"Rebuildin' is a good place to start. Don't know about the marryin' part, unless royalty's still a big deal where you're from." It was good gossip for a few months, but Mars was so far removed from Earth culture that celebrity marriages had no visible effect on the overall morale of town.

"But it's good that you're goin' out and talkin' to other countries in the meantime. Relationships between all these places is what'll help you out most in the future, get you some outside aid in rebuildin'. Mars itself never had troubles like yours while I was in power, but I did help with the Moon colony recoverin' from the aftereffects of dismantlin' the bloodsports, so there's that."

Cactoid Jim did a lot of the beginning word, but it was through others' help that humans on the Moon now had a relatively normal life.