Sounds familiar?
British Empire?
American Colonies?
Time is a circle.
So, a Martian Congressional Republic? It does sound like something those damned dusters would pull.
What next? The denizens of the asteroid belt calling for more rights and designating an Outer Planet Alliance, while a mysterious proto-molecule wreaks havoc on the Solar System?
Oye kopeng, beltalowda need dem OPA to protect our rights. Sasa ke?
Ayo can I get a translation for us planetside? I no sasa
Hello friend, us Belters need the OPA to protect our rights, you know?
Wrecks havoc? Expanse was so unrealistic. Protogen would pay doctors in all factions to “speedrun herd immunity, open up trade and travel for the economy”. Errenwright would tell Secretary General to say “stop testing protomolecule and we won’t have cases”. MEGA will be ordering deliveries of protomolecule injections to inject themselves. Holden spaces himself because canonically at that time he still thinks the problem with people is lack of access to information.
80+% of earth’s surface is still completely uninhabited by humans.
I’m talking about the sea floor, Antarctica, most of Australia, most of Siberia, the high mountain ranges, and the Sahara.
It would be so much easier to build colonies there than on Mars.
Even if our worst predictions about climate change come true, hell even if warming was twice as bad, they would still be much more hospitable to human life than Mars.We haven’t colonized those places, because it simply isn’t worth the effort.
So why would it be worth the much, much bigger effort to settle on Mars?But I want the Expanse timeline 🥺
(minus the blue goo, fuck that shit)
People desperate to live on their own terms may think it’s very much worth the effort. The pilgrims, buckle-headed weirdoes they were, probably thought as much when they boarded the Mayflower.
Hey, will there also be slaves in this new “beacon of freedom”?
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Sound familiar?
Yeah, it’s the basis for a lot of sci-fi stories; though China is interchangable with any country, corporation, or mega rich jackass.
Bear Head is one of those variations.
The Expanse.
All I can think of is that meme of those 2 star wars characters. “Now there are two of them!”
Only if they name the colony “Elon is a little bitch”, but in Chinese. (Translation?)
I actually don’t know enough curse words / insults.
Maybe like: 伊隆係個死八婆 (Cantonese for “Elon is a dead bitch”, in Cantononese, they add “dead” in front of curseword nouns to make it more dramatic lol, its shall not be construed as an actual threat, legally speaking)
Or maybe: 埃隆有小鸡鸡 (Mandarin for “Elon has a small dick” ? Idk I heard other Mandarin-speaking classmates say it.)
…Why is the first sign different? The first two would be “e-lon”, right?
Cantonese vs Mandarin
Different Sounds, Different Transliterations.
Idk how those even work, but that’s just what the wikipedia says.
The reverse transliteration also has differences.
Like…
A Mainlander and a Hong Konger also have different name transliterations.
黃家駒 is “Wong Ka Kui” in Hong Kong, but if he had been a Mainlander, it’d be “Huang Jiaju”.
Heck, even Taiwan use different transliterations, even tho its the same Mandarin as Mainland, like Tsai ing-wen would be Cai Yingwen, if she was a Mainlander
Deal. Is there a phonetic pronunciation you can help with?
They already have a few of those right now. They don’t seem too keen on letting them go.
Tbf, distance between Earth and Mars is way farther than England and American Colonies. A Martian revolution has much higher chance success.
This is assuming a lot about China’s capability of creating a self sustaining life support system on a dead planet.
and after a while a regime change leaves an ousted guy running to mars to exile and then use its labor forces as cheap labor for american capitalists who then attempt to pretend mars was never chinese anyway.
Down with Ultor! Glory to the Red Faction!
Bastion of freedom and prosperity? The US?
*Restrictions apply, Martian land ownership required
What a take, lol. China is “not free” but the West has either hick Gestapo or German/British police officers arresting grandmas and beating up brown people to their hearts’ content… These Chinese Martians wouldn’t just randomly become restless, confused, unstable Westerners, btw. 🤷
