Welcome to Crater City, Mars’ oldest continually inhabited settlement. Founded by Star Company in Year Zarg, Crater City has long been a haven for the best of Earthling brain and brawn. Our city started out as a humble mining settlement but grew to be the most important commercial hub in the cosmos through a combination of tenacity, corporate vision, and the most synergetic workplace environments in the stars. Thanks to the efforts of Star Company, which designed Haussmann-style boulevards and spacious living quarters for merchants, travelers, and workers alike in the Blue Town, Crater City has flourished.
    • Though menaced by nearby rival settlements like Terra Town, Crater City has long been protected by Moonage SpaceBase, the earliest continually armed fortification on Mars, which has provided private security for free trade, commerce, and technological innovation in the Red Planet’s busiest spaceport and liveliest economic hub.
      • Moonage SpaceBase is staffed by a private security force, gathered from some of the premier firms on Earth. Crater City is not militarized—it’s just protected, against deleterious influences both terrestrial and astral in origin.
    • In close contact with the Board of Directors on Earth, Star Company is nonetheless operated directly by the Town Council (seven members are employees and shareholders of SC and three members are non-employees with no financial stake in the company), and they are voted on by the voting committee appointed by the Board.
      • Pathways to wealth accumulation have been closed on Earth since the Major Downturn. The best place to elevate yourself, from spaceport-longshoreman to shop leader to management to the Board is here in Crater City! Ad astra per aspera. The Sol never sets on Crater City.