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We could all get behind some of its positions, hence the name, but its platform violates too many core American values to be implemented.
I'll be honest I have no idea what this is. No backstory. No explanation. Nothing. Just pure, chaotic fun.
Shout-out to @Jay Roosevelt. If you've ever seen a TL of his, you know why.
Shout-out to @Jay Roosevelt. If you've ever seen a TL of his, you know why.
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I was just about to reference Jay Roosevelt before I saw you do it first.
Fall of Madrid
(music that fits well with this story,
By now the Mayans began to grow larger as more reinforcements from the Caribbean and Yucatan were being sent across the Atlantic Ocean many numbers. The emperor of the Mayan Empire, Yax Nuun Ahiin IX made new laws in the Grand Mayan Empire in which all men and even women once they turn 16 years old they are to serve for their nation in the military as brave men and women.
As a result for the first time in Mayan history many ten thousands of women were drafted into the army and sent over to Europe to serve alongside their male brethen. Some some would even be reunited with male relatives that hadn't seen in years and serve alongside them as well.
Back in Mayan occupied parts of the Iberian peninsula, more of it had already quickly fell to the hands of the Mayans, more cities like Lisbon and Valencia were taken over in just a few days due to rebel activity, which was crushed and remaining rebels would be executed for treason.
The Grand Mayan Empire was still a new player in it's conquest of Europe, it will be many years until eventually the Mayans eventually take over Rome in a 12 bloody day battle. But currently the Mayans are still focusing on the rest of Iberia paying close attention to the Christian kingdoms and the Islamic taifas.
The Mayan high ranking officials saw the religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as wicked religions since they all believed in only one single deity, for Christians it was God, for Jews it was Yahweh and for Muslims is was Allah. The Mayans noticed that the three religions were pretty much related in many ways as well, but found it very ironic and funny that none of them got along with one another whatsoever.
Which of course made the Mayans believe that monotheistic religions were failures and simply religions that were worshipped by strange weird people. The Mayans even began to study the Old and New Testament as well as the Quran, and they found most of everything from them entirely full of craziness. Not to mention the Mayans thought the legend of Jesus Christ was extremely weird due to the fact his mother was a virgin and yet gave birth to him, and that he was the son of God. Not to mention the Mayans had a field day when reading Book of Revelation.
In other words since the Mayans saw all the Abrahamic religions as utterly insane, they concluded that their goal is to take over Europe and then the Middle East so they can liberate all these people from their corrupted religions. As a result Mayans got rid of allowing people to worship their own religions, which led to many rebellions that just got crushed instantly and many who did not converted to the Mayan religion were burned to sake believing that they would be better off in their so called "Hell".
As a result many Europeans quickly did volunteer and converted to the Mayan religion and adopted Mayan names.
However the rest of the remaining and struggling nations in the Iberian peninsula saw themselves all doomed unless they worked together to prevent the evil Mayans from taking anymore of Iberia. This meant that the Christian kings of Leon, Aragon, and Navarre had to set their disputes and problems with their Muslim neighbors aside since all of them were getting destroyed by the Mayans.
As a result this led to a creation of a coalition made up of the Taifa of Toledo, Kingdom of Navarre, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of Aragon, and the Kingdom of Leon. For the first time in history Christians, Jews, and Muslims were being united under a single banner and thus more positive morality was boosted as a result, leading way to eventually the unification of all the three Abrahamic religions by 1200 AD.
Currently the countries had to work together and try and stop the Mayans from spreading further into the rest of Europe, and be prepared for the worse since they still had no clue as to how the Mayans' weapons worked (AK47's). This led to all the six nations to send many troops to the city of Madrid in the Taifa of Toledo, since it was on the doorstep of the Grand Mayan Empire and they knew Madrid was going to be invaded by the Mayans.
As a result they managed to bring 120,000 men to be stationed in Madrid awaiting for the Mayans to invade the city. All the six nations believed that it was enough men to defend Madrid and defeat the Mayans.
