The Planet Mars

This article covers both the region The Planet Mars and the planet itself.

The Region

This region is made up of roleplayers who have a colony or their main nation on the planet. While violence is frequent it is often caused by outside sources - paradoxically the people of Mars tend to be peaceful (if very well armed). The planet is being terraformed; ask for details on the forums.

This region is password protected. If you wish to move a nation or a placeholder nation to Mars please contact Sunset or New ArAreBee for permission to move. You might be asked for proof of your intentions (Links, Threads, Etc) if either of these two nations have not seen any activity on the forums or elsewhere in regards to Mars.

• Date: 2689AFY (Febuary, 2059AFM)
• Regional Population: 59.2 billion
• NationStates Region
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The Planet

Depending on who you are the planet is either in the final stages of terraforming or still a dull red ball. While the oldest known colonization started in December of 2002 there were nations already present in the region at this point thus it is possible that colonization began prior to this. The following timeline is incomplete and should be revised as more information becomes avaliable.

Timeline

• December 31st, 2002

Sunset arrives on Mars. Settling in the Vallis Marineris region of Mars the nation is essentially isolated from the rest of Mars.

• Febuary 25th (Approx), 2003

Volaria, Platonic, Delgados, and Os Sanglants arrive on Mars. Within two months the governments of the first three will dissolve and their people disperse into the growing population of Mars.

• July, 2003

The NGEN war tears Mars apart. Tor Yvresse and Os Sanglants fight NGEN and Melkor Unchained to a standstill. Around this time the map of Mars is solidly laid down with the first repository of this data residing in Sunset.

• July 25th (Approx), 2003

The nation of Sephirus launches a fleet and attempts to invade all of Mars. The invasion of Mars is stopped by a combined fleet from the Triumvirate of Yut. This event also serves to bring Mars closer to the system spotlight.

• August, 2003

Sunset and Tor Yvresse begin the search for a rumored Necron city beneath the soil of Mars with support from the fledgeling Knootoss space forces. This operation is reported to the public as being an extensive archeological survey of the planet and results in the awakening of the Dragon by Roanian forces and their destruction at it's hands. The Republic of Syskeyia founds a colony, imaginatively known as Syskeyian Mars.

• November, 2003

Led by Mangala, delegates from the major nations of Mars create and ratify the Mangalan Accords, creating the Martian Duma. The Duma begins serving as Mars' supreme judicial body even before its headquarters complex is completed.

• Febuary, 2004

Operation: Roundhammer is begun to remove Melkor Unchained from Mars. Aligned against the Dark Lord are New York and Jersey, Menelmacar, Syskeyia, Roania, Kajal Mars, and Aelosia with his only ally being Kalessin. After a massive assault culminating in the deaths of millions on the plains of Angoron the commander of Angmar, Imakarum Mirabilis, surrenders the fortress only to have his adjuct Pharros Adunakhor launch a nuclear strike on all of Mars as well as a biological weapons strike on the oceans.

The former Angoron territory is divided between Menelmacar and the Ctan and marks the return of the Necron to Mars.

Mangala and New ArAreBee split the former Kinslayer territory among themselves in a bilateral peacekeeping effort.

• February - March (Approx), 2004

Under the auspices of the PrattCo Conglomerate (but secretly according to the plans of Abadas and the Federal Government), Santa Barbara sent a delegation to negotiate, in platinum, with the Eniqciri government for purchase of Noachian territory on Mars. After an (exhorbitant) price is settled on, the ITDO began settling Santa Barbaran Noachia with military outposts, bases and fortifications.

• February 8th - April 2nd, 2004

As a side show of Operation: Roundhammer, Tarasovka & Der Angst, cooperating with United Indiastan & The Vortex Corporation, attack and annihilate the Martian Confederacy, which is carved up between DA, TVC, Tarasovka, Bajon & Kajal Mars.

Following this, the Former Martian Confederacy breaks up into several different fractions which are regularily showing wherever some shooting happens.

• July 9th, 2004

Rhaken Kull dissolves and it's polar territory becomes the site of a land war as the area is contested by Northwestern Liang and Allanea in both legal and extra-legal channels. This culminates in the destruction of the Allanea fleet by the forces of Zero-One and their settlement by Northwestern Liang. This is also the trigger point for the destruction of Allanea by the Federation of Sentient Peoples.

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