Quran

Qur'an, Al-An'am, Surah 6:163-164
I ask whether I should seek any god besides God--when he is the Lord of all things. All people will reap the harvest of their own deeds; no one will bear another’s burden. Ultimately, all of you will return to your Lord, and he will resolve your disputes.
-Qur'an, Al-An'am, Surah 6:163-164

New Kurdistan badlands Marathon

Based roughly on the quote from Caliph Umar, that all Muslims should learn to ride a horse, shoot a bow, and swim, the New Kurdistan badlands marathon is one of the most grueling races in the C.I.W. The race kicks off with an archery contest. The score in the archery contest determines the racers starting position in the 2nd stage of the race. The 2nd stage of the race is horseback riding. The competitors race their horses through over 100 kilometers of difficult terrain.

The third stage of the race is the swimming and competitors swim must swim across the Shin Derayace, a one-kilometer swim. Racers emerging from the water immediately are in the 4th and final stage of the New Kurdistan badlands marathon. The 300-kilometer foot race through dangerous desert terrain.

The temperatures in the New Kurdistan Badlands can shoot up to 40c and plunge to –4c at night. Nor does bad weather stop the race. In the 178 years the race has been run flash floods have killed 27 racers.
The race starts every year after Eid-al-Fitr. In fact the first non-Kurd to win the race Abdulrahman Muhammed of New Malaysia, arrived on New Kurdistan two days before the start of Ramadan and walked the course twice before Eid. Many series competitors now do this; even some non-racers will do it. Walking the course during the day and reading Quran and performing Tarawih prayers at night. They call this performing Abdulrahman’s quest.

Some racers have started to pick up the tactic of running at night, navigating by the stars and sleeping during the day. Some racers from new Tajikistan, whom lay out during the day allowing their skin’s chlorophyll to rebuild their bodies’ energy reserves, have used this tactic very effectively. A tactic made even more effective by the fact that the racers must carry all their own food and water. There are only four water stations along the racecourse, not including the lake they must swim.

The entire race is broadcast 24 hours a day for the entire 15 days it normally takes the last runners to make it to the finish line, on New Kurdistan channel seven. During the race much of the planet will be glued to the coverage cheering on their favorite runners. All along the racecourse you can see the channel seven monitoring drones hovering above the ground. They also allow race officials to monitor the race for safety concerns and to make sure there are no rule violations. On occasion racers have tried to bury food and water supplies in violation of the race rules.

The Flu

Hi everyone sorry about not posting anything this week i have been down with the flu, but as i am finally feeling better i hope to be able to post some pictures and stories this up coming week. now i just have to get ready for the kids getting out of school for the summer.

Salam

Lupursus

Dear Abdulrahman

Assalam Alaikum

We went to the Planetary zoo. It was Huge. They have a Monorail to help visitors get around. We saw the pair of Lupursus that they have there. The male is the black one with the green stripes and the female one is the pink and black one. They can run up to 80 kilometers a hour and they weigh 300 kilos. The most dangerous thing about them is they have no fear of man.

We also saw a really nice Walid Monkey habitat. It donned on me while we were looking at it that I have never seen Walid Monkeys outside a zoo, even back home. So Inshallah, when we get back as soon as I can I am going to take the mag-train down to the southern Hutan park and observe some Walid Monkeys in their natural Habitat.

Give everyone our Salams and Inshallah we will be Home in 3 weeks.

Wassalam

Your Cousin
Muhammed

Floaters and South Islands

Bismillah

Dear Abdulrahman

Assalam Alaikum

Well we just got back from our fishing trip. It was great. We caught a lot of the local fish, one of which has tentacles. I even hooked this massive thing called a horned trout. It must have weighed a hundred kilos, almost pulled me off the boat. After fighting it for 45 minutes, seemed like days, it managed to tear out of the hook.

We fished in an area called the southern teeth. It is called that cause of the shape of the little islands that that dot it, and it is in the southern ocean. The Captain said that if we had been fishing out there in the winter we would have seen chunks of ice in the water. But while we were there it was warm and plenty of sunshine. Oh and I am 2 shades darker now.
Alhamdulillah, we saw the giant floating fishers, in my last picture you can see two of them. They were enormous, the size of those advertising zeppelins you see flying at sporting events back home. The captain told us that they suck up water in drinking tubes that they drag in the water and that special bacteria that live in them break the water down into hydrogen and oxygen. The floaters absorb the oxygen into their blood and that the hydrogen goes into their balloon sack. I ask about storms and apparently the lower themselves into the water during storms. Also their skin has some special property, which redirects lighting strikes down into the water.

