Mars

Mars is the Fourth Planet in the Solar System, and has the Oldest known sapient races. Home to dozens of warring nations and kingdoms, Mars is criss-crossed with countless canals, many of which have silted up or been buried in sand alltogether, which once ferried great torrents of water from the polar regions to the more fertile equator.

Now much of Mars is increasingly barren and infertile, its Oceans having long since evapourated, and its arctic water supplies gradually dwindling. A world of extremes, Mars can be both frigidly cold, with howling, bonerattling winds and bakingly hot, as the sun's rays penetrate its thin, reedy atmosphere.

But despite being a Dying World, Mars offers many opportunities for the bold adventurer. Ancient Ruins, littered with the debris and technological flotsam and jetsam of the Ancient Martians, waiting to be claimed by the man or woman foolhardy enough to risk it.

Fantastic resources await exploitation, being both alien and wondrous, such as Energy Crystals, exotic fruits, strange gravity-repelling wood, flexible rubbers and tongue-numbing spices, and much more besides.

Mars is home to the Embassies of the Great Powers, and the British Space Port at OLYMPUS MONS.