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[Gazetteer/RFC] Mars
[Gazetteer/RFC] Mars
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Working on rewriting the Mars stub. Forgive the wiki markup. Still very much a WIP. Suggestions, comments etc. welcome.

{{ gazetteer:places:mars.jpg?285 |Mars, photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor (courtesy NASA)}}
^ Mars ^^
^ Orbit | 227,940,000 km from primary (mean) |
^ Diameter | 6,794.4 km (equatorial) |
^ Surface Gravity | 0.33G |
^ Year | 686.98 days |
^ Day | 24.62 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 210K (-63C) |
^ Atmosphere | .010 atm (CO2 95%, N2 3%, Ar 2%) |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 250,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Helium |
^ Phobos ^^
^ Orbit | 9,378 km from parent (mean) |
^ Diameter | 27 x 21.6 x 18.8 km |
^ Surface Gravity | negligible |
^ Year | 7.75 hours |
^ Day | 0 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 40K (-233C) |
^ Atmosphere | none |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 55,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Port Phobos |

====== Mars ======
Since our first close-up picture of Mars in 1965, spacecraft voyages to the Red Planet have revealed a world strangely familiar, yet different enough to challenge our perceptions of what makes a planet work. Every time we feel close to understanding Mars, new discoveries send us straight back to the drawing board to revise existing theories.
You'd think Mars would be easier to understand. Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps and clouds in its atmosphere, seasonal weather patterns, volcanoes, canyons and other recognizable features. However, conditions on Mars vary wildly from what we know on our own planet.
Over the past three decades, spacecraft have shown us that Mars is rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy, pink sky. We've discovered that today's Martian wasteland hints at a formerly volatile world where volcanoes once raged, meteors plowed deep craters, and flash floods rushed over the land. And Mars continues to throw out new enticements with each landing or orbital pass made by our spacecraft.
//(Text courtesy NASA's Mars Exploration Program homepage.)//
===== History =====
{{art🎏mars-large.gif?x200 |Unofficial Martian flag}}(blah history)
===== Places of Interest =====
As the most thoroughly explored place in Fenspace pre-wave, Mars has a number of native features that attract interest as well as the settled areas. Most people are familiar with the four giant volcanoes of the **Tharsis Mountains** and the rift valley of **Valles Marineris**. Also of interest is the **Cydonia** region, home of the infamous **[[Face on Mars]**.
Fen settlements are scattered all over the planet. The largest settlement on Mars is the **[[Utopia Planitia Shipyard]** facility in **Utopia Planitia**, not far from the //Viking 2// landing site. The shipyard was designed to be permanent, despite the fact that the terraforming project intends for Utopia to be underwater once the underground aquifers melt. How the [[gazetteer:factions:united federation of planets|Trekkies] intend to deal with this problem is as yet unknown.
The [[gazetteer:factions:pulpers|Pulper] city of **[[Helium]**, also the second-largest city on Mars, is located on the northern rim of Marineris near **Ophir Labes**. Helium is the most cosmopolitan of the Martian cities, partly because there aren't enough Pulpers to fill an entire city and partly because the Barsoomian subfaction pulled out all the stops in creating //the// ultimate fantasy Martian experience. Helium is a city composed of soaring towers and inhabited by fen who live the crystals-and-togas lifestyle.
**Airy-0 Crater** is host to the third-largest city on Mars, the unaligned town of **[[Port Robinson]**. Port Robinson is the largest fendane settlement outside of Earth cislunar orbit. Populated mainly by members and supporters of the [[www.marssociety.org/|Mars Society] who began migrating to Mars early, almost beating the Trekkies to the surface. Port Robinson is the center for "Martian unification," endlessly pestering the other settlements on uniting as a faction above and beyond their political origins. The town also happens to be the spiritual center of Fenspace, as the town square is built off of **[[St. Liebowitz's Cathedral]**.
Southeast of Helium in **Argyre Planitia** is the [[gazetteer:factions:galactic republic|Warsie] outpost of **[[Mos Eisley]**. Mos Eisley exists mostly as a way for the Republic to keep an official presence on Mars. However, the town does provide a good stop-off point for scientists working in the southern hemisphere, terraformers and other Martian nomads.
