From cdebc43d5b2f9a1f49b29f7dd4c2c6251f939e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:40:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md index e620c791..c2a94839 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/origin/history/001.md @@ -1,15 +1,25 @@ -While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no "take care that you first place him in his time", some short introduction to be placed at the top of chapter heading of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora. +While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no "take care that you first place him in his time", some short fictional introduction to be placed at the chapter headings of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora. First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all following facts as following logically from it, is that Launch Day takes place two hundred years exactly after Secession Day. -On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much *had* to happen around Launch, right? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, takes rather a lot of work. +On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much *had* to happen around Launch, right? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, out into unknown space takes rather a lot of work. But in all ways, that falls out of the simple fact that Launch Day occurred on the bicentennial Secession Day. ----- -The reason that this association between Secession and Launch is as important as it is is multifaceted. Yes, there was a similarity between the acts, of dividing, of leaving; much of the first part of this volume will be spent dissecting those. Yes, there was political maneuvering both phys- and sys-side in order to accomplish them both; you will read about that. Yes, there was discussion about the wisdom of actions such as these; this you will read about as well. +The reason that this association between Secession and Launch is as important as it is is multifaceted. Yes, there was a similarity between the acts, of dividing, of leaving; much of the first part of this history will be spent dissecting those. Yes, there was political maneuvering both phys- and sys-side in order to accomplish them both; you will read about that. Yes, there was discussion about the wisdom of actions such as these; this you will read about as well. The facet upon which this first chapter focuses on is, however, one of correspondences. Both involved separation of one group from another. Both involved the construction and modification of a political system --- or perhaps non-system --- in order to accommodate the goals involved. In our immortal lives, however, one cannot deny that both Secession and Launch shared the same engineers. The same names, the same clades, the same individuals worked to bring about Secession as they did Launch. Get used to the names of the Ode clade and the Jonas clade. You will see them a lot. + +----- + +Here we must step back and address a potential conflict of interest. + +At time of writing, the Bălan clade is made up of two personalities in the form of three individuals: Ioan Bălan, the root instance, remains on the L5 System, and Codrin Bălan travels on the Launch Vehicles (hereafter LVs). Two persons, three instances. + +Both of these persons, all of these instances, are romantically entangled with the Ode clade. Ioan Bălan is in a relationship with May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade, and Codrin Bălan is in a polyamorous relationship which includes Dear, Also The Tree That Was Felled of the Ode clade. The fact that the Ode clade (also written Odists) was instrumental in both Secession and Launch is undeniable, and the fact that the Bălan clade is entangled with the Odists is equally so. + +For reasons that will be made clear as this history unfolds, we are not able to recuse ourselves. You must bear with us, and you will see why we, the Bălan clade, *must* be the ones to write this history.