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A Michaelite in Texas says that "the more novas who kill each other off, the better." A high school student in New York thinks Corbin did it "because she knew about something he did, something really bad." A steel worker in London "think[s] those Teragen arseholes did it." An OpNet programmer in Hong Kong plugs his OpSite about "a secret cabal inside Utopia who want to control society and technology." A columnist in Rio guesses that "[s]omeone's trying to destabilize Utopia and provoke open war with the Teragen."
He must get awfully tired, sometimes, of giving the same interview over and over explaining his positions and the movement's:
that the Zurich Accord didn't actually make novas human just by declaring them human ("The United Nations might well declare that this chair I am sitting on is a rare breed of hummingbird, Parker, but that will not make it so");
that the issue is not whether novas are superior to baselines, but that they are different from baselines as baselines are different from "apes" (well, apelike ancestors) and must figure out for themselves what that means, outwith "a human society custom-made for human comfort";
that the violence committed by Terats is a drop in the bucket "compared to the continued bloodshed in Kashmir" (which the baseline media seems reconciled too, as long as it's mostly novas dying);
that, in any case, "novas who take their identity seriously cannot sit back and watch their own people threatened, cajoled or killed" by baseline governments led by the likes of Frederick Rupert and Malcolm Chigwedere;
that, no matter what Parker thinks, Project Utopia cannot be counted on to protect nova interests.
Earlier, Stevenson mentioned the media buzz linking the Teragen to the Slider murder. Raoul says point-blank "the Teragen had nothing to do with the death of Jennifer Landers. We are, however, quite interested in finding out who did, if for no other reason than to clear our name." In response to the suggestion that protection of nova interests should be left to Utopia, the count points out the buzz about Utopia's black-ops side and says "I, myself, have seen evidence suggesting that the late Jennifer Landers was a victim of Utopia's baseline agenda."
This evidence probably came from one Aaron Peloit, officially "Interdepartmental Data Analyst attached to [Utopia's] Internal Affairs Division" and unofficially Proteus' "Director Iktome", who sent data-packets on Proteus to Orzaiz, Corbin (who seems never to have gotten his copy), General Thomas Eddicott, and an unidentified fourth party. He believes "Proteus has gone too far with some of its initiatives, and those initiatives need to be stopped." He objects to the sterilization of novas, albeit only because of "the hue and cry that will arise when the program is discovered." (There'd be a hue and cry over the sort of thing the sterilization was meant to prevent, too, but I believe this could be controlled.) He also objects to Thetis' panoptic approach to the security of Utopia:
He warns that "the behavior of Director Thetis is becoming more bizarre." He considers Proteus a necessary evil, but believes that "if events progress any farther down these lines, we will be sacrificing Utopia for a sterile megalopolis ruled by fear and paranoia." He doesn't understand her reasons, but I suspect he mentions one of them in the smuggled file. Thetis, it seems to me, longs for the time when Æon were the only organized body who knew about the Inspired, and when (in my construction of events) they had an effective oligopoly on the organized use of Inspired personnel. She can't make the can never have been opened, nor can she make people forget about the worms, but what she can do to recreate such a monopoly, she will.
Back to Raoul:
He considers the inclusion of novas in the human community a violation of the UN Charter's guarantees of self-determination.
May 25
[Aberrant] N!terview's "The World's Opinion" segment shows the diversity of answers to the question "Who killed Slider and Why?"
A Michaelite in Texas says that "the more novas who kill each other off, the better." A high school student in New York thinks Corbin did it "because she knew about something he did, something really bad." A steel worker in London "think[s] those Teragen arseholes did it." An OpNet programmer in Hong Kong plugs his OpSite about "a secret cabal inside Utopia who want to control society and technology." A columnist in Rio guesses that "[s]omeone's trying to destabilize Utopia and provoke open war with the Teragen."
Raoul Orzaiz appears live from Ibiza on N!Sight with Parker Stevenson.
He must get awfully tired, sometimes, of giving the same interview over and over explaining his positions and the movement's:
Earlier, Stevenson mentioned the media buzz linking the Teragen to the Slider murder. Raoul says point-blank "the Teragen had nothing to do with the death of Jennifer Landers. We are, however, quite interested in finding out who did, if for no other reason than to clear our name." In response to the suggestion that protection of nova interests should be left to Utopia, the count points out the buzz about Utopia's black-ops side and says "I, myself, have seen evidence suggesting that the late Jennifer Landers was a victim of Utopia's baseline agenda."
This evidence probably came from one Aaron Peloit, officially "Interdepartmental Data Analyst attached to [Utopia's] Internal Affairs Division" and unofficially Proteus' "Director Iktome", who sent data-packets on Proteus to Orzaiz, Corbin (who seems never to have gotten his copy), General Thomas Eddicott, and an unidentified fourth party. He believes "Proteus has gone too far with some of its initiatives, and those initiatives need to be stopped." He objects to the sterilization of novas, albeit only because of "the hue and cry that will arise when the program is discovered." (There'd be a hue and cry over the sort of thing the sterilization was meant to prevent, too, but I believe this could be controlled.) He also objects to Thetis' panoptic approach to the security of Utopia:
Basically, the best way to keep control over something is to make it so afraid that it'll be caught stepping out of line that it chooses to stay in line all the time.... My theory, on the other hand, is that if you're too secretive too much of the time, people get paranoid, people get nervous and people do stupid things that tear your idealized vision of control into pieces.
He warns that "the behavior of Director Thetis is becoming more bizarre." He considers Proteus a necessary evil, but believes that "if events progress any farther down these lines, we will be sacrificing Utopia for a sterile megalopolis ruled by fear and paranoia." He doesn't understand her reasons, but I suspect he mentions one of them in the smuggled file. Thetis, it seems to me, longs for the time when Æon were the only organized body who knew about the Inspired, and when (in my construction of events) they had an effective oligopoly on the organized use of Inspired personnel. She can't make the can never have been opened, nor can she make people forget about the worms, but what she can do to recreate such a monopoly, she will.
Back to Raoul:
Utopia is a product of the Æon Society, which gained status in the United Nations by promising to deal with the so-called nova crisis. The nova crisis, Parker. At its very inception, Utopia designated us as a problem to which it was the final solution.... If we continue to serve humanity as executors of their will, we unavoidably become the instruments of still more bloodshed and terror.
He considers the inclusion of novas in the human community a violation of the UN Charter's guarantees of self-determination.
