Really deep surface features on the real Mars (most of the planitia, for example) could be coopted into shallow seas or salty marshes. That way, civilized locations get plenty of water, but travellers really have to suck it up. Most of the water on the planet comes from huge underground aquifers.
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Now, I know we've got our own barsoomcore that has done something somewhat similar to this as well, but I'm (honestly!) not looking to just rip off his setting - but the imagery of Mars is just too cool - I've been a fan since I was a kid.Īny ideas on how to pull this off? Here's some other stuff I want to incorporate into the mix: Of course, it wouldn't be too much like the real Mars - I prefer normal gravity and air pressure, for instance, although I have thought of using real maps of Mars as a starting point (setting the game near the western end of Valles Marinaris also makes it close to the Tharsis region and Olympus Mons, for instance) and maybe borrowing some vague references from Edgar Rice Burrough's own Barsoom as well. I've read two non-fiction book on Mars in the last month or two, and pored over the Mars section of The NASA Atlas of the Solar System.īecause I've also been on a bit of a steampunk binge lately in terms of what I want to game with, and because the Geonosis scenes in the robot factory put me in mind of steampunk, I've got this notion rattling around in my head to convert my steampunkish setting that I've been developing (currently set on a kind of fantasy Lake Bonneville, so it's got tons of red rocks too! ) into a Mars-like world.
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Not long ago I rented Red Planet and watched it for the first time (despite it's major floppage at the box office, I thought the movie was really cool in an old fashioned hard SF kinda way.) I've got Red Mars from Books on Tape in my car right now. Oddly enough, I've been going on a bit of a "Mars thing" lately.
During the entire clone/battle droid action set piece near the end, you can even notice the rusty orange sky (it looks like mid to late afternoon, so it's not sunset sky as I first assumed.)
When I got home today, my 5 month pregnant wife was being pestered a bit too much by my almost two year old son (the older two were playing Frogger, and can generally be left at it, unless they start fighting) so I took him downstairs and popped on Attack of the Clones for him, skipping around (yea, DVDs!) for stuff I thought he'd find interesting (turns out he loves Yoda and big silver spaceships.)Īnyway, I was struck in a way that I haven't really been so far by the resemblance of Geonosis to Mars.
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