11.26-The Invasion of Mars
Added 2025-05-20 02:15:19 +0000 UTCIn January 2252 Omnicorp returned to Mars. And they were not messing around.
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This episode had my palms sweating. There were so many tense moments. This episode shows, more than any other episode in the series, Mike's skills as a superlative fiction writer.
Nicholas Hall
2025-05-20 09:23:50 +0000 UTCYou might have imagined Barlow to join the historical ranks of Benedict Arnold or Oliver Cromwell as a figure you could conjure to be anathema to your civilization's way of life, or even as a curse word not unlike Mabel Door's onetime ally. Surprisingly not. While that transmission and its consequences remained burned into Mars' very soul, it became a scar most Martians I've talked to never even acknowledge. Oh they talk about the Omnicorp invasion and how bad things got, because obviously that's the darkest hour of a great story, but even a passing reference to Commander Barlow just earns you a moment's silence before the subject very much becomes difficult to continue talking about him. You'll see Door and Darby and De Petrov and Clare and Gonzales and even Calderon in Revolutionary Murals, but somehow it's Barlow's face that Mars remembers the most, even if they wish they couldn't. The few who do bring him up unprompted usually use a pseudonym - the most common one being "Pandora".
RMS Oceanic
2025-05-20 07:27:06 +0000 UTC
