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==Order of events== | |||
Maybe filling in some numbers later to make this a full-fledged timeline. For now I only need the order of events. | |||
This is a rough summary. Details may or may not be added. | |||
*WCG happens | |||
*Bioattack in Suez (Griffin, GATC "indirectly" involved) | |||
*Artificial mycorrhiza happens | |||
*Operation Hotdog (Kimura, Griffin) | |||
*Barabas and others died or went MIA, Griffin frustrated | |||
*Xeno hybrids (mutated mycorrhiza with new symbionts, begin of a new "BioCrisis" that overshadows the others) | |||
*Puppet master program (last chance for winning the war, Griffin knows GATC went too far and kills GATC sci and joins TCTF) | |||
*Blackstars happens (GATC soldiers form merc group) | |||
*ACC construction | |||
*Feng: "after Suez, research must be regulated", sci prisons | |||
*Bioc tech happens, Blackstars destroys the company of Dakosta's father | |||
*Griffin takes Bioc tech, gives it to WCG (trust gain, used for GV's construction) | |||
*GOP happens | |||
*Jamie dies | |||
*CDC, Walker sends Hanna to GV | |||
*Standoff, Hasegawa | |||
*Hasegawa, Kerr join Syndicate | |||
*[Weeks passes until Hanna is invited to GV] | |||
*Marburg incidence | |||
*Hanna Curtis airplane chat | |||
*[Hanna uses a MRSA "blocker"] | |||
*Hanna, Blake, GV | |||
*Kimura, Blue mountain worker | |||
*Kimura gets sample from GV, Hanna ok | |||
*Kimura kills worker | |||
*Hanna talks with Bertram | |||
*Kimura contacts then kidnaps Pensatore | |||
*Avatara finishes Daodan Chrysalis | |||
*Griffin, Iron Demon takeover | |||
*Avatara tries to get back Pensatore, Syn. evacuates/TCTF lab raid (soon after Kerr left the area, the TCTF arrives) | |||
*Kerr takes Mai to TCTF | |||
*Mai Biosafty, Pest control (assassination plans for Muro) | |||
*Maria (Hanna) joins TCTF | |||
*Mai fake OP (Maria, Kerr fool Griffin) | |||
*Corruption of Hasegawa by Kimura | |||
*Shinatama, intro | |||
*Jack, Intro | |||
*Mukade, Intro | |||
*Churi, Intro | |||
*Muro, Ryu, Tomo, Kimura vs Strikers | |||
*Traton, Intro | |||
*Jack's father almost killed | |||
*Griffin, Iron Demon | |||
*Kumo sends killers after Griffin | |||
*Griffin, Mai and the reindeers (indoc) | |||
*Takahashi, intro | |||
*Griffin, Victor planning against Kumo (to eliminate Syn. threat for Neo-Tokio) | |||
*Griffin, Mai, Daya | |||
*Vendret, intro | |||
*Muro (note to self: do more 'chapter rotations' of Muro and Mai) | |||
*- Life in the Camp | |||
*- Friendly rivalry with Ryu | |||
*- Muros's missions with Traton and Daodandroids | |||
*- Saomi, GATC Z | |||
*- Alliance with BGI, Sarai, intro | |||
*Churi, Sledgehammer, bar | |||
*- Car bomb, death of Tomo | |||
*- Furies | |||
*- Further assassination attempts from Z | |||
*- Death of Pensatore | |||
*- Death of Hasegawa | |||
*- Exil of Traton | |||
*- Sturmanderung plans, Muro | |||
*- Dispute with Ryu | |||
*- War against BGI | |||
*- Peace treaty with BGI (temporary, they build Iron Demons) | |||
*Sturmänderung (Oni 1.5) including missing chapters | |||
*Mukade reanimated, enslaved by Pensatore | |||
*Pensatore rescues Shinatama (Shin questions her own ego, is something of her soul missing? Hence removes "(a)tama" from her name, pun: tama = soul, atama = head (in Japanese), also: "Shin" is a base for the word "die", so in total: "died without a soul" or "without a head you die") | |||
Inner conflict is intensified by Mai's '''cultural background'''. | |||
* Her mother was American and her father Japanese. | |||
** Western thinking: Robots are dead matter; Japanese thinking: in Shinto believes pretty much everthing can have a soul | |||
** The TCTF does not assume SLD are alive, but simulated. On the other hand Shin is based on Mai's original personality and might have a free will - something Pensatore ask her. How much of a copy are "Brain engramms"? If simulated brain activity - or their "results" - are indistinguishable from "real" - why not grand the "host" human rights? | |||
*GATC Z fails to eliminate Muro (Imago stage) | |||
*Mai destroys Syn. mountain complex | |||
*Oni 2 happens | |||
