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In the real world I'd join Dee's lot, running naked through the fungus
-Jam
1) The crappy metaspam is an affront to the true manner of the artform. - Dauphin That's like trying to overninja a ninja when you aren't a mammal. CAN'T BE DONE. - Kassi on doublecrossing Ljube-ljcvetko
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"A base's culture can be observed in a quick trip to the Rec Commons.
The Sweaty arenas of Fort Legion,
The Sunny Lover's Tryst at Gaia's High Garden,
The gilded gambling halls of Morgan Bank,
or the sombre reading rooms of UN Headquarters
Even the feeding bay at The Hive provides stark insight into Yang's communal utopia."
-Commisioner Pravin Lal
No mention of Zak or Miriam...
I reckon Zak would have a science centre or a symposium or such, "Where you can view the marvels of Zak's creation", and Miriam? A Chapel, for prayer.
Based on the above, I'd go Zakharov, but I'd imagine that most folk would jump ship and side with Deidre!
-just some food for thought...
Oh come on... You've got to be practical! Morgan is going to have all the best stuff on planet and you want to become a brain in a test tube or try to stay alive preserving mind worm specimens?
Don't rule me out when I'm losing. Save your celebration until after I'm gone.
1. Most likely to get laid
2. Most likely to get laid
3. Most likely to get laid
See?
-Jam
1) The crappy metaspam is an affront to the true manner of the artform. - Dauphin That's like trying to overninja a ninja when you aren't a mammal. CAN'T BE DONE. - Kassi on doublecrossing Ljube-ljcvetko
Check out the ALL NEW Galactic Overlord Website for v2.0 and the Napoleonic Overlord Website or even the Galactic Captians Website Thanks Geocities!
Taht 'ventisular link be woo to clyck.
It first goes about surviving, so, let us first eliminate those factions I do not believe would survive.
For me, this is the 2 nice guy/gal: Lal & Deirde.
I'd love to join, but I don't believe in their survival (I'm not speaking about the game here). Remember, I am on the Unity, I know nothing about the planet.
Then, let's eliminate those I'd prefer to be dead than to join: the baddies. Yes, I do believe that in real world THEY have the best survival chance, but one thing is to survive, the other is at what cost? This is
- the Hive: what is everyone last duty again? Better dead than just another ant.
- the Spartan: I bet the weaks are eliminated/enslaved here. What do they exactly do with their wounded/old people? Better dead than nazi.
- the Believers: Some fanatic accuses you of having weared colored underwear the Day of the Lord. As this cannot be proved, your are comdemn to the Lord's Judgement: survive 24h naked in a worm pool. Better dead than brainwashed/potential victim of witch hunts.
This leave me with the 2 "neutrals". Good survival chances, and still room for individual existence/thinking: University and Morganites.
I have a small fear that among the morganites, only the sharks will have a life (without money you are mothing).
I have the fealing that only the University gives a chance to those who are not like them (smart in their case).
I'll go with the University.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.
I'd be one of those citizens who would try to make it in Morgan or Peacekeeper society, buy psychotropic novels entitled "How to Release Your Inner Talent!" and "Rich Talent, Poor Drone," switch careers several times, become a chess bum in the Rec Commons off-hours, become disenfranchised and disillusioned, and eventually sneak out into the night on a Planetary Transit to seek refuge in the elegiac embrace of the Believers.
"I wake. I work. I sleep. I die. The dark of space my only sky. My life is passed, and all I've been will never touch the earth again." --The Ballad of Sky Farm 3, Anonymous, Datalinks
"I wake. I work. I sleep. I die. The dark of space my only sky. My life is passed, and all I've been will never touch the earth again." --The Ballad of Sky Farm 3, Anonymous, Datalinks
First off, I'd have to avoid the factions in which I have little chance of surviving in:
The Believers: There are so many things I would very quickly get in trouble for there, that I probably wouldn't want them to know of my existence.
The Spartans: I'm weak. I'd be taken down very quickly.
The Hive I might actually survive in, but it seems like it would involve a lot of painful labor, which I'm not up to.
Then there are the factions which I would not mind too badly living in.
Gaians/Morgans: They're somewhat neutral in my mind. I'm relatively apathetic toward economic policies.
Peacekeepers: I'd join just for any humanitarian aid I would need, and the high freedoms is a nice addition as well.
It probably is little surprise that I would join the University of Planet. Just like Zakharov, I too would prefer high research, technology, and information flow.
Known in most other places as Anon Zytose.
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Most people saying University would be forced to be the subjects of unethical experiments. That's WHY they are unethical, because they're forced experiments on humans.
-Jam
1) The crappy metaspam is an affront to the true manner of the artform. - Dauphin That's like trying to overninja a ninja when you aren't a mammal. CAN'T BE DONE. - Kassi on doublecrossing Ljube-ljcvetko
Check out the ALL NEW Galactic Overlord Website for v2.0 and the Napoleonic Overlord Website or even the Galactic Captians Website Thanks Geocities!
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Originally posted by Marid Audran
I'd be one of those citizens who would try to make it in Morgan or Peacekeeper society, buy psychotropic novels entitled "How to Release Your Inner Talent!" and "Rich Talent, Poor Drone," switch careers several times, become a chess bum in the Rec Commons off-hours, become disenfranchised and disillusioned, and eventually sneak out into the night on a Planetary Transit to seek refuge in the elegiac embrace of the Believers.
Zak for me. Research doesn't have to be necessarily immoral, does it?
(and in most cases it is not research or its result which is immoral but the way it is used. Which is decided by politicians, managers, lawyers, journalists and other sorts of immoral people.)
Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?
Well, it's a clear Zak for me. For one, i think that science is the way to go... And of course that in research some human testing would be required on some areas, but of course animals would be used first (not for a long time though); and who can say no to neural grafting? Besides, the subjects of the experiments will certainly not be any productive citizen... With chances of being either Democratic (which is a good way to go) or Police (only when having too much bureaucracy will put survival at stake), while avoiding brainwashing people to blindly believe in someone is never a bad thing...
A free choice in economics... The usual free enterprise (you get paid the more you research); a planned approach (evrybody gets paid, everybody researches just for the sake of having the theory named after you); or the more naturist one (the more efficient we get, the more stuff we will have to experiment with - and we will not leave our grandsons a huge ecological blunder)
All in all, i expect a longer time under a planned system, only for a better coordination of research, and ensuring that the brillant minds get what they deserve (and are not eaten up by the big sharks)
As for values, a clear preference of knowledge will mean that we will waste as little as possible to get as much as possible researched...
The ensuing hit in probe team vulnerability can be easily countered by devising hole-free, outsider-unfriendly, vicious soft.
Of the other choices, i'd eagerly walk away from Miriam else i'd be burnt as the atheist i am. Lal presents a nice choice, but i shudder at the thoughts of having all my former creche friends voting as well... (and up to the point in which several bases ight be gifted to bully factions if it makes the average voter more at ease (and less likely to be conscripted). Morgan proposes an interesting 'money money money' approach, but i fear that some essential research will be turned down due to lack of practical approaches, and the fact that most of us will end up in the genejack factories.). Santiago i would also run away from, as living for the military until i show a flaw, and then god knows what they will do with me is not very comforting (especially as it will not be very nice to keep being 'perfect' all the time). With Yang i think i could cope a bit better, as even though i'd probably end up among the ant pile, i'd still have everything i need to live. In theory. Although i do have some interesting ideas that might interest the chairman himself.
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