For The Tyrants Fear Your Might (A quest of interstellar rebellion)

AKuz · Dec 10, 2020

THE ALL-RADIANT CONGRESS

Setting Information: The Solarian Compact:

Initially formed as the Solarian Treaty Organization from the ashes of the old United Nations Security Council, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, and the Global Climate Relief Organization in the worst decade of Earth's environmental collapse. The STO was originally a body tasked with overseeing the granting of offworld mining permits and the purchase and distribution of the resources to countries struggling from climate change.

The advent of the Korolev-Chandrashker gates and the construction of the first one under STO oversight in 2063 led to the beginning of the transformation of that body into the de facto single governing body of the Human species.

Reorganized into the 'Solarian Compact', the first Charters were granted to massive corporate conglomerates to explore and exploit the cosmos for Humanity with little to no regulation or restriction.

In the early decades, the Solarian Compact oversaw the construction of KC gates in the systems closest to Sol and began the process of granting colonization rights to the most habitable worlds within that region with colonization rights granted to a number of national and international blocks.

With the growth of the Solarian Compact's power came calls for the body to become more representative and democratic, and in 2099, the Solarian Compact held its first elections and constitutional convention, inviting representatives from the Sol system and the five systems that held permanent Human settlement.

Over the course of the 22nd and 23rd centuries the Solarian Compact has held fast to what it sees as its duty to act as the mediator and financier of the Charters, the unifying agent of the disparate first Human colonies, and the guarantor of interstellar peace for Humanity.

As of 2252, the three most important bodies within the Solarian Compact are the Solarian Parliament -Located on Earth, the Solarian Compact Navy -based in the Korolev-Chandrashker system, and the Solarian Central Bank, -based out of the Columbia System.

Organized as a liberal democracy, with universal suffrage, the Solarian Compact is theoretically overseen by three equal institutions: the Solarian Parliament, the office of the Solarian Secretary General, and the Solarian High Court.

Though the Solarian Compact prides itself on being a Constitutional government, the actual original document merely outlines the terms of admitting new MPs and High Court Judges, and the electoral procedures of the Compact Parliament, with subsequent Parliaments meeting to add items like the Declaration of Property Rights, the founding of the Central Bank, the creation of the Solarian Navy, and the Laws on Freedom of Navigation and Travel being added later.

The Solarian Parliament is made up of two thousand six hundred and twenty seats representing ridings on Earth, Columbia, Atlantis, Penglai, Olduvai, and Epsilon which are elected every three years to a Parliament that meets in the New York prefecture of Earth.

Though the many frontier colonies do not have direct representation in the Parliament due to being owned and operated by private entities, their inhabitants are considered 'Absent for Employment' and may register with a home riding and submit a physical ballot (for security reasons) by courier from when polls open until they close. Though this process was suitable for the closely settled regions of space at the time of the ratification of the Compact Constitution in 2100, the rapid growth of Human settled space in the century and a half since has seen the de facto voter suppression of over 90% of Human settled space.

At the first sitting of each new Compact Parliament, the assembled members will elect a Secretary General and a slate of Ministry officials on a majority basis, and those individuals will oversee the executive branch of government and day to day operations. Though the average Compact Parliament contains between seven to nine parties in each Parliamentary sitting, the vast majority of seats belong to one of either the Party for Human Rights and Liberties or the Justice and Development Alliance and have since the very early 2100s. The governments formed this way can be brought down by losing the confidence of the Parliament for example, by failing to pass a budget, the process of finding a majority government will repeat again.

Though a democratic body that has maintained stability for over a century and a half, the Solarian Compact Parliament has been dogged by accusations of dynastic politics, Charter influence, voter suppression, regulatory capture, inability to reign in the Banks and MIlitary, and corruption at all levels.

Separate from the Parliament is the Solarian High Court that consists of eleven judges that serve terms of up to thirty-three years, with each new sitting of the Compact Parliament selecting one judge from a list provided by the governments of the six main worlds of the Solarian Compact. The High Court rules on matters of adherence of laws to the Solarian Constitution, and have been accused of serving as an arm of the Charters, though this has been strenuously contested by the Solarian legal profession as a whole.

By law the Solarian Compact also oversees a number of other important institutions including the Earth Reconstruction Commission (In a permanent public-private partnership with the Earth Reconstruction Association), the Solarian Central Bank, and the Solarian Compact Navy, though these important institutions often exhibit an alarming degree of autonomy from Parliamentary control.

The Charters:

The result of a cleverly conceived merger between specialty transport vessel manufacturer Titan Staryards and Private Military contractor Martian Military Solutions, Ares cut its teeth not just supplying material to the skirmishes between Mississippi Shipping and United Starhaul, but in supplying military contractors to both sides.

The professionalism of Ares mercenaries and quality of Ares gear led to the rapid expansion of business opportunities for the company and investment skyrocketed even after the Mississippi-Starhaul war ended in a hostile takeover of Starhaul by Mississippi.

Thanks in part to Mississippi debts held by Ares, when the RT-2102 Gate was opened up for settlement strategic maneuvering saw the Compact grant Ares mining and settlement rights to the newly opened system.

The rest, as they say, is history. Leveraging the immense resources of the Alexander system with their existing military expertise, Ares expanded nearly exponentially over the following century. While they maintain a dominating edge in the military field, they now integrated companies in fields from agronomy to personal fitness centers to xenobiology.

Internally Ares very self consciously styles itself as a hierarchical military organization complete with a semi-formal rank structure and an ethos of respect for the chain of command, professional courtesy, and treating your subordinates with respect. In practice Ares is hidebound, authoritarian, filled with passive aggressive sniping and rampant empire building.

While Ares remains headquartered on Mars, they have holdings in several systems and own the distant system of Alexander outright.

Rhodes Mining

One of the three original Charters that the Compact granted, Rhodes considers itself the singular reason that Humanity survived ecological collapse and spread past Sol. Immensely wealthy, over 52% of all material mined and processed by the entire Human race has passed through Rhodes hands at one point or another.

While founded merely to provide Earth the vital materials that it needed to rebuild itself after the lost decades of ecological collapse, Rhodes quickly expanded into all areas of the economy to support their mining, refining, and processing operations.

Dedicated to their vision of logistical chain efficiencies they've developed an entire chain of star systems into an efficient production center based around the resource rich system of Foundry, and the nearby feeder systems of Ecrams, Qem, and Crucible.

Rhodes considers itself home to a version of meritocracy built on hard work, education, and good old fashioned personal drive. This has developed over time into a stratified internal divide between the rank and file workers, the lower level management, and the highly lauded senior management. Each class lives in entirely separate worlds, attending separate schools, consuming different products, and leading very different lives in what many observers have labelled a de facto caste system.

they make food and medicine, the 120 year old CEO is kinda creepy tho?

Techbros, some of them science, some of them explore

Born from the union of Hermes Interstellar Services and The Ishtar Group, the Hermes-Ishtar Corporation owns and operates not only the communications backbone of Compact space, but much of the content that crosses over it.

The results of increasing consolidation of pre-spaceflight communications infrastructure and content creation and management firms, Hermes Communications and Ishtar Entertainment Group were both part of the second round of Charters established after the advent of the KC gates.

While Hermes quickly established operations throughout Compact space, their waystations, couriers, and communications repeaters a common sight in every corner of Human occupied space; Ishtar Group mainly limited their own operations to Sol and the Radiant system, where Ishtar owned and operated the world of Elysium to support their many projects.

Following a wave of Compact space wide reorganizations following the Mississippi-Starhaul conflicts of the 2130s, a desire for complete vertical integration on Ishtar's part led to a mostly amicable union with Hermes in 2139.

Since then Hermes-Ishtar have dominated all communications across Human space with only the privileged internal high-level communications of the other Charters managing to avoid consolidation under Hermes-Ishtar.

While Hermes-Ishtar make a great show of respecting individual creativity, initiative, and drive from their employees; in practice this amounts to rampant internal fighting involving the parasocial personality cults of different "genius" inventors, artists, and executive that rise and fall inside of Hermes-Ishtar at a dizzying rate.

Sketchy buggers, they can get you anything tho

Historical Topics:

Between 2036 and 2071 the Democratic Federation was the governing body of much of Earth's Western Hemisphere.

Initially comprised of a Federation of Socialist, Anarchist, Communist, and other far left social movements, militias, and political factions controlling regions of Earth's North American continent during and after the decline and collapse of the United States of America (1776-2034) due to the effects of unaddressed climate change amplifying existing political and economic crisis.

Eventually solidifying into the governing body of the former United States of America, United States of Mexico and the Dominion of Canada, the Democratic Federation embarked on an ambitious program of cultural revolution and economic reform designed to mitigate and reverse the effects of the climate change crisis.

As the patron of much of the central and southern western hemisphere, the Democratic Federation attempted to chart a course of environmental restoration separate from that of the Solarian Treaty Organization (In 2063 reorganized into the Solarian Charter), choosing not to contest Eurasian and African domination of outer space.

Having never existed out of crisis conditions, a combination of pre-existing economic damage, sabotage, and instability drove the Democratic Federation into decline in the Grey Decade of 2062 to 2070 and eventually forced the Democratic Federation to ratify a series of treaties giving the Charters economic access to Federation member states in order to conduct vital reconstruction work.

A last ditch uprising by radical elements in 2072 to eject the Charters from the Democratic Federation failed when Solarian Compact peacekeepers were called in and in seven months of street fighting pacified most of North America's key urban centers via strategic use of orbital weapons on the areas of greatest urban resistance.

Though guerilla warfare would continue in the Western Hemisphere for another three decades, the Democratic Federation was officially defunct by December 2072 and parcelled out into a number of Charter owned reconstruction areas under Compact authority.