Well Jamila and I are going to go to the new Benjarmasin Zoo and Aquarium tomorrow. Should be a blast, the hotel clerk told us that they have a mated pair of Lupursus there.

Oh yeah, last night we went out and had a local dish which was battered fish served over rice with some sort of yogurt sauce. It was delicious, so we bought a cookbook. So when we get back we will be cooking a big dinner for everybody.

Wassalam

Your cousin
Muhammed

Formation of the Confederacy

Even though the Chattergee-Haque fast as light drive had allowed humanity to settle over a thousand star systems by 1800A.H. because the Drive was limited to the speed of light and the vast distances between star systems, Interstellar government was impossible and each star system was on its own. Even trade between star systems was out of the question.

Then on the Planet Kalimantan Prime in the year 1837 A.H. all of this changed. Professor Hassan Nashashibi of the university of New Benjarmasin completed the greatest invention in transportation science since the wheel, the Nashashibi Worm drive or as it is more commonly known as Worm Drive. The Worm drive powered by a Sun burst fusion reactor allowed man to travel distances in mere hours that had taken years by opening up a worm hole between two points in space.

The first trip was to the nearby star system of New Malaysia. The Authorities on New Malaysia were amazed by this new star drive. The First Citizen of New Malaysia, Zainab Muhammed, quickly got the crew of the ship to agree to carry back several representatives of New Malaysia, who upon arriving on Kalimantan Prime negotiated a trade agreement and a mutual defense pack. This was followed several months later by a technology exchange program. This was the beginning of the Confederation of Islamic Worlds.

Within several years the Confederation had all the ethnic Malay worlds and had devised a standard treaty for each world to ratify to join the Confederation. Afterwards The Confederation sent representatives to New Kurdistan, Turkmen Prime and dozens of other predominantly Muslim star systems. The urge to reconnect with humanity and the prospect of trade and new technology and all but a very few joined.

Soon ships with worm drives were sliding into star systems nearly everywhere that Humanity had settled. At first the Confederation exclusively had the worm drive, but this was not to last for more than a dozen years. Scientists on New Guangxi by carefully monitoring star ships every time they activated their worm drives were able to conclude how the drive worked and in seven years they successfully tested their own worm drive. The leaders of Vert were not so subtle and simple seized one and reversed engineered the worm drive. Later agents of Nuevo Amazonas were able to steal plans for the worm drive from Vert Prime. With the Genie out of the bottle scientists and engineers were able to compare notes and even more powerful and efficient worm drives were built.

This of course also led to the formation of the Celestial Alliance, the Frankish Empire, the Nuevo Federation, and numerous smaller interstellar groups like the Shiite systems Alliance, the Unity of Saints and the Federation of Free Worlds.
The invention of the worm drive also led to a huge amount of trading in technological and scientific information and the 3rd expansion of humanity into space.

Vacation Pictures

Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim

Hey Abdulrahman

Assalam Alaikum

Just got to New Samarinda, The Hotel here is great, I actually have a whirlpool in my bathroom and the view from my balcony is of the Imam Hassan Memorial flower garden. The Garden looks spectacular from up here. Your Mom would love it. Remember when we were in school, all those times she had us digging flowerbeds and planting flowers.
Well here are some pictures I took while on my extreme backpacking group trip. We were in the Kalimantan Prime northern national park. There are no facilities at all in the park, not even trails. If trails start to form the park officials will put that area of the park off limits until it recovers. That and they only let five thousand people into the park every year. We got to spend two weeks hiking and camping.

The park is over 20,000 square kilometers and the terrain was formed by glaciers that pushed through the area over ten thousand years ago during New Kalimantan’s last ice age. Most of the fauna that we saw was bipedal, kind of neat huh. We saw a herd of Kiki deer must have been three or four hundred of them, they were so graceful, we all just watched them run by nobody remembered to pull out a camera. There is also a species of predator called a Lupursus that lives in the park, but we never saw one.
Part of our gear were these neat collapsible kayaks, they were so cool. We used them to cross a couple of lakes and we went down a river in them and rode some small rapids.
Thinking of buying one for myself.

