At the edge of the Valles Marineris are canyons that show
signs of water erosion and provide the imagination of the presence
of life, epsecially when a walking cane is discovered that is 100
million years old.
The alternate station was the backup for Jakard in case
the support at Jakard was unable to land spacecraft. This is
the energy complex at the side of the station that the mutants
damaged.