The enigmatic **[[Castle Heterodyne]**, home base for a Pulper splinter group known as the [[gazetteer:factions:Foglios], exists in an undisclosed location somewhere in the southern hemisphere. Most people figure the castle is located in the highlands around **Hellas Planitia**. Others contend that Castle Heterodyne lurks near the polar ice cap. A handful of conspiracy theorists have suggested that the castle is //mobile//, moving randomly from point to point across the surface.
In orbit, most of the action is at **[[Port Phobos]**. Port Phobos began as a freight waystation for material headed to Helium and Port Robinson, but rapidly mutated into the single largest port facility in Fenspace, outstripping //[[ships:Stellvia]// and [[gazetteer:places:venus:Crystal Tokyo] in terms of cargo and passengers moved. This rapid growth has turned Port Phobos into a free-floating version of Manhattan, with almost as high a population density. The internal habitat is slowly hollowing out the entire moon, using the mined material to build ever more elaborate networks of docks and skyscrapers on the outer surface.
The other major station in Martian orbit is **[[ships:Starbase 1]**, the first fen space station (built by te Trekkies in late 2007) and moved to its current location in areosynchronous orbit over Utopia Planitia Yards' meridian when the surface facility was built. Starbase 1 is the heart of the Martian shipbuilding industry and the heart of the Federation Starfleet, meaning that hundreds of ships in various stages of completion are gathered around the station at any given point.
Also in orbit is the headquarters of the [[gazetteer:companies:Mars Terraforming Project], located on Deimos. The terraforming base is much less populated than Port Phobos, but has almost the same inhabitable volume. Most of this volume is used by the terraformers to run test farms, growing plants in Martian soil and mid-terraforming atmospheric conditions.---
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I'd think with fenspace, you'd really have to say "a spiritual center" rather than "the spiritual center". I'm *sure* it's a matter of debate.
Also, as a sidebar, I'd tend to think that the "Foglios" would draw in a lot of generic fans of SCIENCE! - there are a lot of people who enjoy Narbonic, GG, Miracle of Science, and others of like nature, who would naturally tend to congregate with one another, while not necessarily focusing on any *particular* mad science tropes. Mind you, it's entirely possible that they'd get lumped in together as Foglios, and they care little enough about what Those Fools At The University think that they pobably don't care, but the faction *itself* is likely a lot more random. The XXXenophile fans, I suspect, would focus on biomods for immoral purposes, including a number of people who went into it wanting to Be Someone (thing?) Else, and may well have a rather (un?)healthy connection with the Hentai Brigade.
The mad scientists would also almost certainly have a subfaction of Igors. They also tend to blur the Black Hat/White Hat lines a lot more than most, both in terms of being more on the edge themselves and in terms of getting along with those of their ilk who've gone over entirely. (Of course, it's not necessarily what other people would consider to be "getting along" to begin with. They *do* tend to be rather... competitive.) Between the two factors, a the Mads as a whole have picked up a bit of a bad reputation - and the fact that a number of them tend to be actually crazy in potentially scary ways from brain-affecting handwavium doesn't really help.
Yes, there really *are* people who go to the professor for a biomod... and everyone who's ever asked for one has gotten one.
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The mad scientists would also almost certainly have a subfaction of Igors. They also tend to blur the Black Hat/White Hat lines a lot more than most, both in terms of being more on the edge themselves and in terms of getting along with those of their ilk who've gone over entirely.
Excellent point. There is some policing of the Sparks by other Pulpers, but the general sense of adventure that embodies the Pulp faction would allow for a great deal more leeway than in some of the other factions. Foglios grouse about the presence of "meddling fools" among the Pulpers, but acknowledge that causing half of Helium to blow up, disintegrate, or turn into Velveeta might cause difficulties and put up with the limitations inherent in basic lab safety most of the time (or at least go out to Olympus Mons to perform their experiments).
