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Greetings Clarshal Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into the fourth story for the month of December 2015.

The piece is titled, When We Die on Mars, by Cassandra Kaw. Cassandra Kaw is the business developer for a Singaporean video games publisher.

She also writes for Arse Technica UK whenever possible.

When not doing either of those things, she practices Muay Thai, tries to find some time to dance, and reads voraciously.

She also writes a variety of fiction

and has a novella entitled,

Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef

Out with Abaten Books. You can find Cassandra at her website, Cassandra Kahl.com.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

You're all going to die on maws.

This is the first thing he tells us.

Voice plain, tone, sterile.

Commander Sien, we eventually learn, is a man not General. Six rows deep bones easy bodies wetted on a checklist of training regimes.

Our answer, military crisp, converges into a single noise.

Yes, sir.

If at any point before launch, you feel that you cannot commit to this mission.

Leave.

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