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Volmarias posted:Do colonies require consuming any materials for upkeep, or are they effectively self sustaining even without mines & industry? Will it eventually grow beyond the sustainable levels for infrastructure and start rioting? In-game I believe that inhabited bodies will establish trade with NPC shipping routes and will slowly generate Infrastructure without much input from us, though yes they might be a bit cramped. It's certainly more economic activity than a dead rock. You need to remember that this is a small-scale proof of concept. The full proposal is that this would involve orbital habitats being towed around by tender ships with their population in cryo for the trip. The theory is that the sudden massive workforce comfortably based in the orbital hab can quickly bootstrap planetside industry and establish a functional colony with relative ease. Eventually the population will increase enough that it outgrows the habitat, but the overflow will be sufficient to grow the colony on its own, having gotten the best start possible. At this point the orbital station leaves, carrying a fresh cadre of founders in cryo on to the next location. It's basically a Johnny Appleseed approach to colonization. Obviously this is a bit overkill at the moment, but in future it might be a very efficient way to settle new bodies, possibly whole solar systems.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:i was under the impression the USS North Carolina was to be upgraded as a matter of course? that was not how I read it but you wrote the legislation and if that's how you intended it to read, it will be so, I'll edit in a little retcon right quick
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Still wondering how recent developments in the USSR will reverberate across the orthodox M-L sphere.
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NewMars posted:Still wondering how recent developments in the USSR will reverberate across the orthodox M-L sphere. Can you say 'Revisionism'? They can and are.
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Innocent_Bystander posted:Can you say 'Revisionism'? They can and are. They're always doing that though. Any actually interesting developments?
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March 14, 1984 Gerry Adams, TD for the Belfast West constituency in the Republic of Ireland, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. FESTER surveillance satellites track the loyalist paramilitaries who carried out the attack, and their safehouse is raided by Irish security forces within hours. All are captured or killed. The men are identified as members of the East Antrim Brigade of the Ulster Defense Association, a right-wing terrorist organization with suspected links to the Gladio network. John Gregg, suspected by Irish security forces to be the commander of the brigade, is among the dead. March 22, 1984 The Joint Committee on Artificial Gravity tests a prototype gravity-emulation system at small scale, using an orbital shuttle modified as a testbed. When discussing the test, the scientists are very insistent on pointing out that what they're doing isn't technically 'creating gravity', and say a lot of stuff nobody understands about 'manipulating Trans-Newtonian fluidspace to emulate the effects of gravity in realspace' and a bunch of other technobabble. If it works, it should generate a controllable simulacrum of gravity, whose force and direction can be manipulated at will, for relatively low energy expenditure. Internally they've taken to calling it 'pseudogravity' or 'p-grav' for short; everyone else just calls it 'gravity', to their continual irritation. Their first tests were effective, but only for short, microsecond bursts, and were quickly repurposed as sensors - the 'ripple' the device sends out through the Trans-Newtonian fluid is readily detectable (and also readily felt, aboard the ship operating the sensor). This attempt will try for a more sustainable reaction. The goal will be to emulate one G on a one-meter-square metal plate in the shuttle's cargo bay. 0.45 seconds after the enormous mess of machinery wired to the plate is powered up, the shuttle explodes. Examination of high-speed photography and other sensor telemetry shows the spacecraft being warped, twisted, and finally ripped apart by an unseen force, centered on the plate and radiating outwards in an approximately spherical pattern. That wasn't supposed to happen. Got some good data, though. April 4, 1984 This is the day that the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian novel '1984' begins his diary. In the few spaces that care - mostly Internetwork boards - there is general amusement at this fact. April 12, 1984  Up to this point, the KGB had served as the de facto intelligence agency of the Communist Interplanetary, in an unofficial capacity. Their role is now gradually being assumed by SPECTRE. This includes ongoing interviews about the events of March 1983, and investigations of possible connections to reactionary organizations and counterrevolutionary governments. Some of these agents are literally the same agents as before, but with different uniforms. In any case, while these investigations uncover some leads, they also identify people who behaved with particular distinction, and their commitment to the cause is noted in secret records. April 19, 1984 The Ascension Accords are signed in a ceremony on Ascension Island. Every non-Comintern nation with a currently-active space program of at least some kind - namely, Japan, India, Iran, and technically Hawaii - sign, as does Argentina, though their interest in space is more aspirational than practical. It is one of the first real diplomatic overtures of any kind the isolationist Iranians have made to