The Future is in Mars

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The Future is in Mars; Woot! It's been a long time...
Topic Started: May 20 2010, 08:13 PM (515 Views)
TheCoon	May 20 2010, 08:13 PM Post #1
Happy merry Jesusmas inhabitants of the Spec Forums! Posts: 646 Group: Members Member #241 Joined: Oct 20, 2009 Nationality: Mexican Favorite Quote: I have not told half of what I saw, for I knew I wouldn't be belived -Marco Polo	First of all, I'm glad to say school's over and I'll have more time to spare on this forums. It's been a long time since I last logged in. This project came to my mind some weeks ago. Here it goes: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background: During the revolutionary Golden Age of technology that occured between 2019 and 2051, man was able to finnally terraform and colonize Mars. Various probes showed that Mars did had life long time ago, but it was microscopical, and it never accuired the complexity that Terran animals possess. With this information humanity was sure that there was no risk in trying to colonize Mars, and started the opperation to terraform it. It took more than 40 years, but mars became green, full of oceans, rivers and forests. It took yet another 10 years to build the colonies. Each martian city looked like beautiful metallic places, so perfect that they seemed to be concived in a fairy tale. But then it all went wrong. An error by the company manufactured the machines used to produced food made it impossible to generate new matter to consume. Help would take days to arrive and to fix the problem, the company needed to re-plan the machines, and that would take many years. The great "Martian dream" was over. Near 3 billion people were returned to Earth. Since goverments were unable to re-locate the 3 billion people, they attacked the ships, and made it look like the worst accident human kind suffered. They needed to look elsewere. Mars was forgotten, but with it, various Terran Fauna escaped the incredible cities into the wild. Not only dogs, cats, birds and rats escaped. Genetically engenieered animals escaped and adapted too. Humanity became extinct, unable to return to mars and oviously re-populate it. This is the story of how Mars evolved. This is the story of those forgotten pets and urban wildlife that escaped and retook the throne. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So basically the animals that survive in Mars are not only Dogs and Cats, but also genetically engenieered animals. For example, hervivorous dogs were created in labs for people with "vegetarian preferences". They escaped, and then took the hervivorous niches. And so on. It takes place 20 million years after humanity abandoned Mars. Hope you like it. I'm going to upload things soon.
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Pando	May 20 2010, 08:29 PM Post #2
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	It would be nice for a list of animals. If not we can't help you at all.



TheCoon	May 20 2010, 09:20 PM Post #3
Happy merry Jesusmas inhabitants of the Spec Forums! Posts: 646 Group: Members Member #241 Joined: Oct 20, 2009 Nationality: Mexican Favorite Quote: I have not told half of what I saw, for I knew I wouldn't be belived -Marco Polo	I'm just posting the background so that you all know what the project is about. I'm gonna post the list of animals in a day or two, when it's finnished. I'm also working on a map of the Terraformed Mars, and probably also a list of plants. In the meantime you can post what you expect from this project. That would help me until I post the list (or lists) and the map Edited by TheCoon, May 20 2010, 09:21 PM.
	Greetings young life form! Procyon Lotor at your service.


Pando	May 20 2010, 09:22 PM Post #4
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Here is a map of terraformed Mars, provided there was no changes to the geology and you want big ice caps.



TheCoon	May 20 2010, 09:31 PM Post #5
Happy merry Jesusmas inhabitants of the Spec Forums! Posts: 646 Group: Members Member #241 Joined: Oct 20, 2009 Nationality: Mexican Favorite Quote: I have not told half of what I saw, for I knew I wouldn't be belived -Marco Polo	Wow! Where did you get that! That's quite helpfull. Thanks.
	Greetings young life form! Procyon Lotor at your service.


Pando	May 20 2010, 09:37 PM Post #6
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I found the picture when I was looking for a map for Gaia Mars.



Canis Lupis	May 20 2010, 09:42 PM Post #7
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	Pando, this is the kind of Mars TheCoon will most likely get with his short timespan. However, ideally, we'd want this kind of Mars. We probably won't get it until the 22nd century, but oh well: Edited by Canis Lupis, May 20 2010, 09:59 PM.



Pando	May 20 2010, 09:50 PM Post #8
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Sorry, but had to edit its size. Too big and lagged the page. Enjoy it in a 1500x1500 format! That looks EXACTLY like my map that I put here, except with the ice being deserts.



Canis Lupis	May 20 2010, 09:58 PM Post #9
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	Well, ideally, Mars shouldn't be cold. I mean, if we use the greenhouse gas that is the most efficient, those large ice caps will be deserts in the future.



colddigger	May 20 2010, 10:33 PM Post #10
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	Or if we continued that massive trench a ways in we could have some shallow seas.
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