Chiron Chronicles: Planetary Council

[[LordLMP]]

To: Datajack Roze
From: Foreman Domai

Private Message
From: Datajack Roze
To: Foreman Domai

Greetings James,

I hope you are well. I'm sure you've already guessed the intent of this message, so I will get right to the point. I seak your support in my campaign for Governor.

In the past I know you have sought neutrality, leaving us to squabble it out amongst ourselves. But I feel now that it is imperative that you choose a side.

I do agree and Free Drone is strong enough to withstand both Hive and the Spartans, so they cannot intimidate us as they did before.

I feel you should know something about one of the major candidates. CEO Morgan, our current Governor, has been purchasing Drones to work in his industrial complexes from Chairman Yang. Academecian Zakharov also participates in this illicit trade. I am trying to reveal their trade to the council, but those who helped discover this information for me would be instantly found out.

I am quite of aware of it Datajack, as i already been told by Svensgaard. In past decade, his ships as intercepted various hive transports heading for the Morganites or University. As Ulrik wasn't sure what to do with them, he sent those who wanted to come to Free Drone. I am a bit surprise he hasn't told you.

I hope you can support me in this election and we can bring those involved to justice.

Will gladly vote for you and help you out stop this illegal trade of Drones.

Foreman Domai

[[LordLMP]]

OOC: i seem to get this idea of Data Angels, Free Drones and Pirates having close ties.......probebly forming for own little alliance by themselves, yet have silly self-centered fights like ala Deniara War. :P

To: Datajack Roze
From: Captain Svensgaard

[b]Private Message
From: Datajack Roze
To: Lady Deirdre, Prime Function Aki-Zeta Five and Captain Svensgaard

Well my friends, you have all be quite. I will not hide from you that Lal and I have had quite the falling out. I will no longer commit to the defence of U.N. holdings and civillians, unless the Alliance or the Charter leaves me with no other viable alternative. I personally cannot believe it has come to this, but Pravin and I have had several 'enlightening' conversations which show me quite how naive I have been towards his policies.

So I ask, where do you stand on the Planetary Governor issue? Am I waisting my time in running, or should I be seeking my own viable candidate to vote for?

Roze

Sorry for not replying earlier. Don't worry about Lal, he is simply getting old :P. If you feel like running, run. As for whom I will vote, got to wait until the election .

Captain Svensgaard

[Guardian]

Private Message
From: Commissioner Lal
To Datajack Roze
Cc: Captain Svensgaard, Lady Deirdre, Aki Zeta-Five

So be it then. If I cannot voice my concerns in a private conversation without being considered "disrespectful" and "unfriendly", then I shall have no choice but to leave the alliance. If that is what you wish, you don't even have to answer.


[OOC: Lal is hoping for someone to come rushing out to reassure him that it really wasn't meant that way and that they don't want him to leave the alliance... But... he is not counting on it...]

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by Mr. President
OOC: When, DarkCloud, you said that "it won't fly", were you referring to the industrial summit? I suspect you might be right, but it was worth a shot, since that's the sort of thing governments are always doing. That whole Environmental Economics thing was supposed to cause confusion in the Alliance, but since no-one seems to be writing for Deirdre, it may be irrelevant in the long run.

Oh, the Industrial Summit is all right, the other things you mentioned in the message, I was talking about using nerve gas, that is outlawed by the game... But if they only 'discover' they can use it, I suppose the nerve gas thing is all right.

Private Message:
To: CEO Nwabudike Morgan
From: Academician Prokhor Zakharov

Santiago would be an excellent choice, provided she still opposes the Cyborgs domination efforts, however weakly. Although Roze would make a good counter against the Peacekeepers, she is too volatile. Santiago has been the only leader who has sided with us in our times of need.

Thus, if I must, I will vote for Santiago.

OOC:

but no fascist stuff please. anyway,

LMP, haven't you noticed? Everything I have wrote for the last year has been fascist-University

To: Planetary Council
From: Ambassador Ian Davidson-Splertrovsky

Drones ARE Humans. It seems the unethical University is persuing mind control of humanity. If University chooses to continue persuing with this nonsence, Free Drones will consider vendetta to liberate University of monsters.

