It’s the year 2150 and hungry humanity has stretched out into the Solar system to find the resources it desperately needs. On Mars, three corporations compete for lucrative mining rights to gold and uranium, both in short supply everywhere else.
Ascend Corporation’s mobile mining vehicle Crawler 242 has gone silent immediately after reporting the largest deposit of gold ever found on the red planet. The corporation dispatches an elite crisis response team to rescue any survivors and secure the site before a giant planet-wide dust storm buries them forever.