Mirror Mars is an archetype which the Stability Council has long considered a reasonable prospect for conversion into an evolution. Reflections of much of Earth Stable, Earth Zero and Earth Baroque science fiction have found an expression in the unstable histories of the alternative red planet. But there are other possibilites which stalk the weird deserts, primed from less stable evolutions. It is a fascinating place but harder to reach than it once was and it is likely that the Stability Council will have to abandon their goals for this realm.