update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/secession.html

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 <li>Is stretched too thin dealing with that, as well as trying to cope with the lingering sensations of being lost magnified in system, to deal with rights and personhood, so she shells out a good chunk of reputation to fork the first 10 lines of the Ode, letting True Name tackle rights and personhood.</li>
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-<li>The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream (True Name) and Jonas Byrd fight for rights and personhood<ul>
+<li>The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream (True Name) and Jonas Prime fight for rights and personhood<ul>
-<li></li>
+<li>We see that humanity has given up on the stars and started to stall out. The capitalist world isn&rsquo;t sure what to do with the system, yet people keep fleeing to it</li>
+<li>True Name and Jonas Prime debate (asynchronously) with Earth on the subject of personhood - their argument is that they are no longer humanity&rsquo;s tools (hunmanity wanting to put them to work on software, running machines in place of AIs, etc)</li>
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-<li>Offline</li>
+<li>Offline<ul>
+<li>Yosef, who basically wants to keep the system separate from humanity (never in favor of it, sees it as a place to store inconvenient people), hires Yared to argue for personhood and, at a strategic point, suggest secession</li>
+<li>Unplanned but fortuitous that moving it to the L5 point comes up - physically remove the (private, hidden) facility from earth, out of sight, out of mind.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
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 <li>Launch (2325 - just after launch, on bicentennial anniversary of system)<ul>
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-<li>Offline</li>
+<li>Offline<ul>
+<li>Douglas struggles with being a hermit/launch tech/coordinator but also wanting to talk with Michelle - basically his whole POV is the tech aspect of the launch</li>
+<li>de and its collective struggle to get anyone to even want to prevent the launch, but humanity has mostly turned inward and lost interest in exploration, now super conservative, as life is pretty damn hellish outside their heads, starting toward Matrioshka Brain status out of escapism. Uploading is seen as just sort of the thing you do when you get tired enough, if you don&rsquo;t die first, etc.</li>
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 <h1 id="notes">Notes</h1>
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-<li>The ships (identical) are similar to from <em>Accelerando</em> combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There&rsquo;s a small version of the System (plenty of room for folks to fork, etc), an RTG for power, some external physical manipulators and materials for repair along the way if needed, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it&rsquo;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.</li>
+<li>The ships (identical) are similar to from <em>Accelerando</em> combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There&rsquo;s a small version of the System (plenty of room for folks to fork, etc), an RTG for power, some external physical manipulators and materials (like 1-2 tons) for repair along the way if needed, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it&rsquo;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.</li>
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