"You are a prominent scientist among a group just landed on Mars to conduct research. Shortly after landing, to your horror, you hear that a huge war has erupted on Earth. Weapons of devastating effect wipe out entire populations. Humanity there has been bombed back into the stone age. You cannot count on resupply ships or support from back home. The other members of your expedition go crazy, dividing up into competing factions. Fortunately, you head the largest faction, and might be able to get something accomplished.
You weigh the situation. On the one hand, Mars is a desolate landscape, whose deserts, hills, mountains and icecaps are far more barren than those of Earth. You can't even produce food or venture outside the pressurized station tent without a space suit.
You do have the CATAlytic PUrification Light Transport (Catapult) with which to refine some of the local materials. And you have a couple of spacesuits. One is an old Explorer type, little more than a thin plastic pressure suit. The other is a modern Pikeman suit, the heavily contructed kind with built in tools, formerly used by road contruction crews on the Moon.
Your landing site was the middle of a huge crater, a nice plain with plenty of regolith. This could be a good site to garden, if there were some way to bring water from the icecap, or some way to shield the fragile plants against the harsh Martian environment. Hopefully you won't have to rely on that: there was supposed to be an extensive cache of prepositoned supplies around here somewhere. The exact location, and the access codes, would be in the station computer, but you can't seem to log onto it any more...
Plus, yours isn't the only colony on Mars. You see the huge colony ships of other nations coming down through the atmosphere occasionally, at night--sometimes quite close. Perhaps they would be willing to render assistance!"
Instead of a realistic map of actual Mars elevations ruined by a bunch of totally incorrect Earthlike terrain, I went the other way. This scenario gives the flavor of what the real Mars is actually like and the actual challenges that it might pose to the path of a growing civilization. Until the end, where it gets hghly speculative.
Created with just the plain vanilla editor, uses no new units, though the old ones are...different, as documented in the readme. Requires no special back up or loading procedures. Just click on the link
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/newmars.zip
and you get the zip. Unzip it or it will run slow, but other than that the scenario is all just one file, not a bunch of folders of units and stuff you have to paste in.
I'll do a better readme file later, showing the tech tree and also explaining the improvements and resources.
You weigh the situation. On the one hand, Mars is a desolate landscape, whose deserts, hills, mountains and icecaps are far more barren than those of Earth. You can't even produce food or venture outside the pressurized station tent without a space suit.
You do have the CATAlytic PUrification Light Transport (Catapult) with which to refine some of the local materials. And you have a couple of spacesuits. One is an old Explorer type, little more than a thin plastic pressure suit. The other is a modern Pikeman suit, the heavily contructed kind with built in tools, formerly used by road contruction crews on the Moon.
Your landing site was the middle of a huge crater, a nice plain with plenty of regolith. This could be a good site to garden, if there were some way to bring water from the icecap, or some way to shield the fragile plants against the harsh Martian environment. Hopefully you won't have to rely on that: there was supposed to be an extensive cache of prepositoned supplies around here somewhere. The exact location, and the access codes, would be in the station computer, but you can't seem to log onto it any more...
Plus, yours isn't the only colony on Mars. You see the huge colony ships of other nations coming down through the atmosphere occasionally, at night--sometimes quite close. Perhaps they would be willing to render assistance!"
Instead of a realistic map of actual Mars elevations ruined by a bunch of totally incorrect Earthlike terrain, I went the other way. This scenario gives the flavor of what the real Mars is actually like and the actual challenges that it might pose to the path of a growing civilization. Until the end, where it gets hghly speculative.
Created with just the plain vanilla editor, uses no new units, though the old ones are...different, as documented in the readme. Requires no special back up or loading procedures. Just click on the link
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/newmars.zip
and you get the zip. Unzip it or it will run slow, but other than that the scenario is all just one file, not a bunch of folders of units and stuff you have to paste in.
I'll do a better readme file later, showing the tech tree and also explaining the improvements and resources.