Of course the park is closely monitored and if we would have found ourselves in any real danger we just have to activate our emergency transponder and one of the park ranger spheres would have swooped down and rescued us. I got a few pictures of them as well, they are the big gold globes in the pictures. They were cool o watch to as they simply glide through the air silently. They are silent as no to disturb any of the wildlife.

We are going to do some shopping and sight seeing in the city but next week we are going deep sea fishing. And get this the captain of the boat is giving us a discount cause we are from off world. I love this planet.

Wassalam

Your cousin
Muhammed

PS give my Salams to your family and tell Aisha that Inshallah she should be getting a post card from me soon.

Dracheufer

One of the worst Confederation military disasters of the Grand War was the failed assault on New Prussia. It should be remembered that New Prussia had been conquered by the Franks 10 years before the start of the Great War. Confederation Intelligence stated that the civilian population of New Prussia was unhappy with the empire and either would be indifferent to the invasion or would welcome the Confederation Military as liberators. It was based on this Intelligence that such a small invasion force was sent.

Yet most military historians agree that it was not the size of the force that caused the failure of the assault but the botched landing. In an attempt to render ineffective the Frankish mobile surface to air missile batteries, It was that while armor would go down on traditional landing craft, that the infantry would use the new I.A.D.P. or Individual Assault Drop Pods. The I.A.D.P.s were nearly invisible to radar and as each one only contained one soldier the use of Surface-to-Air missiles would be cost prohibitive to the Frankish defenders.

Unfortunately not all the kinks had been worked out of the guidance system so they would land anywhere within a kilometer of their landing target. So when the landing zone was picked many believe that deciding on Dracheufer could be a mistake and they were correct. While Dracheufer was only 20 kilometer from New Berlin and appeared on the map to be flat it turned into a disaster. For the Appearance on the map was correct except for a massive cliff, which separated the beaches from the fields above. So while many drop pods only missed their target-landing zone by a few meters, they landed on the beach. This trapped over half of the infantry troops whom had dropped, as they faced a 200-meter cliff, which they had to climb to be able to link up with the rest of the assault force.

When Frankish reconnaissance drones discovered this, the Franks were quick to dispatch every naval vessel they had in New Berlin and these ships chewed up the Confederation troops trapped on the beach. Over 30,000 died in a matter of hours.While The Confederation troops found themselves tangled up in this combat and unable to make the rapid assault on New Berlin. The Frankish defenders put into action a new mine laying machine which in short order turned every field between New Berlin and the Confederation Invasion force into a mine field.The light Confederation force found itself engaged in heavy combat and moving forward through mine fields that soon decimated its ability to fight. General Mustafa Abdulqadir was forced to offer surrender after only 120 hours of landing on the planet or face complete annihilation.

After the War a monument to those who died at the battle of Dracheufer was erected.

Chattergee-Haque Fast-as-Light drive

The Invention of the Chattergee-Haque Fast as light drive was a huge break through in science and herald the beginning of man’s break out from the solar system and into interstellar space. The Chattergee-Haque drive was designed by Dr. Sujana Chattergee and Dr. Khadija Haque while serving on the Calcutta Research Station. The Station was a large asteroid that the government had set up for the conducting of what it deemed dangerous experiments. The Station was unfortunately destroyed during an experiment on a new cold fusion technique.

When the two scientists realized that their fusion shielding experiments was leading to, they quickly changed the objective of their research and with in a year the Chattergee-Haque fast as light drive was a reality. Probably the most amazing thing about the drive was not that it allowed man to go fast as light, but that it allowed him to do so relatively cheaply. Very soon over ten nations launched interstellar probes using the Chattergee-Haque drive, and before any of them had sent back data huge colony arks were being built.

The first group to leave the solar system was sponsored by the Confederation of Islamic States. Over a million Kurds went up the Space elevator in Kenya and boarded 4 great space arks. This was soon followed by two Arks carrying half a million Palestinians and several Arks carrying a quarter of million each of Indonesians and Malays all who took the Indonesian space elevator.

