Hope you don't mind, I took that idea and ran. The People's Free Daily is the news that is allowed to be printed!
Far Frontiers Gateway sector
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Great mind think alike?
Right now, I'm imagining someone saying, 'The Headlines are so different! It's like getting the weather report from two competing news networks!' And now I feel like I'm giving up Plot ideas...
027-2509 Gateway News Service- New Paris
The People’s Free Daily has taken over reporting from the Gateway News Service which has been dis-accredited by the Ministry of Culture and Media. The People’s Free Daily is a news vid that promises only the best and most accurate reporting on things occurring on New Paris, unlike the Gateway News Service.
In its first issue, the PFD’s lead article states that President Vert D’Argent is working tirelessly for the benefit of the people of New Paris, and the slanderous reports that appeared in the Gateway News are false. The writers who are all former employees of the Ministry of Culture and Media have tirelessly worked to ensure that only truthful information is released, for the best interests of the people of New Paris.
In a report on the Organization Armee Secret (OAS), the PFD reports that the leadership of the OAS were well known perverts and moral degenerates who have been in the pay of foreign powers looking to sell out New Paris to those evil doers. Also they have applauded the arrests of family members of the OAS and Free French rebels, and their incarceration in Camps de travail (work camps) where they can pay their debt to the people of New Paris under the slogan Le travail rend libre (Work makes you free) a slogan from the far past which the President and his administration have much admiration for as they have used it as one of their slogans.
The PFD also reports that the President has ordered that a new motto of Travail, famille, patrie ( work, family, fatherland) to be included on all currency, letterheads, and official correspondence. Again, President D’Argent has found this motto from the years past and it has become his favorite.
The PFD is reporting that “several” criminals suspected of sympathies with the Free French have been rounded up, and shot in the village of Pays de Loire. The criminals apparently did not cheer loud enough during a required political meeting in the village square. They were arrested for Manque d'esprit patriotique (Lack of Patriotic Spirit), a new crime under the revised statutes which were enacted by the new Estates General appointed by President D’Argent after the dissolution of the old Estates due to treason.
The People’s Free Daily has taken over reporting from the Gateway News Service which has been dis-accredited by the Ministry of Culture and Media. The People’s Free Daily is a news vid that promises only the best and most accurate reporting on things occurring on New Paris, unlike the Gateway News Service.
In its first issue, the PFD’s lead article states that President Vert D’Argent is working tirelessly for the benefit of the people of New Paris, and the slanderous reports that appeared in the Gateway News are false. The writers who are all former employees of the Ministry of Culture and Media have tirelessly worked to ensure that only truthful information is released, for the best interests of the people of New Paris.
In a report on the Organization Armee Secret (OAS), the PFD reports that the leadership of the OAS were well known perverts and moral degenerates who have been in the pay of foreign powers looking to sell out New Paris to those evil doers. Also they have applauded the arrests of family members of the OAS and Free French rebels, and their incarceration in Camps de travail (work camps) where they can pay their debt to the people of New Paris under the slogan Le travail rend libre (Work makes you free) a slogan from the far past which the President and his administration have much admiration for as they have used it as one of their slogans.
The PFD also reports that the President has ordered that a new motto of Travail, famille, patrie ( work, family, fatherland) to be included on all currency, letterheads, and official correspondence. Again, President D’Argent has found this motto from the years past and it has become his favorite.
The PFD is reporting that “several” criminals suspected of sympathies with the Free French have been rounded up, and shot in the village of Pays de Loire. The criminals apparently did not cheer loud enough during a required political meeting in the village square. They were arrested for Manque d'esprit patriotique (Lack of Patriotic Spirit), a new crime under the revised statutes which were enacted by the new Estates General appointed by President D’Argent after the dissolution of the old Estates due to treason.
013-2509 Gateway News Service- Marduk
The colony of Egyptos, which was founded as a Utopian colony by a group of settlers who wanted to have an Ancient Egypt themed colony, has announced that it was going to cease taking in colonists who refuse to conform to their "Cultural Norms". The current Pharaoh, who was elected by the colonists has decided to take this step since refugees from other colonies who came in during the Gilfig war are refusing to conform to the colonies charter which requires all persons to adopt an "Egyptian" persona with the colony being situated along a large river which they have called the Nile (of course), in a desert area of Marduk that was not initially attractive to settlement. This group came from the Western European nations of old Terra along with some North Americans, but oddly few real Egyptians. As is common for Utopian colonies, things are a bit mixed up. The colony has a population of 61,000 more or less.
The Current Pharaoh, Amhotep III has decreed, and the Council agreed, that those who refuse to conform will be asked to depart the colony. Other colonies have stated that while it is no sillier than the City State group on Dunwich, at least the Egyptian colony provides a great deal of agricultural produce for Marduk. The general opinion is that they are or should be allowed to run their colony the way they want it run.
