02 // Timewarp Shoyu
Air Factory
2:14 a.m. A combat veteran who can't sleep walks out into the Arizona desert and wakes up on Mars.
Source and rights
- Source
- A Princess of Mars
- Creator
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Published
- 1912
- Premiere window
- Jan 9, 2027 · 5 min
Built from the 1912 novel. Names and marks that are still trademarked are avoided.
Episodes
- 01
Episode 2
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