Harbinger in the Night

In a near-future setting where a fierce new space race unfolds to colonize Mars, a U.S. aerospace engineering team is developing the interplanetary communications network when a mysterious object appears from interstellar space. As the U.S. and its European allies compete against a Russian-Chinese alliance, they must confront external threats and internal conspiracies, including a dangerous AI. Major Koda Cheveyo leads a team to address this potential menace, while quantum computer engineer Michael Thompson deploys his homebrewed AI to combat the emerging peril. Together with a billionaire tech mogul and a government agent, they set out on a mission that could redefine humanity's future.