>Sci Fi setting in games or film
>Mars hoards all the technology
>>46051911
Pretty sure only 40k does that.Is it too contrary to post something I like in greentext with a frog picture?Oh, before I forget: dumb frogposter.
Just hand over the toaster, OP. These are their machines.
>>46051911
Could you name any setting besides 40k where this is a thing
>>46051965
>>46052012
40k
The Expanse
Doom
off the top of my head
>>46052012
I remember Mars being important in Mass Effect, but I've repressed most of my memories so I can't be sure.
>>46052022
>three sci-fi settings out of literally hundreds
You forgot Buck Rogers
>>46052032
It's where humanity uncovers prothean tech that allows them to expand in to the wider galaxy
>>46052012
Trinity Blood
>>46052022
>>46052038
Isn't this also a thing in Eclipse Phase?
I love it when Mars is important, it's my favorite planet (besides our own of course) in this whole system.
>>46052022
wow it's fucking nothing
a no plot computer game, such a compelling case
>>46052059
Oh yeah, and then something even more important for the plot was found from there as well.
Oh you, Mars. Always the hotspot for aliens, alien technology and plot.
>>46052038
I said off the top of my head you insufferable mollusk
>>46052102
Weren't they Martians in the original War of the Worlds as well?
>>46052123
I know that Mars was thought to have an old civilization because of "canals" on the surface, so before there was a satellite sent to there, there was a lot of scifi about martians.
>>46051911
>>46052087
>working on my own little sci-fi setting for fun
>centered around Mars
Does it count as "hoards tech" if Mars is an overpopulated partially-terraformed hellhole abandoned by Earth that depends on tech scavenged from decrepit underground AI facilities?
>>46052162
OP here, maybe "hoards tech" was a poor phrase, I should have said Mars is the tech capitol of Humanity
>>46052194
Basically I think we can agree this is a shit thread and your dilemma is false
>>46052072
No.
>>46051911
>earth consists of conservative degenerates who deny the outer space
>why mars is so progressive?
Yeah...
>>46052194
You're still getting wound up over something that happens in less than ten fucking stories man.
>>46052102
The crucible plans were actually in the same archive where we found the technology. It's not so much a hotspot for multiple aliens in that case as us managing to decrypt relevant files.
>>46052205
Yeah, OP should delete this thread, he might have pushed off a really important and insightful quest/CYOA/civ/builder thread!
>>46052221
>conservative degenerates
>>46052162
So 40k Mars just after the whole Terminator thing went down?
>>46052243
I don't know much about 40K lore other than what I picked up from Dark Crusade.
>>46052205
>>46052232
You've already been proven wrong after your asinine "IT ONLY HAPPENS IN MUH 40K" post
>>46052281
Basically, after the Iron war happened thousands of years ago, Mars was left a half-terraformed mess with a radiation problem from the half-finished atmosphere and a population considerably larger than its meager agriculture could support. The only solution to these problems were the fancy tech left in old facilities, many still ruled by the insane, hostile AIs they had been fighting in the war that caused all this.
The faction that would eventually come to dominance on Mars took the "better living through technology" idea, mashed it with the fact that the technology was their salvation from living on this rusty hellhole, and the personification that people who don't really understand how a machine works tend to give them, and took it to it's illogical extreme: becoming the Adeptus Mechanicus.
>>46052371
Oh. Guess that is kinda similar. At this stage it's more like Blade Runner -> Wild West -> Mad Max depending on how far you are from a city and only a couple dungeons have been breached out of the 50 interspersed across the planet.
>>46052241
Eh? Did I misspell it somehow? English is not my first language.
>>46052012
>Could you name any setting besides 40k
>>46052022
>first setting is 40k
>40k
>sci-fi
Most rage-inducing thing in this thread.
>>46052022
Mars doesn't hoard tech in Doom, it's just where crazy experiments get done by the UAC because it's so far from the public eye that they can get away with badshit.
You might as well accuse the state of Nevada of hoarding technology.
>>46052457
You seem to be unaware of what kind of demographic uses the word "degenerate" around here.it's shitposting conservatives from /pol/
>>46052022
Mars doesnmt hoard technology in Doom. The UAC isn't even based on Mars or it's moons, they're just doing their shit there because it's stuff you wouldn't want tested in your backyard.
