PROJECTASTROBETA: MARS

Punk-rock science fiction about liberation, personhood, chosen family, and what happens when a corporation mistakes living beings for property.

Intercept the story

2002. Las Vegas. One very bad trip.

The truth was out there.
Now he was too.

NOT A
VOLUNTEER.

Inside the observation gallery, Ty sits on a bench beside Luna, a small copper-colored dog, while AstroBeta One stands nearby. They look through the glass at the floodlit Martian landscape.

AB / 01 Signal: unstable

One bad decision. Two accidental astronauts.Three worlds. One story.

01 / Recovered transmission

THEY WANTED
A TEST SUBJECT.
THEY GOT TY.

In 2002, Ty Walker went to a UFO conference in Las Vegas. He woke up somewhere he was never supposed to be—with one small dog, one damaged spacecraft, and no way home.

Lucas “Ty” Walker is a twenty-two-year-old UFO geek with a talent for media production, sarcasm, and being in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. Luna is his nine-year-old dog, best friend, and the only member of the mission who appears to know what she’s doing.

Now they’re stranded inside a corporate space program built on secrets, surrounded by technology no one fully understands, and beginning to suspect that the mission was never really about exploration.

Passenger: Ty Walker
Unauthorized cargo: Luna
Return flight: not provided.

The Project AstroBeta trilogy

THREE WORLDS.
NO MASTERS.

It starts on Mars.
The story doesn’t end there.

Ty, Luna, and AstroBeta One inside an observation gallery overlooking Mars.

01 / The first transmissionAB—M