So when the Mayans invaded Madrid in on the 4th of October of the year 1045, this resulted in the six nations being shocked since the Mayans had come with a bigger army of 540,000 armed men and women. This was not good! And as a result all the men knew that would be defeated by the Mayans.
But that didn't make them go down easy, no during the Fall of Madrid every single man fought in a last stand taking out as many Mayans they could, they knew they would be defeated, but they would never let the Mayans defeat them and take their spirit and dignity away.
As a result all 120,000 men of the Six Nations Coalition died fighting in a final stand against the Mayans, they were able to manage to kill 2,500 Mayan soldiers. After the battle was over the Mayans did just like they did to every town and city take took over, they renamed it to a new name from the Mayan language and make the inhabitants be forced to demolish their original places of worship and rebuilt them into Mayan temples. More residents that refused to convert to the Mayan religion were slaughtered or burned in massive numbers and many that were completely afraid of suffering the same fate volunteered to be converted to the Mayan religion.
Many of Madrid's churches, mosques and even synagogues were destroyed and remade into Mayan temples. Anything that showed symbols of Christianity, Judaism and Islam were destroyed as well resulting in many statues and cross tombstones getting destroyed.
But even though the Six Nations Coalition lost Madrid, they still believed that they could still work together to defeat the Mayans. As a result this led to more nations in Middle East and Europe to join eventually this would create a new coalition called the Twenty Nations Coalition in 1086 AD.
Some of you may remember the collaborative project Cupola Dreams: The Armored Fighting Vehicles of Hestia from a couple years back. Anyway, I thought the world they created was really cool, so I made a wikibox for the war depicted in the thread.
It could maybe use a little more detail.
It could maybe use a little more detail.
My favorite niche AH is the ww2 infobox with the background radically altered, so nice job!
As perspective to all the wikiboxes elsewhere which are doing projections on what the 2020 presidential election is going to look like, here's what two very qualified politicos in 2005 thought 2008 would look like:
Well now you HAVE to do 2012 and 2016, @Daltonia. I know this is kinda based off someone else's predictions, but this is too awesome to simply leave at one election.
Oh god, Rice chose Blunt? I'm originally from Missouri, screw that guy. Waste of money and time...
Is 2008 an early enough POD for the latter to not count as current politics?
Hello, guys! 
Here's the current governing party of Louisiana in my Blue Flames Burn Brightest universe [which has a timeline set in it called "Stealing the Limelight" about the history of the Farmer-Liberals, check that out].
The Parti Cadien was once a right-wing political party arguing that Succulennia [basically a Spanish-speaking Arkansas] wasn't part of "pure Louisiana" and that its imposition on Louisiana after the end of the Grand War divided the Province of Kansas in a communist three-quarters and Aurelian-held one-quarter [what would become Succulennia] was a gesture designed to weaken Louisiana. Acadienisme [namely that "true" Louisiana was Cajun - as told in the chant La Louisiane est Acadien!] was their guiding ideology and they opposed anything even acknowledging Suculeños' presence in Louisiana.
Of course, now things are different, as a new generation of nationalists have taken over, with the words "Louisiana is greater than any one ethnicity" ringing in their heads. They have taken over the party and dragged it to the left, preaching a "civic" nationalism "that unites Cadiens and Suculeños". However, their past still taints them as Suculeños still remember well the days when the PC set up completely-illegal "border stations" on the border between what they considered "pure Louisiana" and Succulennia and turned away Suculeños on threat of death, and that was one of the tamest things they did. Plus, to be honest the party not rebranding as something like Parti Louisiannais is not helping with their appeal with Suculeños as not a lot of them want to vote for the "Cajun Party" after all.
Still, they're the governing party of Louisiana [in a coalition with the EFL] those days, and so far, there hasn't been any whiff of Acadienisme at all, despite Suculeño suspicions.
Blue Flames Burn Brightest
Background and map of Aurelia
Popular Assembly
Map of South America
Provinces
Nova Hibernia
New Netherland
Primary Secretariats (done by @wolfram)
Ramsay Monroe
Lilya Vasilyev
Political Parties
Parti Cadien [THIS ONE!]
