The New Space Age (2025-)

The public space program is gone, leaving Mark Mitchell grounded and his search for his brother stalled. His homemade equipment has revealed a secret hidden in plain sight: the crop circles are not random patterns, but complex navigational schematics. These glyphs, scattered across farmlands for decades, contain the precise instructions for interstellar travel. Mitchell now works to decode the hidden messages left on Earth, reverse-engineering a technology that predates human spaceflight. His singular focus is on translating this alien cartography into a functional vessel. The sky is no longer a barrier, but a map pointing toward the coordinates where Joey was taken.