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BGI backups the rebellion against META as they fear to be eradicated if they don't do something. BGI tries to recruit Mai as she is one of very few Daodan host that isn't working for META. Shinatama tries to help her while fighting against Pandora, META's Daodan hunter. Traton is also killed by her. Avatara watch her preparations in their R&D location. "Looks like you are going to kill even more." "And you just don't seem to care. -- Be honest." "Is that a reproach?" "Well, you don't choose any side. Yet, you are probably the most powerful person on this planet and you don't even try to fight evil." "Is it evil to seek economic dominance. You all support this [capitalistic] system. But as soon as it doesn't pay off you turn against it. META is restricting technology. I don't see anything wrong with that. Humans are destructive. As for your friend Mai Hasegawa, why should she not be punished by the law. She destroyed the ACCs. It's a fact." Shinatama was stopped re-assembling her rifle for a moment. In continuing she said: "Sometimes you still surprise me." "How that?" "That someone that smart can be so stupid." | BGI backups the rebellion against META as they fear to be eradicated if they don't do something. BGI tries to recruit Mai as she is one of very few Daodan host that isn't working for META. Shinatama tries to help her while fighting against Pandora, META's Daodan hunter. Traton is also killed by her. Avatara watch her preparations in their R&D location. "Looks like you are going to kill even more." "And you just don't seem to care. -- Be honest." "Is that a reproach?" "Well, you don't choose any side. Yet, you are probably the most powerful person on this planet and you don't even try to fight evil." "Is it evil to seek economic dominance. You all support this [capitalistic] system. But as soon as it doesn't pay off you turn against it. META is restricting technology. I don't see anything wrong with that. Humans are destructive. As for your friend Mai Hasegawa, why should she not be punished by the law. She destroyed the ACCs. It's a fact." Shinatama was stopped re-assembling her rifle for a moment. In continuing she said: "Sometimes you still surprise me." "How that?" "That someone that smart can be so stupid." | ||
==Worldbuilding== | |||
Some brainstorming on fictional timelines, semi-proceeding geopolitics and other topics by taking inspiration from the real world. | |||
My thinking is that "interesting" science fiction has some kind of relevance for our current reality. Ergo, so why not take some more ideas from reality? Our world offers many conflicts to tell interesting stories. The negative side is that politics can be extremely polarizing. The original story was wonderful unpolitical. So I will try to keep that as a tradition even though the brainstorming may not look like that. | |||
Since Green Village feature many WCG-ish but also "old world" characters (Russians, Europeans, etc.) I want to explore their possible backgrounds. | |||
== | ===Postnational influences=== | ||
Because WCG... | |||
====Germany==== | |||
[As a German storyteller I can be a little more specific about Germany as inspiration than for other nations - and therefore have (although not intended) a national-tinted point of view?] | |||
After the Second World War we are the way the World - or at least the West - wanted us to be. Don't blame your creation. ''Never again must war arise from German ground.'' '''And so we got pacifistic, pluralistic, moralistic. Sometimes to such a degree it annoys our partners - and even ourselves.''' Sometimes our own Remembrance Culture with its strongly state-medial and political - therefore dead boring - rituals goes ourselves on the nerve. We try to get along with everyone. With USA, with Russia. With Israel, with Palestine (unofficially). | |||
As part of the '''indoctrination of humanistic values''' school classes are dragged to old Nazi concentration camps. A normal educated citizen is meant to always remember history and be fair on everyone. What sounds good in theory can result in '''bizarre inner conflicts within society''', sometimes people are then named being hyper moralistic. People from the right spectrum wear the support for state Israel like an armor. At the same time they have no problem in excessively criticizing other foreign persons, especially when they are immigrates. They seem to believe that when they are pro-Israel they cannot be racists. On the other hand there are people from the left spectrum who have a blind eye for problems immigrates cause. For examples clan criminality, mafia, Arabic/pro-Palestine antisemitism were problems ignored for too many years since their fight back did not fit into the German welcome culture. The [[wp:2021_Israel–Palestine_crisis|Israel-Palestine crisis]] and the [[wp:2021–2022_Belarus–European_Union_border_crisis|Belarus-EU border crisis]] in 2021 shook Germany's self-image. As a result the failed migration and integration politics are finally realized through essentially all political parties. Yet, much work is to do to grind away ideological hardening and formulating improved arrangements. | |||
