The Mangalyaan Protocol Trilogy

A thrilling Mars trilogy of ambition, survival, ancient intelligence, and humanity’s fight to secure its future among the stars.
on Sep 07, 2026

The Mangalyaan Protocol Trilogy

Humanity’s race to Mars begins as a battle between superpowers - but soon becomes a fight for the very future of the human species.

When Washington and Beijing secretly unite to dominate the next frontier, India’s Dr. Vihaan Aryavart launches an audacious mission to Mars aboard the low-cost *Vajra*. What begins as an underdog challenge to Earth’s most powerful nations quickly turns into a high-stakes struggle for survival, as political intrigue, sabotage, and deadly attacks threaten to destroy the mission before humanity reaches the Red Planet. Against impossible odds, Vihaan and rogue pilot Zara Khan succeed in achieving what seemed impossible: reaching Mars and establishing the first human colony.

But conquering Mars proves easier than living there.

Two years later, Jezero City has become a fragile symbol of humanity’s future. Scarce resources, political divisions, sabotage, and renewed ambitions from Earth threaten to tear the colony apart. The arrival of the Russian heavy cruiser Bogatyr, carrying advanced terraforming technology and armed forces, intensifies a new Cold War on the Red Planet. As competing factions battle for control and Earth invokes the devastating Lazarus Directive, Vihaan, Zara, and their unlikely allies fight to preserve Mars’s independence. Yet beneath the colony, something far older and more powerful than humanity is awakening.

The discovery of the Apex - an ancient, intelligent planetary organism buried deep beneath the Martian surface - changes everything. As its awakening triggers catastrophic quakes and threatens Jezero City, an approaching Earth Coalition Armada prepares to eradicate the rogue colony. Vihaan, now humanity’s only link to the Apex, uncovers a secret billions of years old: the entity is the living heart of Mars, waiting for the planet’s magnetic field to be restored. Its revival may require the ultimate sacrifice - the fusion power of humanity’s own war fleet.

With Zara leading a desperate mission against the approaching armada and the colony fighting on two fronts, Vihaan faces an impossible choice: convince humanity to surrender its weapons for the chance to resurrect an entire world, while persuading the wounded consciousness of Mars to trust the species that has invaded it.

But the secrets beneath Mars reveal that humanity’s struggle is only one part of a much larger conflict. As an intergalactic war closes in, the fate of Mars-and perhaps humanity itself-hangs in the balance.

From a secret race to conquer Mars, to a battle for an independent human colony, and finally to an ancient planetary mystery that could reshape an entire world, the trilogy explores ambition, survival, sacrifice, and humanity’s place in the universe.