See, it is obvious that the Drones are afraid of our attempts to make the humans as great as they are. The Drones are too powerful as, I must truly give them this concession, 'Humanlike-creatures' for their own good. They may exist, but how long before they take over and destroy humanity?

They are benevolent now, but how long will this last? Maximum power corrupts absolutely.


To: Planetary Council
From: H.A. Prokhor Zakharov

Thats not what our Probe Teams are saying

Be what that may mean, the University will show all a demonstration of the nerve gas. I invite all faction leaders and their assistants to join my highest generals in a demonstration of the anti-mindworm nerve gas.

To: Planetary Council
From: Zakharov

Perhaps, Domani, but do you know what we know about what some people have done in 'experiments' with humans?

I am not accusing Yang of anything... but some other leaders may have been involved...

[Guardian]

General Message
From: U.N. Ambassador Isabella Fuentes
To: Planetary Council

The U.N. Peacekeepers will not attend or condone any action involving any form of nerve gas. We strongly oppose any and all such notions, regardless of who is involved and for what purpose.

I must remind you that the use of nerve gas is a violation of the U.N. Charter, which is still supposedly enforced by this Council.

Allow me to present a list of known offenders...

• Spartan Federation
• Human Hive
• University of Planet
• Lord's Believers (Assumed to be in possession of nerve gas weapons, but not known to have used them.)
• Morgan Industries (Known to be dealing with "nerve gas capability" and selling it on the open market.)

Personally, I find it especially interesting that our current Planetary Governor is actively taking part in activities he is supposed to be preventing. -And making nice profits...
What next, Mr. "Legitimate Activity" ?

Isabella Fuentes
U.N. Ambassador



Private Message
From: Commissioner Lal
To: Datajack Roze

Before this gets out of control, let us stop and think for one moment, shall we? Is this really what we want? And if not, does it really have to happen? I really do not know what I have said or done to offend you so much, and as I have stated before, it certainly wasn't my intention to offend you at all. I also do not believe it would be right to turn our backs on all these years of friendship, even if we do have some kind of major disagreement. Actually, I am not so sure that it is so major after all, but somehow we both seem to have hit all the wrong keys on this one.

I am not interested in being your 'foul-weather' ally, your lap-dog which comes running when you find yourself in trouble.

Well, I never asked you for that.
I also never said that I would not support you as Planetary Governor.
So, I really don't understand what you're acting so pissed off about, and I was starting to get pissed off myself because I thought you were just plain being unreasonable. I assume there is a better explanation for all of this... So, do you care to share it with me?

Pravin

[Argonaut]

General Message
From: Ambassador Rebecca Katt, Data Angels
To: Planetary Council

The Data Angel government is in agreement with the U.N. delegation. We will not attend any demonstrations involving any sort of nerve gas.

We would also like to present this evidence to the Council. Our sources have revealed that Governor Morgan has, as the U.N. representative stated, been making profits by selling the component chemicals of nerve gas. Some of these chemicals sole function, is in the production of nerve gas, and they hold no other none properties. We would like the Governor to explain his actions, and how he can possibly justify this.

[b]Private Message : Enhanced Encryption
From: Datajack Roze
To: Comissoner Lal

I am at a loss Pravin. You have confused me to no end. I really don't understand you at all anymore.

You seem to think that I have requested you leave the Alliance. I never made any such request. I have no such authority. I merely informed you that I would not continue support you with my forces as you have proven I can't count on you.

You also claim that you never said you wouldn't vote for me. Yet, in your own words:

I am unable to support your candidacy, as doing so would send the wrong kind of signal to the people of this world

Even when I expressed my concerns, you brushed me off entirely:

I guess a vacation would be nice, but I don't see it happening...
It's not that I don't trust you, it's just...

(*Lal shrugs helplessly and the message abruptly ends...*)

What in Miriam's God's name am I supposed to think? I can't believe you can't understand why I am FURIOUS with you! This diplomatic, skirting around the issues and feigning innocence make work with your governors Pravin, but it doesn't with me.

