[draft][RFC] Helium

[M Fnord]

Just north of the northern edge of Hellas Planitia, though, would be a good place to put Greater Helium. Especially if we put Lesser Helium 75 miles north of that, along the canal to Isidis Planitia. (It looks like we're going to have to dig the Isidis/Hellas canal in order to have water to pump from the Hellas Sea into the Hellas/Airy-0 Grand Canal. Good thing the John Carter stories already mention water-pumping stations along all the Barsoomian canals...) Carve the canal from Hellas to Isidis, and build the twin cities of Helium at and near the southern terminus.

This was the general area I was looking at in terms of Helium's location. Bonus that it's within ~100 miles of the "canonical" Helium, and on or near the coast of Hellas:


(Using Franz Blok's Modified Mars map as my default for post-terraforming ecosystems and coastlines)

(It looks like we're going to have to dig the Isidis/Hellas canal in order to have water to pump from the Hellas Sea into the Hellas/Airy-0 Grand Canal. Good thing the John Carter stories already mention water-pumping stations along all the Barsoomian canals...)

Honestly I favor just retconning the Hellas-Airy canal and going with the Hellas-Isidis canal as "the" Grand Canal.
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