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Dominion
July 29, 2116.
That's the day the vested interests back on Earth, the corporate heads, the union bosses, the political heavyweights, woke up and smelled the methane. Mars was no longer a convenient and dependable revenue source, a cost-plus project funded by the taxpayers. It had become a competitor.
The Alliance, a partnership of convenience between the Western nations, was engaged in a planet-wide struggle with the Islamic Republic of the Mediterranean. They were holding their own, but it was a precarious alliance at best, and the last thing they needed was a brash young competitor like Mars upsetting the complex web of obligations that kept the member nations together. Better they quickly squish the Martian upstarts like a bug so that they could get back to fighting each other.
Mars didn't see it that way. Well, at least some people on Mars didn't, and they were prepared to defend their interests by force. Somehow, a simple commercial transaction threatened to precipitate a civil war on Mars, a shooting war between Mars and Earth, and a world war back on Earth, possibly all at the same time.
Could anyone unravel this? Find some way to get everyone to go sit in the corner and think about what they had done? And if not, would anyone survive?
That's the day the vested interests back on Earth, the corporate heads, the union bosses, the political heavyweights, woke up and smelled the methane. Mars was no longer a convenient and dependable revenue source, a cost-plus project funded by the taxpayers. It had become a competitor.
The Alliance, a partnership of convenience between the Western nations, was engaged in a planet-wide struggle with the Islamic Republic of the Mediterranean. They were holding their own, but it was a precarious alliance at best, and the last thing they needed was a brash young competitor like Mars upsetting the complex web of obligations that kept the member nations together. Better they quickly squish the Martian upstarts like a bug so that they could get back to fighting each other.
Mars didn't see it that way. Well, at least some people on Mars didn't, and they were prepared to defend their interests by force. Somehow, a simple commercial transaction threatened to precipitate a civil war on Mars, a shooting war between Mars and Earth, and a world war back on Earth, possibly all at the same time.
Could anyone unravel this? Find some way to get everyone to go sit in the corner and think about what they had done? And if not, would anyone survive?
229 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2024
About the author
Jay Stevens
22 books15 followersJay Karl Stevens was a freelance writer and social historian. Stevens was born and raised into a family of farmers in Springfield, Vermont. He attended school there as a child and then Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, going on to the University of Vermont after graduation.
He is the author of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987), and co-author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman. He founded Applied Orphics, a digital marketing and distribution company, and Rap Lab, a program bringing at-risk teenagers and professional musicians and poets together. Prior to his death, he was living at his family farm in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, where he produced maple syrup.
He is the author of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987), and co-author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman. He founded Applied Orphics, a digital marketing and distribution company, and Rap Lab, a program bringing at-risk teenagers and professional musicians and poets together. Prior to his death, he was living at his family farm in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, where he produced maple syrup.
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