blackaeronaut Wrote:and the potential for 'Wild West' fen.Or "Wild Wild West" Fen, allied with the Sparks. (Yes, I know - late clockpunk, not early steampunk... but at that point there's overlap in the memes.) Maybe they know where Castle Heterodyne is?
Foxboy Wrote:why NOT Space Cowboys? (Just don't call them gangsters of love....)Some people call them "Maurice"...
M Fnord Wrote:Besides, it's not as if Mars is bereft of water features. There's plenty of dry channels that will turn into rivers once the terraforming's done. Park the town on top of one and call it the Grand Canal.Which is exactly why Valles Marineris was chosen in the first place; there's no grander dry channel on Mars.
(Speaking of Valles Marineris - if we're going to be true to the Barsoom novels, it'll have to be filled in, and Olympus Mons will have to be leveled. Neither were in the books, after all. )
So... no matter where the city's going to end up, I'd still like some feedback on what I've written about it...
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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