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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The Laurent · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
DSMA is doing some fine work slowing down the Cosmoliberal Ghouls here.

An entire division defected intact.

What the transhuman fuck?

That's that for Algeria then, if they have have loyalty issues this bad the entire military will start evaporating.

That's their terrible vengance? Long range bombardment of retreating enemy units? That's just normal war. OTOH if you have grudges then blasthing the shit out of a retreat is the time to carry them out.

As for the executions? You can safely assume that any Ultracapitalist officer who was part of a force that suffered mass defections and didn't defect is a serial war criminal.

Keep on stalling DSMA!

You have a term for this problem but no preperations.

You utter morons.

Like on one hand they basically are on the other hand if you start declaring not voting for things people don't like that are actually really bad ideas sedition then you're just fascists with good PR.

Still doesn't get that there's fuckall the charters can do besides start a war with SolNav during the Final Black Summer - or need to do - if SolNav goes fabber free and gives them a pittance.

Not sure what's going on here, from the thread it sounds like a sitch where everyone knows the revolution has won and the Revolution is letting the existing power structures save some face for tactical reasons. If the local revolution isn't disarming then actually a pretty solid move?

Aaaaaaah gotta love it when humans show their best nature and spontaneously solve the coordination problem.

They have you encircled and killed probably the best commander your side has. Any resupply has to come from above. GTO and GTA weapons exist.

You are about to reenact Dien Bien Phu as the French. And you think the ACR declared victory prematurely?

What do they not teach the Vietnam war in war college because the socialists decisively crushed the capitalists

What the hell is a financial criminal?

Someone who doesn't play by the rules of Ultracapitalist Cosmoliberal Hell?

In that case, uh, .... yeah you should absolutely worry about them airstriking people you consider innocents. You decided to open up the airstriking people for ideological reasons can of works, you don't get to bitch when other people use it.

Actually you should worry about that anyway because being part of Charter Upper Management is a perfectly good reason to stuff a PGM through someone's window.

I'm sure taking the enforcement arm out of the places with huge populations with Box access won't cause trouble at all.

Suck it you lying psychotic bastards.

I hope they build a muesum to documenting all your bullshit.

These are the people who IRL count all Eastern front casualties as victims of communism. That's right, they literally count Russian grunts fighting to not be genocided as victims of communism.

Aaaaand there goes SolNav's ability to intervene uncontested.

Ok yeah the gangs are going to be complete and utter scum.

Anyone just up for using violence to protect people they care for in shitty circumstances is hooking up with the anarchists.

Kill on sight, they're Capitalists without even the pretense of civilization.

Ooops we gave all parties in a frozen sectarian conflict FabberWar capability.

Acceptable sacrifice but this will be a mess and may necessitate armed intervention by the Greater Earth Revolutionary Community. There are a few times when even under anarchism you look at what the public wants in a region and tell them "Actually no your self-governance rights have been temporarily revoked". And the public desiring genocide is one of those times.

It's finally happening!

Wait people are calling for Penglai's SDF to deploy to Sol while this is happening?

Idiots.

Good that they're using only stun batons and shields ... less casualties and easier to overwhelm.

No, this is straight up just... Penglai news. The SDF is being deployed to Penglai.

pheonix89 · Apr 25, 2022

The Laurent said:
No, this is straight up just... Penglai news. The SDF is being deployed to Penglai.

I was crossreferencing the earlier calls for Pelglai SDF to deploy to Sol and then to what's happening on Penglai.

Need to clarify.

Beyogi · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
Wait people in Sol were calling for Penglai's SDF to deploy to Sol while this is happening? While they're dealing with massive unrest in Penglai?

Idiots.

Good that they're using only stun batons and shields ... less casualties and easier to overwhelm.

I mean it's interesting that they seem to use their military as riot police and equip them the traditional way. In Sol the first reaction was to massacre the Anarchists. So um, if the anarchists are even 10% as effective as those on Earth they either take the army captive or said army is really just doing some polite policing.

For all we know the government of Penglai might see the writing at the wall and is basically putting down their army as hostage.

Burned_Cookie · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
You have a term for this problem but no preperations.

You utter morons.

If knowing is half the battle, and 51% is enough enough to rule, then putting a name to it should be slightly more than knowing and therefore sufficient.