Not long after this the North American Alliance launched an Ark carrying Cherokees, Arapahos and Mohawks. The French Government launched one Ark a year for several years of a hundred thousand each, though sometimes they had to draft colonists.

It was this way that mankind colonized and explored the stars for nearly 300 years, until the discovery of the worm drive.

Changes

Being interested in science fiction is not just an interest in what the world will be like 400 years from now but how will the world have changed in my lifetime. One of the things that got me very interested in Science Fiction was not simply star trek, star wars and battlestar galactica but a story my mom told me.

I have no memory of my great grand mother as she died when I was one year old at the age of 96. Now I was born in 1387 A.H. (1968AD) so yes she died in 1388A.H. (1969AD). The Year she died she watched a man walk on the moon, when she was born, the year 1290 A.H. (1873 AD), there were horses and carriages on the streets of New Orleans and the quickest way to travel was either by steam ship or train.

The changes she saw in her lifetime were phenomenal; In my lifetime I can remember going to a friend's house who had a PC which used cassette tapes then computers started to use floppy disks, right now most computers use CDs, and on my key chain I have a 1 gig flash drive. My first computer did not have a 1 gig hard drive. I can only imagine what everything will look like at the end of my lifetime or what my children will see during their lifetime. So before you start to scoff at some idea as being implausible remember my great grandmother.

Blender

Assalam Alaikum

Sorry about taking so long between posts lately I am trying to learn blender and flash right now, and that is taking up a lot of my time but as I think knowing blender and flash will allow me to greatly enhance the story telling here, I am really motivated to learn them, which also means if you know any good tutorial sites feel free to post them to me here. Oh and that combined with the fact that the schools out so the kids are all home right now means I am doubly busy with that. Trying to keep the little guys busy and not just sitting in front of the TV all week.

Salam

Spike back cats of New Kurdistan

The Spike back cats of New Kurdistan are that worlds planetary animal. There is a wonderful display of the creatures in front of the Pesh Merga command center, which is a must see tourist attraction.

A dangerous predator an adult spike back weighs upwards of 70Kg and has 10-centimeter razor sharp claws. While they are jungle dwellers and decent climbers, in the open they can run up to speeds of 100Kph.

They normally live in packs of 6 to 8 adults. They are matriarchal with the lead female leading the hunts and eating first. As pack hunters they can bring down prey 4 to 5 times larger than themselves.

The Spike back’s feline appearance is deceiving as while they are warm blooded the have far more in common with reptiles. They are egg layers and begin to reproduce in their 5th year of life laying 3 to 4 eggs at a time. The newly hatched spike back does not suckle but eats meat, which its mother brings it. They learn to hunt in their 2nd year of life and are on their own by their 3rd year.
Contrary to popular opinion their spikes are not poisonous.

A day at the Zoo(Walid Monkys)

One of the favorite animals at the National Zoo on New Malaysia is the Northern Walid Monkey. They Are Diurnal and arboreal by nature. They eat fruit nuts and small insects. They live in troops headed by a male with 3 to 5 Adult females and their offspring. They are famous for having eyes that can move independently of each other.

The Troop leader kicks out his sons when they reach maturity. The female offspring stay with the troop but it should be noted unlike many animals Walid Monkeys do not mate with their offspring. They gained their name from the famous exo-bilogist Muhammed ibn Hamza who noted their peculiar mating habits.
A bachelor Walid Monkey will approach a troop carrying fruits and nuts or build a pile in the path of a troop. While the head male is eating from the pile the bachelor then steals one of the mature female offspring of the head male. Biologists believe the monkeys can smell whither or not a female has ever been pregnant, and this is why they don’t try to grab one of the head male’s mates.

First Mosque on Mars

After Mars gained its independence, several Martian rebel leaders decided to build the first permanent Mosque on Mars. All previeus mosques on Mars had been temporary affairs and facing had been simply a guess or had been figured out with a rather complicated mathematical formula directing the worshipers roughly towards earth.

With the building of the first permanent masjid where the Minbar and the mihrab would be came into discussion. Some adovcated figuring out the matching coordinates on Mars for the Kaaba others said it should face West while others east. It appeared that a major division was getting ready to occur and there was even talk of a Mubahala between the leaders of the different groups. But a scholar arose whom when tempers were hot simply recited the Quranic passages

2:177 It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the Allah-fearing.

