Alan McCormick saw four punks rousting an old man and got involved in the hopes of maybe getting a few bucks as a reward. The old fellow he helped up from the pavement offered him a job instead. A job that lead him across the solar system to the surface of mars and an adventure that almost cost him and the crew of the Prometheus their lives fighting a hostile planet, an onrushing natural disaster and government troops sent to make that they never make it back to earth.