<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Mars Date: 01/01/0001, 05:36:21</strong></span></div><br/>The lights flickered on, in certain rooms, certain automatic processes, like the water recycling systems starting up as demand increased. Had anyone pulled an all-nighter, working through their first night on Mars?<br/><br/>A timer clicked on and an incubator began to heat up in the Animal genetics lab. In hydroponics, the sun-ray lamps brightened and began to heat the growing tanks with a brighter light than any to be found elsewhere on the planet.<br/><br/>Day one had begun.