Viking City
The largest settlement on Mars, Viking City is built on the site of the Viking II lander site in around the Mie Crater - a large basin approximately 104km across formed by asteroid or comet impact - at the northernmost edge of Utopia Planitia. The city is home to over 10 million colonists and is a vast urban sprawl of buildings that all follow the basic pyramidal design common on Mars.
A lot of the older buildings at the site can be completely pressurised, a reminder of the early years of the colony when the atmosphere of Mars was still far from breathable. Mars only has one third the gravity of Earth. To compensate for this, all large colony buildings are equipped with Field Generators (the same kind that large interstellar craft use) that create a standard 0.8g artificial gravity field.
Being the oldest colonial settlement on the planet and location of all major government and corporate buildings, Viking City is nominally accepted as being capital city of the Mars Colony. Viking Spaceport is the largest spaceport on Mars and has an accompanying orbital facility for the large interstellar craft.
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