The evacuation chapter 6

Although every settler served in the military as part of their service, the largest part was in the space force, either as an astronaut, technician or some kind of mechanical training and work, maintaining the equipment. Arthur grew up learning to be a mecanic on the rovers that crawled all over the surface of Mars, so he got to explore Mars, and knew how to work on the complicated machinery in the field with robots and in the shop on base. He loved his job.

another emerging industry was asteroid mining. Space X, always innovative and cutting edge, developed robot controlled rockets that could be controlled from base by a human, could go out and track asteroids, analyze the mineral content, then capture them and return the asteroid to the surface for extraction into raw material for construction. One such asteroid was a new substance that was refined into transparent metal, called glass metal, so that now the buildings could have entire walls made like windows, and the farms were constructed with glass roofs. Now the residents didn’t feel like they were living underground all the time.

Art, as he became to be know, retired from the space force and started his own business, a 4 wheel drive rover business for civilians, buying retired rovers and repairing them where enthusiasts could race and compete for fun on trails and climb over rocks and steep gullies. His was the first business of its kind, eventually it gained popularity and became the main outdoor sport on Mars.He met his wife on one such rover run, and they were married on the trail, with all the rover enthusiasts as witnesses. I think my father was conceived on a run. He was named Derrick. Funnily enough, Art never wrote his wife’s name in his notes, so I never knew my grandmother’s name. She was was older when they met, just young enough to have a child, but the childbirth was too much for her, and she passed away soon after. I never got to know her.

A long period of time passed before the narrative continued, and it was picked up by my my father, Derrick. He didn’t amount to much, or at least didn’t talk about his accomplishments except to mention he was stationed on the moon serveilling Earth through powerful telescopes, to look for life on the surface and gather air and soil samples for analysis. So my younger years where I was raised on the moon, my life on Mars was over As I never went back. Like every kid on the moon, I studies astrophysics in school, and when I was old enough I joined the military for my obligtory national service, in this case the Space Force. I learnt to fly rockets, and use, maintain, and read surveillance satalite data and immagry and because of what my father did for a living, I was immersed in that field, and became an expert in that field. I was destined to be stuck in front of a computer console and never went out in the field. With that prospect in mind, I was good husband material and I met a fellow Space force technician and married early to Lisa, also young, and quickly had a son Rob.I guess now is a good time to introduce myself, I’m Guy, the only son of Rob and Lisa, a tech nerd who knew all about Earth but would never get there. That would be for the younger generation of pioneers to come. At least I would pave the way. My mission at work was to explore the conditions on Earth and look for signs of emerging life, whether it be vegetation or biological, new life or surviving complex life such as animals or human. Everyday for the next two decades me and my team pored over the data and imagery our satalites we deployed to find evidence of such life. Along the equator we documented the spreading growth of vegetation mostly in the region of the the old Amazon River and the Congo River in Africa, and we did find animal life in the form of birds, deer,feral pigs and monkeys. They survived! The glaciers were retreating, the atmosphere was improving ,the ozone layer had repaired itself , it looked like the Earth was able to sustain human life again. So the saga continues.