2:115 To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Pervading, all-Knowing.

This brought the groups to their senses. Then they decided as most of the Martians were originally from Malaysia and Indonesia that the masjid and all others after it would face west as this was what they were used to.

Engine Failure

Captain Abdulrahman was jolted out of bed by the sudden change in course of the C.S.S Lahore. Abdulrahman rubbed the bruise on his head and groaned “Alhamdullah”. Abdulrahman was at first not very alarmed until he realized that the emergency lights were on. Damage to the ships power system was very serious. His door’s emergency controls showed that there was air on the other side, so he cranked open the door and walked down the hall to the bridge.

The Captain found pure disarray and panic emerging, It took him a few minutes to calm everyone on the bridge down and they started to explain what had apparently had happened. After exiting the wormhole into the New Bengal system the ship had been struck by a boulder sized object which had an extremely strong magnetic field. The object’s magnetic field had caused a power feedback in the communications array and the power system. Several pieces of equipment had overloaded and burned out. After that the bridge crew was at a loss for information so captain Abdulrahman had to call down to the engine room.

Abdulrahman buzzed the engine room the ship’s com system was still working which he was glad for.

A voice shouting over a lot of static answered, “Engineering chief engineer Muhammad here.”

“Captain Abdulrahman here, what is the situation in engineering Muhammad?”

“It’s pretty bad sir, some kind of magnetic pulse caused the plasma pulse overdrive to overload, which then fried out both of the sub-quantum plasma disrupters. That triggered the emergency computer systems to take the phase source extractor, the stationary duality portal and the radiant quark accelerator offline”

“How long to get them back online?”

“Well sir it is going to be a while as they did not go through the normal shut down procedures, inshallah 4 maybe five hours each. But sir that is not the worst of it, to get to the sub-quantum disrupters I am going to have to take apart the gravitational singularity initiator and that sir is going to take, Inshallah ten hours at least. The good news is the particle singularity modulator is intact.

“So we are dead in space floating for a day is what you are saying.”

“Yes sir until we can get all these backs up the ship’s worm and thrust drives are both down. Inshallah, I may be able to save some time by patching the phase source extractor directly into the spectral sphere ignition system”

“Thank you Muhammad I know you will do your best.”

Abdulrahman started to think of what could or would happen next. He realized that he would have to prepare a statement to give to the colonists they were carrying. At this time the C.S.S. Lahore was ferrying over twenty thousand colonists to New Bengal and if they started to panic they could cause a lot of damage to the ship.

It was at this time the ship’s navigator broke the bad news. The C.S.S. Lahore was on an intercept path with Bengal 6 one of the systems 3 gas giants. According to the Navigators calculations in 14 hours the ship would become caught in Bengal Six’s gravitational field and approximately 20 minutes later they would burn up in Bengal six’s atmosphere. And the news kept getting worse as even though there was confederation naval heavy cruiser in the star system the magnetic pulse which had fried burned out crucial drive components had also gone though the communications array frying out key parts there as well. Noaman the communications officer informed him that while they could send out a distress signal, it would be limited to a range of one thousand kilometers.

Captain Abdulrahman called a meeting of his top officers and system chiefs in two hours. Everyone was to come up with some type of plan to save them and the ship. The meeting was a mad house of shouting and blaming. Over a dozen ideas were proposed and shot down as either completely unworkable or workable but taking to long to get into place. Finally a small fellow spoke up over the multitude of voices.

“Sir, engineering Ensign Dawud Naqvi, sir I am in charge of maintaining the ship’s fire suppression systems.” Stated Engineering ensign Dawud Naqvi directing his comments to the captain while avoiding looking at him. Something the captain found to be a rather interesting trick.

“Quite” Shouted the Captain, yes Ensign you have an idea.

“Yes Sir, we were talking and my friend Atif he is over in waste systems operations, well Atif said maybe we should get out and push. A joke sir but it got me thinking, we don’t actually have to fix the drives we just need a push to get us off our currently trajectory” he paused and shot a quick glance at the captain.

“Go on Ensign I am following you so far.”

“Well sir we can reroute some of the pipes we use to carry the CO2, it is under pressure, and we can use it to change our trajectory to one were we don’t all die a horrible fiery death.”

