Breaking Away from the Breakaway: Retro-Posterity and Faraway Faces

Breakaway civilisation attempts from Earth are nothing new, especially after the mid-20th century acquisition of ‘foreign’ tech. That, plus the realisation by the Powers That Be that their own hand in reducing planetary citizenry to stewardable wretches still compels species survival contingencies by looking ‘out there’ away from this gloomy globe.
  The forward-thinking Orville Corporation had already foreseen this and planned accordingly, settling covert colonies within the United Planets aegis, as well as making footholds in Dementias IV and VII. Ostensibly, these efforts would bypass interference by Wardens, Solar or otherwise.
  The Pan-Martian Consortium, conceptualised in Stratum X, was one such effort, albeit closer to a ‘layaway civilisation’ idea in terms of world-building, both societal and terraformational.
  Captain Intrepid, initially an Orville delegate to the Consortium, soon took the reins of power with the help of Ugandoid Autonomous Prefecture exiles. Informal diplomatic relations were formed with the Martian natives, who maintained sovereignty over their subterranean plasmic freeholds.
  Without Orville oversight, the Pan-Martian Consortium had gone ‘rogue’, ignoring Prime Directive protocols regarding cultural contamination.
  At the risk of sounding meta, this was Captain Intrepid’s plan all along: to break away from a breakaway civilisation. He foresaw man’s Path to Dust, and with the help of ‘borrowed’ tech from Project: Horloge, he turned back the clock several centuries.

  Intrepid, being the savvy sort, exploited the Martian fascination with his Ugandoid cohorts into a social management mechanism whilst ensconcing himself as the Red Planet’s First Curate.

  A new civilisation was founded on Mars in Stratum -DLXXV.
  First Curate Intrepid’s High Council was made up of Colonel O’Bannion, Dr Irish, and Captain Lefkon. Upper echelon Ugandoids aided in planetary development symbiotically with the Martian natives.
  The Martians, whilst grateful, condoled with the homesick Ugandoids. A monument thus was constructed: The Spirit of Fuju, the master Ugandoid archtype, gazes heavenward to his ancestral prefecture on Earth.

  Over the centuries all were content yet maintained their spirit to strive.
  By the time the ‘present’ rolled back around (Stratum X again, in a new Time Fork), a dynasty had spawned from a one-time consortium delegate to the current Grand Curate Hightower XXIV Intrepid of Mars.
  And in this chronology divergence, eyes again gaze from afar to that face on Mars, and reach out.
  A young Captain Intrepid is about to meet his 20-x great-grandson.