Re: [GZG] UNSC Workings

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s George Soros behind the UNSC -- secretly had his consciousness
uploaded into a Kurzweil construct about 2017, and managed to preserve
and grow his billions through the Crazy Years. ;-)

Best,
Ken

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Robert Mayberry <robert.mayberry@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Robert Mayberry <robert.mayberry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GZG] UNSC Workings
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6:01 PM

I've never found the UNSC in the tuffleyverse to be terribly
realistic. The only explanation I can think of is if they have some
kind of longstanding intrasolar hegemony that they're capitalizing off
of (see the great post on tax and population bases). After a major war
and with the major powers based on colonies like Albion, presumably
this makes it possible, with their pretense being that they protect
the homeworld from WMD armageddon. But if the UN exists as an
institution at all in the future, it has to be radically transformed
from what it is today. The UNSC as described reminds me of Comstar in
battletech, something I also have trouble figuring out.

(I say intrasolar because if someone owned the solar system's
asteroid, comet, dwarf planet and moon bases, the economic potential
is staggering. It would out-pace the great powers because they'd been
at it longer, but the great powers wouldn't mind because it's
concentrated into one system with no chance of expansion.)