Perhaps, predictably enough, the Mars campus of the Banzai Institute is in Helium. Research at the campus is a bit more ... energetic than in the terrestrial facilities (with maybe the exception of the Armory, where explosions are an art form). Ebony the Black Dragon
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...and I'd imagine that that same Mars campus has a fair number of folks who run themselves near-ragged working on "preemptive disaster relief".
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Perhaps, predictably enough, the Mars campus of the Banzai Institute is in Helium. Research at the campus is a bit more ... energetic than in the terrestrial facilities (with maybe the exception of the Armory, where explosions are an art form).
Perhaps this place is nicknamed "IOU" to reference Illuminati University?-- Bob
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...and I'd imagine that that same Mars campus has a fair number of folks who run themselves near-ragged working on "preemptive disaster relief".
Indeed, that and the biweekly seminar/group therapy* commonly referred to as "The Care and Feeding of Sparks," "Mad Scientists and You," or "What To Do When He's Locked You Out Of The Lab And The Timer Reads '00:30.'" They're working on enough manpower for a hotline. Sort of like a Suicide Watch, only with death rays and armies of killer grunions.Ebony the Black Dragon
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Which reminds me, do we have an article on Education in Fenspace yet?
Places I can think of that would need mentioning...
Grover's Corners Elementary
Senshi Academy
Hogwarts
Starfleet Academy
Some arrangement with Australian university systems?
Apprentice System - how a lot of things get taught in Fenspace. You find someone who knows what you want to know, and convince them, usually through begging, grovelling, and a suitable offer of funds, goods, and/or services, to teach you. Well-known instances include The Professor, who has been known to take a student or two, and Candy Apple Red's, whose trade involves things that one does not ordinarily study in the classroom.

Ryokuro Academy - begun in 2007 as a short series of training classes offered by Rockhounds, Inc., to prospective asteroid miners. Primary materials covered were orbital mechanics, electronics maintenance, first aid, and geology. As the population of Greenwood Station increased, more and more courses were added to the list. By 2012 a wide variety of training options are available, equivalent to a full Earthside B.S.-level college education in fields including Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, Computer Sciences, Astronautics, Contract Law, Medicine, Food Service, and of course Geology. The Academy is accredited by the State of New York to award degrees recognized 'Daneside, and has (starting in the spring of 2013) arrangements with schools in New York, California, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Australia, and Japan to offer a "semester in space" program for adventurous fendanes.--
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Which reminds me, do we have an article on Education in Fenspace yet?
It looks like you've started writing one.
(Despite the source material, and Noah's tendency to stick a thumb in everyone else's pie, education is not something that Stellvia does. Yet. Wait a couple of decades, though, and just see what Sora and Helen set up... What? "Who's Helen?" C'mon, what did you think Leda's daughter would be named? )
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Grover's Corners Elementary
AKA PS238 according to the Glossary.
(You know, it took me a couple of months to realize that was a reference and not just a random number...)-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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===== Places of Interest =====
As the most thoroughly explored place in Fenspace pre-wave, ...
We might want to add a link to Google Mars somewhere around here...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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We might want to add a link to Google Mars somewhere around here...
Yeah, we really ought to, since that was what I used as my map reference for locations. [Image: wink.gif]
Anyway... while the sidebar discussions on Fenspace education and the mad scientist subfactions are all very interesting (and totally *not* what I was expecting to draw the most comment), does anybody have any suggestions, boilerplate, etc. for the Mars article itself? Frex, on review I'm thinking that Port Robinson (maybe with a better name) should get bumped up to 2nd or largest city on Mars. After all, there's more nonaligned fen & fendanes with an interest in Mars than Pulpers or Trekkies...---
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Frex, on review I'm thinking that Port Robinson (maybe with a better name) should get bumped up to 2nd or largest city on Mars.
That's probably a good idea.
There's one city name we appear to have overlooked: Port Lowell. Besides founding the observatory in Flagstaff that bears his name, Percival Lowell was one of the biggest boosters of the "canals on Mars" theory - it's extremely likely that some Fen would name a settlement on Mars after him. (Maybe the Nesters, or the conspiracy-theorists who still believe the Pyramids and Face of Mars are real...)

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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
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*nods* I like the name of Port Lowell better than I do Port Robinson, to be honest.
