Keen! Lots of nifty details here.

Terran forces were apparently counter-invading mars.
The Martians had some form of stealth force \ infiltration ability. Martian sympathizers among Earth forces? That would change the entire tenor of Tiber’s future.
Even the clones can be caught flatfooted when confronted by the duplicate of a friend. Cloning blues is universal, it seems.
Whatever the Iron Mother is, she apparently communicates like a person.