Post by Attero Dominatus on Jun 3, 2010 3:47:40 GMT -5
Inspired by the story of the Colony Movement. Guests and members, feel free to add your own news articles. Write from either political viewpoint (since many media outlets have their own views).
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DEADALUS CHAIRMAN APPREHENDED IN BLOODY AMBUSH
International Times
April 24th, 2082
Marcus Gallard, Chairman of Deadalus Aerospace and Assembly Head of the hugely unpopular Capitalist Consortium was apprehended in a controversial ambush on his motorcade near Cape Canaveral that left twelve body guards and fourteen bystanders dead and thirty eight wounded in what moderate members of the United Nations International Senate are calling 'overkill.' Twenty five members of the UN's elite Special Intervention unit were killed in the action -- the heaviest loss the unit has suffered since losing almost an entire brigade to a battalion of the renegade Arizona State Guard during the Battle of Phoenix in 2043 -- and at least one Stryker was destroyed in the fierce battle that was described as 'like a warzone.'
"Through his sympathizers at CERN and the ESA, the man released a substantial quantity of protons and antiprotons to the Exodus project," UN Chief Justice Joseph Benadict said. "A single gram of antimatter has the same energy as a thousand megatons of TNT."
Nicoletta Giovanni, Chief of Operations at CERN dismissed Benedict's claim as 'sensationalism,' saying that, "A gram of antimatter is equivalent to just forty kilotons," and went on to say, "You can't just produce antimatter right off the bat and just give it away. Even with the Super Large Hadron Collider and our newest antiproton decelerator, it takes months to manufacture any reasonable amount of antimatter. Antiparticles need to be stored at temperatures close to absolute zero inside of a combination of electric and magnetic fields which requires substantial refrigeration equipment and a power supply. It is not something that could easily be hidden."
Nevertheless, the so-called 'sleeper ship' -- so named because the inhabitants will spend most of the journey in suspended animation -- can be seen in lunar orbit with the aid of a telescope, and an anonymous inside the project state that the trident-shaped spacecraft uses antimatter for propulsion. "The engines collide protons and antiprotons at shallow angles, where they annihilate into muons that travel close to the speed of light, traveling almost two kilometers before they decay into gamma rays; the distance also serves to keep the habitat module safe. Since the exhaust velocity is close to the speed of light in vacuum, the Armstrong will be flying at half lightspeed before we -- or rather the computers -- turn the ship around and start the deceleration burn into Epsilon Eridani's gravity well. Amat is the only substance with the energy density required to boost [the ship] to relativistic speeds."
Marcus will likely be charged with distributing a weapon of mass destruction to unauthorized persons -- in spite of the fact that antimatter does not enjoy the same controls as uranium and plutonium due to its multitude of medical uses -- while his associates will likely be apprehended soon, largely for tax evasion and funding 'terrorist groups.' "We will make an example of this man and show that you do not go against the common good without paying a price," Benedict announced.
"We refuse to give our hard-earned money to those who feel entitled to it," Marcus said defiantly. "Those who would have the global government steal from us and allow themselves to exist at the government's mercy deserve neither liberty nor security."
The Journalist Consortium contributed to the report.
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DEADALUS CHAIRMAN APPREHENDED IN BLOODY AMBUSH
International Times
April 24th, 2082
Marcus Gallard, Chairman of Deadalus Aerospace and Assembly Head of the hugely unpopular Capitalist Consortium was apprehended in a controversial ambush on his motorcade near Cape Canaveral that left twelve body guards and fourteen bystanders dead and thirty eight wounded in what moderate members of the United Nations International Senate are calling 'overkill.' Twenty five members of the UN's elite Special Intervention unit were killed in the action -- the heaviest loss the unit has suffered since losing almost an entire brigade to a battalion of the renegade Arizona State Guard during the Battle of Phoenix in 2043 -- and at least one Stryker was destroyed in the fierce battle that was described as 'like a warzone.'
"Through his sympathizers at CERN and the ESA, the man released a substantial quantity of protons and antiprotons to the Exodus project," UN Chief Justice Joseph Benadict said. "A single gram of antimatter has the same energy as a thousand megatons of TNT."
Nicoletta Giovanni, Chief of Operations at CERN dismissed Benedict's claim as 'sensationalism,' saying that, "A gram of antimatter is equivalent to just forty kilotons," and went on to say, "You can't just produce antimatter right off the bat and just give it away. Even with the Super Large Hadron Collider and our newest antiproton decelerator, it takes months to manufacture any reasonable amount of antimatter. Antiparticles need to be stored at temperatures close to absolute zero inside of a combination of electric and magnetic fields which requires substantial refrigeration equipment and a power supply. It is not something that could easily be hidden."
Nevertheless, the so-called 'sleeper ship' -- so named because the inhabitants will spend most of the journey in suspended animation -- can be seen in lunar orbit with the aid of a telescope, and an anonymous inside the project state that the trident-shaped spacecraft uses antimatter for propulsion. "The engines collide protons and antiprotons at shallow angles, where they annihilate into muons that travel close to the speed of light, traveling almost two kilometers before they decay into gamma rays; the distance also serves to keep the habitat module safe. Since the exhaust velocity is close to the speed of light in vacuum, the Armstrong will be flying at half lightspeed before we -- or rather the computers -- turn the ship around and start the deceleration burn into Epsilon Eridani's gravity well. Amat is the only substance with the energy density required to boost [the ship] to relativistic speeds."
Marcus will likely be charged with distributing a weapon of mass destruction to unauthorized persons -- in spite of the fact that antimatter does not enjoy the same controls as uranium and plutonium due to its multitude of medical uses -- while his associates will likely be apprehended soon, largely for tax evasion and funding 'terrorist groups.' "We will make an example of this man and show that you do not go against the common good without paying a price," Benedict announced.
"We refuse to give our hard-earned money to those who feel entitled to it," Marcus said defiantly. "Those who would have the global government steal from us and allow themselves to exist at the government's mercy deserve neither liberty nor security."
The Journalist Consortium contributed to the report.