Platonic
29-10-2003, 00:13
For general release to the press from the Prime minister of Platonic.
The Commonwealth of Platonic is proud to announce our first successful space flight. We put an otter into space and it successfully made a complete orbit before the capsule again dropped to the planet via parachute. We are pleased to say that the otter is in good health and has been reunited with it's family.
Due to this success our space program should be able to continue on schedule with hopefully continued success. If all continues as planned we should have the first intellegent astrotraveler in orbit within a year and a half.
Although in the past Platonic has been mostly Platonicentric and not interested in expanding beyond it's borders recent studies have shown that our land mass is not sufficient to support the expanding population and within 60 years Platonic will begin to suffer severly from overpopulation problems. In the best interests of the Platonic populous the government has decided that expansion is the best option. Due to the strongly non militeristic nature of our country we feel that invading our neighbors would be a poor solution at best. Instead we have decided to try to expand upwards so to speak.
Due to the time limit we are working with we have needed to increase funding drastically to our space program which previous to this consisted almost entirely a Otter scouts with toy rockets. Fortunately though we have had great cooperation from the public so far. I hope that our success will continue into the next few decades.
Francine Kobol
Prime Minister of The Common Wealth of Platonic.
The Commonwealth of Platonic is proud to announce our first successful space flight. We put an otter into space and it successfully made a complete orbit before the capsule again dropped to the planet via parachute. We are pleased to say that the otter is in good health and has been reunited with it's family.
Due to this success our space program should be able to continue on schedule with hopefully continued success. If all continues as planned we should have the first intellegent astrotraveler in orbit within a year and a half.
Although in the past Platonic has been mostly Platonicentric and not interested in expanding beyond it's borders recent studies have shown that our land mass is not sufficient to support the expanding population and within 60 years Platonic will begin to suffer severly from overpopulation problems. In the best interests of the Platonic populous the government has decided that expansion is the best option. Due to the strongly non militeristic nature of our country we feel that invading our neighbors would be a poor solution at best. Instead we have decided to try to expand upwards so to speak.
Due to the time limit we are working with we have needed to increase funding drastically to our space program which previous to this consisted almost entirely a Otter scouts with toy rockets. Fortunately though we have had great cooperation from the public so far. I hope that our success will continue into the next few decades.
Francine Kobol
Prime Minister of The Common Wealth of Platonic.