Battles work on parlament rules, right?

pheonix89 said:
Like on one hand they basically are on the other hand if you start declaring not voting for things people don't like that are actually really bad ideas sedition then you're just fascists with good PR.

I wouldn't be to sure on the last part. We've been seeing their PR, and I'm not impressed.

pheonix89 said:
Not sure what's going on here, from the thread it sounds like a sitch where everyone knows the revolution has won and the Revolution is letting the existing power structures save some face for tactical reasons. If the local revolution isn't disarming then actually a pretty solid move?

It's really impossible to tell from just that fragment.

pheonix89 said:
What the hell is a financial criminal?

Everyone who commits copyright infringement I'd wager.

pheonix89 said:
Kill on sight, they're Capitalists without even the pretense of civilization.

Or they are gangpressed by the literal gangs.

Besides, murder should only be a last resort, with the preferred option being reforming them.

Theres a reason we didn't gun down the execs of Radiant, even though they committed great crimes.

Genderite · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
Ok yeah the gangs are going to be complete and utter scum.

Anyone just up for using violence to protect people they care for in shitty circumstances is hooking up with the anarchists.

Kill on sight, they're Capitalists without even the pretense of civilization.

I'm not so sure, not everyone is immediately going to jump our way right from the get go. As the situation starts to really dawn on people though they are going to be less worried about securing a financial future for them and theirs and more on just keeping themselves and their families safe. That will eat into the powerbases of petty tyrants more than anything, no longer being able to hold deprivation over their subordinates anymore.

Setsul · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
Wait people in Sol were calling for Penglai's SDF to deploy to Sol while this is happening? While they're dealing with massive unrest in Penglai?

Idiots.

Good that they're using only stun batons and shields ... less casualties and easier to overwhelm.

Ok, but Penglai got three Charter HQs. Maybe labour standards are hovering a few millimetres above rock bottom because there is actual - may the community of humanity forgive me for uttering that word - competition? It's entirely possible to have "gentle" pacification for Penglai and rugged orbital bombardment for Sol, doesn't even use the same resources. Also if you want to start large scale orbital bombardment in Sol then not using poverty draftees from Earth is just good strategy.

AKuz said:
Though it is expected that Columbia, Epsilon, and Penglai will be open to federalization of their Self Defence Forces, Olduvai has long held to a policy of non-deployment and Atlantis' government remains frozen by a system wide general strike.

Folding all available armies and navies into SolNav will absolutely not backfire when Kitsuragi starts a coup.

yeastmobile · Apr 25, 2022

Burned_Cookie said:
Theres a reason we didn't gun down the execs of Radiant, even though they committed great crimes.

Yeah but then sheol happened, and ya know the hand biters really rub off on you after a few beers, and hey maybe this peace thing is a bit troublesome is all i'm saying.

Setsul · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
Still doesn't get that there's fuckall the charters can do besides start a war with SolNav during the Final Black Summer - or need to do - if SolNav goes fabber free and gives them a pittance.

You think this is like Isandlwana where it's just respect for procedure stopping everyone from taking what isn't theirs?
No, this is ~~an ultracapitalist hellscape~~ cosmoliberalism! The SolNav fabbers are directly connected the Charter FRM system and banks, requiring authorization before use by an officer which will immediately subtract the order from whichever budget said officer used to authorize it. Better pray it doesn't run out or, even worse, that the connection is lost.
At least that's my take on it.
So I think the only way for SolNav to go fabber free without authorization would be to crack the FRM themselves or to use the Box. And using the box to prevent use of the box means admitting that you're really just in it for control or the killing. Not that some would give a damn, but that's more post martial law/coup than now.

pheonix89 · Apr 25, 2022

Setsul said:
You think this is like Isandlwana where it's just respect for procedure stopping everyone from taking what isn't theirs?
No, this is ~~an ultracapitalist hellscape~~ cosmoliberalism! The SolNav fabbers are directly connected the Charter FRM system and banks, requiring authorization before use by an officer which will immediately subtract the order from whichever budget said officer used to authorize it. Better pray it doesn't run out or, even worse, that the connection is lost.
At least that's my take on it.
So I think the only way for SolNav to go fabber free without authorization would be to crack the FRM themselves or to use the Box. And using the box to prevent use of the box means admitting that you're really just in it for control or the killing. Not that some would give a damn, but that's more post martial law/coup than now.

It was stated upthread by a QM that during the Great Black Summer they went fabbers free and figured out payment after, IIRC.

