Jack of Harts Politics

by on May 14, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The New England Federation Starfleet is the most common way most people outside the Federation interact with the Federation. Their starships travel everywhere in Alliance space and beyond. Starfleet personnel are trained to be courteous, trained to be kind, trained to smile, and most importantly, trained to put a bullet in the favorite piece of anatomy belonging to anyone who threatens a Federation citizen, in Federation space or beyond. They will participate in search and rescue operations, help defend a world from raiders, or simply talk nicely as they spend Federation credits at a local store. And they will happily remove Federation citizens incarcerated by any world for any reason. Local authorities are not required to cooperate. Starfleet has got this.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on May 13, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The New England Federation Starfleet is filled with Federation citizens who are just a bit too rebellious to be entirely comfortable in the Better Americas for Better Americans the Federation builds. It is an entirely volunteer organization, and most people who serve end up going back home after their first tour. They’ve seen how bad things are out there and are suddenly very happy to go home. But Starfleet is run by those who never go home. Those who realized how bad things are out there, and will never let it come for their homes, their families. They are the sheepdogs, protecting the sheep from the wolves most don’t even know exist. And behind every Starfleet smile is a suspicious mind wondering if you are a wolf that needs to be put down.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on May 11, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The New England Federation Starfleet’s primary mission is to explore new worlds for the Federation to colonize. To build new Better Americas for Better Americans. Starfleet’s secondary mission is to help those who think they want to go out and find something better than what they have at home. It is the first option suggested for Federation citizens that are too non-conformist to fit in. Not the truly dangerous of course, but those who are simply a bit too willing to question authority. A little too rebellious. Starfleet sends them to seek out new worlds beyond the frontiers, other races and other civilizations, and to show them how lucky they are to have been born a Federation citizen. To file off the rough edges and make them happy to come home.

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Jack of Harts Politics

by on May 10, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The New England Federation colonized and helped colonize systems with the very best technology they had to offer. And just as they had built a Better America for Better Americans on Earth, they built Better Worlds for Better People out among the stars. Worlds where everybody had what they needed to live comfortably. Where crime was punished. Where peace prospered. Where those who broke the peace were encouraged to pursue other life tracks. Where the Great Families carefully selected governors who did what they were told. They built utopias for themselves and those built to live in utopias, and defended those utopias with the most advanced navies and armies America and the Western Alliance assembled.

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