Welcome back, glad to see the Furians not go the way of implosion.
NiNES: A Broken Galaxy
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Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
"Okay, sir. First the regular scale. Our vote base at the moment is the left and moderate conservatives. We've got the left neutralists, the right conservatives, and the moderate neutralists. Second, we're consistently losing support from the Church. Third, the far colonies are somewhere between supportive and neutral."
"Screw the Church. They're ruining our relations to the Capellan Magistracy."
President John Bellmere was rather annoyed, and so he might have uttered the above in anger, but it had been calculated to make his opinion clear. "Is there anything new with regard to them?"
"Yes, sir." said Bellmere's information collector. Since his full name was "Precious Valiant Ying", he preferred to be addressed by title or directly. "A series of 'freedom pamphlets', closely aligned with the Church, not publicly affiliated, though. Apparently there are a few Capellan refugees who've been smuggled into our systems, where they're claiming rights described in the pamphlet as 'no slavery'. The laws in question are centered on 304, Law regarding discrimination by birth conditions, and 743, Law regarding enforcibility of contracts. These obviate part of the Capellan caste system whenever a low-caste Capellan moves to an Emergent system."
"Sheeeeeeeet." Bellmere whistled. "That could be one hell of a scandal. How bad is it?"
"It's about as bad as the Anathema that the Church declared a while back. The word 'evil' figures prominently."
"And you said it was unaffiliated."
"Not publically affiliated, mister President. We strongly suspect the Church of being behind it, but nothing's been proved. All we have is several ranked Church members who have been participating. The intelligence service wouldn't tell me anything more from that.
"Okay. Can I have a copy?"
"Already sent."
"Right. Tell me why the Capellans can't simply ask to have these, these 'refugees' extradited?"
"Because Law 743 doesn't recognize their reason for extradition, this reason being birth into a low caste."
"Off the record, of course - are the Capellans kidnapping their people back?"
"No, mister President." The information collector ticked off points on his fingers. "First, it would be something we can and should prosecute for. Second, the publicity would be dreadful. Third, it's in no way cost-effective; they've done better to stick up measures preventing people from fleeing."
"Next subject, please, InfoCol. This is depressing."
"Yes, sir. The neck node distribution is in the antepenultimate phase." Bellmere rubbed at his neck subconsciously as Ying spoke. "An opinion poll shows nine hundred permille satisfaction, three complainers. Integration work is getting underway now, but they scientists say that it'll be quite some time before they can replicate the near-telepathic communication we had before Scourge. In the meantime, it'll be essentially an eidetic memory. Transfers are severely blocked pending virus reviews."
"Making sure we don't have another round of Scourge and brainburn, eh?"
"Yes, sir."
"What results have we got?"
"The neck nodes are being given partial credit for the arbitrary warpgate transmission discovery. The scientists had an easier time recognizing patterns in the waveforms when they could recall any previous waveform without having to look it up."
"Good. I'll make sure the distribution stays on schedule. I don't really have any alternative after the Governancy voted for mass availability."
InfoCol Ying was silent.
"I released my ex-company's mining tech to a hundred small companies who contracted to mine at least eight gG of ore. How are they doing?"
"Swimmingly, sir. Only one of them appears on course to make under quota this year. The production boosts have already been substantive. It's one of the major favors we have with the far colonies, since the mining companies have an absolute and not a relative distribution across the various systems we control."
"Have they begun mining Vega yet?"
"No, sir. Eight companies have drones there picking out good roids, all as trade secrets of course, but no actual mining. It's too risky without an in-system station."
"Right. Colonization possibilities. Do we still have negative net population change here in Benalia?"
"Yes. Twelve permille this last year."
"They're emigrating that fast? I thought it'd be closer to neutral at worst."
"It's down from out record of twenty permille in eight months, but we can expect the trend to continue."
"And the economic consequences?"
"Negligible, mister President."
"That's impossible. How's it happening?"
"A very large sending-money-effect from our tax breaks on the outer colonies. There's a definite pattern to the movement; extended families of twelve or more people have at least three home and three out in ninety percent of cases. Those at home are sending money to where it can gain tax breaks; those out on the rim are sending spare money home; this means it's in motion instead of in the banks, which is stimulating the economy everywhere. It's consistent across every colony."
"Good. Thank you, Ying. Dismissed for now. I'll have a talk with the Chief of Intelligence. Prepare a report on holographic and haptic technology for me."
"Yes, sir."
"Screw the Church. They're ruining our relations to the Capellan Magistracy."
