Mars
Facts
- Primary: Sol
- System name: Sol IV
- Capital: Ares City
- Class K
- Two moons
- Major Inhabitants: Human; Tellarite
- Gravity approximately 0.4x Earth normal
- Nation
- 2105 - Present: Confederated Martian Colonies
- Early testing ground by Humans for mantle mining technologies during early terraforming efforts
- Resulting moholes also used for easy access to areothermal power and heat (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
History
- 2030: First manned mission to Mars, the Ares I; Verna Mitrios is the first human to set foot on Mars (TLE Novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
- August 2032: Ares IV vanishes into a graviton ellipse in orbit of Mars (VOY: "One Small Step")
- 2069: First temporary habitation established at Utopia Planitia outpost; general terraforming processes begin (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- Late 21st century: Mantle mining begins; resource extraction via burrowed moholes (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- 2103: Ares City, the first long-term colony intended for open settlement, is established (VOY Novel: Mosaic; VOY: "The 37s")
- 2105: War of Martian Independence begins (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing; S31 Novel: Rogue)
- 2105: War of Martian Independence ends with the drafting of the Fundamental Declarations of the Martian Colonies, leading to the formation of the Confederated Martian Colonies
Locations
Orbit
- Mars Defense Perimeter
- Series of stations sharing Martian orbit (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
- Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
- Areosynchronous orbit above Utopia Planitia
Surface
- Endurance Crater
- Endurance
- Utopia Planitia (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Burroughs (TNG Short Story: "Meet With Triumph and Disaster")
- Named for author Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Utopia (ENT: "Demons", "Terra Prime"; ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Originally known as Martian Colony 2
- Burroughs (TNG Short Story: "Meet With Triumph and Disaster")
- Valles Marineris
- City of Valles Marineris
- Fort Kiley
- Popé Pueblo (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Settled 2109 by Puebloan peoples during initial Martian colonization efforts (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- A response to the theft of their own land, seeking stability in an unclaimed frontier (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Named for Popé, leader of 17th century revolt against Spanish colonial rule (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Population: 20,000 (2155) (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- More commonly known as "Canyontown" to locals (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Largely subterranean complex constructed within cliffside of Valles Marineris canyon (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Popé Boulevard (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Underground main thoroughfare (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Ahota's Public House (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Only tavern and board in Popé Pueblo (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Community habak (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Reference to "Journey's End", vaguely based on a Puebloan kiva; possibly presented here as an explanation for the cultural shift?
- Dytallix-Barsoom Resource Extraction and Mining Corporation headquarters (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Settled 2109 by Puebloan peoples during initial Martian colonization efforts (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Unknown
- Ares City
- Originally known as Martian Colony 1
- Bradbury City (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Bradbury Spaceport (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
- Cydonia
- Gundersdottir's Dome (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Martian Colony 3
- New Chicago (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Endurance University (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Margaritifer Terra (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Carbonated water aquifer (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)
- Robinson Township
- Sagan Station (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Ares City