And speaking of canals...I can't remember off the top of my head. Are there any Fen actually DIGGING some, for when the hydrosphere gets better established? Having read so many old SF stories from the 50s and 60s, including Tom Corbett, I really want to see a Grand Canal on Mars....
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Having read so many old SF stories from the 50s and 60s, including Tom Corbett, I really want to see a Grand Canal on Mars....
Oh, my. I suddenly have an image of the outfit that owns the Venice-themed casino in Las Vegas opening a place on Mars...-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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Having read so many old SF stories from the 50s and 60s, including Tom Corbett, I really want to see a Grand Canal on Mars....
"There aren't really any canals on Mars."
"A-yup."
"Because there's no water."
"A-yup."
"But the terraforming project's going to cover a quarter of the planet with water. Or more."
"A-yup."
"Including this really big rift valley we're standing beside."
"A-yup."
"Okay, we build here, and we'll call this the Grand Canal once it's filled with water."
"O-kay."
And thus was it decided to build Helium near the edge of the Valles Marineris...

-Rob Kelk
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the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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Okay, taking suggestions into account, here's pass 2. Comment at will.

~~NOTOC~~
{{ gazetteer[Image: tongue.gif] laces:mars.jpg?285 |Mars, photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor (courtesy NASA)}}
^ Mars ^^
^ Orbit | 227,940,000 km from primary (mean) |
^ Diameter | 6,794.4 km (equatorial) |
^ Surface Gravity | 0.33G |
^ Year | 686.98 days |
^ Day | 24.62 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 210K (-63C) |
^ Atmosphere | .010 atm (CO2 95%, N2 3%, Ar 2%) |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 250,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Port Lowell |
^ Phobos ^^
^ Orbit | 9,378 km from parent (mean) |
^ Diameter | 27 x 21.6 x 18.8 km |
^ Surface Gravity | negligible |
^ Year | 7.75 hours |
^ Day | 0 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 40K (-233C) |
^ Atmosphere | none |
^ Water/Ice Index | 0% |
^ Population (2013) | 55,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | [[gazetteer:government:conventions|Fenspace Convention] |
^ Government | Direct Democracy |
^ Capital | Port Phobos |

====== Mars ======
Since our first close-up picture of Mars in 1965, spacecraft voyages to the Red Planet have revealed a world strangely familiar, yet different enough to challenge our perceptions of what makes a planet work. Every time we feel close to understanding Mars, new discoveries send us straight back to the drawing board to revise existing theories.
You'd think Mars would be easier to understand. Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps and clouds in its atmosphere, seasonal weather patterns, volcanoes, canyons and other recognizable features. However, conditions on Mars vary wildly from what we know on our own planet.
Over the past three decades, spacecraft have shown us that Mars is rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy, pink sky. We've discovered that today's Martian wasteland hints at a formerly volatile world where volcanoes once raged, meteors plowed deep craters, and flash floods rushed over the land. And Mars continues to throw out new enticements with each landing or orbital pass made by our spacecraft.
//(Text courtesy NASA's Mars Exploration Program homepage.)//
===== History =====
{{art??mars-large.gif?x200 |Unofficial Martian flag}}(blah history)
===== Places of Interest =====
As the [[mars.google.com/|most thoroughly explored place] in Fenspace pre-wave, Mars has a number of native features that attract interest as well as the settled areas. Most people are familiar with the four giant volcanoes of the **Tharsis Mountains** and the rift valley of **Valles Marineris**. Also of interest is the **Cydonia** region, home of the infamous **[[Face on Mars]**.
Fen settlements are scattered all over the planet. The largest settlement on Mars is the **[[Utopia Planitia Shipyard]** facility in **Utopia Planitia**, not far from the //Viking 2// landing site. The shipyard was designed to be permanent, despite the fact that the terraforming project intends for Utopia to be underwater once the underground aquifers melt. How the [[gazetteer:factions:united federation of planets|Trekkies] intend to deal with this problem is as yet unknown.