the Comintern since the Iranian Revolution, and is somewhat unexpected, though not unwelcome. The lack of any real protest or argument as to the contents of the treaty is a little surprising, but then again it has been in the works for over a year, there's been plenty of time to raise objections. There is now a formal treaty in place governing the use of space. April 20, 1984 The Cydonia caretaker team reports sighting movement on the surface outside the Face during a dust storm, something small. It's probably nothing. The last time Barsoom saw aliens outside it turned out to be a rock, remember. April 23, 1984 A brief search of the surface outside of the Face discovers nothing out of the ordinary, although the team is quick to point out that the dust storm would have quickly obscured any footprints or vehicle tracks. April 24, 1984 The scientific instrument packages monitored by the Cydonia caretaker team detect a new, previously-undetected infrared source in a partially-ruined structure about four kilometers away from the Face. There are dozens of intermittent heat sources scattered throughout the ruins, and as with all the others, exactly what is giving off this heat, and its purpose, is unknown. May 1, 1984 The IPAN North Carolina, the first oceangoing ship of the Interplanetary People's Army, is formally commissioned into service, and sails past an assembled crowd on the shore, with her crew resplendent in newly-designed dress uniforms and an enormous Comintern flag flying from her mast. She'll need some work, but, you know, actually seeing the thing, it's starting to grow on people. It makes a good centerpiece for the TV coverage of International Workers' Day. May 3, 1984  "Isn't Fedya a man's name?" asks the SPECTRE interviewer. "Technically my birth name is Fedora," says the exasperated MOSA administrator. The interviewer's brow furrows. "You mean like the hat?" She rolls her eyes. "You see now why I go with 'Fedya'. Are we quite finished here?" Elsewhere, in hidden bunkers buried deep beneath the Earth, the command and control infrastructure that will control your defensive batteries begin to come online. At the moment they command nothing, but soon, very soon, they will permanently end the era of the ICBM. May 6, 1984  A report released on the FESTER stations' contributions to security operations over the last few years, written by the commanding officer of one of them, includes an inordinate amount of content about the author and their personal role in the work. It is widely circulated and is sure to put their name on people's minds when possible promotions to flag officer rank are being considered. May 9, 1984   The keel of the Minerva Explorer is laid down, and the shipwrights begin work in earnest. May 10, 1984 COMRAIL releases a report in which they state that construction of Phase I of the Trans-Newtonian Global Network Project is approximately halfway finished. The project was expected to take about five years, so they're a few months ahead of schedule. May 12, 1984  With work on the new slipways completed, the yards immediately begin tooling to produce Design Study 001. May 15, 1984   Construction, and selection of personnel for, your first orbital defense batteries begins. May 18, 1984 The remainder of the UN Security Council vote to officially remove the UK and the USA from the body, their seats having been vacant for some time now. They are replaced by India and Brazil. The United States Federal Government lodges an impotent protest. The North American Forum has no comment. June 11, 1984   Yet another Hawaiian-built freighter is launched, flagged as an AAA ship. This one is crewed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, under the auspices of Venusplan - operating the ship will provide practical experience invaluable in fulfilling their end of the deal, they say. As the AAA is a Comintern-chartered organization, they'll be subjected to the same regulations - and the same searches - as any other ship in your civilian fleet, which JAXA consents to in writing.  They'll be getting a lot of practical experience. They're immediately put to work on the extremely busy Earth-Luna line, cycling back and forth as quickly as the transfer shuttles can be loaded. June 14, 1984  Though it has been a year since anything major happened, extensive drills and training regimens have kept crew readiness aboard MOSA ships fairly high. No one is willing to risk giving into complacency just yet. June 20, 1984   The first three armed spacecraft of humanity's fleet, as-yet unnamed, are laid down. They will be launched before the end of the year. June 25, 1984    The Hawaiians launch a ship under their own flag. This is a somewhat momentous occasion - it is the tenth interplanetary ship launched by a chartered civilian shipping line. 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we should, uh, probably investigate those heat signatures on Mars at some point.
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VideoWitch posted:we should, uh, probably investigate those heat signatures on Mars at some point. Indeed. This sounds like a job for... the Psychonaut Corps! 
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Mister Bates posted:Over a thousand cosmonaut-sailors Okay, I'm sorry but "naut" means "sailor" so what's going on here
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GunnerJ posted:Okay, I'm sorry but "naut" means "sailor" so what's going on here It means they're a sailor's sailor. 
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Cosmo Sailor Sailor is also the name of a popular avant-garde lifestyle magazine
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Pirate Radar posted:Cosmo Sailor Sailor is also the name of a popular avant-garde lifestyle magazine Alas, it's seven years too early to make a sailor moon joke.
