Terran Reconstruction Proceeds Apace Bringing Hope, Complications

Terran Reconstruction Proceeds Apace Bringing Hope, Complications

By Piotr Borowiec, Tayseri Times

New York City, Earth- In a press conference held this morning, the Administrator for the Atlantic North-East UNAS Region, General Armand Yazdani of the SAMC 25th Armored Brigade confirmed rumors that the political bloc as a whole has reached the projected Sixty Five Percent barrier well within scheduled time constraints. A largely unofficial policy implemented under the Hackett administration, the Sixty Five Percent barrier refers to the critical threshold of pre-War conditions at which a given Administrative region of an industrialized nation will generally be able to meet the minimal conditions for self sustainment. In the UNAS overlapping areas of infrastructural reconstruction, agricultural augmentation, and geographical pacification have created one of the largest “Reclaimed Zones” outside the Yangtze River Valley East, Ganges River Valley North-Northeast, Southern Chinese Pacific (home of the Greater Hong Kong Province), Persian Gulf North-Central, and Central-Northwest Russian.

Stretching from the Great Lakes region to encompass a vast swathe of the Eastern seaboard, the region was and remains one of the most densely populated and heavily industrialized sectors on the continent, collectively home to better than a hundred and fifty million people. As a result it was prioritized for redevelopment shortly after the Crucible Event and the military’s assumption of planetary authority.

“Truly, this represents a great step forward” stated General Yazdani, “not only for the people of the UNAS but the Reconstruction effort as a whole. With Atlantic North-East producing net gains of both finished goods and agricultural product we are better situated to aid areas in more desperate need. Both within the UNAS and abroad.”

However such actions, while unavoidable given the ratio of military to civilian on the planet, may have profound consequences for regional geopolitics in the future. Dr. Isaac Herzog, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University had this to say on the subject, “Fragmentation, either in three years or thirty, because of actions taken today, is a very real, very tangible concern. These regions are developing in tandem ahead of their fellows, forming more personalized fiscal and material bonds under the aegis of the Systems Alliance. Factor in demographic shifts to the protected areas and I, personally, would not be surprised to see some of the global megastates such as the UNAS collapse into a number of smaller, independent nations in the future.”

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