Grand Star, also known in France as La Compagnie des Glaces, is a Canadian-French-Belgian science fiction television series that debuted in September 2007 on Space and A-Channel. The show is set in an apocalyptic future 100 years after a devastating nuclear explosion on the Moon puts the Earth into a new Ice Age, and it follows the interactions between a tiny group of Earth survivors and the returning descendants of colonists who evacuated Earth before the calamity. The series is based on Georges-Jean Arnaud's La Compagnie des glaces novel series. In 2007, a multiplayer strategy game based on the TV show's universe was released. In the game, players face off against each other and use their trains to collect money for energy control. Transarctica, a French video game based on the novel series that was hastily translated into English, was likewise based on the novel series. The Ice Company by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 978-1-935558-31-6 was published in 2010 as the first novel in the series.
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Grand Star, also known in France as La Compagnie des Glaces, is a Canadian-French-Belgian science fiction television series that debuted in September 2007 on Space and A-Channel. The show is set in an apocalyptic future 100 years after a devastating nuclear explosion on the Moon puts the Earth into a new Ice Age, and it follows the interactions between a tiny group of Earth survivors and the returning descendants of colonists who evacuated Earth before the calamity. The series is based on Georges-Jean Arnaud's La Compagnie des glaces novel series. In 2007, a multiplayer strategy game based on the TV show's universe was released. In the game, players face off against each other and use their trains to collect money for energy control. Transarctica, a French video game based on the novel series that was hastily translated into English, was likewise based on the novel series. The Ice Company by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 978-1-935558-31-6 was published in 2010 as the first novel in the series.
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