MATT WALLY

Episode 01 — The Awakening. Matt wakes after thousands of years in cryosleep and discovers that his escape pod has landed on Mars, not at the colony world he expected. With Pixel beside him and no answer on the radio, his first recording becomes evidence that the mission—and perhaps humanity itself—has gone terribly wrong.

Episode 02 — The Wheels of Time. A rhythmic signal leads Matt and Pixel to a buried cargo rover. Bringing the machine back online gives them mobility, power and their first chance to explore beyond the crash site—but its old navigation records point toward a history Matt does not recognize.

Episode 03 — The Plaque from the Past. While expanding the search around his landing site, Matt uncovers the sealed entrance to Meridiani-07. A foundation plaque dated 3002 proves that people reached Mars, built a civilization and disappeared during the centuries he cannot remember.

Episode 04 — The Tomb of Tomorrow. Matt cuts his way into Meridiani-07 before a dust storm closes in. Inside the abandoned station he finds compatible survival hardware, traces of ordinary human life and evidence of an organized evacuation—but no explanation for where everyone went.

Episode 05 — The Cost of a Drink. The filters recovered from Meridiani finally give Matt clean water, but the success is poisoned by the realization that he left Pixel behind during the storm. Returning for his companion becomes a choice between cold survival mathematics and the kind of person Matt still wants to be.

Episode 06 — Seeds and Bones. Matt returns to Meridiani for Pixel and discovers preserved seeds, dormant systems and the beginning of a survival cycle someone may have prepared for him. Instead of chasing every mystery at once, he chooses to build the possibility of life.

Episode 08 — Dead Man’s Arithmetic. The recording includes events leading into this chapter, but its public number follows the final story point it reaches. Every liter of water, battery charge and kilometer of range matters as a dust storm closes around the rover and the margin for error disappears.

Episode 15 — The Lost Week. The recording gathers the missing days into one continuous chapter and takes its public number from the story point where it ends. Failed repairs, hidden laboratories, an identity mismatch and the sealed Archivist Alpha-7 protocol transform Meridiani into a map of clues before Matt chooses a minimal hydroponic cycle over another dangerous search for answers.

Episode 16 — Greenhouse on Bones. Matt turns part of the frozen Meridiani station into a working greenhouse, improvising heat, light and water from surviving technology. The first green shoots do more than extend his food supply: they make a future on Mars imaginable.

Prologue — We Leave Earth. In 2067, the arkship Aeterna departs a dying Earth with fifty thousand colonists, a genetic bank and the digital memory of human culture. Matt Wally enters cryosleep as the mission’s archivist, expecting to wake near humanity’s new home.

Episode 17 — I Found Her on Mars. Beyond his established route, Matt discovers a severed pilot module and a damaged biosynthetic woman secured inside it. She cannot wake and a critical component is missing, but he refuses to leave her in the wreckage.

Episode 18 — The Mysteries of Mars. Searching for something that might help the silent pilot, Matt drives beyond every mapped route and finds stone ruins from an ancient living Mars. The expedition gives him no replacement part, but it proves the planet’s history is older and stranger than any human colony.

Character Chapter · Hanna — She Made Mars Our Home. Hanna’s fragmented history reveals a biosynthetic pilot whose life belongs to the lost human civilization of Mars. Her memories connect colonization, evacuation and the unanswered question of what the settlers became.

Episode 19 — Another Mystery of Mars. A working airborne machine crosses the Martian sky and gives Matt the first practical proof that active infrastructure still exists. His pursuit ends at the edge of an enormous crater, where the unknown craft escapes beyond his safe range.

Episode 20 — The Other Mars. A dreamlike vision carries Matt to a living world of volcanic jungle, an outcast child and an ancient stellar artifact. The experience ends with a disturbing image of Hanna and leaves Matt unsure whether he witnessed a dream, a memory or a signal.

Episode 21 — Who Left These Symbols? Matt retraces the flying machine’s route and discovers repeated service marks at its landing points. A matching archive at Meridiani connects the symbols to the remote Azar-12 facility and to a weak signal behind the station’s collapsed sector.

