New CNN !!

[Pandemoniak]

After long debates and tractations, the Chironian News Network is back on duty ! Unfortunately, the new version of the CNN is not a weekly newspaper anymore.
Due to drastic cuts in the budget, CNN can not support and fund our journalists anymore, and Chief Editor Tassadar resigned after four months of hard work, still to be paid. After a large collect of funds organized by the CCCP in order to maintain a free newspaper, the CNN is now available, in a new and very democratic fashion : it is every citizens duty to go the CNN and post his/her own articles.

Ladies and Gentleman, let me introduce you to the New CNN building !

Please post only articles here, any comments can be made in our NONGDO (Non official, non governmental disorganisation) the RecTanks or in the RecCommons.

[Kassiopeia]

The Future of a Society

Principals

The human animal has always had a need to organize itself, to create a society. A unit of many people, deriving strength from each other, complementing and supporting each other. Society is the basis of all civilization, along with education and agriculture.

But not until the 19th Century was the human as a social animal regarded as an object of research. The advent of sociology brought forth such people like Karl Marx, who studied human behaviour in a society and analyzed it, trying to piece together a better system, something which would endure the 'test of time'.

The most important aspects of a social system are support from it's subjects, the citizenry, and it's ability to adapt to any new situation or crisis that may arise. If war breaks out, mobilization of industrial efforts is fluid and swift; if famine strikes, more effort can be directed to producing food.

It's the tradition of this research in sociology, and the tradition of other humanistic sciences, that are being carried on by our Directorate of Social Engineering here on the new world Chiron. No more are people divided by lines drawn on maps ages ago, or what colour their skin might be - instead, those with similar thoughts and ideas huddle together to create their own utopia.

This is the challenge that the Directors of Social Engineering face - to produce the perfect society. It is a task that shall require massive efforts from countless people, but the end result is uncomparable to any other human achievement - for those achievements spring off the foundation that is called the society.

It's a Kind of Magic

In our first term I worked as our Director of Social Engineering. Foreseeing the immense task of building a utopia for our descendants, I decided not to reach to far on my own and instead kept on constructing a basis from which to start on, for the next Directors to use as a guideline and for help. Our technological level was yet somewhat meager, and the ideas of such concepts as Democracy, Free Market economics, or Knowledge values, had not yet been refined to a doctrine which to peruse in Social Engineering.

So, instead of making the world better, I and my staff just made it easier for the next people to make it better.

It was fascinating, though, to watch as the computer networks and protocols were quietly set up in our office, in the higher levels of the Headquarters building at New Apolyton. After we managed to uplink our consoles to the mainframe and the datalinks, we started writing programmes effectively from scratch. The splintering of the Unity mission was something no one, I myself included, expected, yet this affected our plans greatly.

The perfect example of our wrk is the Social Engineering Controlling and Executing Program, SECEP. SECEP is directly linked via commlinks to all the other bases, and in every base there is a specific SECEP node connected to the central unit at Headquarters. The SECEP works as a communications and information network between the D of SE and his subordinates in other bases, and serves the Director with a direct connection to the energy banks and network nodes. Via these, in the future as our tech level allows, the Director can swiftly and just by moving energy credits around here and there alter the Society's current status, helping it to amend to the new parametres and bringing effect the new regulations.

What the Future Holds

Then what challenges shall the future Directors of Social Engineering (and, if the people so wish, possibly me among them) face when striving for our ultimate goal?

Other factions pose an interesting factor. Our selections, settings and ideologues are bound to clash with others. Namely the Believers, the Hive and the Spartans, who adore blind fundamentalism, direct civil control and oppression, and the toils of war over values like democracy, free will and scientific knowledge. Will the Director follow suit with these idealogues to maintain peace, or will he stick up with them and, in a way, manifest the ideals - war, hatred - he so much detests?

Also comes the question of morale. Already, a subsection of populace is slowly growing in numbers - the Drones. The next Directors will likely have to resort to increasing education funds and the support and number of recreational facilities to keep the number of Drones in check. This will bring an extra player to the ever-interesting field of factional economics, which so far have been only producing bulk materials like Colony Pods and churning out energy to run the research laboratories.

And what about our own utopia? As technological progress picks up pace, we will face new social chances and possibilities the previous generation had never even dreamt of. Choices of complete happiness, or maybe complete ignorance (then again, what's the difference?). With the co-ordinated efforts of the Directorates of Research and Social Engineering, these new ideas can be discovered and refined, and maybe in the end, what waits us is, indeed, the perfect world we strive to create.

[Pandemoniak]

Archaic murdered: Pandemoniak suspected
by John P. -L. Milton

Four days ago, about 2130 NAT (New Apolytonian Time), a maintenance agent found Archaic's body in the Recycling Tanks. The fifth citizen of our UN Peacekeepers has been found dead, mutilated by many heinous injuries. “It was awful! I found his head five foots ahead of his neck, with his intestines between!” told the maintenance agent to CNN reporters. We all remember the flagrant defeat of Archaic after the last elections, but it is obvious that it is not suicide. Chief Inspector Hercules is in charge of the investigation, and the first evidences led to Pandemoniak, notoriously public agitator and founder of the CCCP. According to our sources, the main lead to Pandemoniak was mobile. “Everyone in politics presented their condolences to the family, while Pandemoniak maintained the Celebration of the Anniversary of the October Revolution. I found that was a proof of guiltiness” said C. I. Hercules, from unconfirmed sources. Anyway, Pandemoniak has been freed for lack of proof, and Hercules’ investigation is following a new lead: Frankychan, notoriously another agitator and leader of the Pro-Hive movement since Cpt. Markos has been murder onboard Unity and the separation of the Spaceship crew in seven factions.

[Darkness' Edge]

Um, dude...would you mind consulting with the co-editor of the CNN before you make any decisions as to its future?

I hate to break it to you, but the CNN will be continuing as a weekly edition, starting again regularly as of Thursday. I posted this yesterday in the CNN General Issues thread, after discussions with Tass.

Though this week's edition might be a little short, due to you just covering half the articles.

I'll take this chance to make another call for submissions...get them to me ASAP!

[Kassiopeia]

Blah. I just wanted to post that thing *somewhere*.

[Darkness' Edge]

It can always be republished in the proper channels.

[DeathByTheSword]

kass great story btw.....