Talk:Mars

What year was it terraformed?--207.28.99.145 18:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

We don't know. Sometime before the war. --Dragonclaws 02:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

POA built on Mars?

• I heard the Pillar Of Autumn was buildt there and if it was that would be good to put in. For all real planets in this galaxy there should be a real picture of them just to add to the details. Or with Luna a Pic from the game if you can get one..... -- 71.234.43.57 02:17, 3 November 2006

Before which war?

Before which war was Mars terraformed, before the Interplanetary War, or the Human-Covenant War?

Mars may have been subtly terraformed

I'm not sure about this, but I seriously doubt it would make sense economically to keep Mars running without at least subtly terraforming it, so that O2 and CO2 processing wouldn't need to be handled industrially.

Of course, from the Pillar of Autumn and other Cruisers, we can see that thousands of troops can be supported on artificial life systems. But if you think about an entire planet, thickening the atmosphere with CO2, then bringing in plants to produce O2 would make a lot of sense.

Perhaps Mars is terraformed in a subtle fashion, such that it is not immediately clear. Water might be carried by underground aquifers and the planet life might be concentrated in such areas so that the plants aren't visible. This might seem counter-intuitive, but remember that Mars - in a Halo context - is trying to be made more thick and hot. Having plants exposed to the surface of the planet absorbs less light than say, a dark colored metal.

Although its original research (so I won't rush to edit the article), I think the evidence points pretty strongly to Mars being terraformed, but done so in such a way that the surface of the planet doesn't appear green or blue (which makes sense, since both these colors are pretty light and tend to be reflective, not absorbing the kind of heat the colonists may want). If there is canonical evidence though that Mars still has no atmosphere, or that it has not been terraformed, please feel free to strike me down as soon as possible.