Americans, Indians, and Russians were not amused about the convenience marriage of the, in their eyes, overreached Europeans and the North African Confederation. A latent hostility that also affected the Mars colonies inexorably developed from their resentments.
To call the era of permanently staffed scientific Mars stations, like Aresia or Reconnaissance IV, colonization or even planetary development would be an embellishment. Each of the responsible people knew that Mars could never be turned into a second Earth, even with the most sophisticated terraforming.
In the beginning of the 22nd century, the obstacles that had to be mastered for interstellar transit within the Sapiens home system would nowadays just put a pitiful smile on our faces due to their triviality. Next to the immense financial costs, the main problems were the rocket-based, time window dependent, ballistic space travels.
The first colony war, also referred to as the Ares-Conflict or Martian War of Liberation in older sources, was a military and ideological confrontation between terran industrial mega-corporations, belonging to the victorious powers of the Aquadest conflicts, and aspiring independence movements from the Mars colonies in the time period of 2106 to 2111.
It is said that Mars was not a creation of God and its conquest by the Humans never was God’s will …