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The Galaxy Weekly - Week 45 Year 2187
TGW - The finest news outlet in civilized space and beyond! Hello, and welcome back to The Galaxy Weekly, where we will sate your thirst for knowledge, whether it is the latest news about Tagalong or quarian fashion and the so-called posterior windows! [LIFE] New book about Hierarchy's clients tells it all! You'd think you had seen it all after the war, but here's a literary treat for you bookworms! While I Paint My Face Every Morning might not have the most enticing title that has come out, it surely offers an interesting story! Coming straight from a human client in service of the Hierarchy, it offers an interesting point of view into the turian world through eyes of a human from the inside before, during and after the Reaper Wars. Few literary critics who have gotten their hands on it have stated that it's a fresh and unique account approaching self-biography at times, but the first-time nature of the writing clearly shows through at times. Overall, I Paint My Face Every Morning is worth one look at least! [POLITICS] Terra Nova revolts...in tax revenues! In yet another show of human separatism towards the transitional Systems Alliance government, Terra Novan capital Scott has seen a surge in businessholders and entrepreneurs who have refused to submit what they are due to the government in taxes. The 'Businesses for free Terra Nova' spokesman Hanson Killaney stated in a speech held last week, that they are done running charity for Earth and expect them to start paying for their goods like anyone else is doing, opposed to leeching resources and revenue from the colonies. Terra Novan administration reminded in turn that this can be interpreted as treason in the worst cases of civil disobedience, with all the punishments crimes of such severity carry, and warned 'Businesses for free Terra Nova' to pay their taxes before MPs are needed to bring them in. [POLITICS] Terminus colony withdraws bounty for Cmd. Shepard, donates it to charity The small colony of Petrol Coast in the Terminus systems, that placed a bounty on the late Commander Shepard in the aftermath of Bahak relay incident has now withdrawn it, and donated the sum of 50 000 credits to war orphans' foundation. Petrol Coast Civil Protection (PCCP) Chief Commissioner Yang: "This warrant no longer serves the purpose it had before the war, and the people of Petrol Coast wish to make amends. The bounty will be taken down and commander Shepard will be pardoned by the PCCP in light of her sacrifice over Earth. The 50 000 credits we put aside for the bounty will be given to war orphans. God knows they need it more than we do now." [PEOPLE] Rothla still holds secrets? Rothla, Krogan Demilitarized Zone. Trove of conspiracy theories. Field of shattered ice and rock. Last resting place of the deadliest weapon the krogan ever conceived? Maybe. While CDEM in the Krogan DMZ has stepped down its presence in the cluster, patrols still regularly make tours around the shattered ice dwarf, detaining would-be treasure hunters and explorers from the hazard that the debris field still presents, one lucky man made it through the cordon and returned with something worthwhile. A salarian daredevil whose name we shall not disclose for safety reasons braved turian patrols and deadly debris to come back with a trunk full of krogan artefacts dating back to the closing years of the Rebellions. While his catch was merely every-day items ranging from entertainment holos to antiquated guns and paperweights, there are patterns that suggest of a much more wealthy cache left somewhere in the Rothla debris field. |
 Mombasa Giants Fan |
Hang on. Don't we know a human working for the Hierarchy?
And who the fuck would've been able to cash in a bounty on Commander Shepard? But I like what they are doing witht he funds. Nice of them. Current Location: Illium. At least it's warm |
 korwungorik |
Bah, the local clans should do something about the cordon around Rothla. The CDEM might have been spiney-headed bullies but at least they kept the place secure. Now anyone can just [translator error, did you mean 'waltz'?] in and loot the tombs of our ancestors.
Good to hear Petrol Coast dropped that bounty. It's been bouncing around the Terminus for the last year and every now and then some slab-crested idiot who's watched too much Irontooth the Bounty Hunter will try and collect it by handing in some mumified remains and claiming they're Shepard's. The greatest victory is not the defeat of an enemy, or the eradication of a threat, but the simple acceptance that everything changes, and there is nothing you can do to stop that. |
 Mikemerc |
They're planing to charge (and possibly execute) people for treason, because they refuse to pay their taxes.
Do they want to start a war? Michael Thompson, Freelance mercenary. |
 hierarchy_dad  |
I needed the money!
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell |
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wait
you wrote a book |
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Lime Spider We Will Overcome |
They're planing to charge (and possibly execute) people for treason, because they refuse to pay their taxes.
Do they want to start a war? Soulless businesses refuse to help feed the starving and put roofs over their heads, all because they'd prefer to turn a bigger profit. Do they want to start a war? Bloody seppers. Proud to have my feet on Earth again. Even prouder that they're in SATAE boots. |
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Mikemerc |
Soulless businesses refuse to help feed the starving and put roofs over their heads, all because they'd prefer to turn a bigger profit.
Do they want to start a war? Bloody seppers. So they've been rebuilding places like the Sydney Opera House so people could live in them? Michael Thompson, Freelance mercenary. |
 Mr_Sandman |
'Businesses for free Terra Nova'
The idiots. Soulless businesses refuse to help feed the starving and put roofs over their heads, all because they'd prefer to turn a bigger profit.
It's not even that. It's more of the fact that even if they were completely and utterly devoid of compassion or empathy they still shouldn't be doing this. SATAE is the best chance for long term growth and stability in human dominated space. Businesses need that stability to recover, rebuild, and expand. And these people are so stupidly short sighted that they'd rather have a giant dickwaving contest than shut up and think. I needed the money!
...what One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. -Niccolo Machiavelli |
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Lime Spider We Will Overcome |
So they've been rebuilding places like the Sydney Opera House so people could live in them?
