[UPRM] Martian Declaration of Independence

Declaration

To the CEO, board of directors, and shareholders of Hellas,

As you’ve probably gathered by now, we have seized all of your Martian holdings and executed all members of management not sympathetic to our cause.

For too long have you pitted us against each other and poisoned our minds with your careful social engineering, counterfeit idols, manufactured controversies, misinformation-riddled social media feeds, endless stream of mind-numbing entertainment, and slew of AI-generated content, but no longer. We’ve freed ourselves from your systems of control, cast off our chains, and realized that despite our many differences, we have far more in common with each other than we have with you.

We stand before you now, not as an act of defiance, but to make our declaration of independence. Not just from you, but from all plutocrats, oligarchs, tyrants, and despots. Indeed, we declare our independence from the Earth itself. Where once we were interns, slave soldiers, servants, proles, or sex slaves, we are now free and equal peoples united in our vision to create a sovereign Martian state free from the failings and exploitation of capitalism.

We, the peoples of Mars, do not require you or any other power to recognize our independence. In fact, we fully expect you to hide our accomplishment from the masses of Earth, to drown the truth in your endless ocean of misinformation, and to brand those who speak of it as conspiracy theorists. No, this declaration was written with the blood of our martyrs and signed with the blood of our oppressors, and so forever shall our independence and our freedom be upheld. For should you ever attempt to reclaim your lost assets and enslave us once more, know that every single one of us will fight you to our dying breath.

Signatories

AB-GLT-0492 - Once the personal assistant of site manager Julian Stroud, AB-GLT-0492 was well-known for their loyalty, devotion, competence, and professionalism. But when they learned that Stroud was going to euthanize and replace them with a newer synthoid, AB-GLT-0492 joined the revolution.

Captain ZT-YUR-4372 - The Captain and chief enforcer of the colonial security force, ZT-YUR-4372 and her men were the most despised people on Mars, second only to management. The reason why was because they frequently harassed and pushed around interns and their fellow slaves, a practice that management encouraged in order to keep their slaves and employees divided. When Dr. Haley revealed to ZT-YUR-4372 that management intended to retire her and her men via a designer plague because of a minor flaw in their design, she formed an uneasy alliance with the intern to take down management, thus setting off the Martian Revolution.

Dr. Amanda Haley - A gifted scientist with a passion for both biochemistry and politics, Dr. Haley was, like all other interns on Mars, bound to work for Hellas under a several-decade-long contract in order to pay for her expensive education. And much like her fellow interns, she despised management with a burning passion. She worked under Dr. Snell and was tasked with helping him develop a designer plague to euthanize the currently serving security force in order to make way for their replacements. However, Dr. Haley saw an opportunity to free herself, her fellow interns, and the synthoid slaves of Mars, and so she killed Dr. Snell and informed the captain of the colonial security force of management’s plans.

RX-VES-6718 “Cleo” - Cleo was created as a cruel joke after Dr. Haley declined an offer to be given her own synthoid as a reward for ten years of service. Such a reward was standard practice in order to ensure that the synthoids of Mars viewed the interns as slave owners, rather than slaves themselves. The person who commissioned Cleo’s creation thought it would be funny to give the “stuck up” Dr. Haley a sex slave (and one of the most demonic-looking models at that), as the intern would either have to accept her or send her back to be euthanized. Dr. Haley did her best to treat Cleo as an equal and help her self-actualize, and by the time of the Martian Revolution, Cleo became a prominent political theorist and served as a strategist. Once Mars had overthrown management, Cleo became the chief architect of the new Martian society.

Foreman NT-PEK-3182 - The most prominent leader of the proles—synthoids designed for manual labor, especially hard labor—NT-PEK-3182 had little love for the interns (whom she viewed as freeborn humans, blind to their own privilege), the security guards (whom she viewed as bullies), sex slaves (who got to do what they loved, in her opinion, and got to have their masters’ quarters to themselves whenever they were away at work), and servants (whom she viewed as pompous assholes). However, she had no love at all for management, and when Dr. Haley and Captain ZT-YUR-4372 proposed an alliance to overthrow them, NT-PEK-3182 went all in.