Terra Formars volume 3 - Yu Sasuga and Ken-Ichi Tachibana

 With the mission in serious jeopardy by the events at the end of volume two, the crew of Annex 1 fights for survival.

The next book in the Terra Formars series, this details the landing of the crew on the Martian surface, and their encounters with the evolved cockroaches.

Not allowed to return to Earth, there is apparently some hidden agenda to the mission as Plan delta, the one where no return is expected, is immediatly instigated.  When the vessel also gets severly damaged during landing, the crew escapes in six rapid landers, scattering in different directions.

Pretty soon, all the landing parties are coming under attack by the Terra Formars, who seemingly stole the insect abilities of the crew of the previous mission 20 years ago, Bugs 2.  The Russians land near their own agenda objective, huge, mysterious pyramids found on Mars though.

But it is due to the death of Sheila that the crew learns of the fact their is apparently someone ordering the Terra Formars around and gave them the abilities of their predecessors...

But the humans come better prepared this time, as the BUGS procedure has been refined to include other animals, like the cockroach hunting Giant Crab Spider, giving them at least a fighting chance this time round...

Violent and graphical, this is another heavy volume as it sets the baseline for the powerlevels between humanity and the terraformars in the stories to come.