<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Mars Date: 01/01/0001, 05:30:00</strong></span></div><br/>The lights brightened in the corridors, even as natural daylight began to creep through the thick glass window in the main airlock. Under the surface, a lone figure straightened and cricked her back, realised she'd been up all night, and shrugged, carrying on working anyway.<br/><br/>Soon there would be more people, soon the base would be even more alive.<br/><br/>