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Vander
I want to release a pre- turn magazine for our faction. It'll give us something to do and show the other teams that we are already organized enough to get one going (Sort of a diplomatic power move.) But we need to get a few things tied down first:
What will we call it?
- MorganLink Magazine
- Morgan News Network (MNN)
- Chiron News Network: A Morgan Industries subsidiary (CNN)
- Morgan Broadcasting Company (MBC)
- Banana
Art/ graphics?
Who will write articles? How many per issue?
Do we want to have a sort of "international/factional flare" or limit it to internal news?
Do we have a heirarchy we can publish yet?
Is there anything that I am missing?
Is all this just a sign that I am slowly going insane because I am playing too much Master of Orion and Fallout?
-- I am who I say I am. I think, therefore I am. Therefore, all things I say are thoughtful and have meaning.
Chaunk
MorganLink Magazine gets my vote!
All the other ideas are good, and yeah, it'd be a great diplomatic move! I'd love to help, but alas I'm terrible at writing fiction!
An international flair sounds good. It'd be awesome to do a weather forcast or something like that for the whole of chiron - naturally good weather around the morganaic sections!
Anyone can write the articles, but they need to be sorted together - by you Vander? - and then veiwed by all the faction incase anyone thinks they may be giving too much information away or whatever.
Impaler
If its Pre-Game start then I would emphisis
* Interactions with other factions/people onboard the Unity spacecraft
* IPO of Morgan Stock either onbard the Unity (were selling stock as the ship is disintigrating around us and everyone is scrambling into the Pods, how typicaly Morgan) or amungst our members once the Pod is sealed.
* loss of contact with others durring the desent, coments about that Pod that blows up (who was in it?), dont describe landing itself as that should be saved for our first ON plant issue.
* Explination of how/when our orignal leader CEO Morgan died (perhaps he got a paper cut counting his money and was too stingy to use a dermal regenerator and died of a virulent fungal infection). or perhaps he was too buisy selling stock and forgot to get in the Pod and was thus stuck on the Unity.
Lastly I vote for Morgan Sreet Journal or Morganic Street Journal if yall prefer, Second choice would be MNN (other parodies inclued "Mox News" or "Clear Chiron Comunications" if we wish to mock Conservative Media). I might be able to write a snipet or 2 for you on one of the topics I just mentioned.
-- Fear is the Mind Killer
Googlie
Or we could more literally parody:
CNN = Chiron Network News
MSN = Morgan Subscriber Network
I like the MorganLink one, though, as it's rooted in the game (thus):
##Superconductor
#TECH7
Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say
that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
^
^ -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
^ MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
AndiD
Maybe we could call the "whole" thing MSN (since some Microsoft parodies are also rooted in the game - "Where do you want your Node today?" - and parody is fun) and "MorganLink" would be the magazine part, "Morgan Street Journal" would bring (fake?) financial reports and so on.
(If we want to get really freaky, we could even invent "Morgan Broadcasting Company" and do an audio magazine on rare occasions)
Googlie
Hey - that'd be neat.
And maybe for the web site we (I) could add a stockquote streamer, and select those publicly listed stocks with "Morgan" in their name (there actually is a Morgan Industries)
Impaler
Or better yet (if its possible) create a list of Fake companies named after Morgan Bases (Morgan Hydro Chemical, Morgan Gravatonics, Morgan Mines...).
In the Vein of AndiD's sugjestion
A vast media Empire of Media outlets have been spun off of Morgan Industries, colectivly they are under the Banner of Morgan Link but their are many specialized supsidiaries some of which are listed here.
MOL - Morgan Online (datalinks service provider)
Clear Chiron Comunications (Conservative Radio outlet)
Morgan Street Journal (Financial reporting)
Morgan News Network (always on TV news)
Morgan Holowood (this should be a base name too) (leading producer of Holographic movies show in Holo Theathers)
Morgan Times (newspaper publishing, ofcorse in the future they dont actualy print it on paper, you download it)
-- Fear is the Mind Killer
-SafaN-
in the minigame section there is a proposal to make those stocks available! It wouldn't be imaginaire since a part of the morganites will actually be busy with buying and selling those stocks
Vander
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 07:12 AM
Thanks guys, that's plenty of suggestions! Let's get to writing some articles here! I'll get one out before bed in a few minutes...