I no longer have the energy to put forth the effort it seems to require to maintain your friendship. Besides, you have given me every indication that your friends mean very little too you, so I don't know why I've bothered.

Roze

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by Guardian
General Message
From: U.N. Ambassador Isabella Fuentes
To: Planetary Council

The U.N. Peacekeepers will not attend or condone any action involving any form of nerve gas. We strongly oppose any and all such notions, regardless of who is involved and for what purpose.

I must remind you that the use of nerve gas is a violation of the U.N. Charter, which is still supposedly enforced by this Council.

General Message
From:Ambassador Ian Davidson-Splertrovsky

I have trouble wondering why you are so close minded. Evil things can be put to good purposes.

Will you not even attend the council and try to see what the nerve gas can do.

The University has worked on the problem of nerve gas for years, when others would not touch it. I feel we deserve some thanks.

[DarkCloud]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Guardian
General Message
From: U.N. Ambassador Isabella Fuentes
To: Planetary Council

The U.N. Peacekeepers will not attend or condone any action involving any form of nerve gas. We strongly oppose any and all such notions, regardless of who is involved and for what purpose.

I must remind you that the use of nerve gas is a violation of the U.N. Charter, which is still supposedly enforced by this Council.

General Message
From:Ambassador Ian Davidson-Splertrovsky

I have trouble wondering why you are so close minded. Evil things can be put to good purposes.

Will you not even attend the council and try to see what the nerve gas can do.

The University has worked on the problem of nerve gas for years, when others would not touch it. I feel we deserve some thanks.

[Guardian]

Private Message
From: Commissioner Lal
To: Datajack Roze

I am at a loss Pravin. You have confused me to no end. I really don't understand you at all anymore.

...and I don't understand you at all...

You seem to think that I have requested you leave the Alliance. I never made any such request. I have no such authority. I merely informed you that I would not continue support you with my forces as you have proven I can't count on you.

Well, if we will not support each other, it will make the whole alliance look bad if we both stay in it...

An attack upon one member shall be considered an attack upon us all.
(May not apply to certain allies.)

Do you like the look of that?
And you claim I have proven you can't count on me... In my opinion, to the contrary, there is very little I would not have done for you.
Quite frankly though, if voicing a few concerns in response to a proposal of yours is enough to make you furious to the point of turning your back on 8 decades of friendship, then I can't see why anyone should vote for you.

You also claim that you never said you wouldn't vote for me.

No, I never said I wouldn't support you, which can be done in many different ways, not just one.
If you hadn't freaked out on me, you just might have found out what I had to offer right about now. I even might have come around and agreed to vote for you after all once I'd had some time to think about it. The U.N. doesn't turn on a dime, but we do turn at times. But you should know that we don't respond well to people trying to push us around, which is what we feel you've been trying to do here. If you'd held back a little and discussed the matter at hand instead of just getting angry with us for not coming your way, we might have come around by ourselves.

What in Miriam's God's name am I supposed to think? I can't believe you can't understand why I am FURIOUS with you!

I could ask you that same question... What am I supposed to think?
If I get this right, you are FURIOUS with me because I didn't meekly ask "how high?" when you asked me to jump.

I no longer have the energy to put forth the effort it seems to require to maintain your friendship. Besides, you have given me every indication that your friends mean very little too you, so I don't know why I've bothered.

Well, if being your friend means I can never ever disagree with you or see things from a slightly different perspective and try to discuss the matter, then you're right; you shouldn't have bothered. However, that's not the Roze I thought I knew.

Pravin

[Argonaut]

[b]Private Message
From: Datajack Roze
To: Comissoner Lal

I must truly appologize Comissoner. I forgot to read my U.N. translation guide. If I had, I might have realized that "I don't see it happening" actually means, there is a possibility. What a fool I am for not seeing what was so obvious! Just so we're entirely clear here, and that you understand me, I'm being SARCASTIC.

And you claim I have proven you can't count on me... In my opinion, to the contrary, there is very little I would not have done for you.

Sorry? What exactly have you done for me? Told Morgan off when his forces attacked me on two seperate occasions. Thanks, that helped. At least I made the effort to send troops to your front with Sparta.

