The first casualty of the war, but also the first to try and stop it. Gidas was the Neosapien Commonwealth’s Finance minister. Shortly before the war, he conducted a series of audits on factory complexes located on Mars. What he found alarmed him. Or rather, what he didn’t find alarmed him. Millions of dollars worth of machinery had been ordered for various factories, but upon inspection the machinery was nowhere to be found. Materials purchasing had nearly quadrupled, yet factory output was down to nearly half of what it should have been. Gidas feared the worst and suspected some massive form of Industrial scheme or coup.