Vander
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 07:58 AM
GOOD MONING FROM MORGAN INDUSTIRES!
-Offical Morgan Industries Greeting
Good morning and welcome to the Alpha Centauri system! We at Morgan Industries hope you had a pleasant wake from cryo- freeze. Our CEO Nwabudike Morgan has personally invited you to our fact- finding meeting in landing pod 5. Chiron is a virgin planet; full of new prospects, challenges and more importantly, new resources. We want you to be there, on the ground floor, as Morgan Industries lays the foundations of capitalism for everyone on our new Earth.
The location of the meeting will be in the disembark center of cryobay Alpha, Landing pod 5. The meeting will start at 1100 Unity Standard Time, every third day until landing. Thank you again and we hope to see you there!
- CPO Maximillian Vandopolis
"LIES, RUMORS, AND SLANDER"
-Chiron News Network
That is what our CEO has said about recent rumors that there are those in the Unity Officer corps that want him dead. "But be warned, my friends." Nwabudike Morgan added, "There are those aboard the Unity that would wish us not to suceed in our goals." He would further elaborate that rumors of assassination attempts on his life were created to drive people away from his vision "of a new capitalism." Security Chief Shen- ji Yang has added his "personal guards" to our CEO's defense force.
Chaunk
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:29 PM
Thats awesome Vander
I just wonder if we want to call Morgan our CEO though, as CEO is also a title we've given to our turn player. Perhaps owner might be better?
Archaic
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 11:34 PM
I assume that before the first turn, the board is going to turn on him and elect a new CEO.
Chaunk
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 12:05 AM
But then are we going to have Chaunk Industries etc?
I hope not, I'm not that egotistical....
Impaler
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 12:39 AM
Presumably Morgan sells the rights to his name and we continue to use it.
We should think of a Scandal to explain why Morgan is booted out, perhaps he was embezaling and the Board found out and seazed the assests (explains ware that 100 Energy Credits comes from).
On a related note.
I think it would be good to name bases after players, each base would have an Industry name, Gravatonics, Electronic, Construction, Nerve Gass, Cola, Group, Mine ect ect..
That would be selected at the time of founding and would remain constant. BUT when managment change the preceeding name. So lets say "Chaunk Cola" is bought out by AndiD and becomes "AndiD Cola".
The one exception should be our Head Quarters base which should be called "Morgan Head Quarters"
Vander
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 08:09 PM
re: Morgan as CEO: I'm setting it up that reguardless of what we do to him, we can blame it on an assassination. (He does have a security detail provided by Yang...)
Also, it isn't hard at all to write an article. They shouldn't be more than a paragraph or two (Who wants to read a massive article when they are forum surfing?). Make it as funny as you are comfortable with and make sure there is at least a vague connection to Alpha Centauri and any of the factions. A word of caution: Don't piss off the other factions too much . A little bit is ok and as long as they know it is all in good fun, then it's fine.
Scorpi40000
I would like to write advertisements! (For a price of course )
Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows
They're comfy and MAY safe YOUR day!
- "When i first heard of Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows i just thought it was regular XenoPillows but know i know why it is better to use Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! They are just more cormforting!"
- "My 3 year old son has a nasty habit of falling out of the window! None of the regular XenoPillows was good enough to soften the fall! But then i tried Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows and the effect was almost instant! Now he's deliberately JUMPING out the window! Thankfully Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows delivers true softness!"
- "I had trouble sleeping! The regular XenoPillows held my up all night! One of my friends proposed Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! They include massage and sweet scenting that makes sleeping literally a dream! Thank you Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows!"
These are just some of the happy users of Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! You can become one of them TODAY! Just visit the local Morgicorp Comfort dealer!
Scorpi40000
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 02:19 AM
I have also made a picture for the advertisement but i don't know how to import it...
jtsisyoda
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 06:21 AM
Three year old jumping out the window...
Vander
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 07:51 AM
Nice job!
Le'ts get a couple more articles and an ad or two then call it good!
-SafaN-
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 10:13 AM
for the "morgan" issue: I read somewhere he sold his place in the pod for 100 ec, alas he is still on the ship now
Vander
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 10:24 PM
NOW THESE HEADLINES:
- Original copy of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations to be brought to the surface of Chiron with the new Morgan Industries Boardroom.