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July 1, 1984 The Five Tribes Coalition, a Comintern-member state occupying most of what was once Oklahoma, officially changes its name to the State of Sequoyah. The old name had been highly controversial - there are actually several dozen tribes of various size represented in the small nation, for one, and the 'five tribes' of the name had once been known as the 'Five Civilized Tribes' to the American colonizers. On a more practical note, the name was almost identical to the Five Nations, another Comintern member state formerly known as New York City, which was frequently cited by diplomats from both states as 'annoying'. July 5, 1984 Egypt and Sudan approach the World Forum requesting mediation of a territorial dispute over the Halaib Triangle, a stretch of land claimed by both countries as a result of an error in the drawing of British colonial borders in the early 1900s. There isn't really anything much in the Halaib Triangle right now, so exactly who ends up with it is of no great importance to the Comintern, but it is notable as the first time such an appeal has been made to the fledgling World Forum. July 12, 1984 The Islamic Socialist Republic of Iran successfully launches a small, unmanned Trans-Newtonian spacecraft into orbit. The vehicle masses about 100 void-tons and is powered by a simple liquid-sorium rocket engine, primitive and obsolete by Comintern standards. All signatories to the Ascension Accords were informed of the flight and given some information as to the spacecraft's flight plan and some basic specifications; in the documents submitted, the spacecraft is referred to as an 'Engineering Test Article'. July 19, 1984  The first three railgun batteries , located in Asia, are completed and brought online. They are assigned to Orbital Defense Command Chengdu. Battery A is located in Iraq, and intended primarily to neutralize potential Israeli nuclear threat. With this safety measure in place, diplomatic efforts in Israel can begin, though caution must still be exercised, for the sake of all parties involved. July 20, 1984 A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Moon landing had been planned for last year, and indeed legislatively mandated, but the plans had been preempted by all hell breaking loose. Now, a year late, they can finally happen. An international holiday is declared commemorating the history of human space exploration and honoring the early pioneers, and televisions around the solar system broadcast footage from the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon. There, in the presence of various dignitaries (and surrounded by dozens of LSDF troops concealed in discreet defensive positions nearby, just in case), Hawaiian Royal Space Agency Chief Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Director of NASA (National Reconstruction Committee) Michael Collins, and PRCal private citizen Buzz Aldrin descend from orbit in an AAA passenger lander. Collins emerges first; it is the first time he has ever set foot on the Moon. He had prepared a speech for this moment, a copy of which will be preserved in the history books, but he never delivers it, struck speechless. The very first thing the three men do is raise the fallen flag, and plant it firmly in the regolith. The flag has been bleached almost white and is no longer recognizable as an American flag, but it's the principle of the thing. They spend the rest of the day exploring the site, giving the cameras a tour, reminiscing, examining the mission hardware and commenting on its condition, discussing various aspects of the space program and their experiences in it. When it's all done, the last thing they do is to formally inaugurate the site as the first exhibit of the Lunar Aerospace Museum. A plaque to this effect is left behind, and work crews immediately set to work fencing off the entire site to limit further contamination. The Apollo 11 crew catch a brand-new COMRAIL train from the nearest settlement and spend the night in Lunagrad. Aldrin will later comment to a Californian news interviewer that boarding a train on the Moon was the most surreal experience of his life. July 22, 1984   PurpleXVI, who commanded a FESTER station through the crisis of 1983 and survived serious damage to the station due to debris strikes, is promoted to flag officer rank. The promotion includes a transfer from orbit to command of a very nice desk on Ascension Island. July 27, 1984       Orbital Defense Command Chengdu completes its working-up and is declared fully operational. Polkovnik WinterWerefox is placed in overall command, with Flamester, Servetus, and VideoWitch commanding individual batteries. August 8, 1984 The Cydonia caretaker team again reports a sighting of movement outside the dome, in the middle of the night locally. This time they manage to catch it on film - a small, distant light source at ground level, a pinpoint of light appearing, moving along the surface for about 45 seconds, and then disappearing. There is no obvious explanation; it could be an automated system somewhere in the ruins, for all you know. August 10, 1984 The terms of reparations payments to Haiti are finalized. Though most of the repayment will be in rubles, the de facto global reserve currency, part of it is instead to be delivered in the form of refined TNEs, which, when combined with Socialist Aid Program development and TN industrial construction, will help to modernize the local economy. August 22, 1984 SPECTRE agents report that they've located elements of missing forces belonging to the US Government-in-Exile, previously stationed in Japan, in Florida. The 350 men they've found, still in uniform and under arms, are a small fraction of the total force they had in Japan, and there's still no sign of the Joint Chiefs, but it does confirm suspicions that at least some of them were secretly relocated to the Americas. September 8, 1984   The keel of deep space mining testbed CSV Nomad is laid down and work on the ship begins. September 14, 1984  A new Electron-B spacecraft is launched, as part of a project to fulfill a legislative requirement that Mars and Venus be placed under FESTER surveillance. Her Proton-B sister ship is under construction in a factory in Russia and will be launched as soon as she is completed. September 23, 1984 The Hawaiian Royal Space Agency's experimental seafloor TN mining vessel Glomar Explorer returns from an unusually long mission, and immediately heads to the Hawaiian Navy fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor, rather than the HRSA's own dock facilities. Though Hawaii is a close ally, this is still deemed sufficiently unusual that SPECTRE opens an investigation, and MOSA reaches out to Director Hughes. A geological sensor pass by CSV Skarbnik reveals a mass of refined Trans-Newtonian materials in the ship's hold, which would be consistent with its stated role as a mining ship. September 25, 1984  Orbital Defense Command Luanda and all associated railgun batteries are brought online. The African continent, birthplace of humanity, is also one of the world's most important sources of food, with the thriving agricultural economies of nations like Zimbabwe and South Africa feeding millions of people around the world. Protecting it was deemed a high priority.     MrPwase, formerly in command of a People's Army security battalion, is transferred to command of the formation. HabeasCorpus, TelsaCoil, and Petenka Kuznetsov (I ran out of goon ground forces officers) are given command of the three batteries. TelsaCoil is one of the IPA's premier archaeology experts, and while this assignment will give them vital command experience, it is a waste of their talents; as soon as a more appropriate command is available, they will be transferred to it.  The current OOB of the Interplanetary People's Army. Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Gonna try and think up a thing to write for the thread later: that is a very good update! Wondering what those men were up to in florida. Also that hawaiian ship has almost certainly excavated another alien spacecraft.
