Tech leaders emerge behind plan to build new city near California air base — Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco::Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco
Monkey’s paw: they’re on Mars but their machines are still on Earth subjugating dissent while the planet is stripmined.
Or, they have the greatest, most technologically advanced space navy, with the Mariner Valley full of Chinese-Texans who all speak with the Texan drawl.
Please, no protomolecule.
The work must continue.
Elysium plot (except for space station instead of Mars).