- Militants seize Unity Colony Pod. Leaders call it "Nothing big at all. They took the worst one anyway."
- Weird pink fungus sighted on Chiron. Thought to contain cute little 'Xenobunnies.'
- Lady Diedre Skye, remarking to being called a 'Tree- hugger', asks instead to be called a 'Fungus- hugger.'
- Provost Zarkhov, Unity Science Officer, concludes that the chicken did indeed come before the egg. "What egg can cross a street?" He questioned.
- In a last- minute LAN game of Quake X, in game clan, the "Data Angels" defeat "1337 H4XoRz" in a 5-2 victory.
- In accordance with UN mission objective 15398-a, the frozen remains of former US dictator George W. Bush will be incinerated in the Chiron atmosphere. (15398-a was written so that humanity would not have to keep the body of the instigator of WWIII anywhere near Earth.)
Scorpi40000
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 11:55 PM
Let's not get political allright?
(Even though I'm in total agreeance )
jtsisyoda
Posted: Jun 25 2004, 06:38 AM
I concur w/Scorpi on both fronts.
arginin
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 12:30 AM
I think Morgan would be suited for doing a news similar to Fox News. We could then use the quote about repackaging the Recon Rover Rick (when you build the first holo theatre), and mention paying subscribers (or profits) have increased since Morgan News became "Fair and Balanced".
Archaic
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 10:41 AM
Hmmm.....that's going a bit too far I think. We're Libertarians, not Conservatives. Though we might want to mention relaxed gun laws to the Spartans when they come aknocking.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 11:00 PM
A Review of the Morgan Industries Starting Position
Many people have asked me the question: What's so great about Morgan Industries? Other than it's inherit superiority to all other factions in every way, Morgan Industries has a great starting position!
Why, when we landed, we were in shock: The land itself is fertile, bursting with life and energy! The rainfall bore down on everything, except that land which we built our glorious base upon.
The river that we are near is blessed with fish, and foul abounds in every direction! The rain strengthens the trees and plants which produce bountiful harvests of fruits and vegetables to nourish us! The pigs run around already pre-cooked, and farms appear every day in this fertile valley!
Near us is Mount Drogue, a mountaikn 1000000m high which produces great energy every year! Already there are solar collectors pre-terraformed to give us billions of energy credits per year! Why, our scientists are certain that we are recieving only a fraction of what we could get due to limitations in technology!
Also near us is an area full of mineral deposits! Natural boreholes exist as far as the eye can see, and minerals stretch on forever, providing Morgan Industries with the tools it needs to create a great empire of wealth and abundance!
The citizens of Morgan Industries live in a life of great luxury, especially when you compare them to the other factions of Planet. Who would want to choose Sparta, a desolate faction who regularly go without great meats and wine and insteaed drink water and eat bread?!
Or the Data Angels, forced to type at their computers all day when we here in Morgan Industries are having great fun with our slavepersons. Or, worst of all, the Gaians: Who have shunned wealth, who have let their own people fall into appaling poverty, all in the name of "protecting Planet"?!
Confronted with all this, the question is not "What's so great about Morgan Industries", it's "What's NOT so great about Morgan Industries"? The answer, of course, is nothing!
Why choose poverty and oppression when you can have freedom and wealth?
Join Morgan Industries today!
What can you do for us?
Kody
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 04:09 AM
Possibly you guys could add a little more PR to the alpha centauri introduction.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:05 AM
No.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:13 AM
If the PR managers won't, the Diplomats will.
arginin
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:22 AM
Archaic - I was refering to Fox news as it is the most biast major network in the United States (I hear some papers in England are even more biast, but they acknowledge their bias)
Comrade Tassadar seems to have the idea, albeit that seems too strong.
I am thinking of Tim O'Reilly when he talks about his show "The O'Reilly Factor", and how he says they have the "no spin zone", and they sound like it really is.
Be honest and just talk about how things really are. The difference is that you draw off of a reality better than what is really real. For instance, think morgan troops are relatively trained instead of being unskilled (wealth morale modifier). Morgan bases produce many goods, and overlook the polution they generate.
