Mars Terraforming

Construction beginning/end

UNSA issue terraforming contracts.

UNSA issues major contracts for corporate investment in the colonisation of Mars. Earth's largest megacorporations rush to get involved. The melting of the southern polar icecap using orbital mass drivers releases large quantities of carbon dioxide, causing an increased greenhouse effect, raising the average surface temperature of the planet. In addition, dark microbial life forms and lichens specifically engineered for the Mars Terraforming project are spread across the surface, increasing the albedo of the red planet and consequently upping the amount of solar radiation captured by Mars as heat. Atmospheric processors are set up across the planet. Genetically engineered biomass is seeded across the planet in vast quantities. The aerobraking of captured comets cause outgassing of gasses into the atmosphere.