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Line 342: The inability to simply smash cubic kilometers of water onto Mars became a real problem by the latter half of the twenty-third century: the dry, fractured crust soaked water like a sponge, threatening to dry up rivers, lakes, and even the deep Hellas Basin Sea. The then prosperous [[Ryan Ice Cartel]], which had conquered a similar challenge to deliver cubic kilometers of water ice to its customers at a time when [[DropShip]]s might bear a couple thousand tons of payload, offered the solution: a "skyhook" dangling from Mars' inner moon Phobos would drop the water ice to the planet with only city-shattering force (rather than continent-shattering). The inability to simply smash cubic kilometers of water onto Mars became a real problem by the latter half of the twenty-third century: the dry, fractured crust soaked water like a sponge, threatening to dry up rivers, lakes, and even the deep Hellas Basin Sea. The then prosperous [[Ryan Ice Cartel]], which had conquered a similar challenge to deliver cubic kilometers of water ice to its customers at a time when [[DropShip]]s might bear a couple thousand tons of payload, offered the solution: a "skyhook" dangling from Mars' inner moon Phobos would drop the water ice to the planet with only city-shattering force (rather than continent-shattering). − The Phobos Skyhook targeted (mostly successfully) its falling icebergs at the already flooded Valles Marineris, right where the super canyon crossed the equator and emptied into the manmade Northern Ocean at Chryse Planitia. However, the southern Hellas Basin Sea was isolated from that new water by the high southern continental plateau and the equatorial orbit of Phobos. The solution was simple and fed on those early dreams of Mars: an artificial canal between the Northern Ocean (specifically, the Isidis Planitia Sea) and Hellas Basin Sea. Though simple in concept, this would be the largest excavation project undertaken by man. The "Schiaparelli Project" carved a canal 1800 km long and kilometers deep, albeit aided by repeated Lowell cometary impacts that had anticipated the canal. Because the canal — and Hellas Basin Sea — were not necessary to Mars' terraforming, the Martian mining companies did not contribute to it (though they happily accepted contracts to dig the canal). Instead, the [[Schiaparelli Project]] was half funded by the ultra-rich of Terra, who were lured by dreams of estates carved to order on a low-gravity canyon paradise.<ref name=Mars>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [15/01/3072]: "Touring the Grand Canal of Mars"''</ref> + The Phobos Skyhook targeted (mostly successfully) its falling icebergs at the already flooded Valles Marineris, right where the super canyon crossed the equator and emptied into the manmade Northern Ocean at Chryse Planitia. However, the southern Hellas Basin Sea was isolated from that new water by the high southern continental plateau and the equatorial orbit of Phobos. The solution was simple and fed on those early dreams of Mars: an artificial canal between the Northern Ocean (specifically, the Isidis Planitia Sea) and Hellas Basin Sea. Though simple in concept, this would be the largest excavation project undertaken by man. The "Schiaparelli Project" carved a canal 1800 km long and kilometers deep, albeit aided by repeated Lowell cometary impacts that had anticipated the canal. Because the canal — and Hellas Basin Sea — were not necessary to Mars' terraforming, the Martian mining companies did not contribute to it (though they happily accepted contracts to dig the canal). Instead, the Schiaparelli Project was half funded by the ultra-rich of Terra, who were lured by dreams of estates carved to order on a low-gravity canyon paradise.<ref name=Mars>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [15/01/3072]: "Touring the Grand Canal of Mars"''</ref> ====Terran Hegemony==== ====Terran Hegemony====
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The inability to simply smash cubic kilometers of water onto Mars became a real problem by the latter half of the twenty-third century: the dry, fractured crust soaked water like a sponge, threatening to dry up rivers, lakes, and even the deep Hellas Basin Sea. The then prosperous [[Ryan Ice Cartel]], which had conquered a similar challenge to deliver cubic kilometers of water ice to its customers at a time when [[DropShip]]s might bear a couple thousand tons of payload, offered the solution: a "skyhook" dangling from Mars' inner moon Phobos would drop the water ice to the planet with only city-shattering force (rather than continent-shattering). | The inability to simply smash cubic kilometers of water onto Mars became a real problem by the latter half of the twenty-third century: the dry, fractured crust soaked water like a sponge, threatening to dry up rivers, lakes, and even the deep Hellas Basin Sea. The then prosperous [[Ryan Ice Cartel]], which had conquered a similar challenge to deliver cubic kilometers of water ice to its customers at a time when [[DropShip]]s might bear a couple thousand tons of payload, offered the solution: a "skyhook" dangling from Mars' inner moon Phobos would drop the water ice to the planet with only city-shattering force (rather than continent-shattering). | ||
| − | The Phobos Skyhook targeted (mostly successfully) its falling icebergs at the already flooded Valles Marineris, right where the super canyon crossed the equator and emptied into the manmade Northern Ocean at Chryse Planitia. However, the southern Hellas Basin Sea was isolated from that new water by the high southern continental plateau and the equatorial orbit of Phobos. The solution was simple and fed on those early dreams of Mars: an artificial canal between the Northern Ocean (specifically, the Isidis Planitia Sea) and Hellas Basin Sea. Though simple in concept, this would be the largest excavation project undertaken by man. The "Schiaparelli Project" carved a canal 1800 km long and kilometers deep, albeit aided by repeated Lowell cometary impacts that had anticipated the canal. Because the canal — and Hellas Basin Sea — were not necessary to Mars' terraforming, the Martian mining companies did not contribute to it (though they happily accepted contracts to dig the canal). Instead, the | + | The Phobos Skyhook targeted (mostly successfully) its falling icebergs at the already flooded Valles Marineris, right where the super canyon crossed the equator and emptied into the manmade Northern Ocean at Chryse Planitia. However, the southern Hellas Basin Sea was isolated from that new water by the high southern continental plateau and the equatorial orbit of Phobos. The solution was simple and fed on those early dreams of Mars: an artificial canal between the Northern Ocean (specifically, the Isidis Planitia Sea) and Hellas Basin Sea. Though simple in concept, this would be the largest excavation project undertaken by man. The "Schiaparelli Project" carved a canal 1800 km long and kilometers deep, albeit aided by repeated Lowell cometary impacts that had anticipated the canal. Because the canal — and Hellas Basin Sea — were not necessary to Mars' terraforming, the Martian mining companies did not contribute to it (though they happily accepted contracts to dig the canal). Instead, the Schiaparelli Project was half funded by the ultra-rich of Terra, who were lured by dreams of estates carved to order on a low-gravity canyon paradise.<ref name=Mars>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [15/01/3072]: "Touring the Grand Canal of Mars"''</ref> |
====Terran Hegemony==== | ====Terran Hegemony==== | ||