Firstson of Mars

[John Helmer]

This is the story of a reckless teenager who returns to the red planet where he was born only to find that the dangers from Earth threaten his existence more than the environment of Mars itself.

[carandini]

Needs more to really make anything from this idea. The setting, for instance, I take it would be a post colonization Mars?

[John Helmer]

Jason returns to Mars at age 19 and works for a government contractor as a pilot. He returns after there is a dome built to support a permanent colony..

There are three pods from the first settlement that are powered down. An old man-hermit lives in one of them. A group of 20 people live in the dome and work at the beginning of the colonization of the planet.

Two government contractors are building and supplying the dome and the air processing units to convert the atmosphere. Jason works for one of the companies hard-landing the equipment from an orbital superstructure. His job is to fly up in a rocket, connect with the cargo shuttle and "drop" it into the atmosphere. He does this every week when a new shuttle arrives with supplies. The "drop" takes one minute and is extremely intense and dangerous. Its VERY little piloting and all adrenaline as the shuttle and his rocket slams through the atmosphere and skids to a hard stop on the surface.

There is a plague that attacks the dome killing almost everyone. Insects enter the dome carrying the plague. It was an inside job from one of the rival contractors.

Jason hides from the insects with a female companion, retreating to one of the three pods abandon from the first settlement where he was born. There they meet the old hermit who reveals the contractor plot.

The old man explains that the only way to defeat the plague is to destroy it. He lures the insects into the dome, Jason rockets up to the orbiting superstructure, connects with a shuttle carrying a nuclear atmosphere generator and pilots it down into the dome.

He saves the red planet, destroys the insects, and becomes the hero of Mars, its FirstSon.

[John Helmer]

The concept of First Son of Mars: Its the story about a teenager finding his way in a troubled world of adults. He is the first child born on the red planet to two astronauts. He was brought to Earth as an infant, educated and trained, and then he returns to Mars as a 19 year old who works for a conglomerate corporation that has financed settlements on Mars for mining resources. He is a folk hero because he was the "first Martian".

The particular episode I want to write for you will have him battle a bio-dome leaking air that was sabotaged by one of the conglomerate's henchmen.

[markfdavis]

Looking forward to reading this John.