Clean Regency Romance: The Earl's Temptation (The Pure Heart Triumphs Series Book 1) by Pearl Goodfellow

Author:Pearl Goodfellow [Goodfellow, Pearl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soar Free Publishing
Published: 2016-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty years of terraforming made the red dwarf inhabitable, and another ten found the Bloods well into the forced mining trade. The rough hewn men of Mars did not have time for foolish acts such as waging war -- as the Terran’s often spent their money and their lives acting out. Life for Bloods meant trying to survive. And this task alone kept them busy. Many a Blood dropped dead from exhaustion from their mining efforts. Others fell, due to the extreme unpredictability of the weather, or were killed in the frequent collapse of their hastily carved mining tunnels. They learned the hard way that loose, sandy soil must be trestled and supported or it would cave in on itself. The Terran's didn’t care as long as the He-3 kept flowing and filling the regularly scheduled transport ships.

Mars is beautiful to gaze upon from the safety of a spaceship; it’s red, translucent sands ever shifting. It’s two moons, dancing in Mars’ orbit, , and the valleys and mountain ranges of spectacular depths and soaring heights, standing out in relief against the planet’s gaseous, pale green skies. The reality on the surface is quite different at close quarters, however. Dust storms, with 300 plus mile-per-hour winds, that can last for weeks (one sectional vortex had been in storm mode for over 50 years) sweep across the barren landscape. During the long nights, the temperature drops to minus 225 degrees Fahrenheit and soars to 180 degrees in daylight. Even in a protective M-suit, the average man can only stay in the open for a limited amount of time. Terraforming the planet alleviated some of the problematic weather phenomena, but it also meant the miners spent most of their waking hours below ground. Which meant societal morale was always a main focus of any parliamentary agenda.

The oxygen content in the red orb’s atmosphere was also a fraction of that of it’s Terran sister. It’s thin air making travel between the planet’s seventeen compounds, an arduous chore. More than one traveler succumbed, when he was unfortunate enough to miscalculate the necessary data, and ran out of the life giving O2, before reaching his destination. This was one of the many (valid) reasons that the Bloods eschewed domestic conflict, right from the start of the forming of their empire. They just didn’t need war, when their society was already faced with the threatening hazards of daily living on the harsh globe. Every individual was needed to help each other survive. It was ALL about survival up there. Over the ensuing years though, the Bloods evolution started accelerating faster than ever, to meet the demands of the environment. Martians became able to withstand the temperature extremes with minimal cover and rapidly evolved to be able to breathe the planet’s noxious gasses. Their ever morphing lungs, developing their own filtration systems, that could handle a good chunk of the toxic chemicals that swirled above the planet's surface. The cumbersome M-suits morphed into leather shells, much like the hardcore bikers of Earth’s past.

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