Noble Redman

In the bustling outposts of Marsport, a once‑successful tour guide finds his career shattered after a deadly encounter with a Sand Nan, a lethal creature that turned a routine excursion into a nightmare. With his license revoked and a claim on a dead tourist’s yacht and gold in his pocket, he scrambles to turn his windfall into a new venture, navigating the murky legalities of a frontier where park authorities forbid weapons. The harsh realities of the red planet’s peripheral strips reveal a world where survival often depends on quick thinking and a camera.

Enter Noble Redman, a towering figure whose skin, hair, and eyes blaze with a deep crimson hue, a living reminder of humanity’s transplanted Earth origins. He appears at Otto’s bar, unsteady and scarred by the relentless Dryland sun, immediately drawing the guide’s curiosity and suspicion. Their chance meeting hints at an uneasy alliance that could reshape the narrator’s fortunes amid the gritty, law‑less underbelly of Martian society.