Morgan News - The most profitable name in news.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:36 AM
Which was rather my point. A Libertarian news service wouldn't be expected to be quite as biased (Or obviously so) as a Conservative one. We don't want to be a right wing PRAVDA.
If we are going to be biased, I think it's best to do so by picking and choosing what stories we'll put up, rather than scripting the stories to be overly nationalisic.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:02 AM
Why not? A non-serious news service is a lot more entertaining than a serious one.
Compare:
vs.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:35 AM
Perhaps we need both then? The first doesn't really seem IC for our faction. I'd expect more of a Bloomberg or MSNBC (MorganSoft News Broadcasting Corporation?) from us with the background.
Vander
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:51 AM
By all means, write what you want to write. But I think that what we publish to the other factions should be entertaining in nature. They won't read it if it isn't entertaining. So it happens that entertaining tends to be overly biased to the point of comedy. That's what I loved about (And wrote for) PRAVDA: It was over the top. It sometimes had little to do with actual events in game or even Hiverian doctrine, but it was entertaining. So as Chief Propaganda Officer: I want entertainment, in whatever form it takes.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 08:32 AM
Yeah. One of the things that made the University paper boring was it never really strayed out and became...entertaining. It was too reserved and didn't seem to want to branch out, become biased and entertaining like Pravda. Because again, which is more entertaining: A monologue of whats actually happening or an outlandish exaggeration of the good and underreporting of the bad under the cover of being unbiased?
I should point out that this is why I think that the University paper failed.
I want to release a pre- turn magazine for our faction. It'll give us something to do and show the other teams that we are already organized enough to get one going (Sort of a diplomatic power move.) But we need to get a few things tied down first:
What will we call it?
- MorganLink Magazine
- Morgan News Network (MNN)
- Chiron News Network: A Morgan Industries subsidiary (CNN)
- Morgan Broadcasting Company (MBC)
- Banana
Art/ graphics?
Who will write articles? How many per issue?
Do we want to have a sort of "international/factional flare" or limit it to internal news?
Do we have a heirarchy we can publish yet?
Is there anything that I am missing?
Is all this just a sign that I am slowly going insane because I am playing too much Master of Orion and Fallout?
-- I am who I say I am. I think, therefore I am. Therefore, all things I say are thoughtful and have meaning.
Chaunk
MorganLink Magazine gets my vote!
All the other ideas are good, and yeah, it'd be a great diplomatic move! I'd love to help, but alas I'm terrible at writing fiction!
An international flair sounds good. It'd be awesome to do a weather forcast or something like that for the whole of chiron - naturally good weather around the morganaic sections!
Anyone can write the articles, but they need to be sorted together - by you Vander? - and then veiwed by all the faction incase anyone thinks they may be giving too much information away or whatever.
Impaler
If its Pre-Game start then I would emphisis
* Interactions with other factions/people onboard the Unity spacecraft
* IPO of Morgan Stock either onbard the Unity (were selling stock as the ship is disintigrating around us and everyone is scrambling into the Pods, how typicaly Morgan) or amungst our members once the Pod is sealed.
* loss of contact with others durring the desent, coments about that Pod that blows up (who was in it?), dont describe landing itself as that should be saved for our first ON plant issue.
* Explination of how/when our orignal leader CEO Morgan died (perhaps he got a paper cut counting his money and was too stingy to use a dermal regenerator and died of a virulent fungal infection). or perhaps he was too buisy selling stock and forgot to get in the Pod and was thus stuck on the Unity.
Lastly I vote for Morgan Sreet Journal or Morganic Street Journal if yall prefer, Second choice would be MNN (other parodies inclued "Mox News" or "Clear Chiron Comunications" if we wish to mock Conservative Media). I might be able to write a snipet or 2 for you on one of the topics I just mentioned.
-- Fear is the Mind Killer
Googlie
Or we could more literally parody:
CNN = Chiron Network News
MSN = Morgan Subscriber Network
I like the MorganLink one, though, as it's rooted in the game (thus):
##Superconductor
#TECH7
Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say
that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
^
^ -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
^ MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
AndiD
Maybe we could call the "whole" thing MSN (since some Microsoft parodies are also rooted in the game - "Where do you want your Node today?" - and parody is fun) and "MorganLink" would be the magazine part, "Morgan Street Journal" would bring (fake?) financial reports and so on.
