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Great song, great description.
This blasted planet takes everything out of a man. His time is spent tilling the crimson fields of Tharsis, an endless, futile task. His blood, if he has any to spare, is regularly drained, filtered and offered as tribute to the constantly warring bands of vicious hemo-nomads. And his dreams, if ever he was foolish enough to hold one, are scattered and cast into any number of volcanic protrusions which rise from the landscape, gaping maws into the famished gullet of the Blood Star. You think you've got what it takes, kid? You think you've got Blood Star in you? Well, go ahead and throw your life away. Wouldn't be the first of you water-guzzling earthlings to try, and you won't be the last...