Quote:I used to work behind the scenes in social work, concentrating on the stuff that falls under the umbrella of "family violence". It eventually bothered me so much that I changed jobs... but I was in for long enough to learn that this is aberrant behaviour, not normal behaviour. It's all-too-common, but it's not how the majority behaves.
i'd still like to argue for the existence of slavery because it's part of human nature to want to dominate, even when it's just irrational to do so.
Quote:I'd like to know how they manage this, considering that the single largest "faction" is Unorganized Fandom. Even the Trekkies have to bow before the 40% of Fenspace that doesn't follow any faction - or curry their votes, which rules out "pushing" any agenda.
The majority rule aspect of the convention is a de facto hegemony, particularly as the most populous factions/micronations/states/post-states push their own agendas against the smaller factions/et. al.
Quote:Ack! It's nowhere near ready for a sticky yet - it's still a work in progress. (However, the Convention part was written by Comrade Fnord, so I'm not messing with that...)
you should probably get the Quick Start stickied or something
Quote:For an example, see "With Liberty and Great Justice...," where it's revealed Noah and Yoriko cancelled out each other's votes at the SOS-Con despite being practically in shared command of a minor faction.
This isn't some guy saying "I represent X number of Trekkies so I have X votes, it's each person voting their own mind, either in person or by calling it in.
Quote:Yep. For example, consider R. Yayoi Fujisawa: she's fond of her creator and can't imagine living anywhere other than in his space station (which is for all intents and purposes an independant city-state); the Stellvians have declared her to be their incarnate goddess - she isn't happy about this, but doesn't tell them to cut it out; she considers the factotum of Hephaestus (for all intents and purposes, another independant city-state, which doesn't always agree with her home city-state) to be her third-best friend, and doesn't really care whether Hermes considers their friendship to be that close; and, least importantly, she's a reserve Senshi. (And this is one of the easier cases to diagram out...)
You're also forgetting that in fenspace it's not uncommon to 'multiple citizenships'. Just because someone identifies themselves mainly as, say, a Warsie, that doesn't mean they don't also consider themselves a Browncoat/Fiver/Super/Barsoomian/ect. Not to mention the Generalists.
How would Yayoi vote in a Senshi-backed initiative that would disadvantage Noah, or WireGeek, or the Stellvians? (Hint: probably not with the Senshi.)
Quote:And the rest of us, too...
what is in the articles? that's up to Commisar Mfnord to decide.
Quote:Why not? I suspect they'd be called "Sith," by the way.
hmm. could someone be both a boskone and a warsie?
As for other factions:
I've already mentioned a Boskonian Wizard in one of my stories, but didn't come up with the name "Death Eater" until later.
Boskonian Trekkies could be buried inside of Section 31, or calling themselves Section 31 if the actual Trekkie secret service has some other name - either way, they'd likely be planning to attempt a takeover sometime down the line. (Yes, of course the large factions have secret services; they're far too useful against the Boskonians to not have one or more. Heck, Noah's got one, and he runs a small "middle power" in Fenspace.)
As for Fiver Boskonians: "Tell me, what do you want?"
The entry for Military Fen specifically states they can be found on both sides of the conflict.
Boskonina Ninja are particularly reprehensible, in that they're the ones who point out to other Boskonians just which ships are carrying the attractive, fit, agile, teenaged girls... (When Noah was still on staff of Operation Great Justice, he didn't allow these scum to be killed out-of-hand; he gave them back to the Ninja, with proof of their crimes.)
And Boskonian Pirates give the term "pirate" a bad connotation...
Quote:This capitalization of this phrase makes wonder what Fenspace's R.O.D fen are like...
the Paper Constitution
Quote:Note the phrase "reasonable punishment" - if Noah were to shove this goomba out the nearest airlock without first checking to make sure there was a ship on the other side, Noah would be up on charges. (Mind you, if the goomba was to threaten to kill Yayoi while she escorted him to the nearest airlock, and looked like he could do it, that's another matter... at least, as far as Noah's concerned. Stellvia takes care of its own.)
That guy playing his Belter Shatterjam at 130DbM at 3:am local in a Stellvia residential block is not breaking the law - he's breaking Stellvia residential regulations, and is liable for reasonable punishment thereunder.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012