The Laurent · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
I was crossreferencing the earlier calls for Pelglai SDF to deploy to Sol and then to what's happening on Penglai.

Need to clarify.

Oh, right!

pheonix89 said:
It was stated upthread by a QM that during the Great Black Summer they went fabbers free and figured out payment after, IIRC.

But it was a huge mess. Just a bloodbath. Many Admirals had to retire or faced demerits on their records for that, and so SolNav does not want a repeat of such an unimaginable tragedy and so they'd rather have authorization.

clockworkchaos · Apr 25, 2022

The Laurent said:
But it was a huge mess. Just a bloodbath. Many Admirals had to retire or faced demerits on their records for that, and so SolNav does not want a repeat of such an unimaginable tragedy and so they'd rather have authorization.

So many bright careers lost, the flower of SolNav nobility cut down in their prime!

Setsul · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
It was stated upthread by a QM that during the Great Black Summer they went fabbers free and figured out payment after, IIRC.

But that was ages ago! Surely things have ~~gotten much worse~~ improved since then!

I mean, what's more likely, the Charters going "that really saved our asses" or "that can never be allowed to happen again"?

NHO · Apr 25, 2022

Setsul said:
But that was ages ago! Surely things have ~~gotten much worse~~ improved since then!

I mean, what's more likely, the Charters going "that really saved our asses" or "that can never be allowed to happen again"?

Charters think it worked badly, because they haven't got their money right away and SolNav would have put that rebellion anyway, so regulations need to be tightened.

Duzzit · Apr 25, 2022

Plus, surely we'd made great strides in crushing the subversives since! There is no need to overreact, the system has always prevailed and I don't see why it would now fail. Surely my daily news from Hermes-Ishtar is not lying to me about how this will soon be over.

Setsul · Apr 25, 2022

NHO said:
Charters think it worked badly, because they haven't got their money right away and SolNav would have put that rebellion anyway, so regulations need to be tightened.

Exactly! Between a few million more dead SolNav personnel and a few billion in lost profits, even just in opportunity cost because payment was delayed, it is clear which one is worse: One number is much bigger.

masterofmadness · Apr 25, 2022

Christians, Charity and Columbia

May 25th, 2255

A few days ago if you had asked about Nathan Caulder the answer you got probably would have been "Which one is that? You know the creepy old man running Cern has like a hundred kids right?" which was very fair and something he very much had relied on for most of his life. If you had asked after they did a little thinking you probably would have been told "Oh he is the religious one! That's nice I guess." Which was also something he relied on for most of his life. He had been content with that, being mostly out of his shitty father's eye while he did the occasional bit of charity for him to write off or use a PR to keep him off his back.

He could only imagine the look on his dear papa's face now.

He watched the headline on the news as it blared out last night's events as video played of him greeted by his landing shuttle by a crowd of chanting Augments, "Crazed Communist Caulder Campaigns across Columbia" nice alliteration honestly. Truthfully despite the gilded world being full of poor inhabitants in desperate need of the change the Broadcast would bring it would probably never succeed in becoming a successful anarchist state. The headquarters of Ares was too strongly militarized to crush a revolt unless a mass mutiny happened and the culture of hardcore American revivalism clashed heavily with the DemFed associations with anarchism. No he and his cause would probably fail here at some point… but that was exactly why he needed to act.

It was Columbia where he was a citizen who could legally run for office, it was Columbia where he had most of his assets and contacts and most importantly it was Columbia where he was the only person capable of providing that most important tool of anarchist power that Columbia feared the most… free healthcare.

Nobody but a Caulder could theoretically be providing legally produced supplies of food and medicine to the countless 'free clinics' and 'Food banks' that absolutely weren't using illegal fabbers. Of course he wasn't officially an anarchist, at least when not in front of the right crowd for it, just a humble Christian reformist who believed that the good and godly people of Columbia should follow his example as he followed god by giving out the necessities of life to the poor of their own free will and perhaps not punish everyone who used the Box with outright violence. The sort of man that appealed to the frightened segments of respectable society too cowardly to admit they would do anything, the worst atrocities possible included, to avoid a revolt but would be happy to let the poor have the food they should have had all along if it would keep them safe. A group still larger than the grow tide of murderous mad men who were finally finding an excuse to kill the poor like they always wanted.