Here's the current governing party of Louisiana in my Blue Flames Burn Brightest universe [which has a timeline set in it called "Stealing the Limelight" about the history of the Farmer-Liberals, check that out].
The Parti Cadien was once a right-wing political party arguing that Succulennia [basically a Spanish-speaking Arkansas] wasn't part of "pure Louisiana" and that its imposition on Louisiana after the end of the Grand War divided the Province of Kansas in a communist three-quarters and Aurelian-held one-quarter [what would become Succulennia] was a gesture designed to weaken Louisiana. Acadienisme [namely that "true" Louisiana was Cajun - as told in the chant La Louisiane est Acadien!] was their guiding ideology and they opposed anything even acknowledging Suculeños' presence in Louisiana.
Of course, now things are different, as a new generation of nationalists have taken over, with the words "Louisiana is greater than any one ethnicity" ringing in their heads. They have taken over the party and dragged it to the left, preaching a "civic" nationalism "that unites Cadiens and Suculeños". However, their past still taints them as Suculeños still remember well the days when the PC set up completely-illegal "border stations" on the border between what they considered "pure Louisiana" and Succulennia and turned away Suculeños on threat of death, and that was one of the tamest things they did. Plus, to be honest the party not rebranding as something like Parti Louisiannais is not helping with their appeal with Suculeños as not a lot of them want to vote for the "Cajun Party" after all.
Still, they're the governing party of Louisiana [in a coalition with the EFL] those days, and so far, there hasn't been any whiff of Acadienisme at all, despite Suculeño suspicions.
Blue Flames Burn Brightest
Background and map of Aurelia
Popular Assembly
Map of South America
Provinces
Nova Hibernia
New Netherland
Primary Secretariats (done by @wolfram)
Ramsay Monroe
Lilya Vasilyev
Political Parties
Parti Cadien [THIS ONE!]
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shiftygiant
Gone Fishin'
The rule of thumb is, as I have been led to believe, ~1 year before it's no longer current politics unless the PoD is still an ongoing event.
Here's a thing. In a place.
The 2017 Swedish general election was called on December 2nd, 2016 as a result of the sitting Democrats 2000-New Right minority coalition failing to pass a budget following the departure of the Centre Democrats from the coalition. This was the culmination of six months of problems for the government, which started with several D2000 officials including the previously very popular Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson being embroiled in a massive expenses scandal involving the use public funds for party and private use. Kristersson, the longest serving Prime Minister since Kjell-Olof Fledt, was forced to resign and as the scandal had ended the careers of several potential successors, it fell to long-serving Foreign Minister Maria Leissner to take over the leadership as a safe pair of hands. As the Democrats plummeted in the polls, the Centre Democrats both smelling blood in the water and feeling a fear of being tarred with guilt by association by virtue of being in the same government, swiftly announced their departure from the cabinet. This move however backfired as voters saw right through the political calculation, and party leader Marcus Birro, having only narrowly won the leadership six months earlier and having only been a one term MP with no government experience prior to that, was forced to face some heavy internal opposition.
On the opposition side Social Democratic leader Annie Lööf could see victory approaching on the horizon, as the party skyrocketed in the polls in spite of her own middling approval ratings. However as the campaign kicked into high gear that massive lead soon eroded as the structural problems with the Social Democratic Party's strategy emerged. Lööf had been a fixture of Social Democratic politics for a good long while in spite of her youth, having been leader of the youth league during the late 2000s and leading the fight to make social liberalism the party's official ideology. When she ran for the leadership it was on a platform of moving the party to the right and having the Democrats as their primary alternative for government partner, and not the Labour Party which was preferred by her leftwing opponent Niklas Nordström. However in the general election the Democrats were toxic as a result of all the scandals, and Lööf's overtures to Leissner meant that the Social Democrats missed out of winning the large chunk of anti-establishment minded voters. In addition to that, Lööf's support of further liberalisations of the public sector also meant that their ever shrinking old voter base of women working in the public sector moved over to the Labour Party in increasing numbers. Offsetting this were the gains among the ever so swingy middle-class voters in Stockholm County, along with high-earning academics largely in the same area. Even so, the party dropped somewhat in support compared to the last election which was a major disappointment considering the near total collapse of the Democrats. The disastrous result for the latter also meant that Annie Lööf's dream government of a Social Democratic-Democrats 2000 centrist coalition was out of the picture, and the Social Democrats would have to go look for other, more left-leaning partners.