(If we want to get really freaky, we could even invent "Morgan Broadcasting Company" and do an audio magazine on rare occasions)
Googlie
Hey - that'd be neat.
And maybe for the web site we (I) could add a stockquote streamer, and select those publicly listed stocks with "Morgan" in their name (there actually is a Morgan Industries)
Impaler
Or better yet (if its possible) create a list of Fake companies named after Morgan Bases (Morgan Hydro Chemical, Morgan Gravatonics, Morgan Mines...).
In the Vein of AndiD's sugjestion
A vast media Empire of Media outlets have been spun off of Morgan Industries, colectivly they are under the Banner of Morgan Link but their are many specialized supsidiaries some of which are listed here.
MOL - Morgan Online (datalinks service provider)
Clear Chiron Comunications (Conservative Radio outlet)
Morgan Street Journal (Financial reporting)
Morgan News Network (always on TV news)
Morgan Holowood (this should be a base name too) (leading producer of Holographic movies show in Holo Theathers)
Morgan Times (newspaper publishing, ofcorse in the future they dont actualy print it on paper, you download it)
-- Fear is the Mind Killer
-SafaN-
in the minigame section there is a proposal to make those stocks available! It wouldn't be imaginaire since a part of the morganites will actually be busy with buying and selling those stocks
Vander
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 07:12 AM
Thanks guys, that's plenty of suggestions! Let's get to writing some articles here! I'll get one out before bed in a few minutes...
Vander
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 07:58 AM
GOOD MONING FROM MORGAN INDUSTIRES!
-Offical Morgan Industries Greeting
Good morning and welcome to the Alpha Centauri system! We at Morgan Industries hope you had a pleasant wake from cryo- freeze. Our CEO Nwabudike Morgan has personally invited you to our fact- finding meeting in landing pod 5. Chiron is a virgin planet; full of new prospects, challenges and more importantly, new resources. We want you to be there, on the ground floor, as Morgan Industries lays the foundations of capitalism for everyone on our new Earth.
The location of the meeting will be in the disembark center of cryobay Alpha, Landing pod 5. The meeting will start at 1100 Unity Standard Time, every third day until landing. Thank you again and we hope to see you there!
- CPO Maximillian Vandopolis
"LIES, RUMORS, AND SLANDER"
-Chiron News Network
That is what our CEO has said about recent rumors that there are those in the Unity Officer corps that want him dead. "But be warned, my friends." Nwabudike Morgan added, "There are those aboard the Unity that would wish us not to suceed in our goals." He would further elaborate that rumors of assassination attempts on his life were created to drive people away from his vision "of a new capitalism." Security Chief Shen- ji Yang has added his "personal guards" to our CEO's defense force.
Chaunk
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:29 PM
Thats awesome Vander
I just wonder if we want to call Morgan our CEO though, as CEO is also a title we've given to our turn player. Perhaps owner might be better?
Archaic
Posted: Jun 22 2004, 11:34 PM
I assume that before the first turn, the board is going to turn on him and elect a new CEO.
Chaunk
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 12:05 AM
But then are we going to have Chaunk Industries etc?
I hope not, I'm not that egotistical....
Impaler
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 12:39 AM
Presumably Morgan sells the rights to his name and we continue to use it.
We should think of a Scandal to explain why Morgan is booted out, perhaps he was embezaling and the Board found out and seazed the assests (explains ware that 100 Energy Credits comes from).
On a related note.
I think it would be good to name bases after players, each base would have an Industry name, Gravatonics, Electronic, Construction, Nerve Gass, Cola, Group, Mine ect ect..
That would be selected at the time of founding and would remain constant. BUT when managment change the preceeding name. So lets say "Chaunk Cola" is bought out by AndiD and becomes "AndiD Cola".
The one exception should be our Head Quarters base which should be called "Morgan Head Quarters"
Vander
Posted: Jun 23 2004, 08:09 PM
re: Morgan as CEO: I'm setting it up that reguardless of what we do to him, we can blame it on an assassination. (He does have a security detail provided by Yang...)
