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Mathew writes: Transcribed from the Office of the Prime Advocate: “Hear me fellow Humans, It is difficult to believe that it has been just 65 years since the Assimilation of Earth into the Great Martian Advocacy. The changes I’ve seen since my youth confirm the greatness of this union of the inhabited planets.

The progress we’ve made thanks to their technological gifts is amazing—why, every farm pod now has at least one transport vehicle, and we can now speak to any farm pod in the world directly by voice telephone. The social equality we’ve achieved since the dismantling of our own fruitless economic bumbling is unparalleled when compared to the time when we ruled ourselves. And the opportunity that our selfless cadre of Grade A choice humans have to pay back our debt by committing themselves to the sustenance of our dear Martian friends seems so much less wasteful than the pointless loss of life in wars between the old nations.”