The red planet where the Reds toil underground, its barren surface awaiting the terraforming their labor is said to fuel.
Mars is the world beneath whose surface the Reds of Lykos have dug helium-3 for generations. Its low gravity means the loved ones must pull the feet to break a hanged man's neck; its deep tunnels have changed both the Reds and the pitvipers that came from Earth. The Society tells its Red pioneers that their toil is preparing Mars for breathable air and livable soil, so the softer Colors may one day join them beneath a sky their sweat created.
Its barren surface is a wasteland Darrow has only ever seen on the holoCan.
A red, low-gravity planet with a barren wasteland surface; beneath it, warrens of deep mining tunnels and rock-carved colonies.
The planetary setting of the Red mining colonies and the story's opening.