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Mars, In Front of the Duma

George Wallews was a young man of only seventeen - he has not even finished highschool. It did not matter - he was an adult, and could afford a cheap ticket to Mars. In his past, he was a little bit 'geekish', even for Allanea, spending most of his time writing or reading, posting on political forums and even having his own blog - which was so famous that he was accredited as a reporter on the Democratic Party National Convention. Still, Wallews was not exactly the most sociable type you can imagine - pale, skinny, thick glasses, the works. Now, he was little bit pale, shaking as if preparing to give an important speech. It was, in fact, exactly that - the most important speech in his life.

Next to Wallews walked Squireeek - a penguin-like being belonging to a race known as Dohwar. A former commercial pilot from Nova-Texas, Squireek was enticed by Wallews' cause after reading about the fate of the oppressed - reading about it, a lot - on long, interstellar trips. Months of loneliness will give you a lot of time to think - about the things you did wrong and about the things you failed to do. Eventually, you come to understand that those things are often one and the same - to fail to do right is to do wrong. Squireek was calm about what was going to happen - he carried a digital camera in his flipper-like arms, which continuously broadcasted the proceedings on the groups' WorldNet site.

The third one was a woman, a fattish blonde who used to work in a coal mine in Aissur. How she got into it, nobody could tell. But here she was, standing next to George on the steps in front of the Duma building, helping him to unravel a huge cloth handwritten banner, laying it out in front of the Duma building. It was simple - three words only - Khristian Independence Now!. It was written in a red paint on white. As the banner moved slightly under the wind, it seemed the words were written in blood.

Wallews spoke, holding a large loudspeaker:

Emissaries of the Duma! I address you today - not as an Allanean - not as a politician - not as an activist - but as a sapient being like you. I will today speak to you of a great injustice. The suffering of the Khristian people. The massacred thousands on Mars. The millions of refugees from the Mercury Experiment. You say, now, that you granted them a home? Where is it? Are those living under Daedalian, Tarasovkan, or any other occupation, free? Are those who have been denied of their very home free?

You know what I am talking about, don't you? Of the massacres, the injustices, the cruel experiments on unwilling flesh, of all those things. I need not explain. If I need, those are the documents.

Wallews made a few step forwards, laying a large binder down on the steps before him. Behind him, the penguinoid put his camera on a tripod. Then, it ran forwards, pouring a strange liquid on itself, the woman, and Wallews.

I said it all. I know your conscience will do the rest - I trust in you. But if the suffering of sapient souls is hard to remember when it happens far away - then what will now happen in front of your very eyes will serve you as a reminder.

Then, in front of an audience of hundreds of Duma attendees, and thousands of Internet visitors, Wallews extradited a small steel object from his sleeve - a Zippo lighter. The woman reached for her pocket, and so did the penguinoid. In a second, the viewers saw the banner lit by a new light - the light of three living torches standing next to it from different angles.


OOC: None of those people are ICly in any relation to the Allanean Government. Just so you know.

If Allanea hadn't fallen into the ocean, some opportunist from Sentinel Two would have probably gone and set up a Marshmellow stand. However. Allanea did fall into the sea, and thus, it did not happen.

"Good riddance..."

OOC:
You are so dang ignorant Allanea. The Khristians do have their own home, its called Abu Dhabi Khristatata. Or, if you mean on Mars, its called the Toran Empire. Now shut up.

I would ignore this, but the relevance of it is so small that it has ignored itself.

WN3
Weyrik Net News Network

Allanean fanatics have chosen to celebrate Khristian independence by creating human candles on the steps of the Martian Duma building. An apparent misunderstanding of the status of Khristians in the Sol system has apparently incited the Allaneans to prove the freedom of Khristians through what the Lady Iris has called an 'unfortinate course of action'. Weyreans finding Allanean bonfires on their doorsteps are advised to call the Fire Prevention Service immediately. Lady Iris has stated she expects the Allanean government to pay for any damages caused by its citizenry.

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"Good riddance..."

OOC:
You are so dang ignorant Allanea. The Khristians do have their own home, its called Abu Dhabi Khristatata. Or, if you mean on Mars, its called the Toran Empire. Now shut up.


First, Bajon, it was an IC message. Second, the Toran Empire is not independent and you know it. And ADK does not EXIST at current. It was destroyed de-facto by FSP

As the crowd of onlookers stared on in fascination a quick thinking Aumanii security contractor sprinted towards the camera tripod. Seconds before the protesters immolated themselves the camera was turned away and quickly shut it off.

'Get these people out of here!' shouted the contractor, Mario Ludavek, but it was too late. The Allaneans set themselves alight. Soon more security guards arrived, armed with fire extinguishers and doused the protestors with white foam.

OOC:

Not trying to wank...but someone has to play the role of Duma security.

OOC: Great!

IC:

For two of the protestors, it was already too late. The penguinoid was dead, having inhaled fiery gasoline. The miner was rolling on the floor, clutching the gaping wound that, seconds ago, where her eyes. Indeed, those people had paid the price for their beliefs. A heavy price.