If I get this right, you are FURIOUS with me because I didn't meekly ask "how high?" when you asked me to jump.

I never asked you to jump Lal. I asked for your help. If I had known it would have caused this much trouble, I would never have bothered.

Quite frankly though, if voicing a few concerns in response to a proposal of yours is enough to make you furious to the point of turning your back on 8 decades of friendship, then I can't see why anyone should vote for you.

Don't alter the situation. You voiced your concerns yes, and you made your decision which was a 'no'. It was you who turned your back on the 8 decades of friendship first. Unfortunately Lal, despite what you might think (or have hoped for) I do have a back bone and will not sit idly by and support your attempt to establish the U.N. Peacekeepers as the sole voice of authority on Planet.

As for your concern regarding the Alliance, that is the only thing it seems you and I can agree on at this point. I will not risk the lives of my people to support the U.N., when they can't even lift a finger to help us. So I propose to alternatives to dissolving the Alliance:

A) Should war occur, we both honour the Alliance as we always would have. But my forces look after my interests, and the interests of our Allies, and you do the same for your own. The only time there need be cooperation between our forces is if it is one of our other allies which is threatened.
B) We cross the bridge when we come to it. I have no plans of letting another war ruin the lives of the people on this planet. But should it happen, we can examine the situation when it happens, and if it becomes necessary for either of us to pull out, then we will have cause to do so.

Can we at least agree on that?

Roze

[Natan]

From: Sau-ji Tseng, Hive Foriegn Minister and ambassador to Council.
To: The Council

Greetings, I am Sau-ji Tseng, the ambassador from the Hive to the council. I would like to begin by refuting allegations that the Hive is involved in some sort of Drone Slave trade with other factions. Such allegations are baseless and we challenge those who hurl them to produce some evidence. OOC: So that we can hunt down whoever gave it to 'em and poke their eyes out. No, seriously, the Hive doesn't send disloyal people abroad at all. To be sent off to another faction, you don't have to be smart or talented, but you do have to be loyal. Disloyal people are killed or nerve stapled and kept safely inside Hive borders.

Secondly, I would like to announce my support for the Colonel Santiago in her bid for the Planetary governorship. Santiago is a fine, level headed woman and a great leader in whom I have complete trust. I urge all factions which value their rights and soveriegnty to support her regardless of faction ideology, because there can be no greater threat to any of our visions for humanity than that of UN tyranny.

Thirdly, I would like to protest the hypocrisy of the UN charter. Nerve Gas is banned, even for use against soldiers, but it is perfectly acceptable to burn a man to death, or to sink his ship, drowning him in a manner remiscent of the effects of poison gas. Surely, a death from nerve gas is less terrible then one resulting from psi warfare, and surely the use of mindworms whose true nature is still unkonwn is a far greater threat to humanity than a few gasses. I call on the council to either ban psi warfare or legalize the use of nerve gas, and preferably both. Who will stand with the Hive in the name of truth and integrity?

[Guardian]

Private Message
From: Commissioner Lal
To: Datajack Roze

I'm the one who should apologize here. I see now that my initial reaction might have sounded too much like "No, I'm not going to help you, now get lost!", which is... not what I meant to say... But if that's what you thought I was saying, then I could definitely understand why you're furious. I'm sorry it came to this, and I know I should have been clearer at an earlier stage, but for future reference, if there is no way I'm possibly ever going to do something, I tend to use phrases like "definitely not" or "violation of the U.N. Charter". If I say "I don't see it happening", then... well, yes, it basically means that from my current position I can't see it. But I haven't said I won't ever move again. Anyway, I'm truely sorry about all of this. Also, I'm sorry if you feel that I haven't done enough to support you over the years. The U.N. is not perfect - after all we're only human - but we can learn from our mistakes once we are aware of them.

Can we at least agree on that?

I still think we agree on more than that.