President John Bellmere was rather annoyed, and so he might have uttered the above in anger, but it had been calculated to make his opinion clear. "Is there anything new with regard to them?"
"Yes, sir." said Bellmere's information collector. Since his full name was "Precious Valiant Ying", he preferred to be addressed by title or directly. "A series of 'freedom pamphlets', closely aligned with the Church, not publicly affiliated, though. Apparently there are a few Capellan refugees who've been smuggled into our systems, where they're claiming rights described in the pamphlet as 'no slavery'. The laws in question are centered on 304, Law regarding discrimination by birth conditions, and 743, Law regarding enforcibility of contracts. These obviate part of the Capellan caste system whenever a low-caste Capellan moves to an Emergent system."
"Sheeeeeeeet." Bellmere whistled. "That could be one hell of a scandal. How bad is it?"
"It's about as bad as the Anathema that the Church declared a while back. The word 'evil' figures prominently."
"And you said it was unaffiliated."
"Not publically affiliated, mister President. We strongly suspect the Church of being behind it, but nothing's been proved. All we have is several ranked Church members who have been participating. The intelligence service wouldn't tell me anything more from that.
"Okay. Can I have a copy?"
"Already sent."
"Right. Tell me why the Capellans can't simply ask to have these, these 'refugees' extradited?"
"Because Law 743 doesn't recognize their reason for extradition, this reason being birth into a low caste."
"Off the record, of course - are the Capellans kidnapping their people back?"
"No, mister President." The information collector ticked off points on his fingers. "First, it would be something we can and should prosecute for. Second, the publicity would be dreadful. Third, it's in no way cost-effective; they've done better to stick up measures preventing people from fleeing."
"Next subject, please, InfoCol. This is depressing."
"Yes, sir. The neck node distribution is in the antepenultimate phase." Bellmere rubbed at his neck subconsciously as Ying spoke. "An opinion poll shows nine hundred permille satisfaction, three complainers. Integration work is getting underway now, but they scientists say that it'll be quite some time before they can replicate the near-telepathic communication we had before Scourge. In the meantime, it'll be essentially an eidetic memory. Transfers are severely blocked pending virus reviews."
"Making sure we don't have another round of Scourge and brainburn, eh?"
"Yes, sir."
"What results have we got?"
"The neck nodes are being given partial credit for the arbitrary warpgate transmission discovery. The scientists had an easier time recognizing patterns in the waveforms when they could recall any previous waveform without having to look it up."
"Good. I'll make sure the distribution stays on schedule. I don't really have any alternative after the Governancy voted for mass availability."
InfoCol Ying was silent.
"I released my ex-company's mining tech to a hundred small companies who contracted to mine at least eight gG of ore. How are they doing?"
"Swimmingly, sir. Only one of them appears on course to make under quota this year. The production boosts have already been substantive. It's one of the major favors we have with the far colonies, since the mining companies have an absolute and not a relative distribution across the various systems we control."
"Have they begun mining Vega yet?"
"No, sir. Eight companies have drones there picking out good roids, all as trade secrets of course, but no actual mining. It's too risky without an in-system station."
"Right. Colonization possibilities. Do we still have negative net population change here in Benalia?"
"Yes. Twelve permille this last year."
"They're emigrating that fast? I thought it'd be closer to neutral at worst."
"It's down from out record of twenty permille in eight months, but we can expect the trend to continue."
"And the economic consequences?"
"Negligible, mister President."
"That's impossible. How's it happening?"
"A very large sending-money-effect from our tax breaks on the outer colonies. There's a definite pattern to the movement; extended families of twelve or more people have at least three home and three out in ninety percent of cases. Those at home are sending money to where it can gain tax breaks; those out on the rim are sending spare money home; this means it's in motion instead of in the banks, which is stimulating the economy everywhere. It's consistent across every colony."
"Good. Thank you, Ying. Dismissed for now. I'll have a talk with the Chief of Intelligence. Prepare a report on holographic and haptic technology for me."
"Yes, sir."
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Excuse me? Arcux was not occupied by the emergents prior to the estbalishment of our colony, having no outpost and no fleet presence. We are perfectly content with cohabitation and their contention over exclusivity seems to be that Arcux falls into their 'sphere of influcence' - a nebulous concept at best considering we have no agressive intentions towards emergent space or anyone else (we do not persue weapons research, and now that local space has been mapped and found safe we have discontinued warship manufacture). If the emergents attempt to evict us then the will only be proving themselves the agressive hegemon they have always claimed not to be.
