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Now time for the story.

The frigid, wind swept surface of Mars as a thin atmosphere.

It is constantly bombarded with deadly radiation from above.

The air is toxic, the soil is poisonous, and there's little benefit in setting up a traditional

base camp there as had been done on the moon.

For us to survive more than a few years on our top secret scouting mission, we had to

build down, not up.

And so we made our base below ground.

Unfortunately for us, there was something else down there with us in the caverns below

the surface.

Something that had been lying dormant and forgotten in the darkness.

And we woke it up.

Kate was swinging her pickaxe against the wall, breaking off chunks of loose rock.

The ceaseless ringing sound of metal on stone was echoing and constant in the dim space.

It was upon a time I had found it annoying, but I was so used to it now that it didn't

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