zk/writing/post-self/secession.md

%title Secession (WT)

The secession of the system and launch of the extra-solar system.

# Characters

* Past arc (Secession)
    * System
        * Michelle Hadje
            * Still trying to deal with the lingering sensations from being lost
            * Doing her best to shape the system as it will be (reputation market, sensoria, perisystem architecture), basically acting as steering committee along with a few others.
        * The Only Time I know My True Name Is When I Dream (True Name)
            * Campaigns for individual rights and secession from Sys-side
    * Offline
        * Yared Zerezghi
            * Phys-side System tech
            * Campaigns for individual rights for Sys-side individuals, with the caveat of secession
            * Followws arc of Paul from Toledot Yeshu
        * Yosef Demma
            * NWAC (Northwest African Coalition) politician
            * Hires Yared to induce the secession from Phys-side
* Future Arc (Launch)
    * System
        * Codrin Balan
            * Launch-side historian
        * Ioan Balan
            * Sys-side historian and launch coordinator
        * Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled (Dear)
            * Launch-side storyteller (new job title)
        * May Then My Name Die With Me (May Then My Name)
            * Sys-side storyteller
    * Offline
        * Douglas Hadje
            * Phys-side System tech, launch coordinator
            * Diiistant cousin of Michelle, always feels some strange connection to her, too shy to communicate
        * de (because why not be goofy with names, it's the dang future)
            * Member of collective
            * Wants to prevent launch b/c Earth is kinda falling apart and it resents that.

# Brief outline

* Secession (2124 - coming up on 10 year anniversary of system)
    * System
    * Offline
* Launch (2325 - just after launch, on bicentennial anniversary of system)
    * System
        * Sys-side
        * Launch-side
    * Offline

# Outline

* [ ] Epigraph
* [ ] Act I
* [ ] Act II
* [ ] Act III
* [ ] Conclusion

# Notes

* The ships (identical) are similar to from *Accelerando* combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There's a small version of the System, an RTG for power, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it's launched on each. Thin scaffold type thing about 10k kilometers long spun around the middle. In the scaffold is a rail gun to assist in propulsion as the ships are flung out into space by angular momentum, each in opposite directions.