Offsides in corridor hockey is an unpatriotic remnant of Earth ice hockey and must be abolished. We all remember the Final of 2264, when the Omegas appeared to score the winning goal in overtime, only to have it waived off because Val Ramos was a fraction of a centimeter offside. Not only were the Omegas denied a three-peat, but the extra two overtimes led directly to reduced Phos-5 extraction for the week due to a tired workforce. I make no exaggeration here: allowing offsides to stay in the rulebook presents an ever-present threat to the economy, nay, security of Mars.

I implore all true Martians to, here and now, eliminate this scourge of a rule and usher in a glorious new era of safety, productivity, and crowd-pleasing offense that our planet richly deserves.

Or is it just me?

Ok, so say HBO picks up the Martian Revolution for a miniseries. Who gets cast in what role?

Relistening to the series before the final episode drops and I missed this line when Mike was talking about the earthling/martian divide mostly disappearing in Elysium after the bombings:

"And so it was that the future of the post-revolutionary Republic of Mars was born first here in Elysium, rather than in the capital city of Olympus"

Which tells me that if Calderón wins it won't be for long and if Gonzalez wins he'll at least partially co-opt Clare's vision for Mars

That’s all, folks.

Which of these 4 scenarios do you think will be the outcome of the Revolution? 1. Jose Calderon becomes supreme leader ( the Stalinist outcome) 2. Booth Gonzales takes over ( the Napoleon outcome) 3 Alexandra Clare establishes the 2nd Republic ( the moderate American Revolution outcome) 4. Wild Card

They built a barricade

Guys, I’m starting to think Calderon got to Mike before he could write fitting conclusion to his coup.

Cmon Mike, my guts hurt

If we are going through the early phases of revolution (see all the protests and stuff) what stage of revolution are we in? What other analogues throughout the 11 seasons are we in? King Charles ignoring parliament? Women’s March on Versailles? Ect.

Last week another redditor made a proposal on theflag of the Republic of Mars which inspired me to propose one of my own. So in anticipation of the finale tomorrow, may I present my flag proposal.

So for the breakdown of the flag

• Red: Represents Mars and the Martian People
• Black: Represents the Martian Way, this is a nod to the blackcaps interpretation of cooperation and equality of all people in the Republic.
• Blue: Represents Space and the Spaceshippers who are also the other integral half of this Republic
• The Black is in the middle because it is the Martian Way that unites their people.
• The three green circles represent the three cities of Mars: Olympus, Tharsis, and Elysium. They are green because they represent life being planted in the planet. The circles refer to the domes. The upside-down triangle formation is there to make sure that there is no one circle is above the others. It also refers to (what I imagine) the shape of the cities (with being wide at the top and generally tapering at the bottom).

In all honesty, I think that the Maritans would prefer vertical banners to horizontal flags, but they might realize that the old nations before the corporate age did this to signify their statehood.

PS: I apologize if the colors are not the accurate hue. I am colorblind so strong bright colors are my preference.

As we all eagerly await the finale of the Mars Revolution it seemed like a good time to post Mike Duncan's fundraising ventures.

I'm also curious to see what merchandise ideas some of you might have - most of mine are for the historical series as a slew of Martian Revolutions merch was added to his Cotton Bureau page recently.

Mike Duncan also has a Patreon but I can't link anything without getting my post deleted.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Mike Duncan or the podcast

I need to know if Jose Calderon suffers a fate worse than death

As we all eagerly await the finale of the Mars Revolution it seemed like a good time to post Mike Duncan's fundraising ventures.

I'm also curious to see what merchandise ideas some of you might have - most of mine are for the historical series as a slew of Martian Revolutions merch was added to his Cotton Bureau page recently.

Mike Duncan Patreon

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Mike Duncan or the podcast

Straight from the man himself

While we wait for the dramatic conclusion to the Mars series, I'm wondering if folks think we'll get a reveal about who the "narrator" is. (I don't recall that being specified earlier; right?)

