Humans have settled Mars in dozens of ways in fiction. And people have been making real plans for a while too, which, at the moment, all might as well be fiction. There are a lot of named and notable locations, which could make for a really fun RP colony. I think it'd be great to have a list of them!
E.g. in my playthrough, I went for the achievement of educating 100 people by Sol 100 as the Japanese colony. This fits PERFECTLY with Sabishii university from the Red Mars trilogy. So I looked up its exact location in lore, but because it had a different coordinate system, I spent around an hour with maps of Mars and the game UI trying to figure it out. (It's 15S, 85E, btw.) I would have loved to pick it out of a list!
Some examples:
Dusters from the Expanse
Techpriests of Mars
Wong Ranch from Futurama
The Mars base in DOOM. Play as Blue Sun (or Paradox, lol).
And my favorite, the Red Mars trilogy. There are so many named, mapped cities with interesting stories behind them.
Humans have settled Mars in dozens of ways in fiction. And people have been making real plans for a while too, which, at the moment, all might as well be fiction. There are a lot of named and notable locations, which could make for a really fun RP colony. I think it'd be great to have a list of them!
E.g. in my playthrough, I went for the achievement of educating 100 people by Sol 100 as the Japanese colony. This fits PERFECTLY with Sabishii university from the Red Mars trilogy. So I looked up its exact location in lore, but because it had a different coordinate system, I spent around an hour with maps of Mars and the game UI trying to figure it out. (It's 15S, 85E, btw.) I would have loved to pick it out of a list!
Some examples: