Thunderbolt writes: "Popular culture has taught me that human occupation of Mars is not going to be pretty. From what I've gleamed from Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall and Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, human society on Mars is likely going to be wrought with the same problems that we face here on Earth, only without the rule of law to keep us in check. Picking up on this vein, the Red Faction series has demonstrated over two iterations that humans aren't going to like life on Mars all that much, and that it might be better to simply stay home. From the Ultor Corporation in the original to the Earth Defense Force in Red Faction II (which I know takes place on Earth and not the red planet), fiction seems certain that our time on Mars won't be utopian."
