Mars

Mars is the fourth planet in the Sol System homeworld of the extinct Martian race and humanities oldest colony with a population in the billions and is governed by the Mars Congressional Republic. Mars is also a major member of the Federated Territories

## History

##### **Ancient History**

Millions of years ago Mars was the home of the Martian race, Mars flourished under the care of the Martians and was considered one of the most prominent worlds in the galaxy with a seat on the First Counsel. All this came to an end when Hell began its first incursion into real space devastating the world, the Martians were rendered extinct when the whole race sacrificed itself to create the soul cube and seal Hell out of realspace, leaving Mars as a lifeless wasteland

##### **Human Colonization and Pre-MRC**

Humanities first off Earth colony Mars was settled in the 2200s with full scale terraforming beginning, UN Martian colonist tension nearly lead to war on multiple occasions until Solomon Epstein inadvertently invented the Epstein Drive. Mars offered Earth access to the Epstein Drive in exchange for granting Mars its sovereignty

##### **Early MCR and Mars**

During early Sol system colonization Mars was Earth's main rival and one of the chief exploiters of the Belt leading to MCR, UN, OPA tension. The MCR's discovery of the Protomolecule, and development of stealth tech would be one of the prime causes of the *Eros Incident* and would lead to humanities first interplanetary war the *UN-MCR War*. Mars and the MCR would endure but this era would cause a decline of Martian influence that would last decades. During this time period the UN destroyed Mars's moon Phobos turning it into the Phobos Ring.

##### **Martian Decline**

After the *UN-MCR War* disarmament, terraforming setbacks, and a major energy crisis would massively destabilize Mars and the MCR threatening to turn the world into a backwater colony. Mars would suffer more during the *Free Navy Conflict* losing fleets and insuring military incursions and terrorist attacks as well as mass defection. Mars would only be burdened more with the destruction of the Earth Hypergate, becoming inundated with refugees and as the only surviving government the burden of policing the Sol System.

##### Martian Revitalization

With Mars suffering major decline the MCR took a drastic steps and gambled everything into three long shot projects referred to as the *Three Gambles*. The first of these was the UACs research into Argent Energy, the second one was the Weyland-Yutani backed terraformation of Mars, and the final one was the RDA/Astral Gate Corporations construction of a Martian Hypergate, all three paid off and Mars was brought back from the dead, instead of becoming a backwater wasteland Mars became and Earth-Like garden with unlimited energy and a gateway to the universe. Mars now a major player again would participate in the *Titan Wars* and after become one of the founding members of the Federated Territories.

## Economy

Mars is one of humanities main trading hubs a haven for mega corporations and Mars has industry in nearly every field. While Mars does do a bit of everything it does have fields where it excels such as ship building and energy export

##### Export

 Argent Energy
 Weapons manufacture and development

## Culture

Mars's difficult past has developed a culture of people dedicated to hard work, military valor and a Mars first mentality, Martians thrive when faced with difficult challenges and tend to make driven workers and soldiers. The average Martian tends to be very nationalistic and a bit jaded and it is reflected in all aspects of the culture with a art and architecture being very self sacrificing and inspired by the terrain of Mars while extremely spartan and practical.

## **Military**

As a part of the Federated Territories Mars enjoys the protection of the Federated Army, Federated Navy and the Federated Territories Police as well as the Martian Congressional Navy(MCRN) and the Martian Marine Corps (MMC). The Martian military is known for well equipped and trained and its use of power armor and stealth frigates

## Major Locations

 Mars City
 Tharsis
 Alba City
 Olympus Mons Maximum Security Penal Colony
 Spiders From Mars

## Factions

##### Government

* MCR
* Federated Territories
* Federated Territories Police (Martian Department MFTPD)

Military

* MCRN
* MMC
* Federated Navy
* Federated Army

##### Corporate

* UAC
* Weyland-Yutani
* Ultor
* RDA

##### Crime

* Red Dragon Crime Syndicate
* White Tiger Crime Syndicate
* Marauders

##### Worker Unions

* Transport Union
* Red Faction

## Famous Martians

 Alex Kamal
 Vicious | Human

## Media used in Lore

* The Expanse
* Doom
* Cowboy Bebop
* Aliens vs Predator
* The 5th Element
* Avatar
* Red Faction

## Images

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## See also

* Earth
* Sol System

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