Laura JHicks reporting in.<br/><br/>Reactors can be safely placed in a standby setting that doesn't actually generate power or use the rods, so they would be ready to activate... I suspect some kind of warm up system, if not done automatically from orbit.<br/><br/>As for what's on mars... who really knows, so if you want to find it there, then I don't see why you can't find it there. Mars was made in much the same way as Earth, so you should see much of the same resources as Earth, the moon and the Asteroid belt, so it's as likely as not to find everything except for coal... as I'm not sure of how crude oil was produced, that one may be out, but the others are probably in some easily accessed supplies because they haven't been mined out of existance. Gold, Silver, Platnium, iron, copper, bronze, urianium and so on should all be in some quanity.<br/><br/>Anyone wanna be Laura's "fuck buddy" in training? She likes both guys and gals. ;)