Space Exploration: Part Deuce

I left off with Mars being colonized by normal Jane and Joe's of the world. That's right. It wasn't NASA, or the Russians, or the Chinese that landed people on Mars. Those people not only landed, but refused to leave.

They were pioneers, searching to live in a place that was the frontier. The first 'Martians' were people who were tired of the status quo. Tired of the political lies and the backstabbing. People that just want to get away.

Not only did they get to Mars in one piece, but they turned around and 'open sourced' there method that they used to get there. That means that the information and technology that they used to get to Mars was free to use by anyone.

At first, the major spacefaring Nations tried to put there foot down on these people who wanted to play in there play ground. It didn't stop them. People from around the world were now paying attention to space.

Thousands started to put the dots together like they had. The problems were already solved by the first of them. They just had to start buying stuff.

At first it was the Russians that started to support the pioneers. But they wanted political clout in the organization of the 'Martians'. Then the Chinese started to support them, but they wanted the same. The U.S. threatened world war unless the other Nations backed down and be reasonable.

The U.N. started up an independent organization that was in charge of regulating all manned space exploration. It was called the 'Interplanetary Association'. Or the I.P.A.

The I.P.A. was a hard lined organization that developed totalitarian rules that new pioneers needed to follow.

People were still blasting off into space, but after a large series of accidents from Iranian backed missions, the I.P.A. came into play. They created huge industries where you had to buy the parts from them. Millions of dollars were racked in from the pioneers.

Not everyone could afford the huge price tag, which steadily dropped as technology grew better, but it still remained high. Those that wanted to go, but couldn't afford to go either found government sponsors of some kind, or corporate.

Over the course of the next fifty years, the population grew substantially. By the year 2075, with the first pioneers nearing the end of there lives, the population on Mars grew to a million people.

They didn't live in one colony, but many. Disagreements came about during the fifty years and the people on Mars had split up into different camps. These camps at times were ready to kill each other.

The style of colony that they used varied depending on where you were. The First Colony, built underground. They dug into the soil hunting for iron ore. When the sand storms came, they hid in the shelter of there mines until it passed.

After a few years, they realized that they could live underground as easily or easier as they did on the surface.

In the year 2075, the I.P.A., did something stupid. Not a single member of the organization had ever been to Mars. And as such, the rulings that had been edicted by the organization were voted on by the people of the individual colony. Sometimes the entire planet refused to follow the edict or only a few colonies.

The I.P.A. had gotten very frustrated with the colonists as the entire planet voted down the twentieth straight edict. The colonists, a vast percentage of them born and raised Martians, had gotten frustrated by the absentee landlords.

In the spring, the colonists declared independence. The different colonies had all sat down and agreed to self govern with a president as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of government.

The I.P.A. and the U.N. took that as Mars declaring war on the Earth. Six months after the declaration, the I.P.A. raised ten thousands troops to and sent them to Mars. They came without warning and blasted there way into the fragile colonies.

The war was over in under an hour. All of the colonies were captured by I.P.A. forces with little casualties reported on either side.

A third of the colonists, both men and women were working or living in the Mines. They shut the mines and sealed them. Like when they have to defend themselves against the sandstorms.

With the mines mostly self-sufficient, they were able to out last the I.P.A. troops. But because of some shortages, like of electricity, the colonists relied of solar power, they had to turn off many of the lights.

After two years of the siege, some of the colonists took a radical surgery for the eyes. Called 'shined'. It is when they alter the light senors in the eyes to make a person have the ability to see in the dark. But they then have a hard time seeing in the light. But as they lived underground, the people, who now called themselves the 'Molemen', had no problem with that.

With little weapons besides those that are used to dig at the earth, the Molemen surged out of the mines to overwhelm the I.P.A. defenses. The first interplanetary civil war lasted three years and consisted of two battles.

With the I.P.A. forces captured or killed, the Martians declared themselves fully independent. They would regulate and govern themselves. They also declared that the Earth measure of telling time was useless to them. They could not just simply change it to a 686 day year, they kept the Earth measure of 365 days equaling one year, but changed year one to 2020. They declared that it was Year 57 in the Space Era.

That is where I am going to stop my history for now. I need to discus other aspects of the future story world so that you will understand them.

Any comments of suggestions, please give them. I'd love to hear it.