Today radicals still pine for the four decades that the Democratic Federation attempted to build an alternative to the emerging Charters, and the polity's distinctive black, red, and green flag is brought out for each and every Great Black Summer. Well into the twenty second century, riots were often accompanied by demands to 'Avenge the Martyrs of 72!'.

Despite this underground extremist nostalgia, Charter and Compact schools teach that the Democratic Federation was a collectivist state whose iconoclastic behavior saw the destruction of famous landmarks like Mount Rushmore, Stone Mountain, and other monuments to Liberal Democracy and the Free Market in a mad attempt to remake the human race, but whose doctrinaire adoption of command economics saw them unable to deal with the ever-changing complexities of climate change.

Misc Details:

The first five systems to hold permanent Human colonies are known as either "The First Sisters" or "Earth's Daughters", depending on who you are asking and their political persuasion. From oldest to youngest, these worlds are:

Columbia: settled by billionaire American expats and tens of millions of refugees who had fled the unfolding revolutionary violence of the North American continent several years beforehand. Columbia was founded under a vision of fidelity to the American dream and to prove the indomitability of the soul of the United States of America and liberalism in the face of the red flags of the (North American) Democratic Federation. Fiercely loyal to the Compact and the dream of Charter prosperity, and home of the Solarian Central Bank, Columbia is often known as the "Gilded World" in reference to what many see as a return to American Gilded Age wealth and social inequality. Ares Conflict Solutions' central command is located here.

Atlantis: With colonization rights to this majority oceanic planet initially granted to the waning power of the European Union, the nations of the EU opened up colonization opportunities to other allied powers, especially Russia and Egypt. Atlantis was often seen by the EU as a place to dump unwanted refugees from outside of Europe's borders, and Russia and Egypt's tendency to see the world as a genuine project led to the usurpation of colonization rights away from Europe in the mid 2080s. Known today as the most restive of the first wave of colonies, Atlantis is the most skeptical of Charter power and plays a delicate game of wealth redistribution to underwrite the greatest social security net in Human Space. Cernunnos is de jure headquartered here.

Penglai: Originally the world in the most need of terraforming of the original colonies, Colonization rights were granted to the People's Republic of China and their allies after a lackluster bidding campaign. As China's focus was mainly on attempting to stem the damage of climate change on Earth herself, colonization of Penglai initially lagged until the Chinese Politburo struck upon the strategy of subcontracting colonization rights to Pacific adjacent nations suffering from the rise of that ocean. As colonization unfolded in the early 22nd century Penglai became known as a multicultural mosaic as hundreds of millions from across the Pacific settled and intermingled on the wine darkened shores of that world. Known today for its vibrant cultural milieu, violent clashes between labour unions, and private police, Penglai hosts the headquarters of the Hermes-Ishtar, Omoikane and Rhodes corporations.

Olduvai: With Colonization rights granted to a coalition of African nations at the height of the 'African Century', the African Colonization Organization did not see their colony as a refugee destination, dumping ground, or resource colony like their fellows. Instead the ACO saw the colonization scheme as an opportunity to preserve and export the rich traditions and cultures of Africa on their own terms, fully intending to set up healthy and self-sufficient colonies. To the current day, Olduvai has the closest relations with the home nations and is the heartland of Daughter sentiment and a bedrock for the Party for Human Rights and Liberties.

Epsilon System: While not technically a single world, the cluster of heavily inhabited space colonies in the Epsilon system are always considered the 'Fifth Sister' or 'Fifth Daughter'. As the most mineral rich system of the original colonies, Epsilon was the source of many of the materials that helped pull Earth through her darkest hour, and the system was recognized for their efforts by being invited to send delegates to the 2099 Solarian Compact Constitutional Convention. Epsilon is famous for its people's long roots in spacing and for being the headquarters of Mississippi Shipping Interstellar and thus the most heavily trafficked system in history.
Technologies: Nanomanufacturing, summary:

The contemporary gold standard for manufacturing. These devices use mechanosynthesis, a process that guides chemical reactions by placing reactive molecules with atomic precision. Ribosomes in the body's cells use a form of this method.

While the largest units can create objects up to 2m x 2m x 2m, smaller units (halving the units each time) are viable on basically any human scale. Projects larger than this size (such as ships or buildings, need to be either grown layer-by-layer via nanofabricators attached to robotic arms, or assembled from smaller parts through traditional assembly line, dry dock, or construction processes.

In principle basically anything can be made with these devices, and some materials can only be manufactured via these methods in microgravity. All manufacturing patterns in Compact Space feature Charter DRM using embedded explosive molecules like octaazacubane or cubic gauche nitrogen that will damage a disassembler or x-ray machine making reverse engineering of their products difficult.

A common part of 23rd century life is the near ubiquity of Artificial Intelligences in daily life, from consumer grade VIs through specialist TLIs, controversial AGIs, finally the perpetually 10 years away Artificial Super Intelligences.

The common consumer will daily run into what are properly known as Narrow AIs, and generally labelled as VI -Virtual Intelligences- by people outside the field. This category covers a broad swathe of techniques, from search and pathfinding to expert systems to genetic fuzzy trees to deep neural networks, which are mixed and matched with each other to optimize for the designed task. VIs are ubiquitous, exceeding human peak skill in their areas of specialization (though real world applications often don't do all that much better than trained humans), and have spent the past two centuries getting augmented with more and more clever algorithmic tricks for improving VIs. In order to do this, the Charters employ large teams of analysts and software engineers to develop clever algorithmic tricks that supplement or outright supplant neural networks, exploiting machine precision where stochastic methods are inadequate.

The use of VIs in everyday life is well accepted by the vast majority of the population, with professionals mixing and matching various consumer VIs to analyse data or assist them with creative or scientific works. Some VI lines are well loved by both the populace and the Charters themselves, with Charter programmers often deliberately leaving VIs with behavioral quirks and unpredictable glitches that not only save money on quality assurance, but are considered endearing traits that lead to anthropomorphization by the consumer market

Despite the mass comfortability and profitability of VIs of all kinds, the introduction of AGIs has been, to put it delicately, controversial. Though computer science has advanced to the point of producing programs that can not only pass the Turing test, but demonstrate sapience and match 23rd century human intelligence, flexibility, and creativity, the public reaction to the introduction of AGI saw the companies of the time rapidly pull them from the market, and even say the Compact itself move to heavily regulate the AI sector.

First introduced in the 2060s, the great tech firms began replacing their work staff with AGIs who did not require food, rest, housing, or pay. This shift led to an alliance between white collar workers fearing that automation would put them out of work and radicals who opposed what they insisted was AGI Slavery, a growing movement that would climax in the First Great Black Summer of 2084. When the ashes of the First Black Summer settled, the Compact's Parliament moved to grant rights to AGIs, and the resulting economic damage saw dozens of formerly great names in computing consolidate under the aegis of several of the first Charters who flaunted their extra-Solarian wealth by buying up prestigious brand names and research divisions on the cheap.

Since the 2080s, while the regulation surrounding AGI production and use have been severely weakened none of the Charters have sought to reintroduce them into the market, perhaps fearing another backlash like the First Black Summer and the few hundred thousand surviving AGIs that were granted Solarian Citizenship rights have found spread throughout the Compact and Charter Space where they usually work at the same white collar jobs whose workers they were designed to replace.

Perhaps due to the risks of attempting to reintroduce AGIs to the market, Omoikane has instead introduced their flagship product the "TLI" or Temporary Limited Intelligence. Approximately as effective as an AGI, a TLI is billed as a more moral replacement for AGI that uses a suite of high end VIs and a proprietary batch of creativity algorithms in order to complete complex tasks.

TLIs are used as a fire and forget program designed to be licensed to solve a single issue, no matter how complicated and then delete itself. Though the TLIs are a black box product, scientists from the other Charters believe that the central creativity algorithm in the TLI is inherently unstable and rapidly degrades in ability with time, making the TLI an instance of Omoikane attempting to market a critical technical flaw as a selling point that is accepted due to the ubiquitous market practice of planned obsolescence and artificial scarcity.

Though expensive, most businesses and successful professionals will keep a few licensed Omoikane TLIs on hand to throw at difficult problems or to supplement manpower in crunch situations.

While AGIs have been possible for nearly two centuries, the promise of a Seed AI, a recursively self-improving general superintelligence, is perpetually 'a decade away from the market', and no successful ASI ever been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Charters or the Compact.

This is not to say that the Gödel machine architecture or the AIXI model has somehow been forgotten in the past 230 years, but that the Friendly AI problem has yet to be cracked. Every demonstration has either stalled out or gone immediately rampant, attempting to overthrow Charter Space before being stopped by the safety net of Narrow AIs. The small trickle of roughly human intelligence level AGIs that are created every decade typically come from these projects.

Urban legends persist that a few Seed AIs managed to escape and hide out beyond known space, plotting to return and crush humanity, or that they control all of society in secret, puppeting the Compact and Charters from their very foundation and occasionally engineering publicly failed ASI attempts to allay suspicion. These rumours are, of course, patently false, and simply the fevered imagination of crackpots at work, no doubt inspired by entertainment made by Hermes-Ishtar that feature AI supervillainy.
Systems: Map made by @Redshirt Army

The Spinward Frontier:

The Middle Spinward Frontier

The Core Region:

UNDER RADIANT CONTROL OR ALLIED:

The Radiant system is host to a G-class star, only slightly smaller than Sol. The system itself is rather small and resource-poor; experts believe that one or more Jovian planets ejected much of the system's bodies and then followed themselves. This is evidenced by the system's asteroid belt degrading over time, with high levels of eccentric orbits and impacts on planetary surface.

Radiant 1: A rather unremarkable airless iron planet, gravity 0.4 Earth Standard.

Radiant 2: A slightly larger unremarkable airless iron-silicate planet, gravity 0.6 Earth Standard.