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Hawaii is getting seafloor salvage of other alien craft heard it here first folks
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Hawaii is getting seafloor salvage of other alien craft heard it here first folks I mean it's definitely a non-zero chance. Given they had access to the guys who'd been studying the Roswell craft it's possible they knew there were other craft that crashed in a similar time frame and possibly even what segment of the globe was likely to have been the crashsite. If the majority of it contained a portion of the Pacific they would be perfectly placed to find and salvage it. Mister Bates posted:A geological sensor pass by CSV Skarbnik reveals a mass of refined Trans-Newtonian materials in the ship's hold, which would be consistent with its stated role as a mining ship. Out of interest is there any way to guage the size of the TN material in the ships hold?
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This was to be the first election in which all of North Carolina voted since 1968. The reclamation men had done their duty, and paths now snaked through the radiation barrier blocking the coast from the interior. It had taken some wrangling, especially with the Lumbee and Cherokee, but the state was now united and going to the ballot box. The Republic of the Outer Banks (the name was going to be changed by referendum this election) is a parliamentary communist republic. Basic economic rights are guaranteed by the constitution, as are civil rights and anti-Jim Crow provisions. The primary political parties are the Marxist-Lenninists, the Syndicalists, and the Christian Socialists. Minor but important parties are the Trotskyites, the American Indian Movement, and the Black Panthers. The incumbent prime minister, Richard Monckton, is Christian Socialist, which was an upset from the projected win by the Marxist-Lenninist candidate the previous election. After the last election, the current governing coalition is Syndicalist-Christian Socialist-AIM, with the Black Panthers providing supply and confidence. Major issues this election are providing Socialist Aid to the newly incorporated areas of the republic, relations with neighboring states, and increasing the size of the navy. Early polls projected a return of the governing coalition, perhaps with a flip-flop of the Syndicalist/Christian Socialist numbers. As the night went on, however, it became clear that the Marxist-Lenninists would emerge as the dominant party, securing a majority in the house. This is attributed to the recent changes in the Soviet Union, which have made Marxism-Leninism much less frightening to the inland voters. Additionally, the party led a ferocious campaign inland, barnstorming many areas which rarely saw any sort of government official prewar. This new government will likely not coalition due to their majority, but they are reaching out to AIM and the Black Panthers for their positions on certain matters. The referendum on renaming the country returned the name “Tar Heel Confederation.”
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Colonel Winter Werefox here. In charge of Asian defenses! I have nothing to add, just glad to be here.
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as Administrator of Mars I would like to request/order further investigation into the anomalous sightings at Cydonia base. We need to know if it's Capitalists, Aliens, or a shared hallucination among the staff so we can adjust our production forecasts accordingly.
