ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Application Recording PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKERS: Caruso, L. [ID: LCAR] TOPIC: UESC Marathon Mission SUMMARY: An excerpt from materials submitted by Luca Caruso, as part of an application to join the UESC Marathon mission. Records indicate this candidate was accepted. =================================================================== [LCAR]: Well, because it's once in a lifetime. Yes, most important thing is building a structurally and scientifically sound settlement. That's why this mission is recruiting experts from across all Sol's colonies. But when that's built, and while it's being built, we are all still people, people who need to live together. [LCAR]: That's what's interesting to me, the transition from "this is the great human experiment" to "this place is our home now." We saw it on Mars, and yeah, there are a lot of things that could've gone better on Mars. I've been in that political circuit for a while, and… the problems are everywhere. [LCAR]: The food riots, the oxygen rationing scandal during the blackout… Pay a visit to any of the scarlet lung wards, and you won't wonder why the Hellas Uprising happened. Not saying I agree with groups like MIDA, but we made a lot of mistakes on Mars. [LCAR]: This, this though… This will be a new society, really. A multigenerational journey to somewhere so far from everything we know. Science and engineering and design are going to make it happen, but people make it home. And that means people in charge too… and laws, and representatives to make sure everyone's heard. [LCAR]: Galea's going to do a bang-up job as president. Civilian leaders running this thing alongside the UESC… it is a great opportunity. Me, I'm really just a background guy. Politics forced me into the spotlight, but what I really wanna to do is… is the meaty behind-the-scenes stuff. Making people's lives better. Keeping things moving smoothly. I think the mission… needs folks who wanna do that. [LCAR]: Let Strauss and Galea and Reed be the faces everyone can put their trust in, and then people like me, we… help them make it happen. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]