2011 saw the release of a new volume, Survivors (French: Survivants), which introduced a new set of characters and takes place concurrently with Antares.

The series has been translated into several languages, including Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Croatian, Spanish, Czech and English.

During the 21st century, following global warming, which resulted in the deviation of the Gulf Stream, an increase in pollution levels, and devastating religious wars, the conditions on Earth seriously degraded.

Concurrently, huge technological advances were made for Humanity, particularly the invention of the "Benevides Transfer", which allows faster-than-light space travel.

The story begins in the year 2179 with the complete destruction of a small fishing village north of Bigland island, known as Arena Bianca, by a mysterious and voracious sea creature.

Mark and Kim decide to head for the capital of the colony, Anatolia, several thousand kilometers to the south, hoping to earn a living.

The two decide to elucidate the mystery of the killer animal that devastated their village upon meeting Driss Shediac and Alexa Komarova, two friendly and experienced biologists who are actively hunted by the police.

Alexa and Driss eventually decide to form a secret group composed of Kim, Mark, Mister Pad, as well as several of their friends who are aware of their secret: the Mantris, a complex, protean creature, and the same which annihilated Kim and Mark's village, does in fact, under certain forms, enter into amicable contact with humans, having them absorb life-prolonging capsules, in the hopes of establishing a symbiotic relationship.

Shortly afterwards, Kim and Mark see a space shuttle in the sky, which turns out to be the first contact between Earth and Aldebaran, made possible when the computers suddenly and miraculously begin to function again.

Although having no connection with the Aldebaran project, the same nightmarish scenario develops, and again all communication with Earth is lost, due to an unidentifiable computer virus.

Meanwhile, this same shuttle progressively falls victim to the cold of space following the breakdown of the onboard radiators, and all 3,000 colonists on board, in a state of hibernation since their departure from Earth, are killed.

Kim, having obtained a diploma in biology, decides to return to Aldebaran without Mark, as their relationship has come to a standstill.

Alexa is further motivated by her findings, with Driss, that the Mantris has been in regular contact with Betelgeuse, and that further information might be gleaned by undertaking a mission there.

Kim agrees to make the trip, feeling that it could be a decisive moment in her life, and a week later is en route to Betelgeuse, accompanied by Colonel Wong and Lieutenant Steve Hudson; the group is soon joined by Inge and Hector, miraculous survivors of the Konstantin Tsiolkowky disaster, whom they meet on board the ill-fated ship.

Most of the survivors have settled on the side of a cliff, in a society marked by strict rules and military discipline, thus forming the canyon group.

The second, led by the ex-commander of the Konstantin Tsiolkowky, extremely remorseful after losing control of the vessel she was supposed to command, is known as the desert group.

The two groups are engaged in a dispute over the native lifeforms of the planet, the iums, as to whether these animals are intelligent enough to abandon the project per the UN charter concerning colonization.

Her body disappears into an underground river, and Hector, Steve and Inge embark upon a mission to save her, while the members of the two competing planetary factions, convinced she has not survived, return to their bases, unaware that the Mantris capsules Kim has been taking have given her unusual healing abilities.

The rescue team manages to save Kim from the caves, although Steve loses his life in the effort, and settles in a calm area for a period of two months.

Kim meets an extraterrestrial, Sven, who is in fact a humanoid spy originally from the same planet as the Mantris and is stationed on Aldebaran.

On Earth, in Paris, Kim and a college friend June Oliseh, visit a zoo, containing the last living chimpanzee.

Later, after discussion with Jedidiah, a religious man who intends to found a new society, Forward Enterprises decides to resume the colonisation effort, and keep the film top secret.

The colony flight is eventful, as most of the colonists are members of an extreme patriarchal cult, which believes in women shaving their hair, wearing inflated garments and submitting to men.

A chance at a speedier rescue is thwarted when a large number of animals come to feed on flowers that sprung up in the midst of their camp.

Back, still so mysteriously, to the original shuttle, the crew of the mission is finally contacted by Sven, the extraterrestrial father of Lynn, and his superior Eltven.

At the same time, Sven and Eltven explain that the phenomena that led the Earthlings on the planet are the fact of another extraterrestrial civilization, much more advanced and of which they know nothing, The extraterrestrials decide to establish a progressive contact with the Earth people, which will result in a scientific collaboration between the Terrans and Tsaltérians (the species of Sven) to study a cube with strange properties which is on an unexplored continent of Aldebaran.

She is a very important person because she is the first known case of hybridization between Tsaltérians and humans, probably due to the modification of Kim's metabolism, caused by the ingestion of the Mantris capsules.

Alex and Marie head to a nearby river to replenish their water and encounter a brief disturbance in the gravity field and a rainstorm, with a sharply defined boundary between.

This created a small amount of controversy among the comic reading public, both because the added underwear seems out of place in several key segments of the story, where there were reasons for the characters to be nude plot-wise, and also for the act of censorship itself in what is, in essence, a comic book series marketed for the adult public as it has been in other countries.

When asked, the publisher stated that all changes were done with the authorisation of the author, and were necessary to make sure the titles would not be simply pulled in several countries where laws regulating nudity in publications are extremely strict.