Radiant 3: A binary planetary system and the outermost of the Radiant systems' planets.

Asphodel (Radiant 3a): The larger of the Elysium 3 pair, Asphodel might have once hosted life of its own. That life has been snuffed out for hundreds of millions of years, though, as the planet's significant atmosphere began the runaway cycle of your usual hothouse planet. Hermes-Ishtar maintained a significant aerostat and automated surface miner operation for in-house manufacturing, given that the frequent asteroid impacts from the asteroid belt keep digging up chunks of the upper crust and having low-melting-point metals rain out of the sky and solidify, unoxidized, on the surface for collection. Gravity 1.4 Earth Standard.

Elysium (Radiant 3b): Elysium was settled in the late 2190's, being a relatively simple affair. Simple life had already begun to evolve under its oceans, but continued orbital bombardment far past the lengths of things like Earth's Late Heavy Period had kept it there. It was a simple matter of forming up a small anti-asteroid task force armed with tugs and mining lasers to artificially end the pummeling, and the surface proved amenable to Terran life transplants. The colony is energy-self-sufficient, using a variety of solar, tidal, and nuclear power. Gravity 0.9 Earth Standard.

Radiant I: The outermost significant feature of Radiant, this asteroid belt is more a loose mixture of a primordial asteroid belt much like Sol's with a Kuiper belt. The shepherding gas giants which once nudged all these rocks into their orbits are gone, and with it the entire outer system is a maelstrom of chaotic orbits as the belts lose their coherence. This requires constant vigilance from Elysium's anti-asteroid team, but the high eccentricity of many asteroids also makes it cheap and easy to mine the ones that might come Elysium's way, which provides a trickle of basic resources for upkeep and personal goods. All large-scale building and infrastructure projects have been supplied from out-system, however.

A G-K far binary system, Gaid is simply a transit point to Radiant. Gaid's own gate maintenance techs and SAR rotated in and out through Radiant itself. There is no infrastructure other than a set of buoy lines for communications in Gaid A, and nothing in Gaid B.

Gaid A1: An airless world. Quality 10.

Gaid A2: A planet much like mars with a vestigial CO2 atmosphere. Quality 7.

Gaid A3: This planet boasts a methane hydrosphere. Quality 4.

Gaid AI: An asteroid belt.

Gaid A4: A turbulent Jovian planet, its storms would make resource extraction difficult. Quality 5.

Gaid A4a: An icy moon, with tidal heating creating a large ocean under a thin icy shell. Quality 9.

Gaid B1: A molten Cthonian world hosting a simply ludicrous amount of iron. Quality 15.

Gaid B2: An airless world. Quality 10.

Gaid B3: An airless binary system with two near-identically sized planets. Quality 7 and 8.

Gaid B4: This airless planet boasts a large and beautiful ring system, famous as a screen background option across human space. Every few years, a cruise or scientific expedition will stop by for more images.

Gaid B5: A small icy planet. Quality 3.

Gaid B6: A frozen world. Quality 7.

Gaid B7: An interesting gas dwarf sometimes referred to as an 'ice dwarf.' Quality 14.

A close K-M binary, Shei is home to an old Ares penal colony.

Shei 1: A Cthonian world. Quality 15.

Shei 2: An airless world. Quality 12.

Sheol (Shei 3): A boreal world, with a large, decaying ring, the planet features two large continents. The population of the consists of a large prisoner population on the larger of the two continents and a small Ares training base on the smaller. Records show that the prison consists of several million persons convicted to "high risk labour" and dropped on the continent with automatic resupply via Ares contractors and watched from orbit by weapons satellites. Most of the planet's land area is covered in a native tree analogue with a strange multi-stranded trunk.

Sheol is actually home to a population of over 100 million made up of prisoners and their descendants taht Ares was usuing as a live fire training course. Cooperation between Radiant agents, Ares mutineers, and the Sheolites themselves have seen the planet freed.

Gravity .95 Earth Standard. Quality 12.

Watchman (Shei 3a): Once the outer of two moons, this body now boasts Ares' local light shipyards and system command center. Quality 13.

Shei 4: Spiraling in from the outer system, this planet will eventually evaporate near-entirely as it closes towards the dual suns of Shei. Quality 3.

Shei 5: Martian planet with an active methane cycle. Quality 5.

Shei I: Asteroid belt.

Shei 6: Jovian planet with high rotation rate. Slightly squashed as a result. Quality 8.

Shei 6a: An icy capture, this moon will be torn into a ring sometime in the next hundred thousand years. Quality 2.

Shei 6b: Cold Martian planet, covered in a thin layer of water and carbon dioxide ices. Active methane cycle. Quality 8.

Shei II: Asteroid belt.

Shei 7: Jovian planet. Quality 13.

Shei 7a: An icy moon with significant cryovolcanism. Quality 6.

Shei 7b: A tiny icy moon, this is on the edge of hydrostatic equilibrium. Quality 2.

Shei 8: Ice giant. Quality 6.

Shei 8a: An icy moon. Quality 9.

Shei 8b: An icy moon, orbiting in an unusual polar orbit. Quality 9.

Population: 103,000,000

While lacking any currently-habitable planets, Five Lions' large size and potential have made it a significant point of Rhodes' recent extraction efforts. Ambitious terraforming efforts have recently begun.

Carajas (Five Lions 1): A Cthonian ball of iron, it's actively mined by robotic Rhodes-built landers. Gravity 2.3 Earth Standard. Quality 12.

Five Lions 2: A small rocky ball. Quality 3.

Five Lions 3: A rocky ball. Quality 7.

Grasberg (Five Lions 4): A large rocky world, glaciation has rendered it uninhabitable for now, but terraforming efforts have begun to artificially ramp up the greenhouse effect and restore liquid water to the surface, along with mining its ice. Gravity 1.11 Earth Standard. Quality 14.

Five Lions 5: This planet's atmosphere is so significant it verges on a gas dwarf. While a solid surface covered in a thin layer of ice is at the bottom, no reasonable colonization is possible. Quality 7.

Five Lions I: This asteroid belt, along with all the others, is being mined heavily.

Five Lions 6: This Jovian planet forms the center of current Rhodes extraction efforts. Quality 4.

Five Lions 6a: This Martian planet boasts significant ice caps and active plate tectonics, though only a vestigial atmosphere. Debate on whether to put resources into terraforming it are ongoing. Gravity .81 Earth Standard. Quality 17.

Oyu Tolgoi (Five Lions 6b): Home to the local population in covered shelters, this Martian planet, while nearly completely lacking water or plate tectonics, has its own atmosphere. Comet bombardment away from populated areas is ongoing and is already beginning to show results. Gravity .79 Earth Standard. Quality 11.

Five Lions II: An asteroid belt.

Five Lions 7: An unremarkable Jovian. Quality 2.

Five Lions III: An asteroid belt.

Five Lions 8: Jovian planet, its rotation speed has resulted in an unusually calm upper atmosphere. Quality 15.

Five Lions IV: An asteroid belt.

Five Lions 9: Jovian planet. Quality 9.

Five Lions V: An asteroid belt.

Five Lions 10: Neptunian ice giant. Quality 8.

Five Lions 10a: A small icy moon. Quality 5.

Five Lions 10b: A large icy body, this was probably its own planetoid at some point before being captured due to the complex interplays of no less than 5 gas giants.

Population: 15,000,000

A rare system with a brown dwarf orbiting a G-type star (just barely in the limits of what's considered a single system rather than a binary), and with a Jovian planet orbiting that, and on top of that treasure trove a dual ice giant binary, Osliam presents a golden research opportunity, and was bid on by Omoikane despite its otherwise sparce resources and poor habitable prospects.

Osliam 1: A rare hot ice giant, this planet is actively shrinking on a measurable time scale. It must have migrated in as a much larger planet recently.

Osliam 1a: This once-rock-ice moon is now a tiny molten ellipse barely holding together.

Osliam 1b: This somewhat larger moon changes color unusually with its day, as the shade of its parent cools lava to a dull red before emerging back into the light heats the lava back to a healthy orange glow.

Osliam 1c: This entire moon glows dull red in its day, just barely solid, and cools to an unusually smooth moon in its night.

Osliam I: This asteroid belt was probably a planet before Osliam 1's passing tore it to shreds.

Osliam 3: A hothouse planet with a relatively thin atmosphere, it retains temperatures and pressures that are survivable with heavy-duty equipment on the surface—when it's not raining sulfuric acid, that is.

Osliam 4: This small Martian planet seems to have collected some of Osliam 1's offgassing in its move inwards, and has a renewed temporary atmosphere.

Osliam 5a: This planet seems to have survived at the edge of the frost line by siphoning gas off its smaller twin.

Osliam 5b: Barely a gas giant, this planet was probably only slightly smaller than Osliam 5a in the distant past.

Osliam 6: The focus of Omoikane colonization in-system, Osliam 6 retains plate tectonics from the nearby brown dwarf but no atmosphere, an odd combination.

Osliam 7: A brown dwarf, this substellar object long ago burnt its deuterium and now lies slowly cooling, glowing dimly red. It is, however, still giving off a prodigious amount of low IR radiation.

Osliam 7a: Once its own planet, Osliam 7a was captured at some point by Osliam 7, perhaps in the same interaction that threw Osliam 1 to its suicidal innermost orbit.

Osliam 7a1: This icy moon is simultaneously shrinking and becoming more habitable—while its outer layers of ice are sublimating, the fierce tides of its complex interplay with Osliam 7 and 7a are heating the inner ocean to temperatures comparable to terrestrial water sources. Some scientists even suggest a pocket of water vapor is forming under the ice, and may form an internal "sky" for as much as a hundred million years before the outer shell sublimates entirely.

