Pioneers of Mars

Rick sat at the small coffee table, slowly sipping the hot coffee in his mug, every so often he would lift his eyes and look at the hologram of Niagara falls. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water going over the edge, in his mind the spray imperceptibly washes his face, soothing his soul for the long day ahead of him. A voice breaks the tranquil spell.

"You're not going to try and dive in right?" A warm voice asks

"No, I can't swim" Rick answers whilst looking at Dhalia, his current bunkmate.

Dhalia smirked then turned to back to her computer screen, her chubby overweight frame giving him a raging hard-on, her 5'9" height towered over him by a mere three inches. They were assigned based on compatibility and gender preference as the mission could last decades, and what was the mission?. Survive on mars, procreate then await the signal to return to earth.

In the year 20-- nuclear war broke out between America and Iran which then escalated to become a global nuclear war. The earth became a pitted slag of radioactive rock, with most lifeforms on earth dead, nations began fleeing to outer space. Those of wealth and affluence lived in the Terra formed pod villas on the moon while the others were sent to mars to colonise and Terra form the planet.

The habitats for the new pioneers were little more than pods connected together then covered with thick layers of frozen Co2, harvested from mars atmosphere and a few meters of dirt to block the radiation. With no windows holograms are set up and colonist are given virtual reality goggles. With the high levels of radiation on the planet, one of the pods is used for aquaponics to grow plants and seafood. Their daily life spent mostly inside the pods creating robots to Terra form the planet, exercise to prevent bone loss and cardiovascular problems due to mars very low gravity or other recreational activities.

Finished drinking his coffee Rick walks over to his lab where he begins fine tuning some robots to combat the electrostatically charged Mars dust. Its only been a week since they arrived and even though there have been no messages from earth even though they can see it via satellite, he won't slack off because he has a date with his bunkmate in three hours.