“Like a fire extinguisher race” said Abdulrahman as he stood up.

“Yes Sir Just like that.”

“But how long will it take you to do it?”

“Inshallah should take about four maximum six hours sir.”

“Do it”

“Yes Sir”

Five hours later the C.S.S. Lahore was on a new trajectory heading towards the inner system and away from Bengal Six. It took two more days to get the thrust drive online and the communications array to work properly. The C.S.S. Musa, the Quyata class heavy cruiser assigned to protect the New Bengal, was able to intercept them and escort the C.S.S. Lahore to New Bengal. The Colonists were on the planet before they were told how close to disaster they had all been, and oh yeah this is the reason that the Capitol of New Bengal is called Naqvibad.

Masjid in the clouds

The Cloud Masjid of High Palestine was built by the mega-rich Hajji Omar Mubarak. It floats on magnetic warp repulsers, Its bottom hidden in clouds generated by fog machines. When Hajji Omar travels on business around High Palestine, He travels in the Cloud Masjid. On staff in the Cloud Masjid are not only the pilots and mechanics but a full time Imam and Muezzin.

The Children of High Palestine call it the Bird Masjid and tell elaborate tales of how the birds were not allowed into the Masjids of High Palestine, so they built their own Masjid. But people found it and drove the birds out and took it over. Therefore the birds built another one this time in the clouds so that the people couldn’t get to it.

New Malaysian Farmer

A young boy on New Malaysia fires an Api Lembing surface to air missile at a naga , which is circling his father’s herd of dairy cattle. All farmers have several Api Lembing Missiles and have been trained to use them. The fact that surface to air missiles are so wide spread on New Malaysia is probably one of, if not main, reasons that it is avoided by raiders and Neo-Vikings.

Similar Solutions

The New Persia Long Eared Night Hunter was gene-engineered, at the Imam Hussain University in New Karbala, in an attempt to eradicate the very destructive Rexrat. A rodent type creature ,found on New Persia, that not only ate large amounts of foodstuffs but also has the habit of gnawing on fiber optic cables. It is a nocturnal creature hence the design of the Night Hunter. While the Night Hunter has not completely eliminated the Rexrat, it has curtailed the amount of damage it does by 90%. The New Persia Long Eared Night Hunter can track and kill a Rexrat in the Rexrat Tunnels and lairs in complete Darkness. Even though it is a ferocious hunter many on New Persia keep them as family pets.

The colonists of Turkmen Prime found themselves in a very similar predicament as the inhabitants of New Persia. On Turkmen prime a pseudo-reptile called a Kertenkele-fare, was consuming large amounts of the colonist’s foodstuffs and had a tendency to tear up wiring to use for nest building. The Kertenkele-fare is warm blooded and nocturnal, faced with a similar problem we see a similar solution. Scientists at Muslim University in New Ankara gene-engineered the Turkish Minature Night Hound, from dogs brought over by colonists to help herd sheep. The Night Hounds have been able to eliminate the Kertenkele-fare from almost all urban areas of Turkmen prime reducing the amount of damage they do by 85%

Intafada intefadah intifadah

Intafada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from انتفاضة intifāḍah "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising".

Martian Intafada Part 15 the end

Hamza sat at the large brown table sipping chai, in the executive boardroom. The walls still bare as since taking down the pictures of the Japanese emperor and other Japanese officials they had still not replaced them with anything.

Yusef Wehbe and Mohammed Hatta both walked into the room a cup of chai in one hand and folders in the other. They both sat down across next to each other across the table from Hamza. They opened up the folders and began the meeting by reciting the basmala.

The Three of them expressed surprise that 25% of the Japanese colonists refused return and opted to stay in the new Republic of Mars. They also had good news, with the war going badly for Japan back on Earth it wouldn’t be anytime soon that Japan would have troops to spare to try and recapture Mars. This delay would give them time to build up their ground defenses and to put some missal platforms into orbit.

Mohammed was able to give them even better news, Brazil, America, South Africa and China had all announced their recognition of the Republic of Mars. Brazil and America had even agreed to send them radar equipment and various pieces of scientific equipment that they needed via the space elevator in northern Brazil.The three men vowed that they would never allow Japan to retake Mars.