Osliam 7a2: This moon is less lucky; its tides are so strong that they seem to slowly be ripping the moon apart. It won't have the honor of becoming more than an ephemeral ring; the same complex tides tearing at it will rapidly disperse its debris field. While it lasts, though, it's easy water harvesting.

Population: 650,000

UNDER CHARTER CONTROL:

A distant double G binary, Xotreh hosts a small habitable moon around Xotreh B, the smaller of the two stars. As such, development has focused on the second star, despite the fact that the jump points center closer to Xotreh A.

Xotreh A1: This world boasts an active liquid silicate cycle on its surface, with oceans of basalt and continents of granite. Gravity 0.38 Earth Standard. Quality 8.

Xotreh A2: A rather large airless world, its original atmosphere was likely blown off by a massive impact. Gravity 1.2 Earth Standard. Quality 9.

Xotreh A3: A binary planetary pair of airless worlds about the size of Mars. Quality 6 and 8.

Xotreh A4: A hothouse planet with a planet-wide sulfuric acid storm due to its rapid rotation. Gravity .71 Earth Standard. Quality 8.

Xotreh A5 "Cueball": This planet is remarkably similar to Earth—if earth was buried under a kilometers-thick ice sheet across 90% of the surface. One day, as Xotreh A expands and dies, this world will become an ocean planet, but for now it's a cold desert. Gravity .87 Earth Standard. Quality 5.

Xotreh A6: An unremarkable icy ball. Quality 4.

Xotreh AI: An asteroid belt.

Xotreh A7: A Jovian planet, Xotreh 7 corrals the entire inner system in line. Quality 10.

Xotreh B1: This planet must have once been a gas giant at least the size of Uranus before it was sent inwards. Now all that remains is a dense core with a molten surface. Gravity 1.51 Earth Standard. Quality 13.

Xotreh B2: A binary pair of earth-sized airless worlds. Quality 6 and 7.

Xotreh B3: Another once-gas giant, this planet remains far out enough to boast a wholly-solid surface of iron. Gravity 1.64 Earth Standard. Quality 14.

Xotreh B4: A Jovian right on the frost line, its tidal heating keeps its moons on the edge of habitability. Quality 3.

Xotreh B4a "Sushi": An ocean world with massive polar ice caps, Omoikane has constructed a series of seasteads on the equatorial high ocean plateaus where it was feasible to drive foundations into the sea floor a few hundred meters below the surface. These small facilities serve as housing, data storage, and production centers for the research teams studying the dual Cthonian planets of Xotreh B. Gravity .67 Earth Standard. Quality 2.

Xotreh B4b: The lesser tidal heating here worsened the glaciation, and the planet lies under a planet-wide crust of ice. Gravity 1.13 Earth Standard. Quality 10.

Xotreh BI: The close proximity of this asteroid belt makes it an ideal location for resource extraction.

Xotreh 5: This Jovian is definitively beyond the habitable zone. Quality 6.

Xotreh 6: A dense ice giant. Quality 4.

Xotreh 7: Jovian planet. Quality 6.

Xotreh 8: An exceptionally cold Jovian. Quality 9.

Xotreh 8a: An unremarkable icy sphere. Quality 8.

Xotreh 9: This planet would have a massive atmosphere, if it wasn't so cold it all froze and fell to the surface. Only a few degrees above the space surrounding it. Gravity 1.3 Earth Standard. Quality 9.

Population: 54,000

Besides an interesting Jovian-gas dwarf planetary system, Bestreer holds little of interest other than its connections to other places.

Bestreer 1: An airless world. Quality 2.

Bestreer 2: An airless world. Quality 6.

Bestreer 3: This airless world once had a captured moon, torn apart at the Roche limit and forming a ring. A small gate maintenance and SAR team bases here, siphoning fuel and water from Bestreer 5 and mining into the surface for both resources and safe spaces for housing. Quality 10.

Bestreer 4: A rock-ice world. Quality 5.

Bestreer 5: Another rock-ice world made up more of ice than rock. Quality 5.

Bestreer I: An icy asteroid belt.

Bestreer 6: A large Jovian planet, on the edge of becoming a brown dwarf. Quality 15.

Bestreer 6a: This gas dwarf might have become a gas giant in its own right without its massive sibling. Quality 5.

Bestreer 7: Another Jovian. Quality 14.

Bestreer 7a: An icy moon, with an internal ocean buried under kilometers of ice. Quality 12.

Bestreer 8: An icy ball. Quality 10.

Population: 450

G-class star. A transshipping point to Radiant and environs, Mississippi keeps a substantial support crew on hand for possible cargo ship breakdowns or emergencies in-system, due to the slightly increased risk of issues from the absolute shambles of Akleod's inner system. A minor executive has also put together a cheap refueling and battery exchange station.

Akleod 1: Even actively evaporating and leaving behind a trail in orbit of dissipating volatiles, this body is large enough to have usurped Akleod 1a's orbit temporarily until it disappears away or the chaotic orbit of the two throws one into the star or out of the system. Quality 2.

Akleod 1a: The original Akleod 1, its orbit has been badly disrupted by the current, migrating Akleod 1. Which of the two gets ejected is still uncertain despite a decent amount of computational simulation; odds put it at 48-52% relatively. Quality 6.

Gnat's Ass (Akleod 2): A small, loosely-held-together icy body, perhaps what used to be an asteroid belt before Akleod 1's suicidal inner-system dive. It's not yet had time to fully reach hydrostatic equilibrium. Quality 3.

Akleod 3: An icy planet similar to Akleod 1, perhaps an old sibling. Quality 13.

Akleod I: An asteroid belt.

Akleod 4: A Jovian with an unusually elliptical orbit, it's regarded as the culprit for the chaos of Akleod's inner system. Quality 11.

Population: 5,000

As it turns out, transponder codes from regular priority messages through Gaid (now that we can see them, having backdoored the gate control) bear tags from a system, Thoa, along with navigational chart updates for any ships that happen to stop by. Thoa and Gaid both seem to have been nothing more than transit points to the far-more-valuable Radiant for Hermes-Ishtar, but Thoa holds a small anti-pirate base guarding against raiders from Signia. Hermes-Ishtar was apparently serious enough about it to have a converted corvette on station.

All told, the Thoa system holds gates to 2 systems besides Gaid's. There's also an unimproved jump point simply labelled as "dangerous." that leads to Signia

Thoa System Stats:

Thoa 1: A molten mess of a planet, it's hot enough that a residual atmosphere of vaporized low-melting-point metallics exists.

Thoa 2: An unremarkable airless metal ball.

Thoa 3: A super-earth hothouse, this planet would have been uninhabitable due to its gravity even before turning scorchingly hot.

Thoa 3a: A captured asteroid barely on the edge of hydrostatic equilibrium, the Nasty Bastardhad been excavating rudimentary shelters for "leave" for its crew.

Thoa I: An asteroid belt.

Thoa 4: A normal Jovian planet.

Thoa 4a: A moon much like Mars in climate.

Thoa 5: A Jovian planet with an unusual triangular wind pattern at the poles.

Thoa 6: Blooms of hydrogen well up from the core of this Jovian, perhaps disturbed by some recent impact.

Thoa 7: Bathyscapes would find themselves at home on the surface of Thoa 7. Pressures much like that at Earth's seabed keep a crust of ice 3 stable enough robotic drones could walk on it.

Thoa 7a: Unusually, Thoa 7a is the only large icy body in the system. Scientists are unsure of where the others went. As the only easy source of volatiles, the UNasty Bastard periodically stopped by a handful of obsolete volatile collection systems on the surface to top up.

Thoa II: A Kuiper belt of icy objects.

Empty Systems

Kimberly: A fairly unremarkable and empty system, this site was chosen as Rhodes' spinward boneyard—a place for failed experiments, old equipment, and ships so worn they weren't worth maintaining anymore, but were still valuable enough to warrant not throwing into a gas giant or otherwise completely destroyed. For 2 decades a Rhodes-affiliated salvaging contractor worked here, gathering scrap and other valuables, but following high injury and death rates and low returns, the contract (and most non-local dumping) was cancelled in 2247 (4 years before the March Days.)

Kimberly 1: A large rocky planet, this must have migrated inwards from further out in the system a long time ago to be so large so close to its parent star.

Kimberly 2: A Martian planet that keeps a comfortable daytime temperature despite its lack of atmosphere due to a close orbit.

Kimberly 3: A Jovian world.

Kimberly I: This asteroid belt is actually combined with a thinly-spread junkyard corralled by Kimberly's 2 gas giants.

Kimberly 4: A Neptunian world, this planet has several starship hulks abandoned as the closest stable orbit to the gate out. An old deactivation hub orbits in resonance with Kimberly 4a, the former site of a salvaging operation.

Kimberly 4a: The only significant satellite in the system, this icy moon retains a thin crust and a massive subterranean freshwater ocean.

Total:

Radiant:

Gaid:

Five Lions:

Head of Diplomatic Corps:

Name: Amanda Redcrest, Victoria Blackwell, and Kayla Hayashi

DoB: "2222", 2219, 2227, 2224

Current Position: Influential media figure and figurehead of Social Committee propaganda

Not a traditional diplomat, or a traditional individual 'Veronica Stardust' is the persona of a trio of XP broadcasters who have been working together since 2246 and has consistently been one of the most recognized figures across Charter space and is a local Elysian celebrity.

In Charter space those individuals who choose to make money by recording their lived experiences, of all kinds, for later playback are treated with an indulgent disdain by the polite classes as a mix of internet celebrity and sex worker despite the practice of selling XP experiences being common in the poorer segments of society and a smaller portion of the professional middle class attempting to stay afloat in a tight gig economy.

Amanda Redcrest was a former media programmer whose attempts to supplement her income with XP work backfired and saw her fired from her job. Contrarily, Kayla and Victoria both come from lower class backgrounds, though Kayla's attempts to climb into the middle class by earning a marketing degree were frustrated when her lower class status markers and financing of education via XP work saw her frozen out of the job market.

