11.0- Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Episode 11, Welcome to the Martian revolution. Two hundred and fifty years after the event, the Martian revolution remains one of the most formative events in human history. This is not a novel observation. Contemporaries quickly realized the momentousness of it all as it was happening. Historians have only amplified the conclusion that the Martian revolution was a big deal, a really big deal. Every political, social, and economic trend in interplanetary history runs through that chaotic decade. Its results and outcomes and legacies form the basis of modern human civilization. Everywhere you look throughout the solar system, the legacy of the Martian revolution lives on. Now I acknowledge that there has not exactly been a surfeit of writing about the Martian revolution. Over the past two and a half centuries, I don't think a single year has gone by where something hasn't come out about it. Macro histories, micro histories, biographies, screen vids, e pubs, music immersives, whatever. The Martian revolution is endlessly fascinating and has endlessly fascinated us. It certainly has endlessly fascinated me, which is why I'm here to walk you through it point by point, day by day, year by year. From the death of Vernon Byrd all the way through to well, you know how it ends, obviously. What I want to present here is a detailed overview of what happened and why. Who were the most important people and why? So that when you go forth to go engage with that mountain of material available on the Martian revolution, you'll have a very firm grounding on the who, what, when, where, why, and how of it all. Now, a project like this draws from a wide variety of sources, both primary and secondary. Now, primary sources are of course the bread and butter of the historian's craft. In our case, this will include official records from Omnicorp's corporate archives and records from the various Martian governments that rose and fell over the years. We also have logs and diaries and messages, both of principal players as well as common people living through difficult times. The log book of Presley Wu, for example, is always gonna be a great resource for information on what it was like to live through all of this just on the quotidian daily level. Almost all these records are available to me through the T portal, which, thank God, my student access login still works. I think they forgot to ever turn it off. But, that said, we've also lost a lot over the years. The great server crash of twenty three fifty four wiped out economic and commercial records, which leaves our understanding of the economics of all this far shakier than any of us would really prefer. Then there was the time archivists installed an AI cleaning tool to the colonial records, which instead instantly and irretrievably deleted every fifth word, which it's now been mostly patched back together, but there's still lots …