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Some questions:
1) Has there been an IC resolution to the Domai asylum case yet?
2) Question regarding Skye succession - should we name someone right away (Illuminatus, I would suppose) or keep the story in arrears until we get EthCalc for a general "governmental re-arrangement" story? (Unless I'm an idiot, and we do already have EthCalc. I'll be less clueless when I get to my home computer and dowload the game.)
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1) Has there been an IC resolution to the Domai asylum case yet?
2) Question regarding Skye succession - should we name someone right away (Illuminatus, I would suppose) or keep the story in arrears until we get EthCalc for a general "governmental re-arrangement" story? (Unless I'm an idiot, and we do already have EthCalc. I'll be less clueless when I get to my home computer and dowload the game.)
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Added paragraph put in italics.
Human and Xenological Rights Report Released
The Institute for Contemporary Anthropology, located at Gaia’s Landing, has released its first annual “Report on Human and Xenological Rights.” Premier researchers, human rights advocates, xenoform rights advocates, certain foreign policy experts (working well within the limitations of their profession), and defectors from other factions participated in the landmark study. Unsurprisingly, marks for human rights were mixed, but all factions studied except for the Gaian Union received disappointing reviews for xeno-rights. The Data Angels were the “most humane” faction on Planet after the GU.
“There’s a tendency in [Data Angel] culture towards Cartesian dualism and disconnect from nature, and it’s a commonplace of Gaian society that that leads inevitably towards a rapine attitude towards nature. But while there is significant room for improvement in government policies regarding Chiron’s splendorous Web of Life, economic policies in general are more focused on knowledge growth than industrial slag, slag, slag,” said Dgambe Thbako, a senior fellow at the Institute.
Thbako says that although the DA and GU are similar in their high marks in human rights, they have different areas of improvement. “Angelic” culture successfully recognizes the rights of individuals but has yet to recognize the rights of communities to their philosophically proper extent. “The Union, on the other hand, has found a really perfect philosophical framework that recognizes both individual and community rights to their fullest extent realizable, given security conditions,” he says. What prevent the faction from realizing perfect marks were the “perhaps necessary” precautions taken over the course of the “Cult of Planet” debacle.
The Spartan Federation is one of two factions to have made “major infractions” on human rights. Military service is compulsory to all individuals, and the line between military and civilian legal codes is blurry. Every person not directly in the service is a member of a “provisional militia” and has a two higher-ups – civilian and military – to which to answer. Since low-level commanders are given nigh free disciplinary reign – the theory is that it will improve “warrior spirits” – a Sword of Damocles hangs over every head in Sparta from the shocking age of twelve on up (actual service on the front lines is fortunately limited to eighteen years of age.)
But there is one faction which received a perfect “Abysmal” in all twenty categories surveyed, from Artistic License to Zoogeographical Autonomy. That faction was the Human Hive, and the faint of heart need not read further.
The Human Hive has not had success in widespread capture of mindworm populations, due to a seeming conception among the research community therein, if it can be called such, that Planetary bio-networks are insufficiently developed for treatment of Chiron to affect the disposition of boils. But that has not lead to horrible attempts. Drones and mindworms are often packed in brutally-named “Human-Planet Friendship Chambers” to inevitable psychic combat. The purpose of the program is allegedly eugenic.
Foreigners searching for violations of human rights in the Gaian Union often point to the Family Laws that, in addition to ensuring a caring upbringing to every child, are so necessary to maintaining balance with nature. But such criticism is callous in light of the Hive’s definition of “reproductive freedom.” Females are required to bear as many children as possible by fathers assigned by the government. The chemical BU-Q38 - which as every Gaian secondary-school student knows, was a notorious old-Earth chemical unscrupulously pumped into cows – has been found in the “consumption pastes” of the Hive at levels that would be criminally toxic even in Terrapeso [Morgania]. There is no official reason given to or even acknowledgement of this, but only one conclusion is possible: the Hive is attempting to catalyze the reproductive age of its citizens. Foreign-policy experts say this disturbing strategy has a nickname among the Hive nomenklatura: “pop-boom.” Though obviously onomatopoetic, the fuller meaning of this term is unclear.
“Now the econometric data regarding death-in-childbirth makes a lot more sense,” said Danny Uribe, Proffessor of Medicinal Economics at Fallow Times University. “This is unconscionable.”
