04-24-2007, 08:01 PM
The Mars Station is a large space station that was built in geosynchronous orbit around the red planet hundreds of years ago. The original purpose of the station was to allow larger vessels to dock in orbit and allow maller vessels to haul goods to and from the planet at a much reduced cost. It quickly grew into a center of commetce foer the Sol system since nearly all food was grown on the surface of the planet.
As technology changed the cost and value of space trsvel, and made much smaller, faster, more afordable ships capable of hauling more and more cargo, the station became used less and less for its original midway purpose and more for general habitation.
As the years progressed, the station was added to and modified to accomodate more and more people until it now no longer even resembles its original design.
The Mars Station is now more of a third-world country than a center of commerce. Living conditions for most of the population, which numbers into themillions, are terrible at best. The environment is unclean, the infrastructure for waste disposal and clean water distrobution is in constant need of repair and power is available in some areas only intermitantly.
The hallways are filled with merchant's tents that are set up alongside ramshakle tents and lean-to's where those that are unable to afford their own housing make their homes. The people that live here re generlly of two different types, the squallidly poor, unable to even look someone else in the eyes, and the immensely rich, unwilling to give anyone else the time of day.
As technology changed the cost and value of space trsvel, and made much smaller, faster, more afordable ships capable of hauling more and more cargo, the station became used less and less for its original midway purpose and more for general habitation.
As the years progressed, the station was added to and modified to accomodate more and more people until it now no longer even resembles its original design.
The Mars Station is now more of a third-world country than a center of commerce. Living conditions for most of the population, which numbers into themillions, are terrible at best. The environment is unclean, the infrastructure for waste disposal and clean water distrobution is in constant need of repair and power is available in some areas only intermitantly.
The hallways are filled with merchant's tents that are set up alongside ramshakle tents and lean-to's where those that are unable to afford their own housing make their homes. The people that live here re generlly of two different types, the squallidly poor, unable to even look someone else in the eyes, and the immensely rich, unwilling to give anyone else the time of day.