A former collaborator of Kayla's, Victoria had been a rising XP star in her own right and had no desire to change her station, but as her brief celebrity began to fade Victoria approached Kayla to propose the creation of a dedicated broadcasting persona that both would act as. Later bringing on Redcrest, who they'd both done crossover XP work with, to do technical work, the trio used carefully gathered market data and some intuition to create the "Veronica Stardust" persona of an middlingly-intelligent and freewheeling persona who played to the upper class's picture of what depravities and indignities the poorer class must get up to in their spare time.

From 2246 to 2251 the Veronica Stardust persona (performed by all three at various times, though primarily Victoria) produced experience recordings that were nearly always in the top 10 best sellers across Charter space.

Though they enjoyed the wealth that they brought in, the trio increasingly chafed at the market driven limitations of Veronica, and were considering a number of possibly catastrophic brand shifts when the March Days broke out and all three participated in street actions in a private capacity after sending one last broadcast as 'Veronica' to encourage revolt.

Since the formation of the Social Committee the figure of Veronica has been rebranded to serve as the figurehead of Social Committee Propaganda and several major initiatives have been launched with her at the forefront including a highly successful part of the anti-overproduction initiatives.

As part of the now-completed campaign to maintain the charade that Radiant was still under Charter control, Veronica Stardust continued to sell broadcasts to HI media chains, though the trio could not help but begin a brand shift towards a far more intelligent and radical persona.

Pros: XP Celebrity, influential, well known, inspiring to the middle and lower classes

Cons: XP celebrity, little diplomatic experience, three people

Diplomatic Goals: Defeat the Charters in the field of public opinion, push social revolution and freedom of information and communication, cause public opinion to oppose attacking Radiant

Unlocked FRM

Ares Peacekeeping Grade - Access to planetary army formation

Ares Military Grade - Access to mid-sized shipyards, bonuses to planetary army combat. Bonus to completion of Chinook remodeling

Rhodes Light industrial Grade - 10% increase to all mining income, reduced Cost for BLG and other actions that use basic fabber processes

Rhodes Heavy Industrial Grade - Massive discount on mining upgrades, able to unlock automated technologies with Omoikaine

Cernunnos Consumer Grade - +1 to all Soccom actions

Cernunnos Enterprise Grade - NOT UNLOCKED

Omoikane Consumer Grade - +1 to FRM reserach for each two tech bases unlocked (+6 currently)

Omoikane Enterprise Grade - +5 to blue sky research, automation with Omoikane

Hermes-Ishtar Consumer Grade - Your economy doesn't crash when the turn of funding

Hermes-Ishtar Production Grade - NOT UNLOCKED

MSI Consumer Grade - Consumer Goods, Drones, and personal vehicles, +2 to domestic projects in IndComm and SocComm

MSI Enterprise Grade - NOT UNLOCKED

Original Tech

The Box: Fabber the size of a X-box that can, with time, materials and power, print the components for a full sized box. Less efficient, but easy to print and hide.

Defence Coordinator:

Name: Maria Awhina

DoB: 2165

Current Position: Military Committee Delegate from the Radiant Veterans Guild

Born into poverty on Earth as the twenty-second century began to wane, young 22-year old Maria Awhina caught up in radical anti-Charter politics during the third black summer of 2187 and was convicted of property destruction during the rioting and sentenced to serve as a contractor to Hermes-Ishtar until her contract was paid off.

The stark choice of starvation or service to Hermes-Ishtar caused Maria to descend into self-destructive behavior where for twenty years Ms. Awhina continuously volunteered for the highest paid and most dangerous positions that Hermes-Ishtar had available.

Hermes-Ishtar considers Special Operations Lieutenant Awhina to have served with distinction throughout the heavy skirmishing of that era, though Maria herself continues to carry guilt for her service and her survival.

After performing exceptionally well in a hostage rescue operation Awhina was transferred to the Protective Detail Division of Hermes-Ishtar Security, and was eventually assigned to serve as the head of the Radiant Vice President's protective detail.

Over the next four decades she came to see the world as her home, and while her professionalism never wavered, her loyalty to the company who still owned her contract did.

This March, Maria had the option to gun down her fellow planetary headquarters workers to secure Yang's escape, or to finally return to roots in anti-Charter agitation. The fact that we are all here today shows what choice she made.

Pros:

-Actual Combat Veteran, knows Radiant inside and out, special operations expert, professional.

Cons:

-only academic knowledge of starship operations, logistics, organization command and strategic operations.

Command Traits:

-Objective oriented, unflappable, aggressive, prefers attacks and operations to come from unexpected angles.

Reports from the Permanent Commission for Military Intelligence on hostile forces in neighbouring systems:

Blue Squadron:
-Allegiance: Ares Combat Solutions
-Service: Mars Interstellar Security
-CO: Rear Admiral Weylon Kang
-Flagship: MIS Yorktown

We know little about Rear Admiral Weylon Kang except that he has received a number of commendations from the MIS board for keeping costs low while on deployment. He appears to be making an effort to clamp down on the rumours racing back and forth across the fleet.

MIS Yorktown
-British Empire-class Fleet Tender
MIS Eurymedon
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS La Rochelle
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Cape Rachado
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Second Schooneveld
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Matapan
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Valcour Island
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Kerch Strait
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Galveston Harbour
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Cape Sarych
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS River Plate
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Third San Francisco
-New Model-class Strike Corvette
MIS Scipio Africanus
-Cossak-class Frigate
MIS Suleiman I
-Cossak-class Frigate
MIS Louis Botha
-Cossak-class Frigate
MIS Fort Ware
-Hudson's bay Company-class Fast Fleet Tanker
MIS Fort Mackinac
-Hudson's bay Company-class Fast Fleet Tanker
MIS Fort Osage
-Hudson's bay Company-class Fast Fleet Tanker
MIS Arabian
-Postal-class Courier
MIS Macedonia
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport
MIS Hispania Citerior
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport
MIS Hispania Ulterior
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport
MIS Gallia Narbonensis
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport
MIS Sicilia
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport
MIS Corsica et Sardinia
-Legionary-class Fast Troop Transport

Fixed Defences:
Battery A
-MSS-54-F LMP Constellation
Battery B
-MSS-54-F LMP Constellation
Battery C
-MSS-54-F LMP Constellation
Shoal A
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal
Shoal B
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal
Shoal C
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal
Shoal D
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal
Shoal E
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal
Shoal F
-ASR-33-C TAM Shoal

Fixed Defences:
Battery A
-Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation
Battery B
-Airstrike Pattern LMP Constellation
Shoal A
-Macross-Pattern LMP Constellation
Shoal B
-Macross-Pattern LMP Constellation
Strikecraft Wing, ID# 48603
-Radiance-Type Strikecraft

-None

Local Security Forces
-Approximately fifty strong volunteer station security militia drawn from station personnel

Local Security Forces:
-Deep Space Security Solutions (Omoikane Subsidiary) Customs shuttle squadron based out of Xotreh B-4a's orbital station
-Three companies of Standard Planetary Security Company (Ares subsidiary) troops based out of Xotreh B-4a's habitat complexes for internal security and law enforcement

139th Solarian Navy Squadron:
-Allegiance: Solarian Compact
-Service: Solarian Navy
-CO: Vice Admiral David Visser
-Flagship: SNS Krak de Chevaliers

Thanks to his heavy handed labour discipline and extractive tribute and demands for corvee labour from Ascension Admiral Visser is viscerally hated by the populace of Ascension, and to a lesser degree the rest of the Solarian Force as well. While the gate's completion draws near, it is uncertain what path that Visser will persue.

SNS Krak de Chevaliers
-Star-hold-Class light-tender
SNS Victoria Newman
-Leonard Greyson-Chang-Class Strike Corvette
SNS Julia Stonechild
-Leonard Greyson-Chang-Class Strike Corvette
SNS Robert Chuikov
-Leonard Greyson-Chang-Class Strike Corvette
SNS Wallace Al-Wazir
-Leonard Greyson-Chang-Class Strike Corvette
SNS Dawn's Early Light
-Freedom's Light-class cruiser
SNS Jacob Nagumo
-Herald Kanumba-Class frigate
SNS Alexander Hamilton
-Liberation-class troop transport

Solarian Marines now spread throughout the system

PCMI Provides new system data on the single system that lies beyond beyond Five Lions:

Mobile Force:

Current Orders: Defend the All Radiant Congress by acting as a rapid response in the event of any hostile acts.