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On Social Revolution in Marx-Leninism post Great Revolutionary War Often considered to be the most "conservative" tendency within socialist thought, Marx-Leninism as spearheaded by the USSR is notable for often aligning with socially conservative elements within a nation, only advocating for the economic and political transformation towards Communism. Lately, however, this has begun to change. In many areas, M-L thought has become popular with elements of society, many still underground, who discard these elements in favour of a new variety, one where outcast and vulnerable groups are empowered. While definitely a new phenomenon, this blending of orthodox comintern thought with feminist and queer empowerment recalls it's older form in the mind of many, that seen in the 10's and 20's, when it was still a young and ever-changing brand of thought. This new development seems to have three primary causes: First is the announcement of the Comintern Bill of Rights. While revolutionary declarations of these sorts of declarations are not uncommon, their actual implementation tends to be rocky at best. For instance, the Soviet Union itself once had a similar declaration, whose tenets were then discarded. This new push seems to be a combination both of the popularity of the bill and a determination not to let history repeat itself. That is, it is because of prior failures of these types of declarations that those who stand to benefit most are organizing to legitimize it and in turn synthesizing themselves with M-L thought. Second is the political reorganization that has recently taken place within the USSR. With the "New Lenin Levy" opening up the political sphere, vast amounts of people who were excluded from the process before have now entered it. This has lead to two notable trends. First is that many marginalized groups now have access to political representation. Second is that this representation is within the head of the M-L sphere. This means that these people are now legitimized in the eyes of said sphere, but also that M-L thought is now legitimized in their eyes. At least, for the moment, in any case. Third and finally is the increased ease of international movement combined with the massive refugee crises in the wake of the Great Revolutionary War. Today, from Paris to Moscow is only a train ride away and even the moon itself is increasingly accessible to the average worker. As well, great movements of people have already occurred, crossing national boundaries for the sake of safety. The end result of this is an increasing admixture of people and the spread of new ideas, often unconsciously spearheaded by the most vulnerable. While the end result of all this has yet to be seen, for now it means that new waves of thought are spreading and rapidly to places where they were not even considered before, including to people already deeply enmeshed in orthodox power structures.
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BwenGun posted:Out of interest is there any way to guage the size of the TN material in the ships hold? Approximately 100 tons. September 27, 1984 The Hawaiians, when approached, readily admit to having located the wreckage of an alien spacecraft on the Pacific seafloor, and claim it by right of salvage. They invite MOSA to send a team to participate in a joint study of the remains. October 1, 1984 The small advance team MOSA sends to Pearl Harbor is ushered in to a secure hangar under heavy guard. They discover a mass of twisted metal and machinery, scorched and melted, not at all recognizable as a spacecraft or indeed as much of anything at all. It will take some work to determine what exactly this was, although a cursory once-over confirms that it is, A, definitely a piece of technology, and, B, definitely not of human manufacture. October 5, 1984 The German revolutionary and elder statesman Rudi Dutschke, head of state of the German People's Republic, dies unexpectedly in his sleep. An autopsy will determine the most likely cause to be complications related to head injuries sustained during the Revolution in 1968. A national day of mourning is proclaimed. October 16, 1984  Another Electron surveillance ship is constructed, and work on its Proton counterpart begins. October 22, 1984 Comparing the more intact pieces of the Hawaiian wreckage with our own Roswell object leads the MOSA team to conclude that the former was, when intact, of an identical design to the latter. However, unlike ours, which is merely damaged, this one seems to have been blown completely apart, with much of it missing entirely, and the remainder massing no more than 100 tons, in one large piece and several smaller pieces. The propulsion and power systems are missing entirely, and hypotheses our team has put forward for the cause include an explosion in the engines or fuel tanks, or a reactor explosion. While we already have a relatively intact model, this debris will still be an object of intense study for some time. October 28, 1984  The first three Design Study 001 spacecraft are launched. A massive reshuffling of ship commands immediately follows, with Pirate Radar, SavageGentleman, and Dirt508 reassigned from existing ship commands to the new spacecraft, and Veloxyll, HereticMind, Calebc789, BwenGun, and Rorac all given their first actual commands, three of them filling the newly-created vacancies and two assigned to recently-built FESTER ships. No formal hierarchy for the armed fleet has been officially defined, so the three ships are grouped into a provisional formation designated '1st Patrol Squadron', under the direct command of the Ministry of Outer Space Affairs. October 29, 1984  Upon request from the administrator of Mars, the ships built to surveil Cydonia, having been serviced and refueled, are dispatched right back to Mars again, where they will keep watch. November 3, 1984 An Israeli government spokesman delivers a fiery public speech denouncing 'communist imperialism' and pledging to fight for a strong and independent Israel to his last breath. The already-shaky Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, which had been trending up on cautious optimism about a possible opening of the country and the potential economic gains of increased international trade, promptly crashes. November 5, 1984 The Israeli government indefinitely halts stock trading. November 12, 1984   HRSA launches a revolutionary new passenger vessel. In addition to being fitted out entirely with Vasilyev-type cryopreservation tubes instead of standard passenger berths, the ship is more than twice as fast as any other vessel of its type currently in service, and has nearly double the