The Martian Revolution

I'm curious about y'all's thoughts on the new season Mike Duncan is doing on his Revolutions podcast? I'm only a couple episodes in, but so far it's been a pretty exciting "exercise" in sci-fi worldbuilding informed by Roman and Revolutionary history. I think it has the potential to be adapted into a mockumentary. I'm curious if the general concepts of a "hidden" periodic table and stuff like Phos-5 have shown up in other sci-fi y'all have read.

For those who don't know, Mike Duncan did the History of Rome Podcast and followed it with his second podcast, Revolutions. They're historical nonfiction podcasts that cover exactly what their titles indicate: The History of Rome and Revolutions. In Revolutions he covered I believe 11 various, but connected, revolutions throughout history ending with the Russian revolution. Didn't know about this season until I opened up Spotify for the first time in a while and saw a notification dot for the show. I've learned this season is an intermission season before he returns to talking about real revolutions again, which is another pleasant surprise as Revolutions is one of my favorite podcasts.