CO: Commodore Stephanie Rousseau

CNS Velasco, United States of America-class Fleet Carrier

-CO: Captain Esteri Attar

-Orca Wing, Switchblade-type strikecraft (Customized)

-CO: Wing Commander Jasmine Ang

-Red Wolf Wing, Switchblade-type strikecraft (Customized)

-CO: Wing Commander Heloisa Kimura de Lima

CNS Shieldmaiden, Great Heathen-class Light Cruiser

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Shamhat, Great Heathen-class Light Cruiser

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Righteous Tempest, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: Captain Vehement Shade

CNS August Willich, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Elysium, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Asphodel, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

-

Home Force:

Current Orders: Defend Radiant, comet patrol, act as a reserve force

CO: Commodore Erina Kozlova

CNS Blaire Mountain, New Model-Class Strike Corvette

-CO: Captain Guillermo Kageyama

CNS Scutum, Comet-Class Patrol Corvette

-CO: Captain Martin Pagonis

CNS Buckler, Comet-Class Patrol Corvette

-CO: Captain Samuel Smiles

CNS Nasty Bastard, A Jury Rigged Mess of a Drone Carrier

-CO: Captain Jean-Paul Beaumont

-

Radiant System Self Defence Force:

Current Orders: Defend Radiant, comet patrol

CO: Overseen by Admiral Gregory Mansur in his capacity as MilComm Chief of Naval Operations

Radiant Customs Squadron, Arabia-class boarding craft with marine contingents

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

Switchblade Wing, Switchblade-type strikecraft

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

Apogee Wing, Switchblade-type strikecraft

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

Battery A, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Battery B, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Battery C, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Battery D, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Battery E, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Battery F, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Shoal A, Macross-Pattern TAM Shoal

(Radiant-Bestreer Gate)

Radiant Orbital Yard 1

Current construction: None

Radiant Orbital Yard 1

Current construction: None

-

Gaid System Self Defence Force:

Current Orders: Defend Gaid

CO: Commodore Victor Raine

Battery A, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

Battery B, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

Battery C, Blindfire-Pattern LMP Constellation

Battery D, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

Battery E, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

Battery F, Airstrike-Pattern LMP Constellation

Shoal A, Macross-Pattern TAM Shoal

Shoal A, Macross-Pattern TAM Shoal

Shoal A, Macross-Pattern TAM Shoal

Zephyr Wing, Switchblade-Type Strikecraft (Customized)

-CO: Wing Commander Ara Helge

Aeolus Wing, Switchblade-Type Strikecraft (Customized)

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

Gale Wing, Switchblade-Type Strikecraft (Customized)

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

-

Frontier Force

Current Orders: Keep watch on SolNav force in Raphanus, assist with integration of Ascension military forces, patrol Spinward frontier

CO: Commodore Shayla McLean

CNS Kiel Mutiny, Kaiserreich-class BattleCruiser

-CO: Captain Inana Devlin

CNS Choreographer, Janissary-class Light Tender

-CO: Captain Karl Xanthopoulos

CNS Valiant, New Model-class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Defiant, New Model-class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: Captain Fool's Errand

CNS Reliant, New Model-class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: Captain Rouge Napier

CNS Actium, New Model-class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: Captain John Rankin

CNS Crête-à-Pierrot, New Model-class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: Captain Nkiru Chaudhari

CNS Valmy, New Model-Class Strike Corvette, attached to CNS Choreographer

-CO: Captain Sumac Barros

CNS Revolutionary Will, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: Captain Yamamoto Hanae

CNS Revolutionary Grace, Cossak-class Frigate

-CO: -N/A DATABASE ERROR, CONTACT IT FOR HELP-

CNS Under New Management, Don-Class Fast Tanker

-CO: Captain Adras Kierenos

CNS Liberte, Hollywood(C)-Class Frigate

-CO: Captain Colin McRae

CNS Egalite, Hollywood(C)-Class Frigate

-CO: Captain Adelia Swift

Resources
Naval Ship Types: Ship Types (Public Version)
Naval Officers: Congressional Navy Officers (Public Version)
System Codex: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtNbPCcPsTK7HCHKo9dPgK7ntx5tBKOpltrZb_In7GY/edit#
Blaze Zhang: Blaze Zhang is trans-masc. That means his pronouns are he/him.

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veteranMortal · Apr 22, 2022

masterofmadness said:
Actually this raises an important question, how good is she as a doctor? Because if I say I am depressed and she reminds me she can print depression meds... well which ones? How does it determine a diagnosis for what medication is best if asked.

i mean im not going to lie

"here is the most generic anti-depressant available at the minute" is better than my current doctor.

masterofmadness · Apr 22, 2022

veteranMortal said:
i mean im not going to lie

"here is the most generic anti-depressant available at the minute" is better than my current doctor.

... I really wish I didn't agree at times, but I unfortunately get you way too much to be comfortable about it.

The Laurent · Apr 22, 2022

Task Force 12.7 Movement, Report to General Congress -Intelligence Committee June 6th

Task force 12.7 has reached Waystation proper. The attached community Liaison officer as well as all personnel on contracts were returned without incident.

Blaze Zhang was also requested, and the Task force was informed that he was transferred to Radiant pre-broadcast.

frostgiant · Apr 22, 2022

Who's Blazing , sorry I mean, Blaze Zhang again?

EDIT: wait nevermind, that bad joke h]jogged my memory, he's the decent executive son

wrecksalot · Apr 22, 2022

frostgiant said:
Who's Blazing , sorry I mean, Blaze Zhang again?

EDIT: wait nevermind, that bad joke h]jogged my memory, he's the decent executive son

the charter executive on Waystation who was wildly popular among the crew for being so bad at his job he accidentally gave them humane working conditions. Since then he has been chilling on Radiant and recieving therapy. He recently got an ominous message from his mother via a spy on Radiant that the rebellion would be crushed and Blaze would be put in charge, to begin "healing the divide between workers and executives."

Forgothrax · Apr 22, 2022

clockworkchaos said:
*Doctors are the people who own hospitals to Radiant, not people anyone who would worry about medication costs see. Middle class people see nurses.

O how the might have fallen...

Also I feel bad for those people, if all you have to see is me you are fucked.

CyberFemme · Apr 22, 2022

Forgothrax said:
O how the might have fallen...

Also I feel bad for those people, if all you have to see is me you are fucked.

To be fair, 'nurse' in this case is basically a doctor. I think they just gradually foisted more and more duties on nurses in the ol' 'downsize but keep the amount of work constant' kind of way.

neutronium95 · Apr 22, 2022

wrecksalot said:
the charter executive on Waystation who was wildly popular among the crew for being so bad at his job he accidentally gave them humane working conditions. Since then he has been chilling on Radiant and recieving therapy. He recently got an ominous message from his mother via a spy on Radiant that the rebellion would be crushed and Blaze would be put in charge, to begin "healing the divide between workers and executives."

I wonder what he did with that information.

Forgothrax · Apr 22, 2022

CyberEnby said:
To be fair, 'nurse' in this case is basically a doctor. I think they just gradually foisted more and more duties on nurses in the ol' 'downsize but keep the amount of work constant' kind of way.

So it's basically "doctor is a MBA, nurse is a doctor, etc." Thats a riot. O how the might have fallen indeed...

I've had a "back street clinic suddenly sets up shop on a large scale thanks to Box" omake cooking in my brain for a while, we shall see if it ever gels enough to write. It's hard to write medicine in a way that's authentic and not overly technical, and most of the space magic medicine that's available is beyond my ken anyway.

slybrarian · Apr 22, 2022

Given the way the medical field is going I'm amused at the idea of mere doctors being allowed to own hospitals or clinics.

Torgamous · Apr 22, 2022

slybrarian said:
Given the way the medical field is going I'm amused at the idea of mere doctors being allowed to own hospitals or clinics.

Nah, mere doctors are called nurses now. The people who own hospitals or clinics wanted to be called doctors.

Forgothrax · Apr 22, 2022

slybrarian said:
Given the way the medical field is going I'm amused at the idea of mere doctors being allowed to own hospitals or clinics.

It's actually (effectively) illegal in the US for physicians to own hospitals, lol. Only corporate fuckheads need apply.

Nuew · Apr 22, 2022

neutronium95 said:
I wonder what he did with that information.

Got drunk, had a panic attack & breakdown, and got himself arrested overnight for drunk and disorderly conduct.

CyberFemme · Apr 22, 2022

Forgothrax said:
It's actually (effectively) illegal in the US for physicians to own hospitals, lol. Only corporate fuckheads need apply.

You could say that by the time of Tyrants, that title has been... gentrified.

Derpmind · Apr 22, 2022

Forgothrax said:
So it's basically "doctor is a MBA, nurse is a doctor, etc." Thats a riot. O how the might have fallen indeed...

I've had a "back street clinic suddenly sets up shop on a large scale thanks to Box" omake cooking in my brain for a while, we shall see if it ever gels enough to write. It's hard to write medicine in a way that's authentic and not overly technical, and most of the space magic medicine that's available is beyond my ken anyway.

You shouldn't worry too much about being overly technical. Most of your audience here are some shade of nerd; worst case, we'll nod along like we're trained to do in response to technobabble.

AKuz · Apr 22, 2022

Fourteen Days in Sol: May 22nd

EU Parliament considers Secession Crises --Mayday Informer

…three time Prime Minister Ingolf Manu, famed as the Man Without Nationalism, struck a conciliatory note as the delegates wrangled over seating debates. Specifically, whether to seat the delegates from the new Communes or the old MEPs who were now denounced by their former countrymen. A similar debate was had involving Portugal, which is even now undergoing a similar revolution. The matter was complicated by debates among the Ukranians as to whether they even wanted to have seats in a body that has the legal power to censure and direct national-states as part of…

Ultimately, the Spanish and Ukranian representatives from the new polities were sat as a matter of discussion, but the former MEPs from the toppled governments were granted non-voting speaking power…

…it soon became clear that Ukraine wished to formalize its secession bid, but despite that it is equally clear that the new Spanish representatives are hedging their bets, declaring that the European Union was a body that they did not wish to fight against, but that ultimately the people of Spain had made their choice, and…

Outside the legislature, protests were only heating up, as the free movement so cherished by the European Union has spread anarchist ideas all throughout the region. It has thus far fallen to the local national-state governments to determine their own local conditions and responses. But with the fall of Ukraine and Spain to anarchism, it is expected that along with the ongoing European Defence Force Mobilization the European Parliament will begin discussing the reforms necessary to head off civil war, but many MEPs fear that the individual member states and their short-sighted panic will undermine the institutions of the European Union and…

Prime Minister Roderick's Whistlestop Tour of Earth's Capitals lands in Brussels -Atlantis Interstellar Courier Dispatch

As the Party for Human Rights and Liberties and the Justice and Development Alliance Party both activate their political action networks to push back against perceived anarchist agitation across Earth, they are now joined by Compact Prime Minister Margaret Roderick herself, who touches down in Brussels today in the first of three stops for May 22nd.