range. The Princess of Mars is turned over to the Fraternal Order of Mars, and is a true interplanetary vessel, capable of carrying up to 50,000 people virtually anywhere in the Solar System and back again. Her name, design, and function are all representative of a single goal - to one day return to Mars, on our own terms. November 21, 1984   Hawaiian ship launches are almost routine at this point. The latest freighter is nearly identical to all the others they've launched, with a few modifications, and as with the others is immediately pressed into service on the Earth-Moon route. November 27, 1984    The last Proton-Electron pair ordered is ready, and is promptly dispatched to Venus. There's probably nothing on Venus, but, at this point, better safe than sorry. Sad King Billy is assigned to command the expedition. November 29, 1984  The latest surveillance expedition is sent on its way. November 30, 1984  Upon arrival, the Venus expedition enters orbit and activates the sensor arrays. They produce some fine multispectrum imagery of the planet's lifeless surface, and a wealth of scientific data, but no sign of little green men or Bermuda Triangle disappearances yet. They are acutely aware that both are definite possibilities at this point, and will be thorough and methodical in their search. December 8, 1984 After months of negotiations between the Israeli government, the Israeli left-wing opposition, and Palestinian national liberation forces, with frustratingly little headway, the Israeli junta pulls out of the process entirely, cutting off all official channels. The Israeli Communist Party, along with the PLO, are equally fed up, and representatives of both make quiet requests that the Comintern begin considering options for a military intervention. December 11, 1984 A coup d'etat occurs in Israel. The first evidence that such an event is occurring comes from FESTER surveillance, which detects weapons fire, explosions, and fires at Camp Rabin in Tel Aviv, followed by similar in Jerusalem and several other locations throughout the country. Reports quickly follow from contacts in the Israeli communist underground and the Palestinian resistance movement, both of which express confusion and disclaim responsibility. With fighting still ongoing, Israeli state television broadcasts a view of the Knesset chambers, with every seat filled by uniformed IDF soldiers. The man chairing the meeting, a major from his rank insignia, pushes through a slate of 'legislation', with all of the 'Knesset' voting unanimously for each one in sequence. The first strips the generals currently acting as the de facto Israeli government of rank and charges them with treason. The second orders that negotiations with the Communist Interplanetary be immediately resumed, and that mediation be sought. The third calls for new elections to the Knesset as soon as practical. The fourth and final is a declaration of martial law, with a strict curfew and orders for all civilians to remain in their homes 'for the duration of the crisis'. The People's Congress was weeks away and still being prepared, but given the urgency of the situation, the timeline is accelerated. It's nominally happening in Riga, but in practice few of the delegates are actually there, and the vast majority of this session will be done via videoconference. December 12, 1984 Fighting in Israel is dying down quickly, with the coup forces having seized most major state and military infrastructure and most of the junta already arrested or dead. The plotters seem to have been mid-level and low-level career IDF officers, mostly relatively young, and with no established connection to the Israeli left. They have already reached out to our diplomats, requesting that negotiations resume and urging that the Comintern not intervene militarily. They even propose a mediated Israeli-Palestinian summit, and request a specific man to mediate. The man they request is General Joe Slovo of the South African Defense Force. Slovo, a Jewish man of Lithuanian ancestry, has been an active South African Communist Party organizer since the 1940s and was one of the primary founders and leaders of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, which led the successful liberation struggle against apartheid. As a career military man, a communist, a veteran of both the fight against the Nazis in WW2 and the anti-apartheid struggle, and a well-regarded negotiator, he's highly respected by all parties involved. December 13, 1984 Weeks early, session is officially called to order.  The state of things.  Research.  Shipyards.    Planets. The Moon has experienced an unprecedented population explosion; the number of people there has nearly quadrupled in the last year, with virtually all of that growth being migrants from Earth. New settlements are springing up as fast as infrastructure can be shipped, sometimes a bit faster. Here is every piece of legislation you have passed to date: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nF1aPOZtM7RuXMZ42cDRW9xubv-EK8IH-hYn0RlxCdA/edit The 1984 legislative session is now open. Feel free to ask any questions you may have or request any additional information you need. If there is a specific organization or ministry whose work in the last year you are curious about, ask and I'll put together a short summary. Deliberations will remain open for 72 hours. All proposals require a second. Each representative is limited to three bills. Omnibus bills are permitted.
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Ministry Megapack Omnibus “Our bureaucracy must expand to meet the increased demands of our expanding bureaucracy.” We propose the creation of three new ministries within the CI, principally to meet the standards we have imposed upon ourselves with the Bill of Rights. These ministries are the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Population Statistics. They will oversee all relevant activities in CI territory. Example activities
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Antilles posted:Ministry Megapack Omnibus Seconded
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Feb 20, 2022 01:13
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Regional Forum Creation Act Expanding on the World and North American forums, this would create an equivalent for every major geographical region. Tentatively, these would be South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South-East Asia. Membership in a forum is non-exclusionary and their mandate is to resolve issues of: -International Diplomacy -Commerce and Trade -Resolving International Disputes -Negotiating Treaties With specific organs and jurisdiction being the wherewithal of forum members.
