Liber Martis - Chapter 33

Verses

Verse 47

FIELD RULE 1: Mars does not hate you. Hatred would be reassuringly personal.

Verse 48

FIELD RULE 2: If your habitat is losing pressure, finish the philosophical discussion after locating the leak.

Verse 49

FIELD RULE 3: Water is sacred chiefly because dehydration has excellent arguments.

Verse 50

FIELD RULE 4: Every redundant system looks wasteful until the primary system becomes a memorial.

Verse 51

FIELD RULE 5: Dust will enter machinery, clothing, seals, food, dreams, and any sentence beginning with 'dust cannot possibly—'.

Verse 52

FIELD RULE 6: Do not challenge Olympus Mons to anything.

Verse 53

FIELD RULE 7: Your ancestors survived lions, winter, plague, and committee meetings. Act accordingly.

Verse 54

FIELD RULE 8: A potato is not beneath you when it is keeping you alive.

Verse 55

FIELD RULE 9: The correct response to a warning alarm is not optimism.

Verse 56

FIELD RULE 10: Heroism is carrying the spare part you complained was too heavy.

Verse 57

FIELD RULE 11: If Phobos appears to be falling, relax. It is falling very slowly.

Verse 58

FIELD RULE 12: Never confuse a beautiful horizon with a hospitable one.

Verse 59

FIELD RULE 13: The planet owes you no rescue scene.

Verse 60

FIELD RULE 14: Solve the next solvable problem.

Verse 61

FIELD RULE 15: Survive long enough and people will rename your mistakes 'pioneering methods.'