Exiles of the Three Red Moons

In the frozen reaches of Pluto, three eerie green moons cast an otherworldly glow over a bleak penal colony where hope is a scarce commodity. Rusty Carter, a hardened journalist from Earth, finds himself among the exiled, his body stripped to raw muscle by the planet’s relentless cold and the ever‑present threat of the alien “Bugs.” The landscape is a jagged mix of crystal sand and silica cliffs, a stark backdrop for a society of desperate strangers gathered around a single, hopeful departure ship.

Carter’s presence isn’t accidental—he was sent on a covert assignment, a staged bank robbery turned false arrest, all to secure a sensational story from the most forbidding frontier. As the countdown to the ship’s launch ticks down, he navigates a tense crowd of interplanetary inmates, the looming promise of Earth’s soil mingling with the stark reality of survival on an alien world. The first act sets the stage for a gritty tale of deception, endurance, and the thin line between freedom and exile.