>>46052012
Starsiege.
>>46052526
>>46052504
all the tech is still based there doe
>>46052012
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th century
>>46053212
no, there is like one lab there. A lab built on mars specifically because what its poking is dangerous enofgh that they didn't want it near anything important.
Mars as a technological powerhouse is fairly rare in Sci fi, Mostly it comes up in settings where Earth's society started to collapse/regress after Mars was colonized.
well there might be a few more stores if you count ones where they find xeno tech on mars rather than mars having a more advanced society.
>>46053212
It's just where crazy experiments take place. UAC soldiers have tons of plasma rifles and BFG9000s etc. no matter where they are, Earth, Mars, Phobos, Deimos.
It's explicitly mentioned in the original Doom manual that the reason you start off with just a pistol is because you were left behind to "secure the perimeter" while all of your buddies went in with all the cool toys. When the screaming from the inside died down and the radio went silent, that's when you head in. It has nothing to do with "Mars has all the cool shit".
>>46052137
They also believed Venus would be a more warm, damp and humid version of Earth.
>>46051911
I mean e.y.e. divine cybermancy kinda does that, although it's more like they have all the demon technology by virtue of all the crazy shit going on there.
I think we can conclude that Mars being the advanced planet is a relatively rare thing to see in Sci fi. So its a bit weird to take issue with it.
>>46053212
Not really, in the Final Doom games the UAC relocates to both the Amazon and Io. Mars is just one of the locations they're based at in Doom 3, and in the original it was Phobos and Deimos, not even on Mars.
>>46051911
We're fortifying this thread
>>46053768
Technically speaking they were right, at least at sea level, anything below sea level especially the surface of the planet is full of murder. Venus is also just an objectively better planet to live on than Mars so there's that.
>>46055096
I'm pretty sure Mars is the least advanced planet in that game. Cabal tech is definitely the lowest of the enemy factions, and the Vex on Venus have much cooler gadgets than the Vex on Mars.
>>46052504
>You might as well accuse the state of Nevada of hoarding technology.
I thoroughly do. There's no way the state of Nevada can maintain its current level of development without massive stores of secret technology that keep that shithole running.They also cheat you out of your money, the Craps table is rigged, I swear
>>46051911
A lot of settings do that.
However this has a completely logical reason.
A society founded on a planet where you need technology to not suffocate, where you need technology to not die from radiation, where you need technology to have basic food, and spaceflight to connect to the majority of humanity.... such a society is bound to be focused around technology, and produce tons of experts in that field and thus the institutions to teach them etc etc.
Additionally they're always mostly progressive, because you get on mars by merit and mostly not by having money, since life there wouldn't be too luxurious, and the people who would actually live there would most likely not like earth and the way things are run here too much. And since they are smart they would quickly realize that the current political system on earth is shit, so they would be progressive too.
>>46055845
in fairness, all we see of the Cabal on Mars is their basic military shit, and that's an expeditionary force from a massive interstellar empire. Makes me wonder if they have stuff that surpasses Golden Age technology. I don't think the people of the Golden Age actually got to the point that they were colonizing outside the system, so it's more than likely.
>>46052087
How many other planets are there that could reasonably support a fictional narrative without spending too much time explaining how they even survive?
>Mercury
Tidal locking problems. Surface is straight up uninhabitable except in the most outlandish levels of sci-fi.
>Venus
Acid rain. Surface temperatures hot enough to ignite gasoline.
>Earth
Boring
>Mars
Exotic and accessible
>Everything else
Cloud cities only
>>46059865
you're forgeting the moons around jupiter
>>46052022
>>46052012
>>46052032
>>46052038
also bladeruner
>>46059865
As the other anon said, moons of Jupiter/Saturn may be possible.
Cloud cities on Venus may be possible. IIRC there's a layer in the atmosphere near room temp that has O2 present.
>>46051911
THE SANDS WILL RUN RED WITH EARTHER BLOOD
>>46052241
He may have meant it in the sense that Earth has societally regressed, as everyone with an interest in making things better moved offworld.
>>46060092
The sands are already red, silly.
