History Characters / OverheavenMars

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''The Terror Moon'' is all about Deimos.

* AsteroidMiners: A variation. Gold is valuable, but it's [[WorthlessYellowRocks easy to come by]] in an age of AsteroidMiners. The real money is in ''ice'' - water, after all, is in short supply on Mars, and ice is useful for plenty of other things besides. Deimos, which has rather a lot of ice inside of it, becomes home to a lot of prospectors in The80s, and ice mining remains a key part of the Deimian economy. The settlements on the moon became [[BoomTown Boom Towns]], but most eventually went bust.

* OutOfFocus: In contrast to the full map and lore document Deimos got, almost nothing has been said about Phobos. It's been implied that there's a significant Russian population there, but that's it.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Hong Kong voted to rejoin the Federal Republic of China, Neo Hong Kong decided they'd rather not, strapped engines to the station and defected to Mars. The Alliance, not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, accepted them, nearly causing a war in the process.

* {{Oni}}: Oni are a common symbol of Deimos and especially of Port Dread, where they're often invoked in the local Shinto tradition as protectors. Spaceman's Quarter is full of oni statues (which [[SuperstitiousSailors superstitious spacers]] leave offerings at), and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Deimos (as promoted by the Port Dread Tourism Commission) is a CuteMonsterGirl oni.

* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: The Mormons are migrating en masse to Mars, specifically Olympus Mons, after the discovery of a strange meteorite there which they believe was a sign from their god.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Turns out being an OmnicidalManiac makes finding allies hard and staying under the radar even harder, meaning it's all but impossible to actually make headway on your goal.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Hong Kong rejoined China, Neo Hong Kong decided they'd rather not, strapped engines to the station and defected to Mars. The Alliance, not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, accepted them, nearly causing a war in the process.

A spaceship whose precious cargo of water and nitrogen from Ganymede proved instrumental in ending the war.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Hong Kong rejoined China, Neo Hong Kong decided they'd rather not, strapped engines to the station and defected to Mars. The Alliance, not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, accepted - and made their point by blowing up a Chinese military spaceship that got too close. War between Earth and Mars was only narrowly averted.

* WretchedHive: Yadorigi, the "opposite number" to Port Dread on the other side of Deimos, has wound up full of drug dealers, drug addicts and (unorganized) crime, in part thanks to a widespread belief among spacers that it's cursed. The government of Port Dread is taking increasingly forceful measures to get their sister city to shape up.

* CityOfAdventure: Port Dread, very much so. The district of Spaceman's Quarter has a particular reputation for it, only somewhat unearned.
* CultureChopSuey: Japanese and British.

* {{Prospector}}: Gold is valuable, but it's [[WorthlessYellowRocks easy to come by]] in an age of AsteroidMiners. The real money is in ''ice'' - water, after all, is in short supply on Mars, and ice is useful for plenty of other things besides. Deimos, which has rather a lot of ice inside of it, becomes home to a lot of prospectors in The80s, and ice mining remains a key part of the Deimian economy. The settlements on the moon became [[BoomTown Boom Towns]], but most eventually went bust.
* {{Yakuza}}: It's an OpenSecret that the government of Port Dread lets the local yakuza have a monopoly on illicit activities in the city, so long as they don't step too far out of line.

The post-war government of Mars, formed by Reds, Blues and Greens alike. It was envisioned by Aaron Lang, but he refused to be its leader, instead pulling a {{Cincinnatus}} and [[ShortLivedLeadership resigning within minutes]] to call for an election, in which Utena Jackson was elected the first President of Mars.

->''"It's only an eye, I've got another."''

* SuperSoldier: One of the ways the Alliance tries to bridge the power gap between Mars and Earth is by developing these. The volunteers in "Project Marabunta" (named after the army ant, an animal Martians consider emblematic of courage and DavidVersusGoliath scenarios) possess heavy genetic and cybernetic modifications, making each one practically a OneManArmy.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Voyin Security, a notable example based out of Partizanja, known for styling themselves as ''literal'' SpaceCossacks, complete with scimitars, fuzzy hats [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and colorful opinions on Jews.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[OverlyLongName Caleb Otavio Santana Aoyama]], known to all as COSA.

* TheAtoner: The founders of Kruger came there in part to build a "final redoubt" for white-supremacist South Africa. They've since come to resent their apartheid past and seek to move beyond it. Unfortunately, a living reminder of that past also exists in Kruger, in the form of various fascists and assorted bigots drawn by the promise of a white ethnostate. The "Boers"' reaction to the "Blanks"' fondness for Kruger can best be described as "YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame."

An alliance of five colonies - Noachia, Petra, Nasser, Huygenia and Teisserenc - who chose a path of armed neutrality.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: G5 Secretary General [[OverlyLongName Caleb Otavio Santana Aoyama]], known to all as COSA.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: G5 Secretary General [[OverlyLongName Caleb Ottavio Santana Aoyama]], known to all as COSA.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Voyin Security, a notable example based out of Partizanja, known for styling themselves as ''literal'' SpaceCossacks, complete with scimitars and fuzzy hats.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Voyin Security, a notable example based out of Partizanja, known for styling themselves as literal SpaceCossacks.

* ManyArmedAndDangerous: Kara have four arms and four legs.