Editing Mars

Mars is John Evans’ home world. Its day is roughly thirty-nine minutes longer than an Earth day, a difference that shapes shifts, meals, irrigation, and off-world communication.
== Port Alpha ==
John lives in [[Port Alpha]], where air returns, water loops, tram lines, and district scrubbers give daily life its rhythm. A retired pressure door becomes a communal dining table; its inspection stamps remain visible beneath the finish.
== Places in the story ==
* Port Alpha — John’s home and departure point.
* Ring Four — an agricultural ring where plant behaviour challenges a controller’s report.
* [[Sector Seven]]: an agricultural setting introduced in Caitlyn’s story.
* The Valles geothermal districts — part of [[Paul Evans]]’ engineering work.
* Hellas Basin — [[Jennifer Evans]] surveys abandoned industrial sites south of the basin.
== In the book ==
Chapters One–Three establish everyday life on Mars and the first discrepancies.

[[Places|Back to places]] [[Category:Places]]

== In The Divide ==
''[[The Divide]]'' focuses on the [[Valles geothermal plant]] and the three habitats it serves: [[Olympus Prime]], [[Renticuluous Alpha]] and [[Volallies Beta]]. Family kitchens, growing spaces, service galleries and control rooms show different parts of the same dependence on working infrastructure.

== In The Two-Body Problem ==
''[[The Two-Body Problem]]'' approaches life on Mars through food and cultivation. The [[Olympus Prime agricultural extension]] connects greenhouse expertise, family plots and collective dependence on living systems.

== A home made by many people ==
The books approach Mars from different workplaces. John’s neighbourhood shows maintenance handovers and shared meals; Paul’s story follows the heat network; Caitlyn’s begins among growing rows and irrigation lines. Together they show the labour behind a place that its residents can call ordinary.

Children learn the systems too. In [[The Divide]], the household loops become a school assignment, connecting an engineering diagram with the names of people who do the work. See [[Everyday life]] for more of this domestic context.

[[Category:The Divide]]
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