The Situation: Five governments established bases on Mars. Working together, they managed to convert large portions of the Martian polar ice caps into a useable water supply, beginning the process of Terraforming MARS into a human friendly world.

Just as they were poised to begin the next step, something went wrong back home. Communications ceased without warning; even navigational telemetry from the Mars orbiters stopped. Assuming the worst--a major war, the end of civilization, or both--the colonists succumbed to irrationality. Contact between the five bases was cut off, and attitudes have grown cold.

Dissident humans who believe that communications were cut off intentionally have revolted and set up their own base. They refer to themselves as "Martians". Yet other unconnected factions of anarchists roam the hostile Martian terrain.

As leader of one of the bases, you have a choice. You can seek to conquer your neighbors and unify Mars by force, or you can strive to regain contact with (and recolonize) Earth and find out what happened.