I wanted to make a post about possible changes to the story to get feedback from the community. Because of NASA's recent discovery of flowing water on the surface of Mars we want to change the stories location from Kepler 452b to Mars. The gives us a couple of benefits but most importantly the ability to stick to "hard" science fiction. Up to this point we've been smudging it with the FTL drive while all other aspects were at least theoretically possible. All the backstory on how the terraforming would take place is already based on models of Mars. It would also let us shorten some of the dialog and expand on the backstory. This is because there is a lot more common knowledge about Mars as well as research done into the atmosphere and geology of the planet. This wont have any effect on the core story or what you find in the caves. The main reason Mars wasn't the original planet was because I personally believed they would never find flowing water. I am very glad I was wrong. I want to include the community in these decisions so I'd love to know what you think about this change.