A few generations in the lighter gravity gave the new Americans a spindly, lithe frame that would look surreal in their old home. The difference between Earth and the Mars was not only political. Like the gradual separation of America from her Colonial mother, the governments of Mars adopted a new, Martian identity. This was the Terrestrial Heyday the climax of economic, cultural and social development on old Earth. Thanks to the relocation of environmentally demanding industries to Mars, Earth could usurp everything, without having to damage its tired biosphere. The Martian Americans For several hundred years Mars remained as a backwater prospering but still dim compared to the splendor of Earth, which was glowing brighter than ever before. The first steps on Mars were taken not by astronauts, but by barefoot children on synthetic grass.Ī lander ferries the first people to the pre-terraformed eden of Mars. They came in one-way ships fusion rockets and atmospheric gliders, packed to the brim with colonists, sleeping in dreams of a new beginning. When everything was ready, people came from their crowded world.
When the wait was finally over, remnants of Earth’s flora and fauna were introduced as specially-modified Martian remakes. Later, a few cometary fragments were knocked off-course to bring forth seas, oceans water. Atmospheric bombardment by genetically-tailored microbes slowly generated a breathable atmosphere in a cycle that took centuries. As the push finally came to a shove, it was realized that this was not the case. All through the decades, traveling to, and later settling on Mars had been envisioned as quick, relatively easy affairs complicated but feasible and manageable in short term. Only when the risks clearly began to present themselves, only when Earth’s environment began to buckle under the strain of twelve billion industrialized souls, did Mankind finally take up the momentous task. While the technology to colonize this world had existed for some time, political bickering, shifting agendas and the sheer inertia of comfortable, terrestrial usurping had made this step seem more distant than it actually was. To Mars After millennia of earthbound foreplay, Mankind’s achievements on a noteworthy level began with its political unification and the gradual colonization of Mars.
All Tomorrows A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Varying Fortunes of Man Nemo Ramjet
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