As to Kruger we did not ask you to leave - we inquired as to your reasoning for establishing your colony as we were worried over the vast amount of force you brought in and were confused as to your apparent lack of prepartion, thus our offer to assist you in relocating to more congenial systems. No one is threatening war over this and your decision to jump to hostilities, perhaps to hide from your problems at home, is very worrying, we hope you will reconsider this matter.
We can assume that TerrisH' offer was going to everyone, as he stated. I would have responded on that assumption.
Don't worry, your neighbours would have made sure that your systems wouldn't have remained out of organized civilization for long.Welcome back, glad to see the Furians not go the way of implosion.
germ, the trade deal proposed a few weeks ago still stands.
MadDogOfMI
Chieftain
OOC: You can assume that if you like. I don't. I see something addressed to me, in a larger post. If he was addressing everyone, he'd say he was addressing everyone. But no, he specifically addresses each group individually with individual offers.
That and the fact that he doesn't know my actual technologies except through OOC means makes his offer somewhat dubious in the first place. Who just ticks off a list of technologies and offers to people he hasn't even talked to yet?
I'm not trying to be contrary for contrary sake here. I just find people here assume far too much knowledge they shouldn't have and/or can communicate with someone just because they happen to know the extension. To continue with the phone call analogy, I'm a private person and my telephone uses call display and if it is not a number I recognize I do not pick it up. For you to introduce yourself, you have to come over to my house and knock on my door and if you don't scare me, I might let you in. But otherwise, how the hell are you going to know what food is in my fridge?
That and the fact that he doesn't know my actual technologies except through OOC means makes his offer somewhat dubious in the first place. Who just ticks off a list of technologies and offers to people he hasn't even talked to yet?
I'm not trying to be contrary for contrary sake here. I just find people here assume far too much knowledge they shouldn't have and/or can communicate with someone just because they happen to know the extension. To continue with the phone call analogy, I'm a private person and my telephone uses call display and if it is not a number I recognize I do not pick it up. For you to introduce yourself, you have to come over to my house and knock on my door and if you don't scare me, I might let you in. But otherwise, how the hell are you going to know what food is in my fridge?
TerrisH
Mischief?
OOC: actually, I'm just sending out all the First Tier Techs on a Public Com frequency. EVERYONE is getting the Techs. but only the guys listed are effected by it, as they are missing first Tier techs. It's borderline IC/OOC. . you can discount the PM if you wish.
IC:
To all.
all first Tier Techs we posses are now public domain.
IC:
To all.
all first Tier Techs we posses are now public domain.
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Incorrect. How else would the IGG be held.
Nylan
Characters Welcome
TerrisH
Mischief?
OOC: Hard Vs. soft? by their very nature, spaceships must be solidly build to withstand the rigors of space. humans, on the other hand are soft and squishy. the solid nature of the spaceships contains the vibrations of the warp transit, and it take a while for them to dissipate. humans, and other organics, do tot he inherently soft nature of their flesh, and the high water content in the individual cells, natural dampen the vibrations quite quickly.
think of space ship like a tunning fork, and a human like a twig. if you strike them on a solid surface, which will vibrate longer?
think of space ship like a tunning fork, and a human like a twig. if you strike them on a solid surface, which will vibrate longer?
Nylan
Characters Welcome
From: Kalia
To: Wideband
The Confederatioin of Kalia would like to announce that it has entered into a close military and diplomatic alliance with the Democratic Autarchy of Huris.
To: Wideband
The Confederatioin of Kalia would like to announce that it has entered into a close military and diplomatic alliance with the Democratic Autarchy of Huris.
Massive Attack
Warlord
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TO: Wideband
FROM: Colonial Federation of Sezuren
The Colonial Federation of Sezuren hereby formally declares and notifies all factions that Sezuren has signed a mutual defense agreement with the Emergents of Providence.
Calvin Williston
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Colonial Federation of Sezuren
TerrisH
Mischief?
OOC: whops, sorry, din't mean to do that iggy.
Don't ask me, but prior to obtaining Warp Resonance there was some amount of tourism going on via "Command Circuits" (i.e. ships waiting at warpgates to pop people back and forth)
Symphony D.
Deity
OOC: Ships generate the field. Humans don't. Therefore the ship's capacity is taxed, not whatever is inside of it. If you put a rat in a lead ball and x-ray the hell out of the ball, the rat will not show increased cancer rates, but the ball might eventually start to glow in the dark.
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Iggy, what were you smoking when you sent a PM to "Emergents of Sezuren"? 
Suggestion accepted.
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