As for pacifism and appeasement policy - USA and NATO must work hard on Germany so that it agrees to their ''invitations'' for wars and sanctions against their rivals. This is partly a good thing as USA often act themselves strongly ideological just trying to protect their zone of influence. The collateral damage USA cause on their partner - despite protestations to the contrary - is eventually secondary: ''America first''. | |||
At the same time Germany earns good money exporting weapons. One record races another. Despite many restrictions often enough those weapons find a way into conflict zones. | |||
===War and money=== | |||
A more detailed look on why the WCG is 90% demilitarized. | |||
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Generally spoken military alliances are the consequence of mutually shared interests. At first sight the main interest is attack or defense. In times of peace they have more notably the last word in soft power, diplomatic relationships and economy: Establishment of industry standards [[wp:Concerns_over_Chinese_involvement_in_5G_wireless_networks|(e.g. 5G)]], weapons, non-distribution of goods: embargo, sanctions.) Therefore they are a factor in geopolitics. | |||
Eventually geopolitics are always about securing your slice of cake in another country - may it be USA, EU, Russia, China or whosoever. The only difference is how they are doing it. (After [[wp:Operation_Cyclone|decades long Afghanistan conflict]] the Western self-image got cracks. Consequences are being discussed.) | |||
China was the new candidate for hegemony. The corona pandemics prolonged the transition. The world will stay multi-polar for an even longer time. It is not clear if that's a good thing in terms of given time for USA's metal adaption or a bad thing in terms of a power vacuum. | |||
Russia is working on its comeback. Does it just want respect? It's a term that caused strong diplomatic turbulence between Germany and Ukraine January 2021. Everybody knows the Crimea will not come back to the Ukranie but drawing it as a fatalistic fact therefore seemingly excusable was reckless. While that conflict is a problem for itself Kay-Achim Schönbach should have said "Russia wants to be taken serious" instead of "respect". Russia wants also a piece of the cake, the geopolitical cake, money. NATO expanded eastward multiple times, therefore expanded their zone of influence. Why in the world would Russia just stand still and say "that's okay with us"? Sure, the smaller nations should be free to choose which alliance they want to join but that's not how the world works. That's the ugly truth. Only realpolitics can solve this conflict. | |||
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Overgrown military and war industry will spin their host empires and allies to death. | |||
Especially USA cannot modernizing their infrastructure, repair/compensate damages from climate change, invest in green technologies and do a new arms race all simultaneously. | |||
The debts of USA are projected to reach a critical stage of [[wp:History_of_the_United_States_public_debt|200% GDP in 2050]]. | |||
Climate change will make war industry an unaffordable luxury. | |||
Climate change and overpopulation will worsen the resource problems on a global scale. Armed conflicts increase. War industry of superpower burn money in war and peace times. Smaller states buy weapons from superpowers to protect themselves (or resources) against other smaller states or superpowers. Superpowers will through military alliances demand their members to contribute more to the budget - putting more weight behind their East-vs.-West co-motivated geopolitics - as they cannot do it themselves anymore. | |||
It's a vicious circle. That way the military-industrial-complex will distribute the debts globally until a critical limit is reached and any spontaneous mega crisis like a new pandemic can blow up the system. | |||