He suspected everyone in power knew what he was doing overall but they couldn't prove it just yet. After all Columbia was the legacy of America and its God Given Rights! Where the rights of rich white Christians from a good family to manipulate the poor through religion for their own gain was one that could not be taken with due process! So for now Ares and the local government were stalled for the next few days as they figured out how to deal with him. Days that meant everything for a brewing revolution when you had the Box in your corner.

And of course there was the other reason that they were pausing about taking action so far, they needed to figure out which Caulder was really behind this. Sure it was probably just one of dear daddy's many kids going rogue but what if it wasn't? Would dear old dad be willing to support his son's little cooption of the revolution while the galaxy as they knew it burned down happened just so he could take control of one of the Daughters?

Well, obviously he would be willing, because he is a power hungry asshole but is he doing it now? Since right now he was probably a little busy and any response even if he was available would have taken some travel time to get here all the way from Cornucopia the answer was silence. Given how things were going he was probably dealing with some degree of rebellion over there in the Far Trailing that he'd have to put down so Nathan probably didn't need to worry about him for a while. He wasn't optimistic enough to believe his Dad might get the firing squad he so desperately deserved though, he wasn't that lucky.

Besides the idea of his father's rage filled face when he did find out brought an evil smile to his face. He sipped from his cup at the thought and enjoyed the taste of tea.

… And of arsenic.

"Hey Ralph, this was poisoned, find out who did this and drag them somewhere quiet would you? I've got a sermon to give after all." Ralph nodded and walked off. Good man, another advantage he could bring that Columbia needed, well trained security experts who could be trusted. It had been a lot of work getting men who guarded him to be actually loyal to him but it was well worth it.

The local organizer, who was going to introduce him to the crowd, a male fox augment because he was not trying to be subtle, was looking at him wide eyed.

"Are you going to be okay?" He said questioningly.

Nathan smiled "Oh no I'll be fine, I'm one of Caulder's Get after all. I have plenty of 'technically not augments because you can't see them' installed. A common poison like this? It's nothing. Got to get creative with me and anyone who doesn't know that is probably an amateur. So it probably is not Ares or any of my wonderful family this time, nothing to worry about."

For some reason that didn't seem to help him relax much.

He put his hand on his shoulder reassuringly. "Hey, it is okay to be nervous, that is a natural response. Don't worry about me or what I do. All you have to do is introduce me and look vaguely like Santiago right now. Can you do that? Show a fraction of the courage another man showed when he stood in front of the whole damn Compact parliament and told them it was already dead? Because nobody is going to force you to do anything. You can walk away and I will find someone else if you want."

The fox Augment took a deep breath and responded. "No, I can do this. Like you said, what is this compared to what he did right?" He gave a weary smile.

Nathan smiled proudly and patted him on the back "Damn right! Now let's do our part for the cause."

The fox Augment organizer walked onto the stage while Nathan desperately tried and failed to remember his name. He missed most of the introduction but caught his name being announced and stepped on stage.

He was greeted by thunderous applause and he was reminded exactly why he tried to avoid public activity like this, having power over people was intoxicating. It was going to be really hard to not let this get to his head, he wasn't sure it hadn't already.

… Okay it certainly had but he could manage it… probably.

Still the show must go on. Nathan shook the organizer's hand and picked up a bible with the other as he turned on his mic.

"Hello everyone, I would like to tell you the story of man." He paused for effect. "This man was born to poor and humble circumstances on Earth not too long ago." Some mummers started in the crowd. "This man saw a world full of injustice and honest men suffering under cruel masters and he chose to stand up!" Applause started and he picked up his tempo slightly. "This man took to the street and he spoke the truth to all who would listen." Voices started to rise and he raised his as well. "He gathered followers around who listened to his message and they took to the streets." The Voices started to holler and he spoke faster. "The authorities saw this happening and they grew afraid! They screamed out 'We must stop him! We must stop this man' as they unleashed a torrent of lies and stirred fear and hatred!" There was yelling now he was on the verge of yelling too but not quite yet, he had a little bit to go. "They brought down their cruel oppressors to crush him and for a time it seemed they had silenced him but soon he returned! He returned and the people followed his message in greater numbers than ever!" The sound almost couldn't get any louder, but he knew it could go higher and started to work up to a climax for this part.

"I THINK YOU ALL KNOW WHO I AM I TALKING ABOUT!" He screamed and pointed his finger to a crucifix conveniently placed near his fox augment friend sitting nearby. The Crowd screamed even louder.