The local businesses have set up shop in classical buildings, with none over three stories in height, but some Trans stellar corporations have built pyramidal structures for their offices, with some actually getting with the swing of the colony. So far no mineral strikes have been found which would turn it from an agricultural colony to a rich one. But modern agricultural methods are used, just suitably disguised. Marduk where the odd is commonplace, the settlers of this world were perhaps not the sharpest knives in the drawer of their respective countries.
The colony of Egyptos, which was founded as a Utopian colony by a group of settlers who wanted to have an Ancient Egypt themed colony, has announced that it was going to cease taking in colonists who refuse to conform to their "Cultural Norms". The current Pharaoh, who was elected by the colonists has decided to take this step since refugees from other colonies who came in during the Gilfig war are refusing to conform to the colonies charter which requires all persons to adopt an "Egyptian" persona with the colony being situated along a large river which they have called the Nile (of course), in a desert area of Marduk that was not initially attractive to settlement. This group came from the Western European nations of old Terra along with some North Americans, but oddly few real Egyptians. As is common for Utopian colonies, things are a bit mixed up. The colony has a population of 61,000 more or less.
The Current Pharaoh, Amhotep III has decreed, and the Council agreed, that those who refuse to conform will be asked to depart the colony. Other colonies have stated that while it is no sillier than the City State group on Dunwich, at least the Egyptian colony provides a great deal of agricultural produce for Marduk. The general opinion is that they are or should be allowed to run their colony the way they want it run.
The local businesses have set up shop in classical buildings, with none over three stories in height, but some Trans stellar corporations have built pyramidal structures for their offices, with some actually getting with the swing of the colony. So far no mineral strikes have been found which would turn it from an agricultural colony to a rich one. But modern agricultural methods are used, just suitably disguised. Marduk where the odd is commonplace, the settlers of this world were perhaps not the sharpest knives in the drawer of their respective countries.
Marduk is not thought of well by the rest of the sector. A common joke about Marduk is: "People who get divorced on Marduk are still legally brother and sister." Marduk did not get the finest quality settlers, nor was it fully surveyed before the colonies were planted. Mostly it was a place to dump those who the home countries wanted to get rid of for whatever reason. Marduk is the butt of many jokes, and sadly most are true and accurate.
And yet, everyone copies their walking technique.
ROTFLMAO!
When I was working for the Sheriff's Office as a patrol deputy back in the dark ages of the past, we had an unincorporated municipality in our county (which was mostly rural), which I have based Marduk on, at least twice a week I would get a call there, and after the circumstances were explained, I would just stand there in stunned bemusement, because every.single.time I said: "I have seen it all, it just cannot get any weirder!", folks in this are would do something so spectacularly unreal, I would just shake my head, and say to myself: "Well, I never thought I would see that.... That certainly took...talent". So Marduk represents this locale, which was just the most "special" place, and later as an investigator, I would cringe to see a case cross my desk from this locale. Things that if I actually told people about, they would never believe it and call me a liar. On the stand in court for a murder case, and the defense asked: "Do you believe this area is haunted?" I almost said: no, but even Monty Python could not come up with some of the things these folks do...
SLANG TERMS
Bad War: A mercenary contract that goes bad in a big way.
Bad News Boys: Orbital Quarantine Service
Banger: A member of a gang.
Bollywood Hero: A person who wants to be a hero and get medals, glory, fame, and fortune despite the cost to others. Generally avoided if at all possible, or sent on dangerous missions...by himself.
Bill the Cat: An Aslan who has had too much intoxicants and is out of control. Not a good thing.
Corp: Someone who works for a corporation, a suit, a stuffed shirt, someone who hires people to do their dirty work. Generally pejorative in content.
Cowboy: A bounty Hunter
Company Picnic: A corporate war
Cop/Consto/Duster//Le Flic/The Boss man: Police. Duster is New Canberra and Outback slang for the constabulary. Le Flic is New Paris speak for cop. Consto=Constable/Constabulary
Crawler: A large mining machine which tears things up to get to ore. Often targets of environmentalists, or other crawlers
Crawler Jockey: A crewman on a mining crawler.
CyberNinja: A person who specializes in corporate espionage. Also someone who specializes in black operations involving data breaches which cause chaos.
Damaged Goods: Escaped Genetic Slaves who have issues due to the experiments and breeding done to them. Used by GeneCo. It has become a badge of pride on Dunwich.
Drink the tea: A gang (or other) get together on neutral ground to work out problems.
Drop the Rock: Orbital Bombardment, very illegal under the Gateway Treaty. Planets are to be given a chance to surrender when their orbitals are controlled.
Dutchman: A person who is lost in space, as in Flying Dutchman.
Excess Fun: Collateral Damage.
