攊s headed there to help launch Nova鈥檚 successor.On the launch to Mars he meets Arie, a brilliant engineer and the most beautiful girl he鈥檚 ever met. They bond over a shared a connection to Pioneer鈥攖he most powerful AGI on Earth.Mars. AGI. Progression. Romance. A new beginning at the edge of the solar system....