While the Labour Party grew immensely, getting their best result in history and attaining the same number of seats as the Social Democrats, the big winner of election night were the Green Left. Under the leadership of Gustav Fridolin, at the time of the election the most popular politician in the country, the party had embraced the anti-establishment undercurrents created by the Kristersson scandal to 100%, which payed of spectacularly in the end. The party more than trebled their support and also got their best result ever. A new leftwing force also entered the Riksdag as the left-wing populist Red Alliance only just passed the 3 percent threshold and got parliamentary representation. On the right, the big winner of the night was the New Right, or the Conservatives as they were known up until 2015, with leader Sara Skyttedal running an exemplary campaign and being rewarded with her party becoming the largest on the centre-right for the first time since the 1980s. The classical liberal/libertarian Liberal Coalition Party also grew somewhat, proving that their entry into parliament in the last election was not a fluke at all. The Centre Democrats on the other hand had a poor election as the wounds from the previous year's leadership election were still very much fresh. Marcus Birro was accused of ignoring the powerful rural wing of the party in favour of his own social conservative faction, to such a degree that even his predecessor Anders Sellström criticised him for it. With such a disappointing result it's unclear for how long Birro can remain as leader, especially with last year's rival Eskil Erlandsson waiting in the wings and spoiling for a fight. And then of course there were the Democrats 2000. The party had held the position of Prime Minister since 2005, and up until his resignation Ulf Kristersson was the longest serving party leader in the Riksdag, having been at the job since the party was founded in 1998. Now its support was more than halved, dropping from a clear first place in the last election to a dismal sixth. Maria Leissner announced her intent to not stand for reelection at the party conference in September, and only time will tell if the party will be able to recover from this gruesome defeat.
In the days after the election it was clear there were few alternatives for Annie Lööf if she wanted to govern. She formed a minority government with the Labour Party after being forced to make some serious concessions in regards to welfare and taxation policy, and while she balked at the idea of including the Green Left she was nonetheless forced to strike a deal with them to pass a budget. Her first choice of budget partner in the Democrats was a non-starter as the former governing party was neither willing nor capable of agreeing to such a deal whilst in the middle of a leadership election. For the first time in 15 years Sweden had a Social Democratic government, and for the first time since the 1980s the government did not include any of the traditional rightwing parties or their successors.
The 2017 Swedish general election was called on December 2nd, 2016 as a result of the sitting Democrats 2000-New Right minority coalition failing to pass a budget following the departure of the Centre Democrats from the coalition. This was the culmination of six months of problems for the government, which started with several D2000 officials including the previously very popular Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson being embroiled in a massive expenses scandal involving the use public funds for party and private use. Kristersson, the longest serving Prime Minister since Kjell-Olof Fledt, was forced to resign and as the scandal had ended the careers of several potential successors, it fell to long-serving Foreign Minister Maria Leissner to take over the leadership as a safe pair of hands. As the Democrats plummeted in the polls, the Centre Democrats both smelling blood in the water and feeling a fear of being tarred with guilt by association by virtue of being in the same government, swiftly announced their departure from the cabinet. This move however backfired as voters saw right through the political calculation, and party leader Marcus Birro, having only narrowly won the leadership six months earlier and having only been a one term MP with no government experience prior to that, was forced to face some heavy internal opposition.
