Humanity reached the stars. It brought everything with it.
Tempered Sol is a sweeping science-fiction universe spanning centuries of human expansion, war, survival, discovery and first contact — told continuously across novels, comic books and video games. Every story is part of the same canon. Different generations. Different wars. Different sides. One universe.
Tempered Sol does not follow a single hero or a single moment in history. It follows humanity — from the first fragile settlements on Mars to the wars that nearly destroy civilization, from the discovery of faster-than-light travel to the founding and eventual fracturing of the United Republic.
Generations live with the consequences of decisions made decades — or centuries — before them. Governments rise. Colonies demand independence. Old enemies become allies. Heroes become historical figures. Technology changes, but human ambition, fear, loyalty and betrayal remain. And when humanity finally discovers that it is not alone, the conflicts become larger than anything fought over Earth.
Tempered Sol is a universe of competing loyalties rather than simple heroes and villains. The United Republic believes centralized authority once saved humanity from extinction. The frontier believes emergency powers have become permanent rule. The Patriots fight for local sovereignty. The Free Captains survive between governments that cannot control them. Every faction believes it has something worth defending — sometimes they are right.
Books. Comics. Games. One Connected Universe.
Comics
Red Horizon — Comic Series
Novels
The Thirteenth System
Video Games
Galactic Battlefield
Comics
Book 1 Free • 5 Books Planned
The Red Horizon comic series explores the early centuries of the Tempered Sol timeline, beginning in 2061 as humanity struggles to turn exploration into permanent settlement. Mars, Callisto, Ceres and the growing Outer Colonies are dangerous places built by ordinary people — and these are the stories that eventually become history.
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Book 1 In Development
By the twenty-fifth century, humanity has survived machine wars, expanded beyond Sol and built the United Republic across the stars. But unity has a price. When frontier systems begin rejecting military administration, a confrontation in the remote Kestrel Reach becomes the spark for something much larger. One system becomes thirteen.
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In Development
The history of Tempered Sol becomes your battlefield. Command fleets, defend worlds and fight through the conflicts that shaped centuries of history — against the United Republic, Patriots and Free Captains, and the alien powers beyond human space. Ships take damage. Fleets need fuel. Distance matters. Victory is not simply about destroying the enemy — it is about deciding what survives.
Explore Galactic BattlefieldRed Horizon — Comic Series
Book 1 available now as a free download • 5 books planned • begins in 2061
The Thirteenth System — Book 1
Novel in active development • 25th century
Galactic Battlefield
Strategy video game in active development • across the major eras
A character introduced in a comic may become a name remembered centuries later. A battle fought in a game may explain a political decision in a novel. A colony founded in one story may become the capital of a revolution generations afterward. Books. Comics. Games. Centuries of history. One connected universe — and it begins with Red Horizon, free to download now.
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