"People of Columbia, it is time to remind this world that CHRIST WAS NOT A KING, CHRIST WAS A REVOLUTIONARY!"

And with that he had them, they bellowed out screams at the top of their lungs. Putting the full force of their selves and throwing out into the world, towards him. He smiled.

Now he spoke more evenly but with force behind it. "For too long has the word of our Lord been used to justify the Sins of the Strong." He already had them now they were simply following. "False prophets who turn a profit as they turn and twist and pervert the good word to make lies from God's message." They booed but not for him. "They say 'It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him one.' But never truly teach without taking everything they can from the catch and then let the man starve without giving him one." Bellows of support returned but mixed with anger beneath it. He added a little more volume and force. "They say 'The meek shall inherit the earth' but never work towards helping them inherit it." They were rising again captivated by his words, he raised his voice with them. "They speak of how God will grant the faithful miracles but never seek to make miracles for the faithful." The crowd rose even more and he put a bit more behind it. Almost time for the finale. "They say that God will one day bring heaven and paradise on earth but never seek to bring the day or say how it will come!" As he started to all but scream, so too did they once more.

"WELL THE DAY IS TODAY AND IT WILL COME BECAUSE WE HAVE COME TOGETHER THE MAKE IT!"

The crowd exploded and he took a moment to bask in the beauty of it before it calmed down. He moved to climb down off the stage around his guards and spoke softly again. "My fellow children of God please take the humble offerings the kind volunteers around you are distributing now and remember in your heart where you know they truly come from." He briefly brought his hands together as if in prayer before he finished. "But more importantly, please join them. Come and speak with your fellow men and organize yourselves to help bring about the world we all desire. Thank you and God Bless."

He spent a little time going through the crowd and saying platitude or shaking hands. He didn't make an effort to commit anything here to memory though, just went through on autopilot. This was just one speech he would have amongst many he would be giving planet wide as fast as possible. Every one of them was important, a chance for people to gather and organize in peace they so desperately needed, But didn't mean much when he was going through them a mile a minute. He wouldn't have long before he needs to do the next one.

Though as his security team brought him to the local 'quiet place' he'd asked them to find it seemed in this case he might at least have something of a break in between.

"Anything on him Ralph?" He asked.

Ralph shook his head "Not much, seems like just a local 'hero' who watched too much propaganda. Lines up with the lack of proper poison too, though we will tighten things to make sure no one gets a chance to use an effective one next time."

He shook his head "Of course." Then he smiled "Well might as well meet our hero then."

It turned out their 'hero' was a male dog Augment with a black eye he presumably didn't have earlier.

"Fuck you." He spat.

Nathan smiled. "I would love to but I am sadly straight." He shook his head in faux sadness. "I've tried to pray it away but no dice."

"I don't know what you are planning but you won't get away with it! You won't win! Columbia will never be yours!"

He bit his lip as he tried to hold back his grin. He really shouldn't but… screw it. "I know it is wrong but if you are going to line up perfect setups like that I might as well have some fun. I've always wanted to do a super villain rant anyway."

Nathan jabbed a syringe into him and smiled madly. "Just a little something to make sure you aren't getting out of this alive no matter what. I know I should feel bad about this but for a lapdog like you the worst I am going to feel is a little guilt about that remark being slightly racist." He let his disgust show on his face. "You sellouts make me sick, even worse than the monsters you worship."

He lowered himself to just above his eye level. "But you're probably right. I am likely never going to be ruling Columbia, bigger upsets have happened in history but Ares' thugs are stronger here than almost anywhere. But that is half the reason I'm here, every moment I buy holding them down on their own world is time for another out there somewhere to rise up without them."

Then he made his smile outright sadistic. "Of course that is not the only thing on Columbia I am here for. Everyone always forgets about the third branch of the Compact, just how they like it."

The dog Augment's eye went wide in horror "The Central Bank."

He added in some joy to the smile. "Yep, their little game of outright fraud to keep the market intact is doomed to fail anyway but a proper strike on them outright? That will sink it for good, make the mass economic collapse that will really get things going galactic wide."

He backed away. "Sadly I need to be able to honestly say I wasn't responsible so I won't be doing it myself. Compartmentalization isn't just for Charters after all. But if they follow my advice it will look as much like an Ares false flag to seize power as possible."