Union defense forces were not surprised. “These [horrible] [members of the Hive military], I seen them settin’ fire to fungus for no reason, and I seen kids musta been not fourteen in their ranks. Heard they practice decimation,” said Corporal Dick Daxton, stationed at a currently-classified locale.
“This is all the lies of a perspicacious and ill-willing drone. A perspicacious and ill-willing drone by the name of Domai,” opined the Hive Foreign Office when queried.
The Institute for Contemporary Anthropology, located at Gaia’s Landing, has released its first annual “Report on Human and Xenological Rights.” Premier researchers, human rights advocates, xenoform rights advocates, certain foreign policy experts (working well within the limitations of their profession), and defectors from other factions participated in the landmark study. Unsurprisingly, marks for human rights were mixed, but all factions studied except for the Gaian Union received disappointing reviews for xeno-rights. The Data Angels were the “most humane” faction on Planet after the GU.
“There’s a tendency in [Data Angel] culture towards Cartesian dualism and disconnect from nature, and it’s a commonplace of Gaian society that that leads inevitably towards a rapine attitude towards nature. But while there is significant room for improvement in government policies regarding Chiron’s splendorous Web of Life, economic policies in general are more focused on knowledge growth than industrial slag, slag, slag,” said Dgambe Thbako, a senior fellow at the Institute.
Thbako says that although the DA and GU are similar in their high marks in human rights, they have different areas of improvement. “Angelic” culture successfully recognizes the rights of individuals but has yet to recognize the rights of communities to their philosophically proper extent. “The Union, on the other hand, has found a really perfect philosophical framework that recognizes both individual and community rights to their fullest extent realizable, given security conditions,” he says. What prevent the faction from realizing perfect marks were the “perhaps necessary” precautions taken over the course of the “Cult of Planet” debacle.
The Spartan Federation is one of two factions to have made “major infractions” on human rights. Military service is compulsory to all individuals, and the line between military and civilian legal codes is blurry. Every person not directly in the service is a member of a “provisional militia” and has a two higher-ups – civilian and military – to which to answer. Since low-level commanders are given nigh free disciplinary reign – the theory is that it will improve “warrior spirits” – a Sword of Damocles hangs over every head in Sparta from the shocking age of twelve on up (actual service on the front lines is fortunately limited to eighteen years of age.)
But there is one faction which received a perfect “Abysmal” in all twenty categories surveyed, from Artistic License to Zoogeographical Autonomy. That faction was the Human Hive, and the faint of heart need not read further.
The Human Hive has not had success in widespread capture of mindworm populations, due to a seeming conception among the research community therein, if it can be called such, that Planetary bio-networks are insufficiently developed for treatment of Chiron to affect the disposition of boils. But that has not lead to horrible attempts. Drones and mindworms are often packed in brutally-named “Human-Planet Friendship Chambers” to inevitable psychic combat. The purpose of the program is allegedly eugenic.
Foreigners searching for violations of human rights in the Gaian Union often point to the Family Laws that, in addition to ensuring a caring upbringing to every child, are so necessary to maintaining balance with nature. But such criticism is callous in light of the Hive’s definition of “reproductive freedom.” Females are required to bear as many children as possible by fathers assigned by the government. The chemical BU-Q38 - which as every Gaian secondary-school student knows, was a notorious old-Earth chemical unscrupulously pumped into cows – has been found in the “consumption pastes” of the Hive at levels that would be criminally toxic even in Terrapeso [Morgania]. There is no official reason given to or even acknowledgement of this, but only one conclusion is possible: the Hive is attempting to catalyze the reproductive age of its citizens. Foreign-policy experts say this disturbing strategy has a nickname among the Hive nomenklatura: “pop-boom.” Though obviously onomatopoetic, the fuller meaning of this term is unclear.
“Now the econometric data regarding death-in-childbirth makes a lot more sense,” said Danny Uribe, Proffessor of Medicinal Economics at Fallow Times University. “This is unconscionable.”
Union defense forces were not surprised. “These [horrible] [members of the Hive military], I seen them settin’ fire to fungus for no reason, and I seen kids musta been not fourteen in their ranks. Heard they practice decimation,” said Corporal Dick Daxton, stationed at a currently-classified locale.
“This is all the lies of a perspicacious and ill-willing drone. A perspicacious and ill-willing drone by the name of Domai,” opined the Hive Foreign Office when queried.
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