A Dark Sky Over Paradise

In the future, Earth's resources have been stretched to their limit from it's ever expanding population and the future of mankind looks very bleak and hard. The governing body, FourNations have devised a plan to colonise Mars to send the overspill of man to ease the problems on Earth. The building starts well but the cost spirals out of control sending Earth into a deep recession. Years later the project is still proceeding but very slowly and you have been sent to a MoonBase for some unknown instructions that could be to do with the launch of a rocket and keep the colonisation project moving....