#esteria

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mars planning using the 2k

i plan on doing it in the 2k and then retracing it on the 2057 map

the most numerous would be like. the one put together by the socialist party of american mars. you know, the mental image of the typical esterian rebel

but like the second biggest would probably be a social democracy faction that isn’t so quick to leave capitalism behind. and there’d be local militias scattered across the left with various amounts of social progressivism/pansophontism

then there’d be rightist militias who hate Le Feds but they’d end up either beaten by Esteria post unification, or folding and ceasing nazi activities

it would be like. Syria levels of complexity. Maybe even eastern kivu levels of complexity. hell groups might even appear on earth, in the form of college protests that make gyroabolitionist encampments

by the 2110s and 2120s contact would only be like. 70 years old. and so not nearly as much injustices would have happened regarding gyro-wage-slavery at that point as opposed to the 500 years of race based human slavery (which continues on mars in forms of prisoner camps). so esterian forces operate on a sort of “blanket abolitionism”, aiming to both dismantle the long tradition of american slavery perpetuated against their will on their land, and also try to stop full gyroslavery before it has a chance to develop (commonly referred to as “nipping it in the bud”)

after esteria unites under one force they’re notable for pursuing good relations with indigenous nations, recognizing most of them as sovereign nations and setting up embassies etc. since most esterian leaders strongly believe in land back sovereignty (their revolution is literally based on allowing Martians to rule their own land after all)

the ceasefire in 2133 happens because in 2132 america elects a president who ran on “stopping the war”. the citizenry thought that meant WINNING the war, but the president actually just wanted it over (as it was too costly to keep fighting.) bros approval rating goes to shit but that doesn’t matter since now Esteria is independent

they’d immediately start doing a large set of votes and referendums to determine how to organize provinces, which areas want independence from everyone, etc. so the country would end up shrinking from what the Americans delineated in the treaty, and we would see a lot of small countries form.

groups outside the treaty lines (such as in the space x charter) would still be fighting, and esteria would still supply them, but they’d mostly begin trying to turn inwards and get the country stable, put down rightist or fundie militias, etc

i think the structure of the revolution is different from what ive been doing. i've been assuming it started definitively in 2124 and ended definitively in 2133. while the ceasefire still would happen in 2133, leading to a defacto esterian state, the 2124 "start" date feels a bit disengenuous.

after all, the unrest started in 2109. the 2108 elections went to the democrats, which signalled a political right-shift akin to what we see now with trump and whatnot. 2105-2109 president had been a particularly stale party for change presidency; where despite legislative action happening and such, things were kind of heating up sociopolitically. the gyrotasse population within american mars continued to increase at a rate slightly greater than the human population, leading a wave of conspiracy theories and xenophobia in the earth states (particularly in conservative former "red states"). especially as the US has gotten into the habit of having white-hot beef with nearly every powerful gyrotasse polity in Sol.

and the entire time theres also increased tension with the USSR and China. so the russophobia and sinophobia Also contributes to their win. so yeah theres a pretty strong dem trifecta formed. and as the opening months of 2109 went by, the entirely blue government would jump on the opportunity to enact all sorts of stupid shit. cold war red scare shit as well as culture war shit on earth, taking rights and having police brutality and censoring and all that. but it was on mars where they *really* pushed their shit.

they loosened government regulations on corporations, letting them burn martian fossil fuels despite. you know. earth still on overdrive trying to fix its own issues. that also drove the martian economy wild as corporations did the shitty fake inflation thing where they just made things expensive cuz they could.

they loosened regulations on the religious charters, leading to an uptick of social conservatism in these areas. long-held federal rights like gay marriage were now on the chopping block, with the most fundie charters hinting at turning the clock back even further.

but what sealed the deal was the landslide decision to create the "gyrotasse territory", carved from the westernmost counties of the urania territory (aka the area that used to be called "ztchdkast" in 2023 canon). the dems solution to the "gyrotasse issue" was to round up every single one on american mars and deport them to this gyrotasse territory. the climate there is cold and harsh, located in the inland urania campuses. the only gyrotasse that would have been spared were ones living in company towns, working for little to no wage. [wage slavery]

so as 2109 went on many cities across american mars would see cops barge into their communities and drag any gyrotasse out, shoving them into trucks or planes and sending them thousands of miles away to the GT. in many communities, especially in low income neighborhoods where the cities forced them to live, they were an integral part of the community, so when these deportations started happening, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. by the end of the year multiple protest organisations would have already sprung up fighting this.

and *thats* where most would put the start of the revolution. because as the 2110s went on, these groups would only grow and multiply, gradually taking control of cities and counties from the american government. the american news cycle would have called it a civil war even in the early 2110s.

now, 2124 is still important. up before then the groups would have been loosely allied, fighting for a common goal but generally disorganised on a pan-colonial level. but on april 8 2124, leaders of the prominent groups and some smaller ones got together in orangetree and took it to the next step, officially forming the first esterian government by unifying their groups under one banner. its when theyd start writing the esterian constitution, drafting the government, and all that stuff. in the following eight earthyears theyd capture more territory now that they were united. theyd immediately begin setting up the government in 2124, getting less rickety as time went on.

as the 2130s began, it was kinda looking like shit for the americans. theyd been pushed out of many strategic locations and entire states had been absorbed into esteria. in 2132, a party for change president ran on the promise to end the war, and after getting inaugurated in 2133, immediately started peace talks with the esterian government, who by then was already doing strong government things like elections and such.

the united states would give up all its possessions west of the continental divide, as well as the territory east of it north of the obama territory, as well as multiple port cities esterian government controlled in other areas of american mars across the globe. this creates the classic "esteria shape", but bigger.

this absolutely kills the president's chance of re-election, but. the president thought it was the best option for the US in the long run

thats when esteria does all the indpendence referendums and such and we get most of olympus insula + ida insula going independent. but the unity of the revolution kept a lot of the new state intact, including most of the port cities abroad. the fighting was long from over, though, as throughout the 2130s and 2140s esteria would have to deal with militant groups from the fundie charters.

the main source of esteria's imperfections would be the first level subdivisions - the "republics" per se - since they all come from different colonial populations. dense, urban republics like the one that was once the US state of mars, would generally be on the pansophontic side. the minnesotas of esteria. but if you look at a religious-founded charter such as the mormon charter or something, youll find a lot harsher social climate that takes centuries to heal. esteria, with its ethnoreligious spaghetti composition, would face a lot of stark differences between the "republics", and internal tension as a result. the charters that remained human supremacist and/or generally American-aligned until the 2133 ceasefire do get put under a Radical Reconstruction-esque martial law state by the esterian government, but even then those "republics" have more oppression than the others

Esteria! I have no idea if she has a left arm so I used a pose that doesn’t show it : D

Gotta admit I was pretty lazy on this one. I think I flipped it halfway through and didn’t change it back so the body was reversed by the head wasn’t. It was a pain to fix that mistake.

Joke/pickup line time! : )

You should change your name to Estaria because your eye(s) shine like the sun! Was that one better?

No? Oh well, I tried.