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Originally Posted by thtraveller
So slow terraforming Duncanites would more likely end up classical SF trope shady background patron organisations (like Charles Stross' Eschaton, or Larry Niven's Protector, Eclipse Phase Firewall, et al). Which I assume TS was trying to avoid. Secret masters on their asteroid base (TM).
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Oh, maybe. Or it's possible that the ideologues would be joined by the more practical types in exile and things would proceed as written.
The Duncanites were in the setting from the beginning but the Mars of IN THE WELL is pretty different than originally planned. In the original draft of TS [that is, well before the playtest and the decision to split Deep Beyond and Transhuman Space into two books], the Ares Conspiracy was discovered in 2051 and it wasn't until 2067 that China decided to go ahead with terraforming, having decided that the Ares Plague release meant that the hope of finding life on mars was compromised.