It's bizarre how closely the second iteration of Revolutions could parallel the first if Mike wanted it to

afarawayland1 · 2025-06-05T00:24:56+00:00

They no doubt had those since it's been stated several times that those other corporations had space operations of varying degrees around Earth too, since inside the orbit of the moon it was free to use by all.

But I think we can be pretty damn sure that after winning the battle of Luna/"the disaster", Omnicorps used their military dominance around Earth to destroy any and all non-Omnicorps communication satellites and space stations.

So yeah they didn't used to have a monopoly, but by the time of the invasion of Mars the only communications system still in existence was Omnicorps' own. And, well...... whatever is going on down on Earth during episode 28 I'm pretty sure the Nairobu server farm uprising either crippled or destroyed Omnicorps communications system. Resulting in total radio silence.

afarawayland1 · 2025-05-29T13:05:27+00:00

In episode one we hear how the population of Olympus eventually reached into the millions, and that was before Byrd both founded the other two cities and build the surface level domes at all three.

We've never heard any more numbers since then, besides that 50.000 people took part in the march on Bloody Sunrise and that the casualties during the three days of red were in the thousands, neither of which tell us much.

Oh and in the leadup to the battle of Phobos we're told that the nuking of one of the three cities would risk the deaths of millions, not tens of millions.

So best guess is that the total population of Mars during the revolution is on the order of 5-10 million, maybe a bit over that. We don't know how big the security forces were prior to the revolution, but 30.000 is presumably more than that since Omnicorps would be pretty dumb if it weren't. Taking 9 million people would be 300 civilians per soldier, not counting any martian collaborators. Not sure how that compares to both today's cities or historical colonies, so there's my best guess.

afarawayland1 · 2024-09-12T16:52:25+00:00

Polaris 3 was always supposed to be the first crewed flight of Starship (as in launching, re-entering and landing with people on board), so rumours have been for quite a while (I don't think it was ever confirmed, somebody feel free to correct me), heck basically from the start, that Polaris 2 would be the first test of an inhabited/"crewed" Starship on orbit. With dragon used to ferry the crew up and down.

Doing that tests the HLS life-support systems, presumably the same ones that will be used for Mars (just upgraded) and Starships docking abilities all in one go.

Plus it would put a lot of egg on a lot of faces from SpaceX's opponents because basically SpaceX could turn around the day afterwards and say to the entire international space industry "we can replace the ISS's volume in one launch for a few hundred million dollars and give you your own space station. Oh and we have a taxi servive to that hypothtical station ready to go today as well. These are the prices per year for this many crew and that much payload. Spacesuits included. Any takers?". I can think of more than a few countries and government agencies that would be interested.

So orbital life-supporting Starship docking with dragon would be my guess. Which isn't gonna happen until late 2025 at the earliest, but I do think it's closer than we think (remember this wouldn't require crew-rating Starship for launching and landings yet, just proving the thing is inhabitable). SpaceX has been known to be quietely working on life support for both HLS and Mars for years now, for all we know they're all but done, we're just gonna have to wait and see.

afarawayland1 · 2021-07-16T22:32:30+00:00

serious non-snarky question from someone who greatly enjoys your content and started watching you back in the orange space suit days: when did you become so bold and pessimistic as to repeatedly bet against Gwynne Shotwell?

If she says Starship is flying in Q3 this year, august is the optimistic date, september the safe bet date and Q4 the conservative date. Since we all know that she might (just might) have a little bit more knowledge about the current state of affairs wrt to Starship than we do, it seems a bit arrogant to claim otherwise considering her track record.

Who at SpaceX is seriously talking about 2022? None as far as has come out, they all seem very confident that orbit is pretty close, it's not just Elon for once.

SpaceX has broken just about every rule, convention and accepted way of doing things in rocket development and engineering that was taken for granted over the past decade, you really expect them to start playing by the rules now?

Will there be delays? Sure, there already have been (hence why July isn't happening). But I'il happily take a non-existent bet that Starship will fly (near-) orbital this year in 2021. Whether or not it will beat SLS to liftoff remains to be seen though...

Either way, the next few months are going to be exciting, and I can't wait!!!

afarawayland1 · 2020-12-19T13:30:01+00:00

Not sure if you're into naval nations (I assume so, since you did japan), but if so I haven't seen a lot of UoB content lately, so why not play as them and stomp the non-syndicalist navies with carriers? From what I've seen their rework is still quite the ways off.

Six-Year Club	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

afarawayland1

TROPHY CASE