Looking at the map, I can't see anybody building anything more than a temporary camp in Hellas - it's going to be under a few kilometers more water than Utopia Planitia will be.
Just north of the northern edge of Hellas Planitia, though, would be a good place to put Greater Helium. Especially if we put Lesser Helium 75 miles north of that, along the canal to Isidis Planitia. (It looks like we're going to have to dig the Isidis/Hellas canal in order to have water to pump from the Hellas Sea into the Hellas/Airy-0 Grand Canal. Good thing the John Carter stories already mention water-pumping stations along all the Barsoomian canals...) Carve the canal from Hellas to Isidis, and build the twin cities of Helium at and near the southern terminus.
This means re-organizing Helium, of course...
I'm thinking that "light industry" is the most that Fen would put on a planet's surface, while "heavy industry" stays out of the gravity wells and away from the ecosystems. For example, Kuat Drive Yards is in Mos Eisley, while Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking is in the Main Belt. I'm also thinking that the Boskone War would have taught the Fen that they can't rely on "factory farming" - they need at least a basic-nutrition food supply that can't be blockaded close to each large population center. (That's the reasoning behind parking Wonderland at L5.) So... residential, commercial, tourism, agricultural, administration, light industry... what am I missing? And exactly what commercial and light-industrial is present?
(As for Marineris/Ophir, how about "New Adelaide"? It could have a large Aussie ex-pat population, serve the Marineris opal miners and the Noctis Labyrinthus colony, and host the New Adelaide Opal Exchange as its largest current business. Undines wouldn't show up en masse until after the flooding of the Marineris Sea, but there's be at least a few small tour companies present even in 2014.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Just north of the northern edge of Hellas Planitia, though, would be a good place to put Greater Helium. Especially if we put Lesser Helium 75 miles north of that, along the canal to Isidis Planitia. (It looks like we're going to have to dig the Isidis/Hellas canal in order to have water to pump from the Hellas Sea into the Hellas/Airy-0 Grand Canal. Good thing the John Carter stories already mention water-pumping stations along all the Barsoomian canals...) Carve the canal from Hellas to Isidis, and build the twin cities of Helium at and near the southern terminus.
This means re-organizing Helium, of course...
I'm thinking that "light industry" is the most that Fen would put on a planet's surface, while "heavy industry" stays out of the gravity wells and away from the ecosystems. For example, Kuat Drive Yards is in Mos Eisley, while Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking is in the Main Belt. I'm also thinking that the Boskone War would have taught the Fen that they can't rely on "factory farming" - they need at least a basic-nutrition food supply that can't be blockaded close to each large population center. (That's the reasoning behind parking Wonderland at L5.) So... residential, commercial, tourism, agricultural, administration, light industry... what am I missing? And exactly what commercial and light-industrial is present?
(As for Marineris/Ophir, how about "New Adelaide"? It could have a large Aussie ex-pat population, serve the Marineris opal miners and the Noctis Labyrinthus colony, and host the New Adelaide Opal Exchange as its largest current business. Undines wouldn't show up en masse until after the flooding of the Marineris Sea, but there's be at least a few small tour companies present even in 2014.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012