Art of the Possible

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I just don't see why you peasants can't get bigger monitors. I'll see about reducing the size somewhat.
 
From: Fujian
To: USA

We would be most glad to receive the American mission in Fuzhou.
 
Hey,

To: British, French and US American investigation organizations in Korea.
From: Han Moon Bok, Imperial Investigator of the Korean Empire & Detective Colt Bennett, Pinkerton National Detective Agency


A full investigation of the Incheon Affair, was ordered by Emperor Gwangmu and was completed by his own personally picked investigators. What follows is a short summery of the offical Korean findings for the Incheon Affair, April 3-4th. Investigators. Han Moon Bok, Imperial Investigator & Detective Colt Bennett, Pinkerton National Detective Agency

A Japanese bodyguard named Hiro Tomomari had, based on eye witness accounts, attacked in a fairly ungentlemanly way, a Korean girl named Flower. The girl died during the encounter. Her father was told of the attack and went looking for the bodyguard Hiro Tomomari. Finding him as he was doing his job guarding Japanese businessmen. At this point a shouting match erupted between the father Go Min Ge & Hiro Tomomari. A crowd gathered listening to the exchange. Based on eye witness accounts the father fell to his knees crying out that the Japanese bodyguard had killed his daughter. At this point Hiro Tomomari pulled a handheld firearm and shot Go Min Ge in the face. Killing him instantly. Seeing a unarmed Korean father, distraught over a murdered daughter, murdered in the streets like a dog. The crowd erupted. What followed were 48 Korean, 6 Japanese nationals died and 188 injured. The actions of the crowd were based on a murder and not on anti Japanese sentiment. It was also found that most property damage was done to Korean owned buildings and businesses.

We find that the Incheon Affair was caused by the criminal actions of Hiro Tomomari and the actions of Go Min Ge. Two others who were directly invovled in the beating death of the Japanese businessmen have been tried, convicted of murder and executed.

We fully expect that the British, French and US Americans will come to the same conclusion at the end of thier own investigations.


Signed: Han Moon Bok, Imperial Investigator of the Korean Empire
Signed: Detective Colt Bennett, Pinkerton National Detective Agency
 
National Bureau of Standards and the Industry and Mechanics Administration Founded as Two New Sub-Agencies of Department of Commerce and Industry

In this timeline (as opposed to our own timeline), the Department of Commerce and Industry was adopted in 1880.

The self-styled progressive president Theodore Roosevelt, upon taking his oaths of office, has initiated a series of reforms within the Department of Commerce and Industry that are meant to reconcile labor unions with capital and provide a ‘square deal’ for all.

The reforms are based on the works of Frederick Winslaw Taylor who’s promulgation of progressive shop management, many in the progressive movement been very impressed with.

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George Bruce Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Industry

Secretary of Commerce and Industry, George B. Cortelyou, responding to presidential direction, has founded two new sub-agencies, the National Bureau of Standards and the Industry and Mechanics Administration.

The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) is overseen by newly appointed Samuel Wesley Stratton. Mr. Stratton is a graduate of Illinois Industrial University at Urbana where he received his degree in mechanical engineering. He became Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering there and moved to the University of Chicago in 1892 as Assistant Professor of Physics, then Associate Professor in 1895 and Professor in 1898.

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Samuel Wesley Stratton, director of the National Bureau of Standards

The NBS mandate to provide standard weights and measures, and to serve as the national physical laboratory for the United States. Its tools and measurements will ultimately serve as the basis for the standardization Mr. Frederick Taylor envisions.

Frederick W. Taylor is experienced as a general manager and consulting engineer (working for Manufacturing Investment Company of Philadelphia from 1890 to 1893). He has operated his own consulting practice for which his business card read "Consulting Engineer - Systematizing Shop Management and Manufacturing Costs a Specialty”. In 1898 he joined Bethlehem Steel in order to solve an expensive machine-shop capacity problem. As a result, he and Maunsel White, with a team of assistants, developed high-speed steel, paving the way for greatly increased mass production.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor, Director of the Industry and Mechanics Administration

Taylor has spent his free time promoting his management and machining style through lectures, writing and consulting. In 1900, after meeting with President Roosevelt and greatly impressing the later with his philosophies and ideas, he was offered the chance to apply his revolutionary theories on a national scale and accepted directorship of the Industry and Mechanics Administration.

The Industry and Mechanics Administration has as its goal the wide-scale application of Taylor’s well-known process management protocols in private industry across the United States. Taylorism rejects the notion, which until recently has been universal, that the trades, including manufacturing, are resistant to analysis and can only be performed by craft production methods.