On the opposition side Social Democratic leader Annie Lööf could see victory approaching on the horizon, as the party skyrocketed in the polls in spite of her own middling approval ratings. However as the campaign kicked into high gear that massive lead soon eroded as the structural problems with the Social Democratic Party's strategy emerged. Lööf had been a fixture of Social Democratic politics for a good long while in spite of her youth, having been leader of the youth league during the late 2000s and leading the fight to make social liberalism the party's official ideology. When she ran for the leadership it was on a platform of moving the party to the right and having the Democrats as their primary alternative for government partner, and not the Labour Party which was preferred by her leftwing opponent Niklas Nordström. However in the general election the Democrats were toxic as a result of all the scandals, and Lööf's overtures to Leissner meant that the Social Democrats missed out of winning the large chunk of anti-establishment minded voters. In addition to that, Lööf's support of further liberalisations of the public sector also meant that their ever shrinking old voter base of women working in the public sector moved over to the Labour Party in increasing numbers. Offsetting this were the gains among the ever so swingy middle-class voters in Stockholm County, along with high-earning academics largely in the same area. Even so, the party dropped somewhat in support compared to the last election which was a major disappointment considering the near total collapse of the Democrats. The disastrous result for the latter also meant that Annie Lööf's dream government of a Social Democratic-Democrats 2000 centrist coalition was out of the picture, and the Social Democrats would have to go look for other, more left-leaning partners.
While the Labour Party grew immensely, getting their best result in history and attaining the same number of seats as the Social Democrats, the big winner of election night were the Green Left. Under the leadership of Gustav Fridolin, at the time of the election the most popular politician in the country, the party had embraced the anti-establishment undercurrents created by the Kristersson scandal to 100%, which payed of spectacularly in the end. The party more than trebled their support and also got their best result ever. A new leftwing force also entered the Riksdag as the left-wing populist Red Alliance only just passed the 3 percent threshold and got parliamentary representation. On the right, the big winner of the night was the New Right, or the Conservatives as they were known up until 2015, with leader Sara Skyttedal running an exemplary campaign and being rewarded with her party becoming the largest on the centre-right for the first time since the 1980s. The classical liberal/libertarian Liberal Coalition Party also grew somewhat, proving that their entry into parliament in the last election was not a fluke at all. The Centre Democrats on the other hand had a poor election as the wounds from the previous year's leadership election were still very much fresh. Marcus Birro was accused of ignoring the powerful rural wing of the party in favour of his own social conservative faction, to such a degree that even his predecessor Anders Sellström criticised him for it. With such a disappointing result it's unclear for how long Birro can remain as leader, especially with last year's rival Eskil Erlandsson waiting in the wings and spoiling for a fight. And then of course there were the Democrats 2000. The party had held the position of Prime Minister since 2005, and up until his resignation Ulf Kristersson was the longest serving party leader in the Riksdag, having been at the job since the party was founded in 1998. Now its support was more than halved, dropping from a clear first place in the last election to a dismal sixth. Maria Leissner announced her intent to not stand for reelection at the party conference in September, and only time will tell if the party will be able to recover from this gruesome defeat.
In the days after the election it was clear there were few alternatives for Annie Lööf if she wanted to govern. She formed a minority government with the Labour Party after being forced to make some serious concessions in regards to welfare and taxation policy, and while she balked at the idea of including the Green Left she was nonetheless forced to strike a deal with them to pass a budget. Her first choice of budget partner in the Democrats was a non-starter as the former governing party was neither willing nor capable of agreeing to such a deal whilst in the middle of a leadership election. For the first time in 15 years Sweden had a Social Democratic government, and for the first time since the 1980s the government did not include any of the traditional rightwing parties or their successors.
Here's a thing. In a place.