Also, it isn't hard at all to write an article. They shouldn't be more than a paragraph or two (Who wants to read a massive article when they are forum surfing?). Make it as funny as you are comfortable with and make sure there is at least a vague connection to Alpha Centauri and any of the factions. A word of caution: Don't piss off the other factions too much . A little bit is ok and as long as they know it is all in good fun, then it's fine.
Scorpi40000
I would like to write advertisements! (For a price of course )
Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows
They're comfy and MAY safe YOUR day!
- "When i first heard of Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows i just thought it was regular XenoPillows but know i know why it is better to use Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! They are just more cormforting!"
- "My 3 year old son has a nasty habit of falling out of the window! None of the regular XenoPillows was good enough to soften the fall! But then i tried Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows and the effect was almost instant! Now he's deliberately JUMPING out the window! Thankfully Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows delivers true softness!"
- "I had trouble sleeping! The regular XenoPillows held my up all night! One of my friends proposed Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! They include massage and sweet scenting that makes sleeping literally a dream! Thank you Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows!"
These are just some of the happy users of Morgicorp Comfort XenoPillows! You can become one of them TODAY! Just visit the local Morgicorp Comfort dealer!
Scorpi40000
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 02:19 AM
I have also made a picture for the advertisement but i don't know how to import it...
jtsisyoda
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 06:21 AM
Three year old jumping out the window...
Vander
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 07:51 AM
Nice job!
Le'ts get a couple more articles and an ad or two then call it good!
-SafaN-
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 10:13 AM
for the "morgan" issue: I read somewhere he sold his place in the pod for 100 ec, alas he is still on the ship now
Vander
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 10:24 PM
NOW THESE HEADLINES:
- Original copy of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations to be brought to the surface of Chiron with the new Morgan Industries Boardroom.
- Militants seize Unity Colony Pod. Leaders call it "Nothing big at all. They took the worst one anyway."
- Weird pink fungus sighted on Chiron. Thought to contain cute little 'Xenobunnies.'
- Lady Diedre Skye, remarking to being called a 'Tree- hugger', asks instead to be called a 'Fungus- hugger.'
- Provost Zarkhov, Unity Science Officer, concludes that the chicken did indeed come before the egg. "What egg can cross a street?" He questioned.
- In a last- minute LAN game of Quake X, in game clan, the "Data Angels" defeat "1337 H4XoRz" in a 5-2 victory.
- In accordance with UN mission objective 15398-a, the frozen remains of former US dictator George W. Bush will be incinerated in the Chiron atmosphere. (15398-a was written so that humanity would not have to keep the body of the instigator of WWIII anywhere near Earth.)
Scorpi40000
Posted: Jun 24 2004, 11:55 PM
(Vander @ Jun 24 2004, 08:24 PM)
- In accordance with UN mission objective 15398-a, the frozen remains of former US dictator George W. Bush will be incinerated in the Chiron atmosphere. (15398-a was written so that humanity would not have to keep the body of the instigator of WWIII anywhere near Earth.)
- In accordance with UN mission objective 15398-a, the frozen remains of former US dictator George W. Bush will be incinerated in the Chiron atmosphere. (15398-a was written so that humanity would not have to keep the body of the instigator of WWIII anywhere near Earth.)
(Even though I'm in total agreeance )
jtsisyoda
Posted: Jun 25 2004, 06:38 AM
I concur w/Scorpi on both fronts.
arginin
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 12:30 AM
I think Morgan would be suited for doing a news similar to Fox News. We could then use the quote about repackaging the Recon Rover Rick (when you build the first holo theatre), and mention paying subscribers (or profits) have increased since Morgan News became "Fair and Balanced".
Archaic
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 10:41 AM
Hmmm.....that's going a bit too far I think. We're Libertarians, not Conservatives. Though we might want to mention relaxed gun laws to the Spartans when they come aknocking.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 11:00 PM
A Review of the Morgan Industries Starting Position
Many people have asked me the question: What's so great about Morgan Industries? Other than it's inherit superiority to all other factions in every way, Morgan Industries has a great starting position!
Why, when we landed, we were in shock: The land itself is fertile, bursting with life and energy! The rainfall bore down on everything, except that land which we built our glorious base upon.