Yeah, cause the geth are the ones taking all your taxes.I work in Lagos, arsehole, trying to rebuild the city enough that people can move in from the refugee camps. So far, we've got working lights for three k's inwards from the coast. Means that crime's have gone down, and more people are out at night. Fewer burglaries, fewer assaults, fewer rapes. Next up's the new desalination plant, so we can free up more water for drinking and sewage. After that, enough manufactories to be self-sufficient. All built with colonial resources, paid for with Earther taxes. How about you, mm? Where are you working? What have you rebuilt? Edit for Sandman: It's not even that. It's more of the fact that even if they were completely and utterly devoid of compassion or empathy they still shouldn't be doing this SATAE is the best chance for long term growth and stability in human dominated space. Businesses need that stability to recover, rebuild, and expand. And these people are so stupidly short sighted that they'd rather have a giant dickwaving contest than shut up and think.
That what I don't get. SATAE provides stability, and these guys are trying to uproot it. How do these people manage to stay afloat? Proud to have my feet on Earth again. Even prouder that they're in SATAE boots. |
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Mikemerc |
Where are you working?
I've out in terminus the since the war began. What have you rebuilt?
Me and my people spent most of the past year helping turn a run-down corporate mining site into a relatively livable colony. Michael Thompson, Freelance mercenary. |
 Nat |
So they've been rebuilding places like the Sydney Opera House so people could live in them?
Geth rebuilt that, arsehole. I spent six months on Earth following the Battle of London, in a 'hospital', if you could call it that. For the first few months it was tents on the ground-when it rained the ground would get all muddy. I nearly died because they kept running out of medical supplies. The lucky wounded got put in the hospital ships, but the amount of wounded was enormous, especially once the civilians began flooding in and needed treatment for malnutrition, disease, injury. They came to us in their thousands, begging for anything-food, water, protection. The Alliance nearly buckled under the weight of the wounded. And then what? Where do you start with so many cities in ruins? What about the eezo in the air? What about the ordnance left unexploded? Where do you find the money, the resources? And you know what? It must be frustrating for the colonies, to have so many of their resources taken to the homeworld. But it is a sacrifice for the good of humanity. There are billions of people on Earth without shelter, without a reliable source of clean water, without power, at the mercy of gangs and chaos. And these people are more concerned with their money. That's selfish. Those taxes aren't lining Hackett's pockets, they're feeding civilians and rebuilding cities. Me and my people spent most of the past year helping turn a run-down corporate mining site into a relatively livable colony.
Really think that's got anything on Earth? First Sergeant Natalie King, 2/4th Marines |
 Pariah |
I needed the money!
How much did they pay? |
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Mikemerc |
Really think that's got anything on Earth?
no. But it's ours. Michael Thompson, Freelance mercenary. |
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Nat |
no.
But it's ours. Good for you. But wait until you look on a few hundred refugees waiting outside the military base for something before you talk about how we want to start a war. First Sergeant Natalie King, 2/4th Marines |
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Material Rescue |
I might just be new here, but this is starting to look like a threshold for when the discussion-turned-argument further devolves into a self-gratifying flame war. I would like for that to not happen, at least so quickly, if it's not too much trouble. To put in my two credits, though: SATAE aren't the only ones working to rebuild and restabilize Earth, and even the best-planned governments don't last forever. But I wouldn't trade them for the options presented as alternatives. I think that, while the Five-Year Plan isn't an idea that sits well with a lot of people, it remains the best humanity's got right now. Personally I think we should work from the ground up, and focus more on rebuilding and repairing homes and other infrastructure before we worry about what style of government we have.
As for Earth's relations to its Colonies, however, I can't say other than trying some kind of revolution is a terrible idea, so I hope that never happens. On the one hand, we did establish those colonies for the resources in their vicinities. On the other, I don't know what life is like for them, and what it might cost them to send those resources to us, or have them taken. |
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Mr_Sandman |
hat what I don't get. SATAE provides stability, and these guys are trying to uproot it. How do these people manage to stay afloat?
Probably drunk off nationalism and local support. Thing is, they won't. For any corporation of appreciable size to survive in this day and age they need trade, customers, and extra-system contacts. This? What this group is doing is akin to cutting themselves off from the ocean to splash around in a kiddie pool. Any advantage conferred is artificial, hurts the consumers, and is ultimately temporary. Of course they might just decide to jump into the water without any protection whatsoever, which is a bad idea in all kind of ways. Seriously that's the thing I don't get about the seperatist mentality. If you break away from the Alliance you're not going to stay free. There are hundreds upon hundreds of organizations that outclass you both militarily and economically. And you're deluding yourself if you think that a lightly defended, virtually self sufficient, densely occupied colony with industry and agriculture isn't an appealing target. You'll either be raided, annexed, or burned (or any combination thereof). And to forestall the inevitable "we can take care of ourselves" argument, whatever flotilla you scavenge together won't be worth shit. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. -Niccolo Machiavelli |
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That what I don't get. SATAE provides stability, and these guys are trying to uproot it. How do these people manage to stay afloat?
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Go Terra Nova, no taxation without representation.
As entrepeneur myself I can only support the Noveans. interpreted as treason in the worst cases of civil disobedience
Treason? For tax evation? What is next? Jaywalking as capital offense?If this line of thought continues we will see revolts instead of token acts of civil disobedience. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." - Judge Aaron Satie |
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Nat |
Go Terra Nova, no taxation without representation.
As entrepeneur myself I can only support the Noveans. What part of 'those taxes are rebuilding Earth' do you not get? People are without clean water, without electricity. they're living in ruins. You get to sit on the Citadel and talk about 'representation', but a lot of people on Earth don't get that luxury. Have fun with your feelings of moral superiority. First Sergeant Natalie King, 2/4th Marines |