The 2017 Swedish general election was called on December 2nd, 2016 as a result of the sitting Democrats 2000-New Right minority coalition failing to pass a budget following the departure of the Centre Democrats from the coalition. This was the culmination of six months of problems for the government, which started with several D2000 officials including the previously very popular Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson being embroiled in a massive expenses scandal involving the use public funds for party and private use. Kristersson, the longest serving Prime Minister since Kjell-Olof Fledt, was forced to resign and as the scandal had ended the careers of several potential successors, it fell to long-serving Foreign Minister Maria Leissner to take over the leadership as a safe pair of hands. As the Democrats plummeted in the polls, the Centre Democrats both smelling blood in the water and feeling a fear of being tarred with guilt by association by virtue of being in the same government, swiftly announced their departure from the cabinet. This move however backfired as voters saw right through the political calculation, and party leader Marcus Birro, having only narrowly won the leadership six months earlier and having only been a one term MP with no government experience prior to that, was forced to face some heavy internal opposition.
On the opposition side Social Democratic leader Annie Lööf could see victory approaching on the horizon, as the party skyrocketed in the polls in spite of her own middling approval ratings. However as the campaign kicked into high gear that massive lead soon eroded as the structural problems with the Social Democratic Party's strategy emerged. Lööf had been a fixture of Social Democratic politics for a good long while in spite of her youth, having been leader of the youth league during the late 2000s and leading the fight to make social liberalism the party's official ideology. When she ran for the leadership it was on a platform of moving the party to the right and having the Democrats as their primary alternative for government partner, and not the Labour Party which was preferred by her leftwing opponent Niklas Nordström. However in the general election the Democrats were toxic as a result of all the scandals, and Lööf's overtures to Leissner meant that the Social Democrats missed out of winning the large chunk of anti-establishment minded voters. In addition to that, Lööf's support of further liberalisations of the public sector also meant that their ever shrinking old voter base of women working in the public sector moved over to the Labour Party in increasing numbers. Offsetting this were the gains among the ever so swingy middle-class voters in Stockholm County, along with high-earning academics largely in the same area. Even so, the party dropped somewhat in support compared to the last election which was a major disappointment considering the near total collapse of the Democrats. The disastrous result for the latter also meant that Annie Lööf's dream government of a Social Democratic-Democrats 2000 centrist coalition was out of the picture, and the Social Democrats would have to go look for other, more left-leaning partners.
While the Labour Party grew immensely, getting their best result in history and attaining the same number of seats as the Social Democrats, the big winner of election night were the Green Left. Under the leadership of Gustav Fridolin, at the time of the election the most popular politician in the country, the party had embraced the anti-establishment undercurrents created by the Kristersson scandal to 100%, which payed of spectacularly in the end. The party more than trebled their support and also got their best result ever. A new leftwing force also entered the Riksdag as the left-wing populist Red Alliance only just passed the 3 percent threshold and got parliamentary representation. On the right, the big winner of the night was the New Right, or the Conservatives as they were known up until 2015, with leader Sara Skyttedal running an exemplary campaign and being rewarded with her party becoming the largest on the centre-right for the first time since the 1980s. The classical liberal/libertarian Liberal Coalition Party also grew somewhat, proving that their entry into parliament in the last election was not a fluke at all. The Centre Democrats on the other hand had a poor election as the wounds from the previous year's leadership election were still very much fresh. Marcus Birro was accused of ignoring the powerful rural wing of the party in favour of his own social conservative faction, to such a degree that even his predecessor Anders Sellström criticised him for it. With such a disappointing result it's unclear for how long Birro can remain as leader, especially with last year's rival Eskil Erlandsson waiting in the wings and spoiling for a fight. And then of course there were the Democrats 2000. The party had held the position of Prime Minister since 2005, and up until his resignation Ulf Kristersson was the longest serving party leader in the Riksdag, having been at the job since the party was founded in 1998. Now its support was more than halved, dropping from a clear first place in the last election to a dismal sixth. Maria Leissner announced her intent to not stand for reelection at the party conference in September, and only time will tell if the party will be able to recover from this gruesome defeat.