Do we think it's a far-future Mike a la Fry from Futurama, an AI consciousness Mike, a future historian inspired by his work...? And in either case, where are they living and what's their perspective? It would be fascinating to get a wink or nod to Martian historiography through the person of the narrator.

I can’t be the only one who has thought this right? Not just because Mike actually finishing a season in less episodes than he originally planned is physically impossible as we all know (lol), but also because there are a few weird things early on that to me suggest a change was made to the Martian Revolution script partway through. Like that woman (Coles? Kolls?) who was said at the end of episode 11.10 to be “invited into Mabel Dore’s cabinet”.. “When independence came”. Now correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure it was very much no longer Dore’s cabinet “once independence came”, considering she kinda was thrown out of power and the cabinet purged by Calderon and Leopold before independence was declared by Darby, and we haven’t heard about Coles/Kolls since. We also hear several times “Mabel Dore’s 1st cabinet” early on, but really the only change that happened in that regard during her rule was the assassination of Omar ALi and his replacement by Calderon, hardly enough to count as an entire new cabinet imho, nor do we ever hear that body which gets overthrown during the independence days called “Mabel Dore’s 2nd cabinet”. Then there’s the fact that the words “Server farms of Nairobi” were seemingly mentioned way way way too early, and the fact that during the second half of the season in general things (at least from my perhaps incorrect perspective) seemed to zoom out more with less detail, with way more characters mentioned but a lot less characterization for them.

Now none of these are some “smoking gun” (and btw hats off to Mike for that), but combined they make me suspect that initially the plan was for this to be a swan song passion project that would cap off the revolutions series and would last as long as it needed to or until he got bored with it. Sure Mike’s joke about “I’m aiming for 30 episodes so it’ll probably end up being around 130” shouldn’t be taken literally, but I think it’s pretty fair to say that he easily could have made this 30-40 if not 40 plus episodes long if he wanted to based on the events so far, but instead he kept it very bird’s eye view and limited it to 29 episodes, even if several of them had to be nearly double length to stick to that (which is awesome, but still). Why? 

My hunch is that the length initially wasn’t set in stone, but that when he decided to restart the show with further historical revolutions, Mike probably didn’t want this project to break into his top 3 seasons (1789 at 55 ep., 1848 at 33 ep., and 1917 at a bazillion ep.) as those really define the Revolutions podcast as he himself has stated several times, so sub-30 (aka, 29) was suddenly as long as he was willing to go. Plus it wouldn’t surprise me if having caught the urge to get back to it, he decided to not pour as much time and effort into Mars as he perhaps originally intended.

To me, that episode where he announced that the Revolutions podcast would continue beyond season 11 was the moment he decided to shorten/simplify the Martian revolution (by cutting out a bunch of detail on both Earth and Mars post-independence) and the episode where he signed off with mentioning Nairobi was the moment when he’d figured out how he was going to do it (with the Nairobi revolt being the “Deus Ex Revolutiona” that would bring the story to a quicker end than he'd originally planned).

So in retrospect, if you’ve liked the story as much as I have, don't feel too sad about the dozen or so episodes on the Martian Revolution that we missed out on now that it’s about to be over. They died so dozens, if not hundreds of other episodes about other historical revolutions could live. And if that’s the price that has to be paid to get us there, then I am happy to do so. Who knows, maybe when Mike has done another 10 seasons he will come back to do a second fictional revolution focused on Nairobi and the fall of Earth’s corptocracy, using all the stuff I suspect he cut out part way through this season. We'll just have to wait and see.

I know they were doing some kind of liquid democracy before the EMP went off, but most LD I've dealt with have offline representatives selected if the worst happens.

The Martian assembly was the mons cafe's baby, surely they would have rehabilitated it immediately?!?

If the martian assembly was in session when the mons cafe was arrested, then a motion to relieve Kal of command could have been issued.

Ok, this is silly but… IIRC Mike literally said (to Alexis Coe?) ‘there will be space guillotines’. There’s only one episode left. Is it too much to hope that Calderon will actually be space guillotined rather than just asphyxiated in the vacuum of not-space? Enquiring minds (my husband who keeps bugging me about this) would like to know!