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t Mission date: 2310. The most recent batch of engineered lifeforms adapts simple pheromone and audio exchange. Rudimentary communication is developed.

t Mission date: 2390. Individuals build crude shelters against storm damage. Over time they develop communities and agriculture, better building materials are found and produced. The first towns are constructed.

t Mission date: 2450. Contact with Harmonica Robot is established. He begins teaching the population how to adapt Omega Architecture technology for their use. The approaching asteroid is now visible to the naked eye.

t Mission date: 2513. The first satellite is launched and successfully docks with the ancient Orbiter. They will destroy Mars in less then 22 years. Native populations enter a frenzy of research.

t Mission date 2527. First capital-class space ship is developed, a fusion of biological and robotic components, powered by a black hole. It is named after the native word for a female eagle-equivalent: "The Egress". The survivors are to be decided by lottery.

t Mission date 2528. Harmonica Robot steals The Egress, leaving millions of natives shocked and disillusioned. Former temples are burned to the ground as riots take over the planet.

t Mission date 2530. The Egress smashes into the asteroid, deflecting it enough that it barely misses the planet. Harmonicas are again an object of worship on Mars.

t Mission date 2550. Contact between Mars and Earth established.


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