"There is just so much left to do..." After authorizing the completion of the new steelmaking blast furnace, Jason finally let out a long, heavy sigh of relief.
The steel produced in this rapid, high-yield process was crude steel. Its baseline quality was only mediocre, barely passing standard structural thresholds. However, the engineering teams didn't care; right now, sheer volume was vastly more important than perfection. These were mass-produced industrial machines, not luxury spacecraft. There was no need for pristine finishing or aesthetic packaging. If a few units broke down from material stress, it simply didn't matter.
Furthermore, the Martian atmosphere possessed virtually no free oxygen.