Fixer: Someone who can “fix” things, either by finding the item(s), connecting clients with people who can help them deal with a problem, or who can obtain “things”, often times not really legal. A middleman.
Furball: A Vargr
Get the Baguette: New Parisian Slang for BOHICA, get the shaft, however much ruder and much more direct.
Genie: A genetically enhanced or modified human. There are prejudices against those who have been “modified”
Gilfiggie: A worshiper of the Gilfig faith, now refers to people who are trying to restore the Gilfig temple, but without success. Has come to mean a dumb person.
Goat Rope: Where multiple cowboys are competing for the same contract.
Good War: A mercenary contract where everything goes right.
Grey Goo: Chemical or biological weapon.
Hot Deck/Hot Decker: An enhanced cyberdeck or someone who uses an enhanced cyberdeck for work (and play).
HR Specialist: A black operations operative specializing in less than legal operations for individuals, corporations, or governments. An HR Specialist can do anything from assassinations, to shooting the martini glass out of the hand of their target to send a message.
Lost Boy/Lost Girl: A person who aged out of anagathics, and has has become a nihilist, or has lost purpose in life since they will age normally. Those who were not able to get their doses during the period when Mega-Whale pus was not available.
Long Range HR Specialist: A sniper
Lurker: Someone who is on a space station and has no job, survives by taking on jobs that are usually not completely legal, or illegal. Lives in whatever area they can find and stay away from Station Security. Lurkers are always down on their luck, and usually are dealt with very harshly when Station Staff has to deal with them. Some have been lurkers for two or three generations.
Media: A person who works in the media, a reporter, or management. Usually has a slightly negative connotation as a muckraker.
Netrunner: A computer hacker, someone who is hired to run the ‘net and collect data, either legally or illegally.
Nomad: A Free Trader who has no set home port, and is usually dealing in “grey” items, out of their ship,usually held together by spit, wire, and hope. Willing to take pretty much any cargo as long as it brings in cash.
Random: A person who habitually does something odd, not normal, or just strange.
Recovery Specialist: A person or team who specializes in obtaining people or things, has a generally negative connotation since GeneCo uses them to capture runaway slaves. But generally applies to Finders.
Samurai: An individual mercenary who hires out generally for corporate work, or work for individual clients. Not someone who operates in a mercenary unit.
Squirrel: A person or ship moving in a very erratic manner.
Slimer: A job where the mission is to destroy someone’s reputation, and ruin them.
Stoner: A drug addict.
Take it to the mail: Send a package/person to another location sub rosa.
Tear the cloth: Black Dragon Tong slang for an undying vendetta against someone. The cloth can only be mended when the person or persons are dead.
The Rock: Hades Station
Thunderball: A nuclear weapon.
Zulu: To Zulu is to make someone disappear, forever.
034-2509 Gateway News Service- New Paris
We are being told that the Constitutional Protection Police have broken up a student riot near the University of Nice on New Paris with heavy casualties among the students. We are also being told that over 100 students have been arrested for Lack of Patriotic Spirit, and evading the draft. GNS has gotten word via our channels that a General Strike has been called, but the police are stating if it happens "blood will flow as traitors are dealt with harshly". The Federation de Travail (Workers Federation) has called for the General Strike, and their leadership managed to avoid a raid on their chambers by the police intent on arresting them for disloyalty.
A large firefight broke out around the barracks of the 1st Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment as troops loyal to President D'Argent attempted to move in and disarm the paras. Reports are confused, but it appears that two other Legion units moved to support the paras and at this time it appears that casualties are high on both sides with the Legion losing after loyalists troops called down kinetic strikes on the Legion positions.
It also appears that four other Legion units have decided to revolt based on this attack on the paras. Sporadic reports of fighting breaking out across New Paris are being reported, but the People's Free Daily is reporting that "mutinous elements, and brigands are being suppressed by loyal troops. The Marine Infantry units are reportedly joining with the Legion in refusing orders from the Central government.
A free trader which jumped from the system, tells GNS that it appears that there was a space battle in orbit as some of the New Parisian navy refused to initiate kinetic strikes against their homeworld, and other ships firing on the "rebel" units. The situation was very confused, and the free trader only had commercial grade sensors on board so the amount of information it was able to gather was strictly limited.
We have been told that there are those units loyal to the regime that are questioning the need to fire upon units which were sitting peacefully in their barracks. Reports are that Madam D'Argent has been urging the President on a much harder stance towards those "wavering in support" of his presidency.
A large firefight broke out as police raided a farm house in Provence on New Paris where it was suspected that a group of terrorists were hiding. The police ran into a very heavily armed group, and were rapidly put to flight by armored attackers with plasma guns. By the time Army units arrived, the group had escaped, but when police and Army troops entered the buildings a massive explosion occurred which caused quite a number of casualties. The fuel air explosion was strong enough to flatten all the buildings on the farm. Rumors are reaching us that the Atrocity Mercenary Company was part of this firefight.
