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  • the first Man to walk on Mars
  • captain of the space station
  • presented the "Mars Apollo" project to the government for the first manned expedition to Mars
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  • Kasei, meaning "fire star"
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  • the duma, consisting of drafted citizens
  • the senate, consisting of elected representatives
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  • specialized in biological engineering
  • Praxis affiliate
  • Sax Russell worked in it as Stephen Lindholm.
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  • "first generation"
  • M-year: a Martian year, which lasts 687 Terran days.
  • "second generation"
  • the first generation of native Martians.
  • A synthetic mix of all the endorphins and opiates found in the brain's natural chemistry
  • resource recovery
  • Russell cocktail: cocktail of greenhouse gases that was instrumental in terraforming. First created by Sax Russell. Mainly based on fluoride derivates.
  • "third generation"
  • the second generation of native Martians
  • Shikata ga nai: Japanese expression for "there is no other choice", phrase used by Hiroko
  • Named after Philip K. Dick's novel "The Martian Time-Slip" (1964).
  • Viriditas: meaning "greening force" in Latin. Basic concept of Areophany.
  • "fourth generation"
  • third generation of native Martians
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  • instrumental in the organization of the Dorsa Brevia Conference of the Martian underground of 2107
  • one of the most active persons in the drafting of the Dorsa Brevia declaration
  • As a result, she was equally active in the Pavonis Mons Congress which resulted in the drafting of the Martian constitution.
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  • historian
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  • a world of different cultures and religions; none should dominate
  • All individuals should have some inalienable rights: material existence, health care, education, legal equality
  • land, air, water are common goods and cannot be owned
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  • The fruits of an individual's labor belong to this individual
  • human labor is part of a communal enterprise
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  • geologist
  • opposed to terraforming from the beginning
  • the ideological founder of the Red movement
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  • In the training of the First Hundred in Antarctica, she and Sax became close.
  • areologist
  • She led the first exploratory expeditions on Mars's surface.
  • She was recognized by her peers as a Red leader but did not actively take part in the violence caused by many Reds.
  • supported a more moderate, non-violent stance for the Red movement: to occupy high-altitude areas in order to keep them untouched
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  • physicist
  • biology
  • In a moment revealing of his character, taking things at face value, Sax replies with complete honesty that he did not fiddle with the tests.
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  • During the First Martian Revolution, Sax perceived that the powers that be had decided the First Hundred should be eliminated.
  • When the aging treatment was discovered, Sax leaked it to the Areophany team.
  • introvert
  • Sax joined the Martian underground and lived in Zygote, and then Gamete.
  • teacher
  • Stephen Lindholm
  • saxifraga
  • "stone-breaker"
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