Making Mars Volume 1
M Vindabona
A NOVEL
Making Mars
M. Vindobona
Aquinicum Press
Copyright © 2015 by M. Vindobona
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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.
Making Mars/ M.Vindobona. -- 1st ed.
ISBN 978-1519785947
To my sons
CONTENTS
(1) 7 Days after Dirk’s Mars arrival: Emergency – package off course
(2) Day 7 0955 Initiating Package Retrieval
(3) Day 7 Remembering back 18 months ago
(4) Day 7 1230 Uncomfortable Delivery to Bureaucrat
(5) Day 7 1236 The Director
(6) Day 7 The Sergeant and Director 5 months ago
(7) Day 7 The Director recalls her motivation
(8) Day 7 1241 The Director’s New Plan
(9) Day 7 1236 CentripGym
(10) Day 3 The Crane Farm
(11) Day 3 Meeting Radius
(12) Day 5 Lifeguards
(13) Day 8 Another day at the Crane Farm
(14) Day 9 0835 Pre-Delivery Brief
(15) Day 9 1130 Atmosphere
(16) Day 10 Vampirism on Mars
(17) Day 10 Rock Climbing
(18) Day 11 Dirk’s Hacker Credentials and another package goes astray
(19) Day 12 Fire!
(20) Day 12 1630 A Maker makes a Martian home
(21) Day 20 Home Revelation
(22) Day 21 0830 Making Crane Mods
(23) Day 21 1030 Injury
(24) Day 21 1305 A Long Heavy Hike
(25) Day 21 1445 Dad Helps
(26) Day 21 1600 Package delivery
(27) Day 21 1700 The Sergeant and Director discuss Butterflies
(28) Day 21 1630 Problem discovery
(29) Day 21 2100 A cage mystery
(30) Day 21 2300 Radius’ Data Analysis
(31) Day 22 0015 The Caper
(32) Day 22 0730 The Sergeant’s Late Response
(33) Day 22 0900 Arrested
(34) Day 22 1030 Judicial Proceedings
(35) Day 22 1200 After the Trial
(36) Day 22 1530 Punishment Delivered
(37) Day 22 1730 Dirk makes a Swimming Proposal
(38) Day 23 1400 Dirk goes Hiking
(39) Day 23 1700 Cave Awakening
(40) Day 24 0930 Dirk returns home with news and is disappointed
(41) Day 24 1130 Government Visit and Donation
(42) Day 24 1230 Director outlines the Production Plan
(43) Day 25 1830 Yakisoba and Mushubi
(44) Day 26 1400 Dirk shows Mandy the pictures
(45) Day 27 0925 Fuel Transfer and a Muncher
(46) Day 28 0800 Surveying a Justification for returning to the Cave
(47) Day 28 1538 Return to Tharsis Minutus
(48) Day 28 1830 Duck and Discussion
(49) Day 29 1030 The Director’s New Tasking
(50) Day 29 The Drill
(51) Day 29 1355 Camera Retrieval
(52) Day 29 1555 Dirk Returns with Camera Gear
(53) Day 29 1705 Pouch Delivery
(54) Day 29 1710 Supplies for the next phase of the Director’s Plan examined
(55) Day 29 1810 Examining the Evidence
(56) Day 29 1850 Revelation
(57) Day 29 1941 Dirk Receives Great News that is the Worst he’s ever Heard
(58) Day 29 1900 The Director and Sergeant Hatch a New Plan
(59) Day 29 2125 (19 hours and 35 minutes to impact) Dirk Struggles to Counter the Disaster
(60) Day 29 2300 (18 hours) The Idea
(61) Day 30 0100 (17 hours) Tom Solves the Problem
(62) Day 30 0900 (7 hours) An Unwelcome Call from City Hall
(63) Day 30 1015 (5 hours 45 minutes) Dirk, Radius and T2 arrive at the Ship
(64) Day 30 1212 (3 Hours 45 minutes) Dirk Restored
(65) Day 30 1300 (3 hours 15 minutes) Mod Delivery
(66) Day 30 1315 (2 hours 45 Minutes) Crane Combination and New Challenges
(67) Day 30 1430 (1 hours 30 Minutes) Dirk’s Horrible Idea
(68) Day 30 1450 (1 hours 10 minutes) Implementing an Unpalatable Solution
(69) Day 30 1515 (45 minutes) Awakening
(70) Day 30 1557 (3 Minutes) The Comet Arrives
(71) Day 30 1555 Exploration at Tharsis Minutus
(72) Day 30 1600 (0 minutes) MegaCrane Water Balloon Intercept
(73) Day 30 1602 An Unwelcome Sight at Tharsis Minutus
(74) Day 30 1605 Discerning the Outcome