We are being told that the Constitutional Protection Police have broken up a student riot near the University of Nice on New Paris with heavy casualties among the students. We are also being told that over 100 students have been arrested for Lack of Patriotic Spirit, and evading the draft. GNS has gotten word via our channels that a General Strike has been called, but the police are stating if it happens "blood will flow as traitors are dealt with harshly". The Federation de Travail (Workers Federation) has called for the General Strike, and their leadership managed to avoid a raid on their chambers by the police intent on arresting them for disloyalty.
A large firefight broke out around the barracks of the 1st Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment as troops loyal to President D'Argent attempted to move in and disarm the paras. Reports are confused, but it appears that two other Legion units moved to support the paras and at this time it appears that casualties are high on both sides with the Legion losing after loyalists troops called down kinetic strikes on the Legion positions.
It also appears that four other Legion units have decided to revolt based on this attack on the paras. Sporadic reports of fighting breaking out across New Paris are being reported, but the People's Free Daily is reporting that "mutinous elements, and brigands are being suppressed by loyal troops. The Marine Infantry units are reportedly joining with the Legion in refusing orders from the Central government.
A free trader which jumped from the system, tells GNS that it appears that there was a space battle in orbit as some of the New Parisian navy refused to initiate kinetic strikes against their homeworld, and other ships firing on the "rebel" units. The situation was very confused, and the free trader only had commercial grade sensors on board so the amount of information it was able to gather was strictly limited.
We have been told that there are those units loyal to the regime that are questioning the need to fire upon units which were sitting peacefully in their barracks. Reports are that Madam D'Argent has been urging the President on a much harder stance towards those "wavering in support" of his presidency.
A large firefight broke out as police raided a farm house in Provence on New Paris where it was suspected that a group of terrorists were hiding. The police ran into a very heavily armed group, and were rapidly put to flight by armored attackers with plasma guns. By the time Army units arrived, the group had escaped, but when police and Army troops entered the buildings a massive explosion occurred which caused quite a number of casualties. The fuel air explosion was strong enough to flatten all the buildings on the farm. Rumors are reaching us that the Atrocity Mercenary Company was part of this firefight.
038-2509 Gateway News Service- Bebop Station
Several Aslans became disruptive after consuming too many intoxicating beverages, and proceeded to damage O'Toole's bar on the concourse level of the station. As one patron put it: "Those litterbox commandos went all Bill the cat on the bar, doing quite a job on Biff Harken who had challenged their honor, and then he stomped on the leader's tail. Old Biff, he was a bit of a snot rag at times, and a bar bully, but I guess now you can call him sashimi after they got finished with him".
Station security showed up with stunners, and were finally able to subdue the angry Aslans, who were then taken to the brig to sober up. The Aslan Captain and his first officer arrived and were able to pay the fine, and agreed to 5 days in the can, with 12 hours of sensory deprivation. Their ship the Meow hiss spit, meow, meow, hiss, growl purr spit (The ship that trades with the hairless barbarians who have no honor) as the locals are calling it, is taking on a load of fuel before heading off to Hades Station.
Mr. Harken is expected to recover just fine according to doctors, they have re-attached his ear, nose, left arm, and one of his testicles. He will be in a regen pod for another week we are told, and will have a nice collection of scars since he did not pay to have them removed. We are told that anytime some one walked up behind him, and meowed, he wet himself. Doctors tell us that with therapy he will overcome that in the future.
Several Aslans became disruptive after consuming too many intoxicating beverages, and proceeded to damage O'Toole's bar on the concourse level of the station. As one patron put it: "Those litterbox commandos went all Bill the cat on the bar, doing quite a job on Biff Harken who had challenged their honor, and then he stomped on the leader's tail. Old Biff, he was a bit of a snot rag at times, and a bar bully, but I guess now you can call him sashimi after they got finished with him".
Station security showed up with stunners, and were finally able to subdue the angry Aslans, who were then taken to the brig to sober up. The Aslan Captain and his first officer arrived and were able to pay the fine, and agreed to 5 days in the can, with 12 hours of sensory deprivation. Their ship the Meow hiss spit, meow, meow, hiss, growl purr spit (The ship that trades with the hairless barbarians who have no honor) as the locals are calling it, is taking on a load of fuel before heading off to Hades Station.
Mr. Harken is expected to recover just fine according to doctors, they have re-attached his ear, nose, left arm, and one of his testicles. He will be in a regen pod for another week we are told, and will have a nice collection of scars since he did not pay to have them removed. We are told that anytime some one walked up behind him, and meowed, he wet himself. Doctors tell us that with therapy he will overcome that in the future.
