Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.

Episode 11.2, in with the old.

Last time, we discussed the early colonization of Mars,

got the first and most important colony city of Olympus up and running

and got FOS-5 shipped back to the Earth on a regular schedule.

Now just to keep things simple in that introductory episode, I was saying things like

Omnichore did this and Omnichore did that, as if they were some kind of independent entity,

not a collection of nameable executive, CEOs, and shareholders.

But we're here to talk about a revolution on Mars that gets rolling in the 2240s, so I didn't

want to bog you down with a bunch of names that are ultimately irrelevant to that story. The short tenure of Hans O'Connor is obviously

fascinating in its own right, but we do have to keep moving. Today, though, we begin with a person

who is most definitely important enough to name and talk about, and that is Vernon Bird.

Maybe you've heard of him.

Vernon Matsusaka Bird was born in Sydney Australia in June 2093. He was the eldest son of two

high-ranking omnicore executives. His birth in this final decade of the 21st century means that he was born just after flex cells had been introduced, but just before

Omnichore successfully landed humans on Mars. Bird was in fact 16 years old and attending an elite STEM academy in Delhi when the archangel landed on Mars.

And Bird later said that seeing Henrietta Aqai land on Mars was a transformative moment in his life.

That it made him want to lead humanity even further out among the stars.

This is a story that was often repeated in future biographies, but as Eleanor Wood revealed in Young

Vern, a biography which focuses exclusively on Bird's life before he became the CEO of Amnichor,

Bird's school chat logs show that he over-slept that day and missed the landing entirely. He only watched the recording of it several days later and made no further mention at the time of it being at all important to him.

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