| The Human-induced Evolution of Mars... The colonization of Mars began long before the trips to Mars were even made. Radical advancements in the hybridization sciences concurrently caused a leap in the space sciences. NASA became more interested in colonizing Mars, and it seemed more reality than a dream. The first people to set foot on Mars were hybrids. They were also scientists. The hybrids, with their increased tolerance to extreme temperatures and help from thermal spacesuits, were able to create a small bio-dome. Using greenhouse gasses, they kept the bio-dome warm on the inside, and begun growing plants in those domes. Further, prolonged, and tedious study of various algae specimens revealed the inner working of plants, and just how they create oxygen for a climate. Greenhouse gas plants were shortly built in eager attempt to warm up the planet. The gas factories, as they were so lovingly called, produced enough perfluorocarbons (PFCs) to warm the planet up to a habitable place for algae and lichens. The greenhouse gasses that warmed the planet, given in small doses, warmed the planet enough that frozen water in the topsoil began to unfreeze, and a series of lakes started to appear. The planet, taking an unexpected turn toward the best, was quickly shifting from a martian dream to a martian reality. It was very shortly after that more scientists came to the planet, this time they were regular humans, and started to build laboratories inside larger biological domes. Hybrids started to be created in those laboratories to work on the planet. The first hybrid created on Mars was named Gideon 376. When one of the larger bio-domes started to show signs of failure, however, the dome was evacuated, and all the scientists and hybrids that inhabited it were sent back to Earth in 2083. Most of the domes started to show the same kinds of failures, and they were all evacuated by the end of the year. It was about two years later that the same scientists returned, bringing new knowledge. With plants typically grown in rainforest regions of Earth, the scientists sowed the seeds of many trees, flowers, shrubs, and grasses. With the rapidly warming climate, the plants started growing very quickly. What scientists thought would take thousands of years took much less time. In a matter of ten years, all of the trees the scientists planted, along with some oxygen generation machines, gave Mars a breathable atmosphere, suitable for life. With the greenhouse gasses still present in the atmosphere, however, Mars became mostly a rainforest planet. As more of the water that had previously been trapped, frozen in the soil, started to melt, shallow lakes started appearing. With the lakes and the warm atmosphere, weather started appearing, With the weather came more growth, and Mars became a living planet, by 2093. People flocked to the planet to live there, and cities grew from the clearings of the rainforests. With the trees and buildings, the martian dust storms stopped altogether. Since then, Mars has been a desireable place to live for all humans and hybrids alike. Because of the nature of the original colonization, the hybrid population on Mars almost equals that of the human population. In some cities, such as the capitol city of Epson and the hybrid-friendly Epsilion, the hybrid population is nearly higher than the human population. Many cities on Mars, such as the major Tharsis Ridge city of Reeveport, are highly anti-hybrid, and have next to no hybrid population. The only city with a hybrid population outnumbering the human population is a small city named Gideon�s Wake, near Oracle. Gelbridge is the only city other than Epsilion that is hybrid friendly, but there are no laws in Gelbridge that protect hybrids. Back |