Martian Crisis

The Martian Crisis was a result of a misguided population of miserable people who wanted something new to believe in. The Martian chairman, Zeldan Mircrof, was one such miserable person. However, he had ideas of gaining power and forcibly getting the resources to create a utopia on Mars. These goals were impossible and people debated if Miscrof was crazy but he had a plan. He riled up his population to try and make them believe the United Nations had wronged them. Propaganda spoke of the council as if they were tyrants that hate the Martian race and won’t allow them to be represented on the council itself. These things got ingrained into people’s heads. In the year 2351 on January 6th, the people took control of government buildings and destroyed connections with Earth.

The FUN did not have a full time REAL military. There policy of peace had not worked. The Martians used violence to get what they wanted the FUN was forced to change its ways. On March 18th 2363, Chairman Raine resigned her position when she faced a lot of backlash and Clinton Xem took her place. His policy was one of conventional methods in warfare and started rebuilding a military. They armed civilian ships and gathered a large volunteer force. The idea of war was heavily debated upon but propaganda and education help make the war right. “If Mars isn’t in the fold we will be stranded on this planet forever”. The FUN made a declaration of war, “Diplomacy has been cut off, there is no other option, the way to human prosperity is through the enlightenment of their oppressive regime through force. We cannot allow fellow humans be violated with such lies”, and started preparing for launch.

A warning ship was sent out to the Martians and asked that they surrender. The Martians shot a warning missile next to the ship. When it automatically blew next to the ship the shrapnel shredded parts of the ship. They were stranded orbiting Mars until the force got here.  The voluntary force of Peace Keepers and civilians launched on their way to mars a little after the diplomatic ship so they were not far behind.

A broadcast was sent out by the incoming fleet and propaganda was broadcasted. The Martians had lost trust of the government that they had put in place as it come to be a lying dictatorship. Half the population was already disloyal to the government and when propaganda from the attacking ships came through lots of people rioted and over 7,000 people were arrested. The main piece of propaganda was from a Martian on Earth who made speech called “Human Purpose”, This speech alone made a lot people switch sides. Without imports from earth Martian life was horrible and accidents because lack of resources happened all the time.

When the fleet was getting close to the red planet they hacked the defense satellites and stations and shut most of them off. On the way into the atmosphere they were shot at but rebels had already propped up and started sabotaging mars weapons. They landed and stormed the Chairman Building. The Martian Military put up a good resistance but in the end the Earthens were more numerous and more geared. After one year the planet had been subdued but Miscrof was never found even with a 10 million Lunan bounty on his head. The people celebrated and people who helped the dictator were persecuted. Freedom was restored to Mars and Xem made sure to incorporate mars into the ORNs of Earth and gave them proper representation.

In the 2390s Xem made sure to militarize the FUN but put a lot of restrictions on them. The Interstellar Defense Guard was formed in 2392 as a standing Army and Space-force. They were mostly active in Mars regarding the Crisis. They developed gun ships and army transport technology. Martian terraforming was more successful and they were back on track.