Note: Records show that Sofia Anderson was taken to Luna City for evaluation the summer after she turned 18. She was kept there for 16 months with no communication home. Her family and boyfriend sent messages, but there is no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: After manual operation of motor vehicles was outlawed, it took hundreds of years for enthusiasm for the machines to die down. “Drivers” would build kits of old Earth cars over the chassis of autonomous, electric vehicles. They would strive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Clem Anderson’s Grandfather had come over to Mars from Earth during the migration boom that followed the collapse of the Naarlans Arcology in North America. Storms in the Gulf of Mexico ravaged several arcologies on the coastline, doing Trillions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Clem’s career took him from in-house safety inspector for one of the largest geothermal plants on Mars, through lead safety coordinator, into middle management, and finally Director of the compliance department. He retired early to take a lobbyist role on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Senator Bea Hanson served in the Sol legislature for several terms, and described herself as the ‘scientific candidate’ for the Northern Mars Colonies district. She was one of the few senators to oppose the Expanded Acuity Control Act, on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: It’s unclear where the rumor that Mentats are ‘really fun’ in a physically intimate setting originated, but it’s probably the same as the fetishization of any other exotic trait. Not only is there no evidence that Mentats are any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: History has shown that no pedagogical or social system will stop teenagers from being petty to one another. Even when the world is in shambles, and the teenagers are the front line in a war against unreasonable adults in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: At this time, Influenza was already mostly eradicated. There were still some cases of the flu in the poorer arcologies on Earth, and a very rare break out on Luna, but a young woman on Mars in this era[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Mars City was famous for its ‘Beltway’ network, a system of electric pedestrian paths that crisscrossed the city. The Beltway extended out into the outer domes as well, and many smaller suburban domes, like Central Xanthe, had enough paths[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Schooling for young people in the Martian colonies was much the same as schooling had been for hundreds of years on Earth, with children divided up into cohorts by age as a rough representation of learning capacity, and shuttled,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…