What should the first Mars City/Colony be called?

[Antilogic]

New Roanoke.

Love it. I would also consider Earhart, Hoffa, or Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Or we name it after an existing landmark on Mars, wherever the colony is going to end up.

I suspect this is what would actually happen. Something like Landmark Base or Landmark Dome or something.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Amsterdam. End of thread.

Too dry. Can't sink.

 

[Fr8monkey]

Utopia Planitia was a shipyard, technically. Also, I'm pretty sure it was a space station.

Actually from the Star Trek Wiki...

Utopia Planitia was a vast lava plain on the planet Mars. It was the location of the Utopia colony as well as the surface structures of the starship construction facility, the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, one of the Federation's most extensive construction yards. Probably, all surface-based facilities were also part of the Martian colonies.

 

[Narz]

I don't know what it should be called but there should be a trampoline-based theme park.

 

[El_Machinae]

"Because"

As in "because it was there"

 

[cybrxkhan]

Neo-Constantinople

 

[Gigaz]

It will probably be called Kings Landing. Soon, hilarity ensues.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Hobston.

And you aren't invited.

It should avoid anything to do with Aries though, that's really overused in SF.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Swordfish Alpha, the mysterious compound from which nobody seems to le-

oh no I can't do this sorry.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It should avoid anything to do with Aries though, that's really overused in SF.

Considering that there are 11 other zodiac signs, I can understand that a lot of people might feel left out.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It should avoid anything to do with Aries though, that's really overused in SF.

As an Aires, I object to your objection of the name being related to Aires!

 

[Kyriakos]

^Buenos Aires.

 

[Gucumatz]

Nothing good about it *shots at Takhisis*

 

[Kyriakos]

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>First city on Mars should be named Red Dawn.

 

[IglooDame]

Olive.

 

[Phrossack]

New Detroit. What it lacks in crime, it makes up for in the absence of air, nature, and healthy levels of gravity.

 

[Zkribbler]

Phobos Base One, to wit, the proper course for colonizing Mars would be, rather to dive down into its gravity well, set up a base on its moon Phobos.

Phobos is tidally locked to Mars, and so the planet-side of the moon will be forever locked on the planet. From Phobos Base One, techs can use remote robots to build a habitable base on Mars. Phobos' proximity to Mars will mean this process will not be plagued with the time lag which we would face if we tried to do this from Earth. Yet, because the techs would not be stuck deep in a gravity well, they will be able to come home again.

 

[El_Machinae]

Hmmmn, that means we could use the Moon-hook idea there, too.

 

[Lights]

I would call it Irony, for the puns

 

[Lohrenswald]

Honestly, I think there should never be one