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UF Thursday Writers Group | by Klaranth | 2009-01-29 01:30:02 |
| Update is up! |
by FNORDer |
2009-01-29 03:18:57 |
I'm just going to post the link to the first page of this week's update as I'm sick of ID9King three different links. The blog is on the front page, and the story menu is pretty straightforward.
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Now, as to recent content... I'm not going to post my most-favourite recent paragraph as that gives away too much about next week's update, so here's another of my favourites instead:
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I looked at Albert "So what do they want?"
Albert sighed. "As a whole? To keep what they already have. As individuals: anything they can get away with." He stared off into the distance a moment. "Alex the entire class system is built off trying to keep the common person down. More so here than anywhere else. The story they tell you that its about finding the right career for everyone, that's just the convenient cover story. I mean we know it works, but why is it compulsory?"
It had never struck me until that moment that there may have been ulterior motives beyond the pure bureaucracy of the Coalition it gave me goosebumps thinking that there was indeed a conspiracy, it felt validating, devious too.
Albert smiled at me, knowingly. "When the colonists first came to Gallerion, conditions were harder than expected on account of the storms, people died from lightning strikes, the settlement was polarised between the regular settlers and the miners who had come here for the mineral wealth." Albert paused. "It was private citizens who had invested money into settling Gallerion, and their fledgeling corporation was under threat from unionism. Now, demands of the miners were fair, but the settlement's council was more afraid of the movement's leader, Felix Crowe. He was little more than a thug, and uneducated as well." Albert looked up at me. "You can see where this is going."
It was rhetorical, but I still nodded.
Albert sat back, getting into the flow of his tale "Crowe was pushing for elections, and he had enough sway with the miners and a slim margin of support from the rest of the populace. But, Gallerion had no set laws for such conditions, it wasn't even a year old after all, and when Crowe demanded one be drawn up, it fell to the council." Albert sighed. "So they combined a battery of tests which they knew would say everything they needed to exclude Crowe, and in their rush to prevent him from running for office, they created what we now today as the Lewis Goldberg test."
I shook my head. "I take it the miners didn't like what happened?"
Albert nodded. "There was a riot, Crowe was killed and the council used the whole incident as proof of the test's effectiveness. For decades afterwards the test was used to keep the two halves of Gallerion apart until nobody could remember what had been the original reason, and by that point it worked so well that nobody even considered changing it."
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