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Feb 20, 2022 01:45
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A Proposal for Increased Oceanographic Research Hawaii has given us the second example of a non-Comintern polity getting access to ET technology via oceanic salvage of crashed spacecraft. Clearly, we are behind the curve in this department. I propose a thorough surveying of Earth's oceans with a focus on hunting down any other crashed spacecraft. Assuming these ships crashed at random locations, there's about a 3 in 4 chance it would impact in one of earth's oceans. So far we have one in New Mexico, One near the Devil's Triangle that Japan found, and now Hawaii has one as well. It's sensible that there's at least one more down there. All the ocean salvage has been much less intact than the Roswell Object, with comparatively negligible scientific value. We can't take the chance that some hostile power finds something truly valuabe they could reverse-engineer. Geosurvey vessels currently idle can be tasked with orbital scans of the ocean right now, and in time we could develop TNE scanning equipment to be put on a small fleet of seacraft to do sweeps of the ocean floor. Ideally, we'd start in unquestionably Comintern controlled waters, though if possible a thorough study of the Indian Ocean would be good.
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Feb 20, 2022 01:57
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Asterite34 posted:A Proposal for Increased Oceanographic Research Seconded.
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NewMars posted:Regional Forum Creation Act Seconded
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Mister Bates posted:October 5, 1984 Headlines from German Newspapers on the morning of October 5, 1984 Die Riegerungzeitung (Official newspaper of the German central government, with all that that implies. The most coherent voice of the DVR's official position; provides mercilessly accurate transcripts of Volksrat proceedings) CHAIRMAN RUDI DUTSCHKE DIES PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEEP Cause of Death Currently Unknown, Expected as Complications from Head Wound National Government Declares Day of Mourning Die Tageszeitung (Third-largest German newspaper by circulation; founded after the DVR as a collective, long considered the “voice of the 68er-Bewegung”) RUDI THE RED DIES AGE 48, THE TORCH PASSES ONCE AGAIN Dutschke’s Energy and Vision Guided Us Through the Apocalypse to a Brighter Future Candlelight Vigil to Be Held at Berlin Free University Tonight Die Neue Welt (Once the most conservative paper in Germany and Axel Springer’s flagship; though collectivized and editorially reviewed, still considered the most cautious German paper) RUDI DUTSCHKE DIES AGE 48 Student, Speaker, Leader, Revolutionary, Chairman Europe Remembers the Pioneer of the Student Revolution; Condolences Sent From Kalmar Union, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union = = = = = = = Inaugural speech of Acting Chairman Peter Brandt, 5 October 1984 The second Chairman of the Deutsche Volksrepublik, Peter Brandt was originally the son of West German politician Willy Brandt, who famously defended his son’s choice to march in and be arrested in the student protests of 1968. Following his father’s death in 1969 and the Revolution, Peter Brandt became Berlin’s de facto leader during the chaos and was selected to be Minister for Education and Culture when the DVR was formed in 1973. Re-elected in 1978 and again in 1983, Brandt is a surprise pick for the position; at 36, he is quite young for a politician, even considering having been part of the 68er-Bewegung. Rumor suggests Chairman Dutschke expressed a desire to have Brandt succeed him. People of Germany, I am Peter Brandt, Minister for Education and Culture. I have been chosen, by the collective vote of the Ministerrat and with the approval of the Volksrat, to act as Chairman until elections can be organized. Last night, the German People’s Republic lost its dynamo. As you may have heard, Chairman Rudi Dutschke – my good friend – died in his sleep. While we do not yet know exactly why, it seems likely that the wound from being shot in 1968 finally claimed his life. I am thankful that I, and all of us, were granted as much time with his energy, his vision, and his strength as we were. He endured much to stay with us for that time; now, he can rest. (Chairman Brandt’s voice audibly shakes towards the end of this paragraph; there is a pause, and an audible inhalation, before he continues.) It falls to us to continue forward into the future. Chairman Dutschke believed, as I do, that history is a never-ending effort. It cannot end, and it cannot be reached quickly; life is a langer marsch, through power and to prosperity. That march and that history is made up of countless events, building onto each other into infinity, forwards to the future and backwards into the past. Kameraden, we cannot change what stones have already been laid down. I cannot force death to return my friend Rudi to us. We cannot un-detonate the bombs of the Great Revolutionary War, nor un-fire the gun which was aimed at Dutschke’s head, nor undo the mistakes of our fathers and their fathers. Nor can we get lost among them; the past is not a place for the living. We do not, and will not forget what has been done. We remember them – our mistakes, our failures, and our triumphs as well – and learn from them, and that is all we can do. We must keep marching, into the brighter future of the world. That is what Rudi Dutschke wanted for the people of Germany, and the people of the entire world. It is what I want, as well. On Monday, we shall return to work and continue our advance – towards the stars, and the future. But tonight, we shall mourn, and remember the man who threw open the door, and showed us the way. Thank you all. This has been Acting-Chairman Peter Brandt. Brandt would be given 78% confidence in the emergency elections on November 15, and officially become the second chairman of the Deutsche Volksrepublik, to serve out the remainder of the term until the 1988 elections. Vice-Minister Björn Bach succeeds him as Minister for Education and Culture. = = = = = = [The DVR is not currently prepared to propose or second any legislation, but expects to more thoroughly review the situation soon.] Redeye Flight fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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So we know that a bunch of people and stuff apparently fled to Antarctica during the GRW. This in mind, I feel we should take a look down there. Antarctic Reconnaissance and Research Proposal. This act will cover both the investigation of any existing settlements on the southern polar continent through physical (I. E. naval vessels) and electronic (FESTER) means with the aim of determining their current situation, as well as allowances for aid should they be in dire straits. Additionally, this act will fund the creation of research bases for the study of ecology, weather and similar fields on the continent, with a provision for an extra package of funding if there should be any discernible traces of extra-terrestrial or TNE sites in need of examination. -Noting that Antarctic settlements will have the right to international recognition and self-determination if they should choose. NewMars fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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Feb 20, 2022 07:45
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NewMars posted:So we know that a bunch of people and stuff apparently fled to Antarctica during the GRW. This in mind, I feel we should take a look down there. Tentatively seconded The delegate from Haiti would prefer if language supporting the self determination of the settlements and their welcome to the international community was added.
