Veragrad

Veragrad was a secret project established by the Soviet Union on the Hellas Planatia, Mars. The Zero Day Accords gave full autonomy to each of the space programs of the Consortium members, paving the way for Veragrad to be established in secrecy. It's name translates from Cyrillic as "faith city" or more loosely "city of belief/trust". 
First conceptualized by Yeltsana Bravka, it was the Soviet Union's attempt at establishing a self sufficient Martian colony independent of the need for intra-Solar trade and was meant to serve as a later model for Soviet expansionism on the red planet. Its most ambitious engineering attempt was the construction of a Dyson dome across the entirety of the planatia, making it the largest single bioformed structure in Sol System. 
The initial effort was spearheaded by a relatively small team of cosmonauts led by Bravka operating under the strict secrecy with largely automated technology. Their job was to establish the initial base colony at the northwestern edge of the Hellas and build the infrastructure necessary to support thousands of people. 
The effort was sabotaged by one of it's charter members who became disillusioned with Soviet policy; the majority of the colony's several hundred population perished. A small band of survivors struggled to survive in the broken colony, cut off from communication with the outside world, until a marooned Jaymeson Nicks makes contact with the colony. Nick's testimony of the colony's existence plays a key role in the Solar War.
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