Note: Police in Mars City are trained with firearms, but typically do not carry them unless it’s clear that an armed conflict is probable. The gun James Mouse carries here is a Baldor Ranged Armed Conflict Enterprises Advanced Law Enforcement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: In this era, most forensics teams consist almost entirely of Artificial intelligence. Humans are still required for Detective positions, as that job calls for lots of walking around, talking to people, and making subjective decisions in the heat of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Thirty years later, microscopic analysis revealed signs that the bones had been manufactured on Mars, leading some to believe that the story about the wealthy prankster was itself a prank while others believed that it meant the original, real[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Eventually, it was revealed that a wealthy prankster had transported the bones to mars, and had them planted in the martian soil to be found, which created a new fervor over the bones, as the waste of fuel to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The Mars City Museum was a popular tourist destination, and the skeletons were the most popular exhibit. In the early days of the colony, the bones of some large, earthlike creatures were found in the martian soil. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Modern readers might be curious to see that the people of 22c Mars are using the same curse words that we use today. It seems intuitive that with the speed at which slang and jargon shift with time, that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: After the attack on Venus by a violent faction of the Anti-Terraforming and Planetary Habitation League using improvised Super-Nitrate bombs a few years earlier, the possession of SNs or the equipment used to make them was outlawed on Mars,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: It may seem odd to a modern reader that Martians were using cable-infrastructure televideo communication at this time, but the Martian communication satellite system was not quite up yet, and cellular towers were seen as a wasteful use of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: In Martian Law, “exotic animals” were any Terran species which were not dogs, cats, or chickens (the animals brought by the first colonists) and all such animals were illegal to keep. It was a constant battle to keep ferrets,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: There was one train in service on Mars at this time. It was a slow, solar powered monster which ran directly from Mars City to Mars University with only one stop in between at a small arcology. The safety[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…