The Industrial Zone

Industry Technician report:
The first factories went up they took two weeks to set up. They are producing girders for our buildings. Setting up buildings now should not be a problem. One of our satellites found a rich vein of Iron maybe 20 miles away. So we are setting up a roadway and an autonomous plant to produce the ore and ship it back to the Mars Colony. And the Martian soil is very good for making paving and constructing brick work.

The Radio Tower

Comunications Technician
Report:
We got the Main Radio tower up. It took about two weeks. So for a while we had spotty communications. A lot of runners who went between command headquarters (The clinic)  and facilities being set up. It will be used to Communicate by short wave to most of the Colonists here in the Mars settlement.
 Outside the communications will have its own Tower.
Next up the industrial facilities.

Paving Baby, Paving

Road Manager Personal Log:

"I don't know whose bright idea it was to put a Mars Colony into an underground Cave but it has caused me nothing but problems. First, we had to get our road materials mixer going. This is a combination of Mars soil, and a cement material to hold the new roads together. Of course when your putting down a cement roadway, you have to deal with Heat and Time. First off our Chief engineer had a hard time getting rid of the excess heat from the Mini Nuke Plant and all our road paving added to the heat. We knew that paving roads with Mars cement would be a long and drawn out process by how long it takes for Mars Cement to dry and we knew that along with building roads we had to put up electric power lines for the clinic. Oh, how our Commander loves the clinic. It is his temporary command headquarters. The Medical Director likes to believe the Commander put up that building first for medical reasons. He just wanted a place to sleep and work away from the ship. If you ask me he is not a big space flight guy he is more of a giving orders guy. Should be interesting to see who wins that new role in the future vote for town Mayor."

An Engineering Miracle and Also A Nightmare

Engineers First Log:

I have had my hands full from day one. First, we come into Mars' atmosphere at a steeper than planned entry. Luckily the Commander and pilot did not explain this to the crew. The heat build up ruined some of our equipment. The Heat Exchangers were damaged and from the moment we entered our new Cave... Because that is what it is! Now I know what a caveman felt like! The temperatures started to go up. No one noticed at first. It is a pretty big Cave, It wasn't until people started sweating like it was the middle of a Florida Summer that the medical director and commander came to me and asked, what the hell is going ON? So I told them that my crew was racing to fix the heat exchangers but in the mean time it would get hotter because we needed electricity. They both groaned. They knew I was talking about the Mini Nuke Plant. Look, I said. We either have electricity or we die. And of course the medical director said, Yeah, and if we have more heat we die! Any how two days of 100 degree heat later and the heat exchangers were in place and the electricity was on. Did I get a thank you? No. But the relief as temperatures stabilized around 70 degrees seemed to make everybody happy. So I just went with the flow."

A Heat Struggle.

Medical Director Personal Log:

"Everyday feels like a struggle here. The crews rotate between here and the Ship. The heat is almost unbearable. We are in the process of setting up heat exchangers but 100 plus mouths breathing in and out and the building of structures for the crew to live and work in, has increased the heat in here. Of course we needed our new Nuclear Power Plant and that only adds to the heat. I have had a few people come in with heat exhaustion. I've complained to our chief Engineer that there is too much humidity and heat in this confined space. He keeps telling me its not his fault. The Heat Exchangers were damaged in a previous flight. He is doing everything possible short of opening the doors and letting the heat out. Obviously, there would go our atmosphere. So, he say in a couple more days they will be set up. Just be patient. Inside the clinic. One of the few prefabricated structures that was brought from Earth my staff and I have set up all of the medical instruments, machines, and beds. Just in case there are any accidents we are up and running. My staff has been running around giving out construction crews cool Water and sandwiches if they feel hungry. Its kind of interesting being the food supplier and medical clinic. Because, my staff always thought we'd be doing more intense medical procedures, this being Mars and all but instead we are doing preventative care."

Underground

Commander Marvin's First Log:

"I am looking at a radar image of an internal underground space of 10 miles. Its not a bad underground living space, If you can call it a livable space. Its the year 2028. My crew and I have been searching for a Lava Tube to call home. Why? Well, this being Mars the solar radiation makes it dangerous to live on the surface. Before we left, an autonomous robot system named DIG got to work looking for a potential site were we could set up an underground town. It was looking for just this. A Lava Tube it could dig into and expand. What we didn't expect was the Humidity that a crew of a 100 could develop inside here. We have been checking out what DIG... Well, what DIG, Dug into. Its a huge cavern. Must have been here for millions of years. It holds a nice size atmosphere but if you've ever been in a subway on Earth you know how hot it can get. I have talked this over with our chief engineer and he believes that once we get our buildings up and are recycling the air we should be able to bring down the humidity. One sec.. (Wipes the sweat from his face.) Ok. Jeeze! I am sweating. On a planet with dangerous subfreezing temperatures, I am sweating. Well, as our first mission goal is to set up the main life support buildings. We should be busy for the next few days. I am sure the heat will be a good motivator to get our buildings built.
We got an official call from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk praising us on our ability to get here and start setting up a livable base. I am just glad we didn't crash and burn, living underground is like anything else something I can deal with. The CEO wants the crew to make regular mission logs so as to get everything we are doing on record for historical and future other livable bases. I'll wrap my mind around that once I stop sweating!"