Note: Records show that Sofia Anderson was taken to Luna City for evaluation the summer after she turned 18. She was kept there for 16 months with no communication home. Her family and boyfriend sent messages, but there is no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: After manual operation of motor vehicles was outlawed, it took hundreds of years for enthusiasm for the machines to die down. “Drivers” would build kits of old Earth cars over the chassis of autonomous, electric vehicles. They would strive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Senator Bea Hanson served in the Sol legislature for several terms, and described herself as the ‘scientific candidate’ for the Northern Mars Colonies district. She was one of the few senators to oppose the Expanded Acuity Control Act, on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Mars City was famous for its ‘Beltway’ network, a system of electric pedestrian paths that crisscrossed the city. The Beltway extended out into the outer domes as well, and many smaller suburban domes, like Central Xanthe, had enough paths[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Schooling for young people in the Martian colonies was much the same as schooling had been for hundreds of years on Earth, with children divided up into cohorts by age as a rough representation of learning capacity, and shuttled,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Of course, most Mentats were evaluated and returned to their families in short order, but the outlier stories of people disappearing into the system forever were frightening, and made a positive result on the AST something to be dreaded.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Technically, the Police Detective would not have been trying to ‘arrest’ Sofia. He was supposed to go to her home, and schedule a time for her to visit the station to begin the evaluation paperwork. If she had been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…