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Since it came up earlier that technically we could still build forced labour mines and stuff:quote:Amendment to the Universal Bill of Rights TDS fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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Feb 20, 2022 11:46
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Communist Zombie posted:Tentatively seconded Added.
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The delegate for the Pan-European Libertarian Socialist caucus introduces the following measure: The Lancing a FESTERing Boil Act Whereas the COMINTERP is the uncontested leader in space exploration, settlement aand militarisation Whereas the capitalist stay-behind organisations have largely spent their strength on the failed attacks of March 1st 1983 and the remaining capitalist nations have largely accepted the new global socialist framework Whereas the rapid advancements in computing power as a result of the TNE revolution allow ever faster analysis and connection of data from multiple sources Whereas the goal of socialism is the liberation of the human race from oppression and an end to class warfare Whereas the implementation of socialist thought depends on flawed institutions and individuals Whereas existing socialist states have already created secret police and surveillance agencies in the past Whereas an institution granted a power will always find a way to justify the continued use of said power Whereas the defeated capitalist class must not be replaced by a new bureaucratic class Let it be resolved that the capabilities of the global surveillance network FESTER need to be pruned to avoid the creation of a new surveillance bureaucracy and the abuse of these surveillance capabilities by existing agencies. To that end: - the FESTER surveillance of the territory and citizens of full COMINTERP members will cease immediately upon the passage of this legislation - the FESTER surveillance of the territory and citizens of COMINTERP-associated nations will cease five years after the passage of this legislation or the apprehension of the former US Joint Chiefs of Staff, whichever happens first Recognising the valuable contributions of the FESTER-system during the GLADIO crisis the only exception to this ban shall be a 24-hour waiver, to be requested by the affected COMINTERP member organisation in moments of crisis comparable to the GLADIO crisis, with a maximum number of two renewals for a total of 72 hours. Amendment 1) The data collected by FESTER will be made public no later than either 1) the program is ended completely or has de-facto been ended 2) all COMINTERP-recognised governments on Earth are either members or associates of the COMINTERP 3) a COMINTERP agency tasked with FESTER oversight finds that continued secrecy of FESTER data is no longer necessary The entirety of FESTER data shall be made available after suitable processing to protect individuals' privacy rights, while citizens of COMINTERP member organisations will have a right to receive any data collected on themselves. sheep-dodger fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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sheep-dodger posted:The delegate for the Pan-European Libertarian Socialist caucus introduces the following measure: Seconded althought I might suggest to add a clause providing for the publishing of the data collected during the operations (properly sanitized, obviously), to allow for public review of FESTERs operations.
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TDS posted:Since it came up earlier that technically we could still build forced labour mines and stuff: Seconded
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What's interesting is that we didn't seem to notice the TN deposit that was curiously not phased into a different dimension, while sitting on the sea floor, from our sensor equipment. Is it possible for us to use our sensors such as the FESTER platforms to actually look for TN materials where there ought not to be any?Kodos666 posted:Seconded This requires revealing the existence of FESTER to the world at large, something that the capitalist die hard forces in GLADIO haven't figured out the existence of yet. They may reason that we have some detection capabilities, but not the specifics. Their backs may be broken, but I would rather we be able to learn the fates of the rest of them than to learn that they've managed to quietly unload a platoon of marines onto Ascension Island via sub with a Fuel Air Bomb and a death wish. This platform should be leashed, but we still have plenty of reasons to use it without stooping to spying on domestic political enemies.
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I think that can be achieved by tying publication of FESTER records to either 1) the decommissioning of the program or 2) the accession of every recognised human government to either membership or association status in the COMINTERP. Once either of those happens the anonymised data gets made public (surely FESTER also produced data that would be valuable to academic study) and citizens get the ability to request their personal data, if such exists.
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