These lovely geysers reminded me of the fun I’ve had plotting all the things that can go wrong after a colony ship reaches a new planet and gets settled in.

Imagine a lovely Martian morning: rising, stretching.  Heating up a cup of cocoa to celebrate the survival of your first month on Mars, then- voomp!  A geyser bursts up, spraying your Town Hall eighty feet in the air and turning the air into sand-soup.

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