Still, Wallews was alive. Scorched, in pain, the frame of his glasses softened by the fire, but he was still alive. And now, he could be questioned.

Joshua peered at the tri-v, blinking in confusion, "Mercury Experiment? What the Hell is that idiot yammering about?" He sighed and changed the channel, "Soap operas these days... they're just getting stranger and stranger..."

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The New York Times, Tiburon Mars Edition. Sunday, June 22, NCE 202. "All the News that's Fit to Print." One Dollar.

Three Allaneans Scorch Selves on Duma Steps In Protest

The Duma, Mangala- In a flashback to the Old Common Era, three Allaneans burned themselves alive in protest of the treatment of Khristians on Mars in Daedalia Angst, Tarasovka, as well as in the Mercury Experiment. George Wallews, an Allanean national, gave a short speech in favor of Khristian independence outside the steps of the Duma. Along with Squireeek and an as of yet unidentified woman, they then proceed to cover themselves with an unknown substance, believed to be gasoline, and set fire to themselves using Zippo lighters, in a flashback to the Buddhist protests of Ngo Dinh Diem's policies in South Vietnam during the OCE 1970s. The lighters in question have been confirmed to be the same model as those used during the Vietnam War, also used during the OCE 1970s. [continued on page A4]

"Mercury Experiment? What the Hell is that idiot yammering about?"


OOC: I made the Mercury Report [Mercury IV] public a while ago after buying a copy from Revenia. It has nothing to do with Mercury.


IC:

In the meanwhile, on the Internet, dozens and hundreds of Allaneans theorize, argue, debate the act of George Wallews. Some are plotting acts of their own. Others are calling Wallews a terrorist supporter. Yet others speculate on the effects that this might have on Allanea's relations with her Martian neighbors. What is undisputable, however, is that Wallews got his issue the attention he wanted - Khristians are a key subject of conversation. Some call them terrorists, and others call them freedom fighters, yet in general, a degree of sympathy towards them does exist - not yet enough for any major action on the subject, however. Ten people protest against the Taraskovyan embassy, but the protest is not reported by the mainstream press - only a few blogs. Given Allanea's size and culture, there's always a protest on somewhere...

Or, if you mean on Mars, its called the Toran Empire. Now shut up.

[OOC: It is now called the Federal Fiefdom of Stribog. ]

***
From the Vestnik Severovolosti.

Allaneans scorch selves as Dajdbog authorities blink in surprise.

The authorities of the Martian Fiefdom of Dajdbog have reacted with surprise to yesterday's protest against the Taraskovyan occupation of the Khristian 'homeland'. The officials of Nargothrond, the Fiefdom's capital, began by explaining that the Federal Fiefdoms of Dajdbog and Stribog had only very few Khristians, for they spanned over territory populated by ethnic Torans, not Khristians.

The Federal Fiefdom of Dajdbog does have a very small Khristian minority (forming roughly one percent of the territory's population) and, to this day, there have been no disconent from the part of the mentioned minority.

Continued on page 3.

While I do have Allanea under a virtually total ignore, I'm only recognising the specific events because of their location on Mars and because others I might R.P. with one day are all-ready involved now, not due to the cause of the event, or the instigators. And really, who says every media examination need be accurate ? ... heh. And of course, so I can develop the existance of Kunde just a bit more.

Small extract from the T.U.S. financial review magazine, " Kunde " dealing with trade and market influences, etc on the planet Mars and the local area of space around it ...

" ... one of such minor dissident activites on the rise was quite recent. A trio of suspected anarchists set them-selves on fire out-side the Duma by the entrance stair-case, causing a brief disruption which was promptly resolved by security staff on the scene. Eye-witness accounts gathered by Kunde could not actually identify the cause, nor nationality, due to the loud-speaker the trio used to communicate with being heavily effected by squelch-type feed-back noise, preventing much of their discordant message being under-stood by the crowd. Also, much of the materials they carried with them are suspected to habve been destroyed when they collapsed by them, over-come by the flames. This too has further reducing our ability to identify them. Using this minor event as an example, we see the required spending in question does not rise to any degree, other then to cover after-effect resource management, yet on the graph over the next page, we see a jump of several orders of magnitude if we increase the value of the ... "

OOC : I actually have a question for you Allanea ( And to an extent Rezo ), what's with the anti-Daedalian stuff you've got going now and again ? I've never gotten around to finding out its origins. Tele the T.U.S. inbox if you'd like, I actually check it these days.

OOC : I actually have a question for you Allanea ( And to an extent Rezo ), what's with the anti-Daedalian stuff you've got going now and again ? I've never gotten around to finding out its origins. Tele the T.U.S. inbox if you'd like, I actually check it these days.

[OOC: He has always been doing anti-Daedalian, anti-Taraskovyan and anti-anything-that-claims-the-most-holy-and-sacred-Khristian-land and anti-anything-that-denies-the-most-gracious-Khristians-their-independence stuff ;) ]