Hello and welcome to Revolutions.

Episode 11.22, Leopold's Leviathan.

As the refugee convoy that evacuated Lunaport in August 2250 headed towards Mars, they

sped away from a planet that was falling apart and toward a planet that was putting itself back

together. The fighting around Lunaport marked the first shots in the corporate war down on Earth,

as Omnicor and Three Corps mobilized for the first

great power war in living memory. Both sides directed their respective security services to

attack or defend key points across the globe, setting up what would become the major theaters in

Africa, South Asia, and the islands. That is what the refugee convoy left in the rearview mirror. In front of them was

Mars, which had just emerged from the crucible of the Independence Days, and had now declared

itself the Independent Republic of Mars, whatever that meant and whatever that was. But before we

follow this convoy to Mars, I want to briefly touch on the mess they were leaving behind.

As I just said, after the evacuation of Lunaport, everybody started moving into position, digging in,

fortifying their defenses, and probing possible weak points in each other's lines.

Skirmishes started breaking out.

Now, I do not want to derail this entire project

by spending the next 50 episodes talking about the fracken corporate war. I mean, Senilees-Rouch's

history of the corporate war, the Great Fire, runs seven volumes, the entire second volume of which

covers just the events between Lunaport and the end of 2250.

But while I am not getting sucked into all that,

I do want to at least cover the fall of Kamal Singh and the arrival of the competence.

Nothing sunk Kamal Singh so much as his failures.

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