The river that we are near is blessed with fish, and foul abounds in every direction! The rain strengthens the trees and plants which produce bountiful harvests of fruits and vegetables to nourish us! The pigs run around already pre-cooked, and farms appear every day in this fertile valley!
Near us is Mount Drogue, a mountaikn 1000000m high which produces great energy every year! Already there are solar collectors pre-terraformed to give us billions of energy credits per year! Why, our scientists are certain that we are recieving only a fraction of what we could get due to limitations in technology!
Also near us is an area full of mineral deposits! Natural boreholes exist as far as the eye can see, and minerals stretch on forever, providing Morgan Industries with the tools it needs to create a great empire of wealth and abundance!
The citizens of Morgan Industries live in a life of great luxury, especially when you compare them to the other factions of Planet. Who would want to choose Sparta, a desolate faction who regularly go without great meats and wine and insteaed drink water and eat bread?!
Or the Data Angels, forced to type at their computers all day when we here in Morgan Industries are having great fun with our slavepersons. Or, worst of all, the Gaians: Who have shunned wealth, who have let their own people fall into appaling poverty, all in the name of "protecting Planet"?!Confronted with all this, the question is not "What's so great about Morgan Industries", it's "What's NOT so great about Morgan Industries"? The answer, of course, is nothing!
Why choose poverty and oppression when you can have freedom and wealth?
Join Morgan Industries today!
What can you do for us?
Kody
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 04:09 AM
Possibly you guys could add a little more PR to the alpha centauri introduction.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:05 AM
No.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:13 AM
If the PR managers won't, the Diplomats will.
arginin
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:22 AM
Archaic - I was refering to Fox news as it is the most biast major network in the United States (I hear some papers in England are even more biast, but they acknowledge their bias)
Comrade Tassadar seems to have the idea, albeit that seems too strong.
I am thinking of Tim O'Reilly when he talks about his show "The O'Reilly Factor", and how he says they have the "no spin zone", and they sound like it really is.
Be honest and just talk about how things really are. The difference is that you draw off of a reality better than what is really real. For instance, think morgan troops are relatively trained instead of being unskilled (wealth morale modifier). Morgan bases produce many goods, and overlook the polution they generate.
Morgan News - The most profitable name in news.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 05:36 AM
Which was rather my point. A Libertarian news service wouldn't be expected to be quite as biased (Or obviously so) as a Conservative one. We don't want to be a right wing PRAVDA.
If we are going to be biased, I think it's best to do so by picking and choosing what stories we'll put up, rather than scripting the stories to be overly nationalisic.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:02 AM
(Archaic @ Jun 29 2004, 03:36 AM)
We don't want to be a right wing PRAVDA.
We don't want to be a right wing PRAVDA.
Compare:
And this turn, the national treasury went up by over 5 billion energy credits! This is due to the marvelous leadership of CEO Tassadar, who has lead us to great prosperity over the backwards factions of Planet!
vs.
And this turn the national treasury went down by 2 energy credits due to new base construction and due to a recent diplomatic pact termination by the Gaians. Morgan Industries has now dropped in rank to the 3rd most powerful faction on Planet.
Archaic
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:35 AM
Perhaps we need both then? The first doesn't really seem IC for our faction. I'd expect more of a Bloomberg or MSNBC (MorganSoft News Broadcasting Corporation?) from us with the background.
Vander
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 07:51 AM
By all means, write what you want to write. But I think that what we publish to the other factions should be entertaining in nature. They won't read it if it isn't entertaining. So it happens that entertaining tends to be overly biased to the point of comedy. That's what I loved about (And wrote for) PRAVDA: It was over the top. It sometimes had little to do with actual events in game or even Hiverian doctrine, but it was entertaining. So as Chief Propaganda Officer: I want entertainment, in whatever form it takes.
Comrade Tassadar
Posted: Jun 29 2004, 08:32 AM
Yeah. One of the things that made the University paper boring was it never really strayed out and became...entertaining. It was too reserved and didn't seem to want to branch out, become biased and entertaining like Pravda. Because again, which is more entertaining: A monologue of whats actually happening or an outlandish exaggeration of the good and underreporting of the bad under the cover of being unbiased?
I should point out that this is why I think that the University paper failed.
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