Minor Plot Points
Martian technology:
- The personal vectored air shield can protect human individuals from a 300 km/h impact. The ship-sized version can survive a single hit from a 1500 megaton fleet-killer missile.
- The technology involved in the Martian group mind can let them monitor nearby computer networks, and even hack into them "accidentally".
- The ship-killer cadence lance is considered light armament for a Martian vessel
- Gravity blades can slow something from re-entry speed to rest by the time it reaches the ground.
- Mars has kept secret the fact that they have FTL travel.
Benjamin himself was once a mad scientist; he was the first SRMD sufferer to form a stable team with other mad scientists (in 2141 with Djaya Sumatera and Mukhali "Manny" Delger). He needs no medication to remain stable, unless he receives a major psychological disturbance.
Haas' network of camera drones forms a sort of group mind, similar to that of the Martians.
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