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Episode 11.21, the Republic of Mars.

Thanks to the unexpectedly fortuitous run by Booth Gonzalez that fatally crippled Convoy Group 11 at the Battle of Phobos on July 16, 2250, Mars was saved from a looming apocalyptic peril.

All three components of Kamal Singh's plan to reclaim control of the red planet had now failed. The firewall

stood, the loyalist insurrectionaries were all in jail, and now the nuclear threat was dead in space.

In this short but dramatic fight between Omnicor and Mars, Mars won. But as I said last time,

perhaps the biggest impact of the Battle of Phobos was not so much

the short-term deliverance of Mars from the immediate threat of nuclear apocalypse, although that was

very important, but rather on the long-term impact it had on the political and economic order of the

solar system. When Bicor and T-Core took the Martian victory at Phobos as their opportunity to recognize

Martian independence and declare that they no longer recognized Omnicor's claim to monopoly

beyond the line of lunar orbit, it upended an economic and political order to the solar system

that had prevailed for more than 150 years.

It was, in fact, the only economic and political order the solar system had ever known.

And though it was not inevitable, and historical contingency remained a potent force in coming events,

the Battle of Phobos is pretty much the moment everyone points to to say,

and that's when Omnacor's monopoly ended.

At least, that's the answer you should

write down if you're asked that question on a test. Omnicor's response to this direct provocation from

Bicor and T-Corps and T-Corps ran through CEO Kamal Singh, the author of the failures that

invited the provocation in the first place. That was because the one part of Singh's plan that had worked was his coup against

Jin Wang.

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