**Airy-0 Crater** is host to the second-largest city on Mars, the unaligned town of **[[Port Lowell]**. Port Lowell is the largest fendane settlement outside of Earth cislunar orbit. Populated mainly by members and supporters of the [[www.marssociety.org/|Mars Society] who began migrating to Mars early, almost beating the Trekkies to the surface. Port Lowell is the center for "Martian unification," endlessly pestering the other settlements on uniting as a faction above and beyond their political origins. The city is also considered a major spiritual center in Fenspace, as it hosts **[[St. Liebowitz's Cathedral]**.
The [[gazetteer:factions[Image: tongue.gif] ulpers|Pulper] city of **[[Helium]** is located on the northern rim of Marineris near **Ophir Labes**. Helium is the most cosmopolitan of the Martian cities, partly because there aren't enough Pulpers to fill an entire city and partly because the Barsoomian subfaction pulled out all the stops in creating //the// ultimate fantasy Martian experience. Helium is a city composed of soaring towers and inhabited by fen who live the crystals-and-togas lifestyle.
Southeast of Helium in **Argyre Planitia** is the [[gazetteer:factions:galactic republic|Warsie] outpost of **[[Mos Eisley]**. Mos Eisley exists mostly as a way for the Republic to keep an official presence on Mars. However, the town does provide a good stop-off point for scientists working in the southern hemisphere, terraformers and other Martian nomads.
The enigmatic **[[Castle Heterodyne]**, home base for a Pulper splinter group known as the [[gazetteer:factions:Foglios], exists in an undisclosed location somewhere in the southern hemisphere. Most people figure the castle is located in the highlands around **Hellas Planitia**. Others contend that Castle Heterodyne lurks near the polar ice cap. A handful of conspiracy theorists have suggested that the castle is //mobile//, moving randomly from point to point across the surface.
Construction on the **Grand Canal** project, a plan to run an aqueduct from Hellas to Port Lowell, can be seen in the highlands between the two sites. Whether or not Mars will have sufficient water to fill the canal as planned remains to be seen.
In orbit, most of the action is at **[[Port Phobos]**. Port Phobos began as a freight waystation for material headed to Helium and Port Lowell, but rapidly mutated into the single largest port facility in Fenspace, outstripping //[[ships:Stellvia]// and [[gazetteer[Image: tongue.gif] laces:venus:Crystal Tokyo] in terms of cargo and passengers moved. This rapid growth has turned Port Phobos into a free-floating version of Manhattan, with almost as high a population density. The internal habitat is slowly hollowing out the entire moon, using the mined material to build ever more elaborate networks of docks and skyscrapers on the outer surface.
The other major station in Martian orbit is **[[ships:Starbase 1]**, the first fen space station (built by the Trekkies in late 2007) and moved to its current location in areosynchronous orbit over Utopia Planitia Yards' meridian when the surface facility was built. Starbase 1 is the heart of the Martian shipbuilding industry and the heart of the Federation Starfleet, meaning that hundreds of ships in various stages of completion are gathered around the station at any given point.
Also in orbit is the headquarters of the [[gazetteer:companies:Mars Terraforming Project], located on Deimos. The terraforming base is much less populated than Port Phobos, but has almost the same inhabitable volume. Most of this volume is used by the terraformers to run test farms, growing plants in Martian soil and mid-terraforming atmospheric conditions.---
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Other than the "blah history", it looks good to me... (We haven't really defined very much detail for Mars, have we?)
What sort of history are you thinking of?

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Honestly, I'm not sure. If I had any clear ideas, I'd have stuck them down instead of the lame placeholder. So I'm completely open to suggestions as long as they hold with the established material.---
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Who was the first fan on Mars? Where did (s)he land? Were they alone, or was the first landing already a planned colonization effort with a small crowd?
Who are the major figures in Martian history, and what did they do? (Gotta have a John Jones in one of the factions just for the injoke value...)-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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Who was the first fan on Mars? Where did (s)he land? Were they alone, or was the first landing already a planned colonization effort with a small crowd?
... I can't believe we missed that one. The first fan on Mars is just as big as the first fan in space. No, bigger - the first fan is also the first human on Mars. Even the 'Danelaw will end up putting that character into the history books along Gagarin and Armstrong.---
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