Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.19, the Independence Days.

We left off last time in May 2250, with the shocking revelation that Omnicor had armed several container ships in Convoy Group 11 with nuclear devices.

As Convoy Group 11 made its way towards Mars, the Gemini Vids raced ahead of them, landing on the desk of Mabel Dor about two weeks after the ships departed

Earth. Commander of the Martian Guard, Jose Calderon saw the vids and believed D'Or needed

to immediately declare a state of emergency. But despite this apparent proof that Omnicor was

preparing to threaten Mars with total destruction, Dor was, at that moment, more suspicious of Calderon than she was of Omnicor.

Radicals on Mars had been trying to undermine the agreement of 2248 since it had been signed.

Calderon himself had been quick to believe other implausible plots that turned out not to be true,

and it made absolutely no sense for Omnacore to destroy

phosphi production on Mars by dropping a bunch of nuclear bombs on it. So her conclusion was,

come on, get real, next time at least make it plausible. When it came to the Gemini Vids,

Dorr believed that her job was to make sure dangerous radicals

did not exploit fear over a fake threat to destroy the peace and stability that had been

secured by the agreement of 2248. Calderon was furious D'Or did not take the Gemini

vids seriously, and he went from that meeting with Doar straight to Marcus Leopold.

He showed Leopold the vids, laid out the threat he believed was very real, and told Leopold,

we have a real emergency we need to deal with here. No, not the nukes carried by Convoy Group 11, but by the continued leadership of Mabel Doer. Now, as we discussed last time, Leopold and the Mons

Cafe group had their own reasons for disliking and distrusting Mabel Dor. Her refusal to do

anything about the Gemini vids seemed to fit a pattern where she was more aligned with

earthling interests than Martian interests. So Calderon and Leopold convened a further meeting at the

Monz Cafe on May the 31st, 2250, consisting of all the key leaders of the Monz group, Leopold,

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