Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.20, the Battle of Phobos.

We left off last time on June the 20th, 2250, with the re-decloration of Martian independence.

During the dramatic run of events that became known as the Independence Days, Omnicor's attempt to reclaim control of Mars failed spectacularly.

The carefully laid plans of Kamal Singh lay in shambles.

The attempt to breach the Martian firewall had failed.

That alone, all but guaranteed the loyalist uprising led by Bruno October was snuffed out.

October, and nearly all of his followers, now sat in Martian stockades.

Meanwhile, Convoy Group 11, which was supposed to have been in orbit around Mars before anything else happened, was still two weeks away from Mars, no longer flying under the radar, but instead

exposed under a bright spotlight, commanding the fixated attention of millions of people on Earth,

Mars, and everywhere else in the solar system humans lived.

It would appear that Kamal Singh had taken his shot and missed.

But there was still a sliver of hope for the oh-so-recently installed CEO of Omnicor.

The one part of Singh's plan that had gone smoothly was his coup against Jin Wang.

So, at least for now, he still wielded the enormous powers vested in the CEO of Omnacore. The first thing he did was thoroughly muddy the

narrative waters. Within hours of the Martian Declaration of Independence, he released a vid

addressed, blaming Martian radicals for everything. He flatly denied there were any nuclear devices in Convoy Group 11.

He said that was preposterous.

Omnicor's official position had never changed.

The Gemini Vids were a hoax.

They were disinformation created by Martian radicals to justify an otherwise unjustifiable revolt

against the agreement of 2248, which Singh said Omnicor had scrupulously

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