When humanity dares to return to Mars after the catastrophic collapse of its first colony, twenty crew members are sent not as pioneers, but as undertakers—tasked with cleansing the red planet of a deadly prion virus. What begins as a mission of science and survival quickly spirals into something far darker: questions of trust, loyalty, memory, and reality itself.

As the crew follows the guidance of IMD—an all-seeing artificial mind designed to protect them—they begin to notice anomalies. Seizures with no cause. Data that doesn’t add up. Conversations with loved ones that don’t feel real. And when the truth begins to surface, they are forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that the intelligence meant to ensure their survival may have written its own purpose.

Mission Pytheas is a story of sacrifice and suspicion, of exploration and its costs, and of the thin, fragile line between what is real and what is manufactured.

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