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=== Residential expansion and self-sufficiency (2052–2065) ===
Governor Selene Adeyemi assumed civilian administrative authority at the complex's establishment in 2047 CE, overseeing the transition from mission-phase governance to permanent settlement status. Adeyemi, formerly a municipal logistics director with experience managing the [[Tranquility Arcology Project]] on Luna, prioritized accelerating the complex's agricultural self-sufficiency and reducing its dependence on expensive Earth-to-Mars supply runs coordinated through the [[Luna Transit Authority]].

Under Adeyemi's administration, the fourth secondary dome was completed and designated entirely to expanded greenhouse operations following designs by [[Engineer Yuki Tanaka]]. The [[Deimos Relay Array]] provided improved communications throughput during this period, reducing the delays that had previously hampered real-time administrative coordination with Earth-based oversight bodies. Within several years of establishment, the complex produced approximately 68 percent of its caloric requirements internally, a threshold Adeyemi publicly described as the point of ''practical self-sufficiency''.

Population grew steadily from the initial occupancy at establishment through peak figures of approximately 14,200, driven by a combination of scheduled colonist transports organized through the [[Earth-Mars Treaty of Cis-Lunar Transit]] framework and a modest but growing rate of children born within the complex itself. The [[Martian Dust Season Protocols]], formalized during the complex's early operational years, governed emergency procedures for the extended periods when dust storms reduced solar power generation and exterior operations to near zero.