strange new worlds (fan fic cliches cont...)
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Monday, August 20, 2007 06:11
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I was just using the reality of my own state of North Carolina as an example of how diverse a Border planet could be. The state in general has a big independent streak and we still tend to go our own way on things.
The middle part of the state (high tech and industralized, lots of transplants from other places) is changing the political landscape of NC.
Traditionally NC is pretty conservative politically with small landowners and small business people very distrustful of power residing outside of the local area.
NC was one of the first states to declare for Independence during the Revolution and the 12th to ratify the US Constitution and only then after the Bill of Rights was added.
NC was also reluctant to join the Confederacy. There were few large plantations and most in the state at that time were small farmers with few or no slaves.
NC is big on patriotism though, with Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville and Camp LeJeune (USMC) in Jacksonville.
The thing is when patriotism and individual rights clash, individual rights usually win around here.
For example, the Navy wanted to build an Outlying Landing Field near a wildife sanctuary that's a stop on the Atlantic flyway for millions of migrating geese and swans. People in the Norfolk, VA area were complaining about the jet noise and the Navy said they needed a secluded spot with no ambient light to simulate air craft carrier landings.
A strange coalition of environmentalists, farmers whose land would have been taken (some in families for 100 years or more) and residents of small towns whose noise level would have been effected banded together and put tremendous pressure on state and national politicians. They literally made the Navy's life hell and were successful in preventing the funding of the OLF.
I hope this helps you in developing your time line after the BDM.
BTW I was an American Studies major in that "den of liberalism (LOL) known as Chapel Hill", at UNC and had took two fantastic courses in NC History there.
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thanks - and yes! interesting and helpful!
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The 'fanon' explanation I'd heard for why all the planets look the same is that the planets on the Rim are mostly recently terraformed, and the century of less is not long enough for the ecosystems to grow together and produce jungles, forests and the like. By contrast, the Core planets have have centuries for their ecosystems to mature.
I have never heard that piece of fanon, but it makes such a wonderful explanation for the lack of flourishing ecosystems.
Also, could the rim planets be so sparse because they are farther away from the sun? (Scientifically they would frozen wastelands if they were too far away, or excruciatingly hot if too close, yet let's just humor that distance question as it is sci-fi)
*EDIT: NCBrowncoat, love your method with Shadow. Your description is very vivid, and I can picture it all in my head
Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash
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