Arks Volume One (Issues 1-3)

One Story, Many Arks

In 463 BC, the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras believed the universe was made up of an infinite number of seeds which, upon reaching Earth, gave rise to life. He introduced the idea of Panspermia to the world.
Thousands of years later, his philosophy has become science: Directed Panspermia, the theory that microorganisms could be transported between habitable planets to seed life across the cosmos. Scientific theory and experiment affirm that it is our only possible means of extra-solar travel.
No spaceships. No light-speed. No cryo-pods. Just bacteria and A.I. in a probe the size of a pencil. And an Ark at the edge of the universe with one purpose - stay alive.
Arks, Arks Proximan and Arks Helices follow this new species of human - Homo evolutis, the Arks - as they struggle to bring the light of consciousness to the stars.
Across these storylines, we follow them from their first catastrophic attempts to pollinate and terraform exoplanets, to their strange and terrifying fate: hiding in the gravity of a corpse star at the end of time.
Because while each of their worlds is different, their stories are the same.
Each Ark is being hunted by the same light that bore them.
Each Ark is being hunted by Earth.
Born from real science, imagined and crafted by real people, Arks is groundbreaking, prophetic science fiction for a dangerous century.

Issue One Synopsis

If he got too close to her, she would gouge his eyes out. Whilst Joe’s wife's memories were unpacking she would be no different to a beast, but if he did not remove her from his trapline the wild animals they have transplanted from Earth would kill her.

His only hope is to remember her name. This would start the burn in restoring her memories. Then he can give her, Lilith, the news; their exoplanet might be an analog with Earth and their experiment worked.

They have successfully terraformed a planet… but Joe has lost the mix data and he can’t remember how they did it or why he’ll be dead soon.

Issue Two Synopsis

After the events of Issue One, Joe is dying. They have no food, no water and no shelter. They only have a destination- the Cradle. A mysterious site where Lilith believes they will find the answers they seek.To reach it they must venture deep into the biofical forest. A nightmarish place, filled with deadly transplants, animals transplanted from Earth that have been deranged by the process.

However, neither of them realise that their destination, the Cradle, might be the most dangerous place of all.

Issue Three Synopsis

Barely surviving a fire that she started, Lilith discovers that fire is too dangerous to be used as an energy source on their exo. But without it they have no way to heat the bacteria in the synth well. Their only means of making the equipment they desperately need to save Joe.

To save him they must leave the cradle in search of an intact stomach from one of the dead transplants that hunted them across the bioficial forest. With it they could make a parthian battery, an ancient tool to create an electrical current that could unlock the secrets of the Cradle.

But some secrets are better off not being discovered.

ONGOING SERIES (6 issues)
Issue #6 Coming late 2027