A Comic Saga by Aubrey Boyd | Rated M — Mature Readers
Five hundred years ago, humanity's privileged fled a burning Earth for Mars — abandoning billions to die. They were wrong.
The forsaken did not perish. They rose. From the ashes of the old world they built NDU, a magnificent Afrofuturist empire of gold and indigo, whose scientists conquered aging itself with the prolong-life vaccine. Under Emperor Aubrey, NDU has known eight hundred years of strength — and its people have become something the exiles on Mars never imagined: unbreakable.
When Mars returns to reclaim the moon, the Emperor answers with fire, seizing the invaders' moon base and their technology. On Mars, the zealous Supreme Leader Ivory — ruling in the name of the Cross with her pale legions of guards, priests, and scientists — will stop at nothing to steal NDU's secret of eternal life. Her spies capture a lone NDU worker, only to learn that even the empire's humblest citizen is stronger than their deadliest soldiers... and that the secret they crave runs in his very blood.
As the Supreme Leader prepares her weapon, Emperor Aubrey grows more powerful — and more feared. Queen Dedra watches her husband change with every dose of the vaccine, while their son, Prince Aubrey the Second, is given the Emperor's gift and sent to the front lines. The first shots of the war for life and existence have been fired — and the prince will meet them head-on, for Emperor and NDU.
An epic of empire, faith, family, and the price of immortality — told in a bold Afrofuturist vision where those left behind became the future.