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Titan (Third Dynasty) pt.7

Two years later Mars and Phobos were ready for Human population. 500Ҝ per person, 450Ҝ children, 220Ҝ for infants’ passage (Ҝ = kanes, currency, one kane being equivalent to an Australian dollar though in value in the day, more like $20-1Ҝ. Lower was a tip. Four tips to a kane.). Prices that kept at least 35% of the population from proceeding. Within three months, all who were leaving had left and by the Australian Summer (five months later); everyone was dead except for a very small amount of people. The few remaining Inuit people who could not afford passage to either Mars or Phobos had apparently not been affected by the disease Enzimaë. They renovated the Arc Zoo to the city Ilagit (or “homeâ€? in the Inuit language) where they prosper to this day.

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