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  • Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
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  • Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
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    Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
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    Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
    – FuzzyBoots
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  • @FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
    – Bob516
    Dec 13 '18 at 2:28










  • Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
– Bob516
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Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
– FuzzyBoots
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Are you looking for one specific work? What other details can you recall?
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@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
Dec 13 '18 at 2:28




@FuzzyBoots gowenfawr got me the answer, thanks.
– Bob516
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Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
– user14111
Dec 13 '18 at 11:09




Is this really a story-identification question? You were looking for a specific book that you'd read before, and Morning Star is the one you remembered? I ask because it didn't sound like it in the first version of your question: "Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport . . ."
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In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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    Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




    Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



    In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



    In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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      One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.



      The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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      Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.



      All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.



      The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.






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      Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.



      Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site




      Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
      Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.



      The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
      by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
      their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
      secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
      drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
      time it was used as a communications satellite.



      It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
      forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
      Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
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        In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




        The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
        with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
        the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
        each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
        lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
        trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
        around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
        formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
        the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
        Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




        Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




        In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
        moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
        even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
        so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
        minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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          In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




          The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
          with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
          the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
          each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
          lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
          trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
          around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
          formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
          the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
          Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




          Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




          In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
          moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
          even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
          so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
          minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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            In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




            The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
            with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
            the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
            each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
            lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
            trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
            around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
            formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
            the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
            Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




            Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




            In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
            moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
            even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
            so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
            minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




            Morning Star cover






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            In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




            The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
            with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
            the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
            each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
            lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
            trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
            around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
            formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
            the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
            Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




            Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




            In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
            moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
            even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
            so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
            minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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                Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                  Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                  Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                  In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                  In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                    Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                    Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                    In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                    In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                    Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                    Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                    In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                    In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.








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                        One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.



                        The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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                        • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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                        One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.



                        The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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                        • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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                        One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.



                        The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






                        share|improve this answer














                        One of the earliest, and extremely well-written, attempts at hard-SF about Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars (1951) which features a spaceport on Deimos.



                        The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...







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                        • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
                          – Bob516
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                        • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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                        Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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                        Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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                        Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.



                        All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.



                        The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.






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                        • Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
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                        • @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
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                        • @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
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                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:23










                        • @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
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                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:26












                        • @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
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                        Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.



                        All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.



                        The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.






                        share|improve this answer























                        • Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
                          – Suppen
                          Dec 12 '18 at 8:57












                        • @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
                          – Valorum
                          Dec 12 '18 at 11:24










                        • @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
                          – Bob516
                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:23










                        • @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
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                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:26












                        • @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
                          – Bob516
                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:29














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                        Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.



                        All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.



                        The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.






                        share|improve this answer














                        Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" has the Stone family landing at a spaceport on Phobos and then taking a ferry down to Mars.



                        All ships land on Phobos, which would make it a port.



                        The book is from 1952, though, so the Clarke story mentioned by Mark Olson in another answer beats it by a year.







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                        • @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
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                        • @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
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                        • @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
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                        • @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
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                        • Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
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                        • @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
                          – Valorum
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                        • @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
                          – Bob516
                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:23










                        • @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
                          – Valorum
                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:26












                        • @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
                          – Bob516
                          Dec 14 '18 at 16:29
















                        Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
                        – Suppen
                        Dec 12 '18 at 8:57






                        Why is this downvoted? It appears to answer the question
                        – Suppen
                        Dec 12 '18 at 8:57














                        @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
                        – Valorum
                        Dec 12 '18 at 11:24




                        @Suppen - Because experienced users (who frankly should know better) answering obviously off-topic questions encourages people to ask them.
                        – Valorum
                        Dec 12 '18 at 11:24












                        @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
                        – Bob516
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:23




                        @Valorum. As a new member I did not know this was an obvious off-topic question.
                        – Bob516
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:23












                        @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
                        – Valorum
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:26






                        @Bob516 - To be frank you should have been told immediately. This issue has come about because experienced users (wrongly) answered it instead of (rightly) pointing you toward the policy
                        – Valorum
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:26














                        @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
                        – Bob516
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:29




                        @Valorum where would I find the policies spelled out?
                        – Bob516
                        Dec 14 '18 at 16:29











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                        Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.



                        Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site




                        Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
                        Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.



                        The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
                        by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
                        their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
                        secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
                        drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
                        time it was used as a communications satellite.



                        It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
                        forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
                        Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
                        Martian Revolution in 2061.







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                          Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.



                          Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site




                          Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
                          Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.



                          The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
                          by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
                          their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
                          secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
                          drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
                          time it was used as a communications satellite.



                          It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
                          forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
                          Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
                          Martian Revolution in 2061.







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                            Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.



                            Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site




                            Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
                            Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.



                            The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
                            by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
                            their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
                            secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
                            drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
                            time it was used as a communications satellite.



                            It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
                            forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
                            Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
                            Martian Revolution in 2061.







                            share|improve this answer












                            Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy uses Phobos as a base.



                            Phobos information on Kim Stanley Robinsons Info Site




                            Phobos was one of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being
                            Deimos. Its name means "fear" in Greek.



                            The first humans to arrive on it were a team of the First Hundred led
                            by Arkady Bogdanov upon the arrival of the Ares in Mars space. During
                            their initial settlement, they domed Stickney crater. They also
                            secretly placed a system of remote controlled guidance jets that could
                            drive Phobos out of its orbit and burn it in the atmosphere. At that
                            time it was used as a communications satellite.



                            It was later used as a weapons platform by UNOMA and transnational
                            forces. Arkady gave the remote control to the jets to Nadia
                            Cherneshevsky, who used them and destroyed Phobos during the First
                            Martian Revolution in 2061.








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