Mars

Mars is the fourth planet in the Sol system and a member planet of the Alliance. Once it was dead and desolate, but as of the 25th century, it is showing signs of becoming lush again after centuries of terraforming. Although the planet's citizens still need to live in domed cities or underground to survive, signs of vegetation are starting to show on the planets surface. The largest and most populous city on Mars is Tharsis City, with a population of 25 million people. The second largest city is Hellas, with a population of 18 million. In the city centre of Tharsis City is a large bronze statue of the first human to ever set foot on Mars, an American astronuat named Craig Avery, in 2022. During the early 22nd century there were rumblings of revolution among the Martian colonists, and the UN on Earth was prepared to go to war. That all disappeared when the Somakians invaded. A small Somakian force went to Mars and besieged the colonies there, however the Martians were able to hold off the alien fleet for the remainder of the war. After the war when the Alliance was formed, Mars became one of it's first member planets. During the Survival War the Martians were able to hold off the Somakians using a revolutionary type of orbital defence station invented by a group of scientists from Tharsis City University. Were it not for this station the colonists on Mars would surely have been destyroyed by the aliens.