On the windswept, ice-covered continent of Antarctica, Roger Gordian's UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears - along with the repair team sent out after it.

Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium - that is illegally using Antarctica as a nuclear waste dump - to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station - and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter...