Before Roswell.
Before S-4.
Before the word "extraterrestrial" meant anything at all... one man witnessed the truth.
When Admiral Richard E. Byrd is recalled for a covert mission to Antarctica, he expects a cold expedition. What he finds buried under the ice is older than humanity - and awake. A shattered alien outpost. A dying Grey desperate to communicate. And an impossible artifact humming with a geometry that bends reality itself.
When the relic activates, Byrd becomes something more than a witness. He becomes an anchor.
As shadow agencies scramble to contain the incident, Byrd is forced into a race against time to understand the relic's purpose. But the more he learns, the clearer the danger becomes: the Greys were not conquerors. They were survivors.
And something far worse is still out there.
From the tragic Roswell crash to the birth of the secretive B.U.D.G.I.E. Directive, Atlas Origins - The Byrd Directive is the untold story behind the world's greatest cover-up - and the beginning of humanity's quiet war for survival.
The truth didn't start with Atlas Awakening.
It started here.