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FreeMars is a cool open source version of Sid Meier's Colonization set on a terraformed Mars. Might have an idea or two? Check out the YouTube play-through of it.

The Showman of Industry Nwabudike Morgan Current Position: CEO of Morgan Industries Party: Monopoly Power! Nwabudike Morgan was not the only business leader on the Unity mission, but he got in via the most outrageous manner. While the economic fluctuations in the dying days of Earth make...

The Dissenter of the Court of Thorns Deirdre Skye Current Rank: Keystone Ecologist of the Environment of Chiron Conservation Organisation Unity Position: Chief Botanist/Xenobiologist Origin Country: Free Scotland Party: Gaian Green Some fortunes were found on Planet herself. As a senior...

The Mind in the Ivory Tower Prokhor Zakharov Current Rank: Grand Academician of the University of Chiron Unity Position: Chief of Science Origin Country: Russian Republic Party: Progress Landing was the mythical origin story of humanity on Planet, the desperate days where legends were born...

The Reluctant Reverend Mother Miriam Godwinson Current Rank: Psych Chaplain of the Colonial Psych Programme, Mother Superior of the Angels of Mercy, Eldest Sister of the Conclave of Believers, Psych Priest of Centauri Diocese Unity Position: Psych Chaplain Origin Country: Christian States...

The Dragon Who Digs Sheng-Ji Yang Current Rank: Inspector General of the Colonial Security Bureau, Founder of People's Teeming, head of the Censorate (alleged) Unity Position: Executive Officer Origin Country: Great China Party: Public Security While a noisy minority of rabble claim they have...

The Caudillo Who Could Be Corazon Santiago Current Rank: Leonidas of the Spartan Coalition (formerly Spartan Work Corps), Colonel of Colonial Scouts (ret.) Unity Position: Security team Lieutenant Origin Country: Puerto Rico Party: Sparta Molon Labe Known for decades as the woman who might...

The seven sovereigns The Once and Future Heir Pravin Lal Current Rank: Director-General of Chiron Health Organization Unity Position: Chief of Surgery Origin Country: India Party: Unity The head of medical emergency response, Lal ably and compassionately directed the various physician teams...

The old king John Garland Current Rank: Mission Leader Unity Position: Captain Origin Country: United States Party: None The near-universally revered captain of the Unity steered the colonies' ship of state throughout its rough and tumble decades. From the founding of the first base to the...

Inspired by scenarios where the fractious faction leaders of SMAC must work together (a GalCiv II LP, "Dawn comes on the Sunset Sea" one-shot, Aeon Natum Engel reference), here's an expanded version of the A House United nationsim's setting where the UNS Unity narrowly avoids disaster and...

Did you ever check out Worldfall? Did you like it better than Generation Ship?

Worth watching for Mars colonization content

And two Martian colony efforts: Constitution of the Tharsis Montes Commonwealth by Paul Burgess - six section constitution from the year 2043 with a nice appendix about human presence in the Solar System End Time Call of Cthulhu scenario by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere - set on Mars, copious info...

Some resources for space colonist jobs: Minimum Number of Settlers for Survival on Another Planet - Scientific Reports Less scholarly, but I also like these: 2,260 colonist setup (Obviously remove loggers for this one) 500-800 settlers with lots of job specialization breakdowns

There’s a thread in Design and Development about SMAC

Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture

I might just be a random online wanderer who came in from the internet, but I wouldn't mind taking a stab at a Let's Read for the GURPS sourcebook sometime. The only other place I've seen it examined in detail is this review on Age of Ravens. Apropos of nothing, I'm also involved in a couple of...

Found a fascinating proposal for a Mars edition of SMAC, written in 1998, containing storyline and faction ideas. Might be useful to this project: https://adrianhon.tripod.com/marsindex.html

The Mars trilogy sort of invented the Green and Red Martian dichotomy (well, besides the Edgar Rice Burroughs and DC Comics version), and it's one of the influences of SMAC as mentioned in the instruction manual, so the ancestry is unintentional, even if distantly present. Oh, don't worry about...

Cool factions. I assume they're based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but they also remind me of an old RTS/colony sim game Outpost 2: Divided Destiny, which was probably influenced by KSR's seminal work as well. It also reminds me of Civilization: Beyond Earth's affinities, which you...