the Dragon of Mars - Memoirs Emperor Xenon Thunder

He lived a thousand years. He built an empire. He imprisoned the Scourge. These are his memoirs. Mars, 2150. Xenon is only a child when he watches his best friend suffocate beneath a cracked dome. That day, he makes a promise: never again the silence inside a helmet. Crowned Emperor, he terraforms Mars, unlocks the secret of longevity, creates the Winged Knights, and faces a coalition of Terran empires. For a thousand years, he reigns, loves, doubts, burns himself, and rises again. Until a signal from the depths of space awakens an ancient threat: the Scourge, an entity that devours civilizations. But The Dragon of Mars is not a story of conquest. It is the confession of a man who wore a crooked crown, wept before a single tomato, and learned that eternity is worthless without love. An intimate and cosmic epic, somewhere between Dune and Memoirs of Hadrian.