Mars

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History

• The Russians did not develop their Moon programme, choosing instead to shoot for Mars. They established the small Mars Colony Voskhod, where the Treaty of Voskhod was signed in 2006.
• In 2006 under the Treaty of Voskhod, Grossdeutschland and the USSR agreed to co-operate on the terraforming and joint protection of Mars from external powers.
• In 2011 large scale terraforming begins on Mars with the German and Russian fleets detonating nuclear weapons at the poles. The resulting detonations melt water and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Simulataneously, the first Great Mirror moves into position over the northern pole. Meanwhile on the surface largescale factories produce CFCs and PFCs.
• In 2014 the first microbial lifeforms are released across the globe, genetically designed to help build an atmosphere.
• In 2015 the first of seventeen asteroids is sent into the martian atmosphere. These gas rich asteroids largely burn up in the atmosphere serving to add volume to the thin martian atmosphere.
• In 2023 terraforming of Mars completes sufficiently to allow a man to breath the atmosphere unaided for short periods of time, although the daytime tempatures are still cold to icy.
• In 2027 most released species have begun to adapt to life on their new home.
• In the 2020s and 30s, Britain constructed experimental arcology housings on Phobos and Diemos, using technology that was later copied by the Germans on Luna and Arminius, to make otherwise barren moons livable and almost self-sufficient.
• In 2030 both Russian and German nations begin large scale population relocation to Mars. The expected lifespan of these colonists settles in the mid thirties as many difficulties are encountered. Despite this, many are willing to seek a new better life on Mars rather than face growing population density and competition for resources on Earth.
• 2030-2077 Terraforming efforts continue for the better part of half a century as more of the surface is slowly made habitable. These efforts focus on improvement of quality of life rather than specific needs for survival on the surface. Efforts focus on increasing the biodiversity of the planet, generation of artificial magetospheres over large population centres to protect against radiation, maintenance of the atmosphere, cleanup of nuclear fallout at the poles. Life expectancy rises from the mid thirties to the mid sixties over this period.

• In 2077 the last super factory producing greenhouse gases is turned off and redeveloped. The Martian atmosphere is now warm enough to be comparable with Earth during the early 21st century.
• in the early 2100s, under the growing pressure of events like the 2114 Prague Sit-in and the Migration Crises of the 2120s, Mars became the site for massive population resettlements for Russia and Germany. The availability of Mars for German population migration was the determining factor in Germany not constructing any Ark Ships.