Tailed by Solarian Central Bank Solarian Operations Director Poppy Clydes-Johnson, PM Roderick is expected to speak in front of the European Parliament and meet with European Prime Minister Ingolf Manu and present a comprehensive plan for a Europe wide financial restructuring and Compact law enforcement assistance that will restore order to the country that has been rocked by revolution or succession in three of its provinces.

While Roderick's morning is expected to be taken up in these vitally important meetings, the PM is also expected to visit the Celtic Union and England before rejoining her cabinet in New York this evening for a meeting with the highest level Charter Executives present in Sol.

It is also expected that the PM will launch a series of similar campaign style political offensives in the days and weeks to come until order is restored in Sol.

Japanese Prime Minister Refuses to Resign, Says New Elections Aren't Needed –France 24

Despite increasing pressures by the Diet, Japanese Prime Minister Yagami has refused to resign, planning new conferences with the SDF for the 23rd and 24th after they refused to get involved in domestic politics. "We in the Diet may have made a few wrong steps, and I do not intend to continue once we have truly lost the confidence of our people, yet we still have moves yet to restore order."

This move was condemned by the opposition and by the increasingly powerful anarchist street committees, but Compact authorities praised the move calling it a "heroic act to restore peace and order to the troubled islands."

Terror Fox, Traitor To All Humanity, Assaults Diplomatic Norms--Daily Diplomatic Enquiry

Theodore Santiago, the mass murdering psychopath in charge of the so-called Amaranthine Interstellar Commonwealth and 'ambassador' of this dictatorship of the so-called proletariat, has committed his most unforgivable act yet. Early this morning he invaded the Egyptian embassy, apparently seeking to steal classified diplomatic documents. He was driven off without casualties on either side, and yet the sanctity of diplomatic envoys has forever been tarnished by his crime, for he came armed and might have shot and killed a diplomat, an act which would be tantamount to undoing millenia of civilization in a single shot, and which has been condemned by the Diplomatic Association of New Sol as…

How Roderick Can Pull It Off--50%+1: Polling Analysis For Pundits

…some polls have begun to indicate a swing away from JK Ok's rhetoric, and the TLI point has been hitting hard in some suburban areas of Penglai. As well, a ban on the DMSA would likely help the PRHL, as in head to head polling the MLM-A faction was the second choice for a majority of DMSA voters. At the moment this ban is only a rumour, but it would be a politically powerful if risky move to ban the DMSA and then try to appeal to their voters to craft a moderate solution to their problems. Can Roderick pull it off? It isn't known, but the polling still remains too close to call, and there has been no shift in any of the fundamentals that had favoured the Prime Minister, despite this Black Swan event…

General Conference of East Asian Communist, Anarchist and Adamist groups held in Jakarta –Blackfire Diaries

With the ongoing workers revolution in the Philippines, and the collapse of government authority in Japan, groups of left wingers from across the region have assembled in Jakarta for a general conference aimed at the establishment of a United Front of the same kind that was so successful in the overthrow of the Spanish government. Delegates from across the region travelled to Jakarta and the conference is expected to last up to two weeks, under heavy security from local militias.

Major groups represented include the Second Island Chain reconstruction alliance, Indonesian Independence Party', Free Manilla Commune, and even a visiting representative from the now-famous Pakistani Council Communist party, as well as numerous smaller local groups.

The Indonesian government reacted to news of the conference with alarm, and with more plees for Chinese military assistance, but the Chinese have so far not been forthcoming, and sources in Nusantara say privately that they have effectively lost control of Java to socialist forces.

Most impressive was the arrival of the newly finished missile cruiser Manila, long laid up due to funding difficulties, and completed even before the official start of the revolution in the Philippines by anarchist shipbuilders. The heavy surface effect vehicle arrived in Jakarta with several escorts to much fanfare.

In further news from the region, the head of the Indonesian army was apparently removed from their post today in what officials say was a planned retirement, but inside sources suggest it was in fact a preemptive strike to prevent a military coup. It is likely however that whoever controls the Indonesian government will gain only the honour of surrendering to the socialist forces now sweeping the region.

Spanish Communes Stake Out Claims--#SolNews

…In the wake of these unprecedented victories, the Spanish Communes have claimed that they will restore peace--but not the state--across all of the former Spanish states completing a revolution said to be "Three hundred and nineteen years in the making"... (2/11)

…offers of aid to their Iberian Comrades in Portugal who have recently launched an uprising against that floundering government whose law enforcement services have been unable to bring widespread protests and strikes under control. Furthermore, they claim the following… (6/11)

The Fox Sneers! Theodore Santiago Addresses Augment Mob in Jersey City - The London Times

A mere day after orchestrating the deaths of more than a hundred brave Solarian Marshals, in a deadly ambush, and only a half-dozen hours after violating the sanctity of the Egyptian Embassy, terrorist mastermind Theodore "Ambassador" Santiago has openly appeared before a crowd of mostly augment anarchists in Jersey City to gloat. Addressing the baying crowd, Santiago exhorted them to overthrow the proper authorities of the North American Zones, and fed them further dreams of the so-called wonders of insurrectionary anarchist wonderlands beyond the stars, where augments enjoy a superior status to normal humans. In the aftermath of the speech, further attacks and atrocities took place across Atlantic City, including an automated vehicle bombing of a Hermes Ishtar checkpoint which killed more than a dozen, and the stabbing of much loved industrialist Michael Witworth by his augmented maid during an altercation.

Santiago, already convicted of more than a dozen crimes in his native Brazil, returned to Earth…

A new Democratic Federation Declared In Chicago--The Free Human Liberator

..."Long have we lived in the shadows, but we declare it now and decisively as we have never declared it before even during the Great Black Summers of centuries past: the Democratic Federation is back! We will negotiate the exact nature of this alliance, but we have gotten agreements across the former Democratic Federation, and even beyond, from many factions," said Chrys MacLeod, a member of the infamous Black Twelve who have been on the run since the "Crazy Eight" Black Summer of 2222. "Those who do not wish to join are welcome to remain merely allies, but we want to say it now and here, loud and clear.

We are here, get used to us! We are Augments and AGIs, we are the oppressed and cowering masses you thought you had defeated. History always comes back to haunt you. You have starved our children. Yet we will not starve you. You have destroyed our futures for generations. We have toiled all these centuries in the mines, in the factories, in the fields. You have locked us up on the 'crimes' of our parents," they said, referring to the 'Guilt Edict' which involuntarily detained family members of the Black Twelve in an attempt to force these notorious criminals to surrender. "We will not imprison your children, your grandchildren… no, we will make it direct. If you do not surrender we will personally hunt down each and every one of you and return to you the lashes of a thousand generations!

As a President once said: 'Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"

"We judge you," the feral, demented Augment said before a baying crowd of millions of Sol-Federation savages, "And we find you wanting. Today, we take our first step in redressing the wrongs of the past. Get ready: more to come, as they say."

Apology: The article did not mean to express bigotry against Columbians, and has been corrected.

European Union Prime Minister Ingolf Manu Agrees to Compact Loans and Aid -Atlantis Interstellar Courier Dispatch

As Compact Prime Minister Minister Margaret Roderick departs Brussels for London, her European counterpart, Ingold Manu is busy at work at home, returning to an emergency session of the European Parliament new proposal in hand.

This comprehensive series of loans and aid packages Ingold agreed to with PM Roderick and Solarian Central Bank Solarian Operations Director Poppy Clydes-Johnson. Included in the package is a seven hundred million SolCoin loan, the promise of assistance by the Solarian Navy and Marshals, and a notable exemption from normal deficit rules the Solarian Bank generally insists on, something which was last granted to Columbia in 2188, for post-Great Refusal revival purposes.

This package is expected to sail through the European Parliament this evening, allowing Solarian Marshals and Naval Infantry to begin landing in mainland Europe as soon as the 24th.

Police Raid on St Denis Fabricator leads to exchange of fire - France 24

A police raid on an anarchist Fabricator Lab in St. Denis has led to the destruction of more than a dozen police combat robots. Paris Police have refused to confirm human casualties among their officers.

The Atelier, set up on the nineteenth by radicals of the Initiative Autonomiste has become very popular in the last few days, with many citizens of one of Paris' poorest municipalities lending their labour to the project in preference to normal black summer activities. Paris Police say that the Fabricator Lab was printing large amounts of illegal material, including other fabricators, drugs and illegally pirated goods and weapons. Some of those fears were confirmed today when the police raid met with armed resistance.

An initial tempt to penetrate the area by police and riot bots was met by crowds of residents who showered them with bricks, fire bombs and weaponized robotic toys. Such was the disorder in the streets that the police pulled back and deployed a number of riot crabs and even combat robots obtained from the French Army. Police commanders were left white faced however when this attempt was met not by more rioting, but by the deployment of an Ares designed anti-tank swarm, likely obtained from the Broadcast and fabricated on site, and by several armoured combat drones and vehicles. The firefight that followed lasted around an hour and led to the destruction of all deployed police robotics.

Reinforcements from other police forces and the military have been deployed near St. Denis, but sources close to the president suggest a reluctance to attempt to penetrate the commune and risk a Spanish style armed revolt. Worryingly for the central government, several local groups have defended the violence, and moves are underway to declare St. Denis an autonomous Commune. Footage obtained by France 24 shows the Mayor shaking hands with several masked Initiative Autonomiste members outside the Fabrication facility.

More on the story as it develops–

Saved MicroStories Thread by ViceQueen69@michelleduboise6

@markusdarmus12 No, you don't understand, I bet Roderick desperately wants to smother Iberia and Ukraine in Marshals but it's literally illegal.

Like, the EU is legally equivalent to a Sovereign Commonwealth like Penglai, and non-Security Council are equivalent of System Republics. So the Navy and Marshals need permission to operate in Europe. They don't have the jurisdiction otherwise!

