Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.6, the Day of Batteries.

Last time, new CEO of Omnacore Timothy Werner unveiled the new protocols, which were meant to increase efficiency and productivity after decades of corporate malaise.

But what they really did was cause havoc and severely disrupt life on Mars.

Today we will talk about the reaction to all that havoc and disruption, specifically how it fan the flames of political consciousness among the Martians.

These flames had been reduced to fading embers in the repressive atmosphere of the 2230s,

but during Mabel Doer's campaign for the board of directors in 2244, they had rekindled a bit.

And now here in 2245 and 2246, the new protocols will pour gas on that fire and let the flames really roar back to life, just in time for Timothy Werner to show up on Mars in person.

Now to sketch out this growing political consciousness and the proto-revolutionary organization that will harness and direct it, let's start among the SAB elites. Despite her failed bid to get elected to the

board of directors, A-class executive Mabel Doer remained incredibly rich and incredibly popular, and was, in

fact, at this point, probably more popular than ever. For her, the new protocols were absolute ironclad proof of her campaign's demand that the Martians needed a voice.

If the Martians had been heard or if they could be heard, none of this would be happening.

And perhaps more than any other single person, Mabledor knew what was happening.

She was an executive in the personnel department, and as soon as the new protocols hit, her office was inundated with complaints

and grievances and desperate pleas from every class and department to do something, anything about

it. Whether they were on company time or personal time, Martian lives were being severely disrupted and it was becoming intolerable.

However bad the declining standards of living had been during the later bird years, Werner and the new protocols somehow made it even worse.

So in her official capacity, Doar started compiling a database of examples and evidence and

proof that the new protocols were doing far more harm than good, perhaps only harm with no

good to speak of.

When she was not on company time, she and her husband, Roy Cito, organized a humanitarian

response to what was clearly becoming a slow-moving social crisis. Her philanthropic efforts had long

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