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It's not hard to see that the future of space exploration and colonization belongs to the corporations. Even now, private companies are already setting their sights on the sky and beyond, looking toward the next lucrative industry. Suffice it to say, space is going to be big business.

It's this premise that drives Offworld Trading Company, the upcoming real-time strategy game from Mohawk Games and Stardock Entertainment, headed to Steam's Early Access program on February 12.

Offworld Trading Company places you in the role of one such upstart company, where the resource-rich surface of Mars is waiting to be harvested in a bid to become the biggest business on the red planet.

But Offworld Trading Company isn't your typical sci-fi strategy game. Lead by Civillization 4 designer Soren Johnson, Mohawk Games has ditched the traditional well-worn path of expansion and conquest through superior firepower in favor of victory through business savvy and cold, hard cash.

Of course, Offworld Trading Company will feature 8-player online competition, free-form skirmishes against the AI, and a dynamic single-player campaign thatstrings missions together with persistent upgrades between them. However, that's where the similarities to traditional military RTS games begin to fade. You'll never fire a shot in Offworld Trading Company. As the saying goes, it's just business.

If Offworld Trading Company is beginning to sound like something decidedly different in the strategy space, it's because that's the point. Speaking with IGN, Soren Johnson revealed that Mohawk's strategy was to take what they loved about real-time strategy games and flesh it out with new mechanics.

We wanted a game that fit [the RTS] format but used an entirely different mechanic.

"RTS games have hit a very set pattern. They may have a different setting, but in many ways, they're kind of the same game," Johnson said. "This is coming from a team that really likes RTS Games. We like Company of Heroes, StarCraft, Age of Empires. We love that format. We think that's a great way to play games.

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It seems all those Star Wars marathons have paid off, seeing as Spike TV is looking to get into the sci-fi TV game in a big way with an adaptation of Red Mars, a television series based on author Kim Stanely Robinsons sci-fi book trilogy about the colonization and terraforming of the Red Planet.

Spike TV is looking atBabylon 5creatorJ. Michael Straczynski to handle the job of adapting Red Mars for the small screen. According to the latest reports. Straczynski has been tapped by the network to at least write the pilot script for this new program.

Should the series move forward, the hope is the show would ultimately draw fromevery Red Mars book, including Green Mars and Blue Mars. At the moment, its unknown if Spike executives would also have Straczynski showrun the series. However, given the man already has a Netflix show in production (more on that in a moment) that he hopes to have on the service for the next five years at the minimum, the odds of him also taking on the Spike TV project full time are 50/50 at best for now.

That Netflix series, titled Sense8, hasa pilot directed by The Wachowsks and is ahigh profile project for the SVOD service- meaning,Straczynski will be expected to devote as much time as possible to making the series the greatest thing it can be. This puts Spike in a tough spot, as it could use Straczynskis full commitment in order to help re-brand their network as a home of quality, scripted, dramatic programming (rather than the former home ofMANswers).

The Red Mars project may seem astrange buy for Spike, but following the almost cult like fandom surrounding the networks surprisingly well put together reality series Bar Rescue, it seems higher ups at the network are starting to realize theres a value in going for quality over quantity when it comes to its programming slate.

In addition, all signs point to Spike owning the series full stop, which means if its a hit the network will get 100% of the profits from its foreign market and streaming deals. That is to say, Red Mars could be the thing that gives Spike a massive leg up in the ever expanding cable slate of programming.

Stay tuned for more news on Red Mars as it develops.

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Nothing feeds Wall Streets appetite like the prospect of conquering China or Mars.

That is why Teslas TSLA, +0.63% Elon Musk, who hums with electric cars and eclectic daydreams, had such a strange week. Teslas China sales were down, but Mars is looking up.

Like Marco Polo, lets write about China first.

Without offering much in the way of numbers or reasons, Musk said Teslas business in China had declined significantly. He dismissed the country, which holds the hope of business everywhere, as little more than wild card. That was about as detailed as Musk, who incidentally fancies himself a mythic visionary, got on the future of China. How bad is that? Marco Polo spoke with more nuanced characterization about China and that was eight hundred years ago.

In terms of Mars, though, Musk is full of ... specifics.

This week we learned that Musks portal to his intended colonization of Mars will run through the cradle of pretentious coffee. To settle Mars, Musk will first send a drove of engineers in Seattle, home of Starbucks SBUX, +1.29%

What in the wide, wide world of narcissism is it about entrepreneurs and space?

On this note, lets give Musk a break. With oil prices falling, average Americans are about as likely to buy electric cars as they are to swear off Cheez Whiz. Instead, lets talk Virgins VA, +0.56% entrepreneurial whiz Richard Branson Sir Richard to you.

But first, speaking of oil, lets give Mikhail Prokhorov a moment. Reacting to oil-driven currency issues in his home country, the Russian oligarch decided to put the Brooklyn Nets up for sale. What could this lead to? If oil drops any further, Vladimir Putin may be forced to list the Ural Mountains on eBay EBAY, +1.22%

Now back to space. Branson is currently peddling the concept of space tourism hard, despite the November death of one of his test pilots.

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A SuperDraco engine. which Elon Musk's SpaceX company says will provide its Dragon spacecraft with the capability to perform on target propulsive landings anywhere in the solar system--including Mars.(Photo: SpaceX)

SAN FRANCISCO -- Billionaire Elon Musk wants humans to settle on Mars, and he's looking to hire a passel of engineers in Seattle to help him get there.

Musk has publicly said he wants to colonize Mars. As the CEO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), he's got a company to do it.

In an interview published Tuesday, Musk told Bloomberg News that SpaceX's efforts to build a commercial satellite business will give the company the know-how and the infrastructure to make eventual Mars shots and a colony possible.

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While SpaceX's headquarters are in Hawthorne, Calif., south of Los Angeles, the company is also beefing up its engineering offices in Seattle.

Musk predicted the office will eventually employ "several hundred people, maybe a thousand people."

Washington governor Jay Inslee was practically giddy in a tweet about the possibility. "Welcome to WA, @SpaceX. We're ready to support @elonmusk's next revolutionary endeavor!"

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