Avaneya

The year is 2082. Billions on Earth had starved to death, with the majority remnants displaced, malnourished and impoverished. Rising acidic oceans, devoid of almost all life, had engulfed entire cities. Once fertile land had since been transformed into barren wasteland of endless stretches of desert. Forests had vanished, innumerable species wiped out, vexed tectonic plates sought new equilibrium, and the last functioning oil refineries were days from expiration. Entire city blocks had collapsed into craters once supported by delicate natural water systems. Epidemics, poverty, and food riots were rampant worldwide. Mass media, corporate news, and secular materialism, however, remained immutable.

All three of the world's nations coveted what little remained. The fractional reserve private central banks continued indirectly financing all sides. Awaiting the predicted defaulting on their loans, the central banks rapidly mobilized, commercialized, and patented virtually every remaining resource through their subsidiaries as collateral.

Mankind's dire state and rejection of lifestyle reformation, coupled with discoveries of opulent reserves of Martian natural resources revealed via telemetry, prompted the first manned mission to Mars to investigate. Despite tireless efforts and all of humanity's advances in science and engineering, the crew were afforded sufficient fuel to their destination, though not of return.

Given the inherent dangers and nature of the mission, the crew selected were unmarried, ex-military airborne paratroopers, learned, and of diverse academic backgrounds. All accepted the moderate risks of the countless ways to die.

The mission, financed by the public, championed under the colours of science at its finest, they were tasked with finding sustenance for Earth for the betterment of all humanity. The crew, however, found themselves disillusioned mid route when they learnt unintentionally of the mission's genuine purpose to exploit the Martian materials to entertain the designs of a terrestrial select few.

The costly partial terraformation of the biosphere initiated remotely from Earth decades prior required the already naturally occurring Martian resources, and thus could not be repeated again to replenish Earth's new bread basket. The crew deliberated extensively and finally chose not to facilitate a repetition of history in establishing the groundwork for laying yet another planet to waste. They abandoned their mission objectives and, perceiving Earth as a hopeless write-off, abandoned it too as they made an attempt to stand their ground in establishing a new way of sustainable life.

They educated their progeny with the hard terrestrial lessons learnt. Now as they grow in number on Mars, they must use their knowledge to protect themselves from deforestation, epidemics, irrational partisan politics, broken neoclassical economics, overpopulation, flooding, social injustice, bureaucracy, and more. Here their education began with the fundamental premise that nothing is disparate.

However, having abandoned Earth's utterly enraged powers that be, the colonists were confident their time of isolation was limited. Within the coming decades, the colonists expect the arrival of avant-garde private defence contractors to ensure the security of coming industry in finishing what had never been started.

# 2010-11-10 15:51:39 - official description - source

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