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Building Bridges
Gaians: dataaelous aeolusdata at yahoo.com
Hive: irgy irgy_ at hotmail.com
University : Provost Walek alewalek at wp.pl
Spartans: martin mart7x5 marcin777 at hotmail.com
Believers : Brother binTravkin ivantravkin at hotmail.com
Parameters : large planet, all victories, Look First, No Unity Survey, tech stagnation.
"It is the finding of this tribunal that you are guilty of conspiring to commit mutiny against the legitimate authorities of the United Nations Ship Unity, and you will be refrozen until such time as the colony on Alpha Centauri is well established and can offer the appropriate treatment for you and your followers to be reintegrated into a peaceful society. This Court is now adjourned."
Five times this sentence was read out, and five groups and their leaders were all put back into suspended animation. The conspiracy uncovered by Nwabudike Morgan, and the tribunals carried out by the Captain, with Commissioner Previn Lal as the chief prosecutor, guaranteed a relatively peaceful and auspicious start to the colonizing efforts in the Alpha Centauri system.
Official history of the founding of Centauri Colony, 2010 - by Commissioner Previn Lal.
"Lady Diedre, thank the earth mother you're awake," Laura said urgently as she took off the Oxygen mask. Laura had volunteered to stay on the ship to tend the internees, as the refrozen vicitims of the trumped up tribunals had been euphamistically termed. Maybe that paramilitary nut Santiago, or the authoritarian creep Sheng-Ji Yang had been guilty of it, but Lady Diedre had just been assembling supplies in case the fanatics managed to scrub the mission. She'd been innocent! Laura injected Diedre with a stimulant, bad procedure but they had to hurry.
Diedre snapped awake, as the uppers coursed through her veins. "What's going on, why am I awake?"
"Some nutcase follower of Godwinson figured out how to get her loose, and bypass all the security interlocks."
Diedre got up, noticing the darkened room and the glow of emergency lights. She heard this creaking, and then sheering noise. "What did he or she do?"
Laura noddeed approval, Lady Diedre always used gender neutral language, no matter what. Laura started dragging her toward the escape pod. "The idiot placed explosives in various critical parts of the ship. When they went off, the emergency evacuation protocol came on, and unfroze everybody."
Diedre shook her head. She'd set up the security interlocks, but she'd never anticipated someone deliberately destroying the ship to get someone loose. Clever, simple and staightfoward if you were willing to take the risk.
As she followed Laura her mind wandered, remembering the kangaroo court when they frozed her. She hadn't expected that misogynist Previn to set her up as well for his power grab. She wasn't sure any more who had been in a conspiracy, and who had been set up. Time enough to sort that out when the got to planet's surface.
They entered the escape pod. Diedre looked around. She walked up to the receiver for the colony's homing beacon, and turned it off. "We aren't going to the main colony, they'll have us in cells before we can climb out. Let's use the emergency lander, set it for auto - secondary site selection. That was put there so if there was an emergency landing, we'd have mutliple landings and a better chance for humanity. Since we know Lal took the best location, this guarantees he won't get his grubby hands on us."
She felt and heard the emergency seperation charges fire, seperating the pod from the Unity. Down to planet, with the basic survival gear in an escape pod, while all the good equipment was already at the main colony. There had been so much of it! She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but of one thing she was certain. Previn would regret it.
Gaians: dataaelous aeolusdata at yahoo.com
Hive: irgy irgy_ at hotmail.com
University : Provost Walek alewalek at wp.pl
Spartans: martin mart7x5 marcin777 at hotmail.com
Believers : Brother binTravkin ivantravkin at hotmail.com
Parameters : large planet, all victories, Look First, No Unity Survey, tech stagnation.
"It is the finding of this tribunal that you are guilty of conspiring to commit mutiny against the legitimate authorities of the United Nations Ship Unity, and you will be refrozen until such time as the colony on Alpha Centauri is well established and can offer the appropriate treatment for you and your followers to be reintegrated into a peaceful society. This Court is now adjourned."
Five times this sentence was read out, and five groups and their leaders were all put back into suspended animation. The conspiracy uncovered by Nwabudike Morgan, and the tribunals carried out by the Captain, with Commissioner Previn Lal as the chief prosecutor, guaranteed a relatively peaceful and auspicious start to the colonizing efforts in the Alpha Centauri system.
Official history of the founding of Centauri Colony, 2010 - by Commissioner Previn Lal.
"Lady Diedre, thank the earth mother you're awake," Laura said urgently as she took off the Oxygen mask. Laura had volunteered to stay on the ship to tend the internees, as the refrozen vicitims of the trumped up tribunals had been euphamistically termed. Maybe that paramilitary nut Santiago, or the authoritarian creep Sheng-Ji Yang had been guilty of it, but Lady Diedre had just been assembling supplies in case the fanatics managed to scrub the mission. She'd been innocent! Laura injected Diedre with a stimulant, bad procedure but they had to hurry.
Diedre snapped awake, as the uppers coursed through her veins. "What's going on, why am I awake?"
"Some nutcase follower of Godwinson figured out how to get her loose, and bypass all the security interlocks."
Diedre got up, noticing the darkened room and the glow of emergency lights. She heard this creaking, and then sheering noise. "What did he or she do?"
Laura noddeed approval, Lady Diedre always used gender neutral language, no matter what. Laura started dragging her toward the escape pod. "The idiot placed explosives in various critical parts of the ship. When they went off, the emergency evacuation protocol came on, and unfroze everybody."
Diedre shook her head. She'd set up the security interlocks, but she'd never anticipated someone deliberately destroying the ship to get someone loose. Clever, simple and staightfoward if you were willing to take the risk.
As she followed Laura her mind wandered, remembering the kangaroo court when they frozed her. She hadn't expected that misogynist Previn to set her up as well for his power grab. She wasn't sure any more who had been in a conspiracy, and who had been set up. Time enough to sort that out when the got to planet's surface.
They entered the escape pod. Diedre looked around. She walked up to the receiver for the colony's homing beacon, and turned it off. "We aren't going to the main colony, they'll have us in cells before we can climb out. Let's use the emergency lander, set it for auto - secondary site selection. That was put there so if there was an emergency landing, we'd have mutliple landings and a better chance for humanity. Since we know Lal took the best location, this guarantees he won't get his grubby hands on us."
She felt and heard the emergency seperation charges fire, seperating the pod from the Unity. Down to planet, with the basic survival gear in an escape pod, while all the good equipment was already at the main colony. There had been so much of it! She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but of one thing she was certain. Previn would regret it.
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