Martin was born in Catalpa, Mars; which happens to be a small town on the edge of the Republic influence and the Outbacker lands. This proximity to the Outback would have a lasting effect on Martin. As a child Martin would split his time between going to the local school and helping his father David’s mechanic shop. He was a fairly happy child, though he always found life in Catalpa to be limiting. Martin’s father did quite a bit of business with the nearby minor Outbacker clan the Finnegan’s. He and his father would take trips out to the Outback to help repair damaged machinery that the Finnegan’s couldn’t fix themselves. It was on one of these trips as a teenager would the Martian meet and started a relation ship with an Outbacker girl named Camilla. Martin soon afterwards started to spe