Powers & Artifacts
28 entries in the The Martian compendium.
The Martian FTL DriveNo bending spacetime—just bending the laws of orbital mechanics.The Jovian Empire's Gravity PlatingNo shortcuts. No miracles. Just physics.The Polarian DisruptorA fan's dream to tame Martian storms.The Martian Mind-SwordForged from duct tape, calculus, and sheer stubbornness.The Jovian Stasis Field GeneratorWhen you need a moment—literally—in the void.The Polarian Phase-Shift CloakInvisibility stitched from polar ice and quantum thread.The Black Legion's Bio-Adaptive ArmorEvolve or perish—armor that breathes with Mars.The Therian Plasma LanceA blade of fire for the red frontier.The Martian Crown of CommandNot a circlet of gold, but a weight of choices.The Jovian Imperial Battle-StaffA fictional staff that fueled a stranded astronaut's wit.The Black Legion's Soul-Eater BladeIt doesn't just end you. It erases you.The Therian HeartstoneBeast's heart, survivor's soul.The Martian Teleportation Gate NetworkStep through a ring; skip the months of canned air and recycled coffee.Ares III habitatFour crew, one storm, and a tiny pressurized box that becomes a man's entire world.Pressurized Mars RoverA little pressurized pod, a long red road, and one stubborn engineer who refuses to die.Potato greenhouseA few shelves of green in the red, and a man who refuses to starve.Ares IV landerThe boxy, battered workhorse that put a crew on Mars and, improbably, got one off it.Hermes abort engineOne engine, one burn, and the only road home from Mars.Comms arrayA dish in the red dust, whispering to a ship that passes overhead every few weeks.Rube Goldberg deviceOne potato, one rover, one stubborn botanist, and a chain of contraptions that kept a man alive on Mars.Rube Goldberg potato rigFour hundred and ninety-nine sols of survival, one very stubborn box of potatoes.Rube Goldberg mechanismFourteen solar panels, a tangle of wire, and one very stubborn man: the machine that kept Mars from winning.Rube Goldberg apparatusThe Rube Goldberg apparatus is the improvised water-reclamation system that astronaut Mark Watney assembles…Rube Goldberg contraptionA man, a habitat, and enough stubbornness to out-engineer an entire agency.EVA pressure suitsSix hours of air, a white shell, and the red dust of a world that wants you dead.Rube Goldberg assemblyA tangle of tubes, valves, and desperate ingenuity that turns rocket fuel into a lifeline.Rube Goldberg constructionOne man, a pegboard of alien survival, and a whole lot of duct-tape engineering.Rube Goldberg setupOne man, one lander, and a chain of engineering miracles that either works or doesn't.
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