"You're insane."

Nathan smiled sadly at that one "Thanks to my shitty family yes I am but that is not while I am doing this." He frowned, "I'm doing this because I have spent too long try to help people who need it to be able to pretend that they don't need it because of this system and that I will ever be able to help them without bringing it down."

He let out a sigh. "It was good to say all that out loud, but I have a lot of work to do so goodbye." He tapped the voice function on his phone "Play me some badass walking away music please?"

The song came through … yeah that would do.

"Ralph, if you would?" Ralph threw something behind him and he wished had the time to synch it up to the music.

… Oh well.

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste.

pheonix89 · Apr 25, 2022

Bwahahahaha.

Please be canon please be canon please be canon.

masterofmadness · Apr 25, 2022

pheonix89 said:
Bwahahahaha.

Please be canon please be canon please be canon.

I sent it to the QM's in advance and I got a go ahead so I think so? Glad you liked it.

NHO · Apr 25, 2022

...
If I am right and Central Bank can't print money because it's all the crypto shit, so it's merely main warehouse/arbitration point.

It will literally evaporate SolCoin. And then Charters really, really begin to scream.

Good luck to mr. Cray-Cray Christian Clone Child Communar Comrade.

Burned_Cookie · Apr 25, 2022

masterofmadness said:
He added in some joy to the smile. "Yep, their little game of outright fraud to keep the market intact is doomed to fail anyway but a proper strike on them outright? That will sink it for good, make the mass economic collapse that will really get things going galactic wide."

Ha! I knew it! Hardwire the line, or maybe something less heavy handed, but still!

NHO · Apr 25, 2022

Hehehehe. If Central Bank is the place that validates and tests and runs Smart Contracts and possibly is the ones with the keys to fix the... unfortunate misunderstanding where crypto shit gets locked away forever because someone fat-fingered return logic?
There would be definitely escalations of tension between Charters because execs fat-fingered a smart contract and forced it through without tests and then crypto shit they think is money for contract just disappears in the limbo forever.

masterofmadness · Apr 25, 2022

Burned_Cookie said:
Ha! I knew it! Hardwire the line, or maybe something less heavy handed, but still!

NHO said:
Hehehehe. If Central Bank is the place that validates and tests and runs Smart Contracts and possibly is the ones with the keys to fix the... unfortunate misunderstanding where crypto shit gets locked away forever because someone fat-fingered return logic?
There would be definitely escalations of tension between Charters because execs fat-fingered a smart contract and forced it through without tests and then crypto shit they think is money for contract just disappears in the limbo forever.

Bear in mind he still needs the attack to work, which it might not. But yeah their is a reason this is his target, he is crazy but not a bad strategist.

Burned_Cookie · Apr 25, 2022

masterofmadness said:
Bear in mind he still needs the attack to work, which it might not. But yeah their is a reason this is his target, his is crazy but not a bad strategist.

I was talking about the things the bank was already doing according to him, which lined up with something I said before they might do.

But yea if this works then it's a another nail in the coffin of the old system.

BlueTwinkleToes · Apr 25, 2022

masterofmadness said:
He put his hand on his shoulder reassuringly. "Hey, it is okay to be nervous, that is a natural response. Don't worry about me or what I do. All you have to do is introduce me and look vaguely like Santiago right now. Can you do that? Show a fraction of the courage another man showed when he stood in front of the whole damn Compact parliament and told them it was already dead? Because nobody is going to force you to do anything. You can walk away and I will find someone else if you want."

The fox Augment took a deep breath and responded. "No, I can do this. Like you said, what is this compared to what he did right?" He gave a weary smile.

I love seeing that Santiago is being a role model for fox-Augments to draw strength and courage from.❤️

masterofmadness · Apr 25, 2022

BlueTwinkleToes said:
I love seeing that Santiago is being a role model for fox-Augments to draw strength and courage from.❤️

Comrade Santiago is an example for all!

For Example: *Nathan watches speech*
Nathan: This man is my spirit animal in a non-racist way. Also I think the pray the straight way might be working but it might just be him.

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

Been Better

Wants to be Seven Of Nine

and a fairy

Very tired girl.

Wants to be Seven Of Nine

Dumb is a state of existence

CSC 1st Multiversal Fleet Commander

Wants to be Seven Of Nine

Dumb is a state of existence

Very tired girl.

Dumb is a state of existence

Very tired girl.