Episode 22 — He Was Never Alone. Matt uses a controlled blast to reopen the collapsed sector beneath Meridiani. Below the human station he discovers an illuminated nonhuman chamber, sealed weapon cases and evidence that unseen observers have been following his progress.

Episode 23 — He Saved Her—and Woke Mars. Matt removes a strange energy core from the chamber beneath Meridiani and uses it to reactivate Hanna. Saving her disables part of an ancient containment network, awakening hostile Martian life and forcing the new crew into a battle at the nearest resonator.

Episode 24 — They Came for the Last Human. After the battle at the damaged resonator, Matt and Hanna discover that Pixel has been taken. A strange aircraft and a trail toward Azar-12 turn the search into a desperate chase across Mars and lead the crew into a machine-controlled trap.

Episode 25 — They Were Searching for Humanity. Inside the hostile Azar-12 facility, Matt discovers that an unknown machine network is searching for data about humanity’s fate. Hanna rescues Matt and Pixel, destroys the base and leaves the crew with an active machine head—and their first credible clue that surviving humans may still be out there.

Episode 26 — Then Left Him on Mars. After the destruction of the Aeterna, Matt’s escape capsule drifts through a silent Solar System until an unknown vessel detects its failing beacon. The observers search for living humans, find only ruins and finally leave Matt beside humanity’s surviving traces on Mars.

Episode 27 — The Machines Are Still Searching. The recovered machine identifies Matt as an archival carrier and transmits the crew’s coordinates to an unknown return group. Destroying it would erase their only clue, so Hanna turns the beacon into bait inside a lava cave—and the first perimeter sensor is triggered.

Episode 28 — A Way Back—at a Price. A mysterious transmitter promises Matt a route to living humans and sends a ship, but the offer requires him to abandon Hanna and Pixel. At the boarding ramp, rescue becomes an impossible choice between his species and the crew that kept him alive.

Episode 29 — No One Is Coming… So I’ll Find Them Myself. After the promised data and rescue both fail, Matt chooses a new objective: restore Meridiani-07 as a communications outpost and search for humanity himself. The station’s fusion reactor is gone, the disabled machine they hoped to salvage has vanished and a drag trail leads toward a deep rift.

Episode 30 — She Stole from the Wrong Creature. With their water supply nearly gone, Matt returns to Meridiani-07 for water and weapons while Hanna searches the Martian caves for the missing machine and the power module. A dust storm separates them, and Hanna must drag the machine past an armored creature’s nest without making a sound.

Episode 31 — Their Only Power Source Is Still Alive. Matt and Hanna bring the shattered war machine to Meridiani-07, hoping its living power system can restore the station. To produce energy, the machine’s mind must remain active. They wake it, name it WATT and use its power to bring back the lights—but the station’s broken antenna leaves the radio silent, while WATT’s activation quietly transmits a signal.

Episode 32 — They Were Fixing The Radio… Then Mars Exploded. With the main antenna ruined and supplies running low, Hanna traces the broken cable route while Matt and Pixel look for another dish. Restoring contact with the outside world will take more than power—and an underground blast gives the crew another mystery before the radio is ready.

Episode 33 of ALIVE ON MARS returns to the U.N.S. Aeterna before Matt wakes on Mars. Bound for Proxima Centauri b with 50,000 colonists in cryosleep, the ship begins accelerating toward an uncharted black hole. As debris strikes the hull and systems fail, the captain and navigators race to find an escape route while Matt sleeps among the passengers.

Hanna and Pixel install a replacement dish while Matt explores a deep Martian rift. Back at Meridiani-07, the crew searches the radio frequencies for any trace of humanity. The search for contact brings new questions about the journey that carried Matt to Mars.

Matt, Hanna and Pixel return to the Martian rift. Hanna descends by rope while Matt waits above; one sharp tug is her signal to be pulled back up. Far above Mars, the Aeterna becomes the center of another investigation, raising new questions about the journey that brought Matt here.