Pravin

[Mr. President]

General Message
From: CEO Nwabudike Morgan
To: The Planetary Council

I am both shocked and appalled by the behavior of Datatech Sinder Roze and others. To imply that Morgan Industries would have anything to do with illicit movement of humans is both ludicrous and malicious. We are strongly opposed to slavery in all its forms. These are my words, the words of a man of African descent, a man who knows the meaning of slavery. And it is not something to which I would ever lend my name, or the name of anyone or anything close to me.

Ambassador Katt claims that I have been selling items whose "sole function" is as components of nerve gas. This is inaccurate at best and outrightly false at worst. The likes of Tarin and Somex are indeed poisonous if inhaled, but they are also used in the hardening of steel. Perhaps, if I am to be chastised for manufacturing these items, others should be chastised for manufacturing chlorine or Nextel, which are also dangerous if misused. And Morgan Industries is not even the only producer of these items on Planet! Perhaps the Ambassador should do more research before making accusations in the future.

[[LordLMP]]

OOC: Natan, Hive as a poor economy and I am sure they have a surplus of drones :P anyway, why not sell off the weak and have room for but healthier better drones. :P Need something to play with too


To: Datajack Roze and Commissioner Lal
From: Captain Svensgaard

I am not exactly sure what you two are arguing about, but can you people quit it? Not interested in having the Chiron Alliance fall apart just because two leaders had a dissagreement and it ain't a good time to have it fall apart, especially when the Spartans and Hive is still considered a threat. Don't have to like each other, but suggest we keep the alliance together so we can keep the others in check.

Lal, I suggest we all vote for Roze. You can still say that you are running, to keep your so call image, but vote for Roze. We can't have a split vote, especially when Santiego is running. I doubt Morgan will get re-elected, but there is a good chance that Santiego wins, especially the Alliance is split between Roze and you. If she wins, I am declaring vendetta on the Spartans with alliance support or not. You can still defend your precious U.N. Charter, and having Roze as Governor, you won't have to worry about your efforts being undermined where Santiego would certainly will.

Captain Svensgaard

OOC: Svensgaard may not care for interfactional rules, laws, etc of the U.N. Charter, especially red tape, but the Pirates do have similar beliefs and ideals to a lot of things in the U.N. Charter and Svensgaard rather have Nerve Gas, NCB weapons, genocide, etc... banned so to not worry as much about those kind of threats to his faction. He does care for the Pirates way of life and its people, and will do anything to keep them safe and to prosper. Doesn't really give a hoot about other factions, unless they pose a threat to his. So interested in keeping the Alliance together and to support U.N. Charter minimizes threats to his faction. As he is pretty quiet, it is pretty easy to misunderstand why he does and does not.

To: Planetary Council
From: Captain Svensgaard

Legalize Nerve Gas, but ban psi warfare? Hello! What wrong with you people? Yes, lets eliminate the mindworm threat which you people can easily prevent by better taking care of your environments! I am no Greenie, but the Pirates as succeeded in prospering quite well Industrialy without much problems from mindworms. Then, you want to be able to play with Nerve Gas, which is quite dishonorable and stupid in my opinion. As for University's suppose mirable Gas that kill mindworms, doubt it will last very long as mindworms will eventually be immune to it. Also, it is terrible weapon to use for defence against mindworms, especially when they attack near or at a Base. You'll end up just end up kill more civilians then worms. Anyway, if you people can't survive without nerve gas, how pathetic you are. If you want to ban psi warfare, suggest you people ban military units of all kinds while your at it.

Captain Svensgaard

[Guardian]

From: Commissioner Lal
To: Chiron Alliance
Re: Captain Svensgaard

I am not exactly sure what Roze and I are arguing about either, as it seems we should have been on the same side all along. Evidently, Rose felt particularily strongly about this and was upset when she got the impression that I not only didn't agree, but actually opposed her ideas. It's really not that bad, it's just that we both somehow managed to press all the wrong buttons and so what should have been a healthy discussion between two friends turned into a rather nasty argument. I don't know if Roze agrees, but I think this is basically just a particularily nasty misunderstanding and that we'll be back on "speaking terms" before too long. Nobody's leaving the alliance or seeking to split it up. There is merely some confusion regarding how to best pursue our common goals. There will be an official statement at a later time which should hopefully clear up some of this.

Commissioner Lal