<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Shari_void.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Antoine Shari<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Mars Warden station, Shari's office<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>The whole crew<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>Briefing<br/><br/><hr/><br/>With the briefing started, the image on the viewscreen suddenly zooms in on the canyon and you find your view dropping beneath the Martian surface. The walls of the canyon look to be nearly vertical and, as your viewpoint continues to dive into the depths of the massive natural fissure, it gets notably dark. After a few moments of darkness, lights can be seen in the distance. Then, only seconds later, the silhouettes of buildings come into view. The motion on the screen finally slows to a stop just outside what appears to be a small town on a northern wall of the chasm. Once more Antoine speaks, “And this is Presidia. It is a small insular community of independent miners and their families."<br/><br/>"It is also home to a couple of atmospheric processor maintenance teams, some merchants, and mechanics.” The older Warden pauses to wave his hand dismissively in the air, “and all the other rabble you can expect to find in such an isolated location.” It seems he holds onto more coreward upper class views of those who have to make-do with making their living on such a desolate world compared to more corporate living closer to the Sun. On the screen, statistics begin to scroll down one side of the image. They show the pertinent information about the community: population, town leaders, minerals and ores that are mined in the region and so on – all-in-all dry and uninteresting.<br/><br/>Some numbers that do show up are that Presidia has a registered population of 900 people and the colony was settled pretty much 20 years ago as a corporate mining venture. The intial colony was settled on the lip of the canyon though after having many structures get destroyed by tornados, it was relocated to the bottom of the canyon 17 years ago, where the colony has been ever since. Corporate sponsorship was pulled just over 13 years ago due to lack of profit, though the colonists stayed as an independant small mining colony, sustaining themselves.<br/><br/>“The community is not known to be welcoming. They don’t like outsiders and especially dislike anyone who may represent the authority of Mars. Frankly, it raised some eyebrows when a request for help was received.” Shari commented once the view settled on a general slow sweeping flyby of the town. The lighting of the area through lamp-posts and other fittings gives the area a dark violet-blue/grey and cloudy Earth sunset, though the time-stamp states it is the middle of the day for Mars for this particular vid-feed. Shari takes a brief pause in speaking as he presses the touch screen of his wristcomm to move the briefing to the next part...