Taylor's scientific management consists of four principles grounded in empirical methodology:
  • Replace 'rule-of-thumb' work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks.
  • Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than passively leaving them to train themselves.
  • Provide "Detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task"
  • Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.

To assist in implementing Taylorist protocols nationally, Roosevelt has promised significant funds to the Industry and Mechanics Administration to subsidize adoption of Taylorist methodology in private industries. To reconcile these methods with concerns of labor and workers, the subsidies will only be available to those industries that adopt a number of regulations, including limitation of children in labor, abbreviating the work day to 9 hours, allowing for scheduled breaks, investing in worker training, and improving wages.
 
Does Mr Bennett speak Korean?
 
It's extremely concerning that Mr. Bennett did not interview remaining members of the Japanese delegation, or their surviving family, as important details were likely missed. In any case, the Empire of Japan will produce its own findings soon.
 
OOC: I don't know what's happening, so I'm going to wait for EQ's approval on Blaze_Injun's story. I like game-inspired stories, but this one kinda directly affects the game.
 
Just stating that I have always maintained the position that players are free to elaborate on portions of the update so long as they do not conflict with the details in the update. In the case of Blaze_Injun's story, other players are free to take it as gospel or claim it is a fabrication. As long as it fits with the information provided in the update, it could be true, or it may not.
 
Spoiler The Real Story :
Hiro Tomomari was simply an alias of the Galactic Ranger known as Darth Vader. Born as OB-1 on the planet Vulcan to serve in the Clone Wars, Vader served with distinction and was granted his freedom by Captain Kirk after the defeat of the Zerg Swarm. As a Ranger, he was chiefly assigned to the infiltration of primitive cultures in order to guide them away from armed conflict and get them to ask cute girls to the prom. Recently, however, he was assigned the mission of capturing the evil Brainiac, who had escaped from the Phantom Zone and come to Earth in order to assemble the Dragon Balls. The massacre at Incheon is simply an elaborate cover-up for a giant robot battle between Vader and Brainiac, piloting Metal Gears, that resulted in Brainiac's defeat. However, Brainiac's allies, the Skrull, continue to infiltrate human governments in their search for the Dragon Balls and Vader's power has been severely weakened. In the future he will have to work through human champions, the Power Rangers, to bring peace and justice to the planet.


Did I do it right?
 
Spoiler The Real Story :
Hiro Tomomari was simply an alias of the Galactic Ranger known as Darth Vader. Born as OB-1 on the planet Vulcan to serve in the Clone Wars, Vader served with distinction and was granted his freedom by Captain Kirk after the defeat of the Zerg Swarm. As a Ranger, he was chiefly assigned to the infiltration of primitive cultures in order to guide them away from armed conflict and get them to ask cute girls to the prom. Recently, however, he was assigned the mission of capturing the evil Brainiac, who had escaped from the Phantom Zone and come to Earth in order to assemble the Dragon Balls. The massacre at Incheon is simply an elaborate cover-up for a giant robot battle between Vader and Brainiac, piloting Metal Gears, that resulted in Brainiac's defeat. However, Brainiac's allies, the Skrull, continue to infiltrate human governments in their search for the Dragon Balls and Vader's power has been severely weakened. In the future he will have to work through human champions, the Power Rangers, to bring peace and justice to the planet.


Did I do it right?
Sounds plausible to me.
 
About as plausible as a polyglot Pinkerton agent enjoying the waters in Seoul.
 
Mandate of Heaven

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Chen Jiongming, Military Commander of Guangdong, has claimed the Mandate of Heaven, proclaimed the Shung Dynasty and assumed the name Emperor Mingjun, meaning "Enlightened Ruler". According to Emperor Mingjun, the Qing Dynasty, which was a Barbarian Manchu Dynasty that conquered by violence China, has lost the Mandate of Heaven due to crippling the country, bringing the nation to total collapse, killing the legal Qing Emperor and bringing chaos and ruin to the people. The Heaven has thus decided to give it's mandate to a new enlightened ruler, Chen Jiongming. The founders of the Han and Ming dynasties were both men of low birth who took power thanks to Heaven's blessings. So will Emperor Mingjin reunify China and bring back peace and stability for the people. As the Han replaced the Qin and the Ming the Yuan, so would Shung replace Qing.
 
Christos, it's a cool entry, but your Manchu-criticizing emperor is dressed in a national Manchu outfit. Not that I'm a purist...
 
EDIT: Found new pic.
 
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