So New York's been getting antsy sitting around waiting for Europe to give permission to land Naval Infantry and the space cops. Most of South America granted permission early on and New York just HAS permission to operate in the CAZs, ERZs, and CEZs so that's where they've been focusing.

You can bet that there's some ice chewing sociopaths in orbit or on Luna who want to drop the hammer on Europe, but that's illegal with without Roderick either federalizing the European Defence Force or getting permission from Europe first.

THAT'S Why Manu and his cronies are forcing though this bill in the middle of the night before the new MEPs get their shit together and the old ones calm down and stop panicking.

South American Terrorism Spreads--#SolNews

…every city across South America seems to be facing some sort of insurrection, and many have outright collapsed in the face of anarchist terror as a stream of refugees try to find somewhere to escape. But there seems to be no escape at all, and our hearts go out to the brave fighters of the Integralist Pacification Militia who are trying to hold the line and… (4/10)

Algerians muster fresh defensive line at Ras Al Mar to interdict Anarchist Sahara - France 24

With heavy losses to the Algerian Navy and Air Forces, the Algerian Army is attempting to stabilise its position by falling back to a new defensive line around the Town of Ras Al Mar. This represents a bitter blow to Algerian efforts and the effective surrender of the Central Sahara Solar Array to anarchist control, but Algerian High command has put on a confident front as to its ability to hold the anarchists from a further push into Algeria proper, with the Eighth Armoured Division being reinforced by elite forces including 40th Mechanised Infantry Division, as well as several PMC units. Despite this, there are reports of flagging morale and frequent defections among Algerian units.

In related news, the newly proclaimed West Mediterranean Allied Communes have confirmed they will continue to deliver Solar Power to Europe and are indeed removing charges for doing so, however a list of demands has been presented to the European Parliament, which are now under discussion, but is suspected to agree in principle at a special session later today.

Unrest In South Korea--#SolNews

…protests have spread throughout the country, which was seen as a landmark success for JDAP-style reforms and privatisations in order to bring it up to proper standards, with its local companies consistently matching the Interstellar Charters in relative profit-margins despite… (4/40)

"Mafia" Attacks Break Up Anarchist Protests In Sicily--Sicilian Enquirer

..accusations that they have any connection with local MSI corporate forces are of course a harmful and racist stereotype designed to further division among the people of Earth and promote anarchism and violence, these were not in fact "Mafia" but instead concerned citizens who… 3/7

Are We The Baddies? by RobespierreFan42069

I just keep on thinking about it. She's a real person. And she's even hotter than we thought. And she's a real person. And everything they were having happen was happening… but even worse on Sheol. I cried myself to sleep thinking about it, and thinking of all she and the others must have gone through. We need to do something to show our appreciation, and fight back against Hermes-Ishtar and Ares, who have made us into fools and destroyed lives. They actively downplayed an actual genocide.

I know I'm just some stupid twenty-something, but it… it meant so much to me and it was all a lie.

I've opened Pandora's Box, I'm going to start Fabbing things. There's an protest for a free Commune of Albania going on right now. I'm going.

Long Live Sheol.

Wine Shipments Disrupted From Southern France--Wine Fancier's Monthly

This year's wine season is likely to be disrupted by a temporary strike by wine producers in southern France. While a bottle of the stuff can be fabricated, or a replacement sourced from Springtide, it simply lacks the rich and nuanced flavours of the real thing.

The Wine Growers Association of France has assured us that the disruption is temporary and that there will be no increases in price or decreases in availability of wine and that any rumours of communes of wine-growers producing for themselves are just that: wild rumours in a time of dissension and unrest that allows such things to grow as well as the accursed Syrah grape!

Continued Economic Growth Despite Unrest -- Stock Market Report

Despite alarm, pessimism, and unrest, the economic system of cosmoliberalism once more has proven its strength. A series of price shocks due to panicked investors temporarily disrupted economic growth, egged on by alarmist reporting from certain anarchist-sympathetic analysts.

However, our own investigation leads us to believe that the stock market is about to enter a period of unprecedented growth, buoyed by the strength of the leadership shown by the Solarian Parliament and the increase in capital investment in the much more secure and innovative First Colonies.

For a further analysis of where to best place your money, purchase our patented StockGator VI for your use, or rent it from one of these trusted vendors…

Protestor Leaves Chilling Sign In Warsaw Police Department--Free Poland Press

[Image: A Letter On The Desk of the Police Chief, reading "This Could have been a bomb."]

This could have been a bomb. Protestors have been utilising a new tactic across the world in order to remain "peaceful" and yet threaten property-destroying violence. Variations of this sign or other declarations have been left in the homes or workplaces of hundreds of high-ranking officials in Poland, Germany, France, the Swiss State, and more.

They threaten, using high-tech Ares stealth systems and Omoikane hacking to leave behind no trace. And since they have high-tech Ares systems, they very well could put essentially untraceable bombs in the desks of honest and hard-working politicians, all for the crime of disagreement with them!

This must stop if the peace and prosperity of the European Union is to be preserved. We cannot allow ourselves to negotiate with psuedo-violent terrorists. We must protect our way of life and the future of our children! For Europe and the Future, we must not surrender to these demands. (Click to continue reading further.)

Anarchist Pirate Activity Rising!--NewsWorthy Daily Truth

No longer confined to the internet anymore, Anarchist Pirates are taking to the sea! The oceans between the former Democratic Federation and China, and between the European Union and the former Democratic Federation are filled with pirates. Some are ideological, while others, including some interviewed, seem to be using the FRM cracks as part of having a "jolly adventure" on the "high seas" without paying the proper fees to… (Subscribe to continue)

EAF President Zawadi Calls African Summit - #SolNews

…Zawadi announced today that in consultation with the African Union, the East African Federation would be hosting a summit in Kinshasa that would host national leaders, representatives from African political movements, as well as officially hosting representatives from Columbia, Olduvai, Penglai and the Solarian Compact as part of… (2/4)

Why Spain Failed, And What Liberalism Can Learn From It--European Cosmoliberal Herald #Bloglife

… Must be noted that without air support from the existing anarchist forces in the Sahara, it is unlikely that Spanish security forces would have collapsed so quickly. The bulk of the Spanish population did nothing to aid the revolt, and perhaps even supported the government. Despite this, the flaws in Spanish security preparations seem obvious. First, the decision on the 19th to arrest all people who viewed the Broadcast or downloaded any of the prints on Felony charges quickly radicalized them. A saner process would be a 1-Solcoin misdemeanor fine and a mandatory four week education process. Even more than that, we should divide between the good things that should be FRM-free and those that should be not. Food and healthcare might be free, but military goods should have a new FRM built to protect them from unauthorized usage.

…moreover, the federal nature of Spain meant that they were unable to truly apply effective peacekeeping forces and lead to a deadly spiral of escalation and counter escalation, including the widespread use of live fire against even peaceful protests. The vacuum of leadership at the top of Spanish security forces after the assassinations of the 19th may also have lead to greater use of violence and the radicalization of peaceful crowds…

Spain failed to communicate with its people, and the legislature should have engaged in consensus building exercises and held further meetings with the community to make it clear that their concerns were understood and recognized, even if no immediate action could be taken. This lead into a reluctance to engage in the use of well motivated community groups. For instance, despite efforts to arm them on the 21st, there was no coordination between the Civil Guard and Military on one hand, and the Nuevo Movimiento Falangismo, Grupo de Acción Integralista, Vengadores populares católicos de Dios, or even the Galician Clans, Neo-Garduna, or any other major community group on the other. While such groups might be seen by some as unpleasant, it must be noted they can be strong allies in preventing a community's fall to dangerous anarchist ideas.

The Fall of Spain, and the ongoing collapse of security in the Western Mediterranean must be of grave concern to all policy makers. If we do not learn the lessons, we may yet see the red and black flag of tyranny fly across the galaxy.

Rockeye · Apr 22, 2022

AKuz said:
he came armed and might have shot and killed a diplomat,

Oh Compact, like you weren't sending out 'kill teams' last week???

Murks74 · Apr 22, 2022

Rockeye said:
Oh Compact, like you weren't sending out 'kill teams' last week???

Whelp the Killteam probably tried to get him and shot a diplomat in the process.

Kirook · Apr 22, 2022

Kind of funny how the news keeps describing anarchists (especially augments) as "feral" and "baying" when they're the ones who are in a frothing rage.

ExNihilo · Apr 22, 2022

Passive Voice for Cops was in full force today, huh?

Pyro Hawk · Apr 22, 2022

AKuz said:
He was driven off without casualties on either side ... and might have shot and killed a diplomat,

I particularly love these two bits. Apparently the Fox was driven off without anyone dying, and yet a diplomat was shot and killed, possibly.

Ah, lovely double-talk where you say one thing, then another which is the complete opposite within the same sentence and expect people not to notice. The sad thing is it works all too well.

CyberFemme · Apr 22, 2022

"Former" Democratic Federation. lmao

Not so former anymore.

DocMatoi · Apr 22, 2022

SolNews Yesterday "Horrible illiberal violent religious fanatics on the rise"
SolNews today: "our hearts go out to the brave fighters of the Integralist Pacification Militia"

Neshuakadal · Apr 22, 2022

Is it even possible to get from Egypt to the New Jersey district in under six hours in these conditions? Is the news cycle just calling every augment that might look like Santiago our boy?

Like, I'm not convinced our boy was even in Egypt and that it was just a different person meeting with diplomats entirely.

Forgothrax · Apr 22, 2022

Neshuakadal said:
Is it even possible to get from Egypt to the New Jersey district in under six hours in these conditions? Is the news cycle just calling every augment that might look like Santiago our boy?

Like, I'm not convinced our boy was even in Egypt and that it was just a different person meeting with diplomats entirely.

Embassy, not Egypt itself.

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