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Hello and welcome to Revolutions episode 11.3 the Martian Way.
We left off last time at the turn of the 23rd century with Omnicore entering a period of geriatric rule.
Each day CEO Vernon Byrd sunk a little deeper into an aging body propped up by life extending pharmaceuticals, which kept him alive technically, but increasingly disengaged from the world around him.
Now only a limited number of doses of these life extending pharmaceuticals could ever be produced, so Byrd only shared the secret of life extension with other members of the board of directors.
They happily took the drugs and followed Byrd into a reclusive world of technical aliveness, totally detached from the company they were meant to be leading.
Because the shareholders had generously elected them all to life terms in 2193, they were insulated from the problems that mounted as a result of their collective indifference but oh boy, were problems mounting.
Every aspect of Omnicorp's operations, personnel, finances, accounting, security, manufacturing, shipping, sales and marketing.