Commentary for May 24, 2014:

Peace. Peace is complicated. Even decades later, there's still hatred and resentment between nations that were once at war. Look at the attitude a lot of Britons have towards Germany, or even France who we've been allies with for well over a century -- and we're all three of us members of the European Union (at least, at the time of writing this commentary). Hell, I even saw a party political broadcast some years ago featuring an old man complaining about how he fought against Germany in the war and thought that was reason to never be in any kind of union with them. Ever. So, only a few months after the Earth-Mars War, it shouldn't surprise anyone that there's still resentment between former belligerents. The question is, will they ever get over it...?

Also, drawing Liz Wildman (the Jovian ferret with red hair) facepalming was fun.

Addendum for November 11, 2019:

In order to bring the format of the earlier chapters into line with Chapter 7 onwards, I’ve made an updated version of this page, which is larger, with clearer text. Hopefully, this will make the earlier chapters easier to read.