In the days after the election it was clear there were few alternatives for Annie Lööf if she wanted to govern. She formed a minority government with the Labour Party after being forced to make some serious concessions in regards to welfare and taxation policy, and while she balked at the idea of including the Green Left she was nonetheless forced to strike a deal with them to pass a budget. Her first choice of budget partner in the Democrats was a non-starter as the former governing party was neither willing nor capable of agreeing to such a deal whilst in the middle of a leadership election. For the first time in 15 years Sweden had a Social Democratic government, and for the first time since the 1980s the government did not include any of the traditional rightwing parties or their successors.
Is this current politics?
Quick question for anyone here who can answer it...
How does Wikipedia handle U.S. House redistricting in their infobox maps? Like, do they mark districts as pick-ups if the the only thing that changes is the number of the district? Or does it have to be an incumbent losing the seat for them to color it as a pickup?
For example, if after redistricting the AL-7th (majority-black dem district) becomes the AL-6th, but is still represented by the same person, would it be colored as a dem pickup since technically the AL-6th was a GOP district prior to redistricting?
How does Wikipedia handle U.S. House redistricting in their infobox maps? Like, do they mark districts as pick-ups if the the only thing that changes is the number of the district? Or does it have to be an incumbent losing the seat for them to color it as a pickup?
For example, if after redistricting the AL-7th (majority-black dem district) becomes the AL-6th, but is still represented by the same person, would it be colored as a dem pickup since technically the AL-6th was a GOP district prior to redistricting?
The New Order stabilized. Ever since humanity retreated to space and let Earth be consumed by the byproducts of the nuclear war, numerous colonies that were still loyal to Earth were united as the United Provinces of Sol. It was a shaky arrangement, dominated by orbital citadels, but it survived.
The Pioneer Penal Complex on Callisto, named so for the Pioneer Terminal that created it, also included an energy plant designed for extracting Callisto's unique natural resources, which the prisoners of the Penal Complex were forced to work on. It was in their own interest, of course; more enthusiastic work meant that they would have certain privileges. Anarchists, anti-UPSists, liberationists and thieves in law refused to work on the Penal Complex, and thus were punished far more severely. Soon, the prisoners of the Penal Complex were divided into two broad groups: "bichi" and "tuneyadtsy" respectively, and both groups despised each other.
The "tuneyadtsy", led by "native-born prisoners" Yuval Evpatyevich Arkashin-Dobkin and Xenia Yanishina, better known as "Djonka" ("Junko"), soon led the brunt of the rebellion on the Pioneer Penal Complex, while also being joined by the historically anti-UPS Callistoan Avian Liberation Front, fighting against the "biches", the Pioneer Penal Complex Administration, and eventually the government of the UPS for eight years. Eventually, the Pioneer Penal Complex was recaptured and the "tuneyadtsy" defeated, with its leaders executed "for treason" a week later and Yuval Evpatyevich, "the Unluckiest of Men", was transported to another, far stricter prison in the depths of space.
The Pioneer Penal Complex on Callisto, named so for the Pioneer Terminal that created it, also included an energy plant designed for extracting Callisto's unique natural resources, which the prisoners of the Penal Complex were forced to work on. It was in their own interest, of course; more enthusiastic work meant that they would have certain privileges. Anarchists, anti-UPSists, liberationists and thieves in law refused to work on the Penal Complex, and thus were punished far more severely. Soon, the prisoners of the Penal Complex were divided into two broad groups: "bichi" and "tuneyadtsy" respectively, and both groups despised each other.
The "tuneyadtsy", led by "native-born prisoners" Yuval Evpatyevich Arkashin-Dobkin and Xenia Yanishina, better known as "Djonka" ("Junko"), soon led the brunt of the rebellion on the Pioneer Penal Complex, while also being joined by the historically anti-UPS Callistoan Avian Liberation Front, fighting against the "biches", the Pioneer Penal Complex Administration, and eventually the government of the UPS for eight years. Eventually, the Pioneer Penal Complex was recaptured and the "tuneyadtsy" defeated, with its leaders executed "for treason" a week later and Yuval Evpatyevich, "the Unluckiest of Men", was transported to another, far stricter prison in the depths of space.
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