Comm-Link:2920 - The Money Pit

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2920: The Money Pit
Series	Time Capsule
Type	Spectrum Dispatch
ID	12722
Published	2012-10-07
Source	2920: The Money Pit
In the series
Title Published 2075: The Stars Get A Little Closer 2012-09-08 2113: When Do We Go Too Far? 2012-09-09 2120: Give These People Air 2012-09-12 2125: A Dark Day 2012-09-13 2140: A Ship in Every Garage 2012-09-14 2157: Blue Skies on Mars 2012-09-15 2214: The March of Progress 2012-09-16 2232: The First Push 2012-09-17 2262: The Neso Triangle 2012-09-18 2271: One Small Jump for Man 2012-09-19 2380: Together We Rise 2012-09-20 2438: Hello 2012-09-21 2460: Breathe Free 2012-09-22 2516: A Better Earth 2012-09-23 2523: The Three Pillars 2012-09-20 2530: The Galaxy Gets Bigger 2012-09-25 2541: Awfully Crowded in My Sky 2012-09-26 2546: A Leader Rises 2012-09-27 2610: Tears of Fire 2012-09-28 2638: A Call for Sovereignty 2012-09-29 2681: Scorched Earth 2012-09-30 2758: Not in Nottingham 2012-10-01 2789: A Cold War Thaws 2012-10-02 2792: The Tide Rises 2012-10-03 2795: A Kinder, Gentler Human 2012-10-04 2800: The Neutral Zone 2012-10-05 2872: Behold Sisyphus 2012-10-06 2920: The Money Pit 2012-10-07 2928: Campaign Promises 2012-10-08 2934: A Dreamer Dreams 2012-10-09 2942. . . 2012-10-10

<translate> TERRA GAZETTE NEWSORG ARCHIVE

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 5.38.2920

EDITORIAL SECTION

“Financial Jump-Point”

By. Kali Hanks

There is a space anomaly out there. It’s a jump-point of sorts that no pilot or ship will be able to navigate because it will only let money go into it and that money is never to be seen again. I’m talking, of course, about this Synthworld nonsense. It’s almost been fifty years since they announced Project Archangel and, frankly, what have we got?

To me, it seems like we’re no closer to synthesizing a world than we were back then when it was all wide-eyed promises and hope. The simple reality is that this attempt to build a Synthworld is coming at a cost to all the other worlds and we have a government who’s so desperate to make this work that they’re willing to let the military and infrastructure suffer to keep paying for it.

I get it, I do. They’re building this because of all the races wiped out during the terraforming era. It’s a great idea, sure, but enough is enough. I think fifty years of failure should be a good indicator that we need to move on.

Nope. Every year we get more assurances that the scientists are making “new advances” that should finally figure out how to stabilize the growth process but they never deliver because what do we have after all this time? A shifting unstable planetary mass.

We need to get someone in power who will have the courage to say Stop. Either someone needs to Croshaw the politics and pull the plug on this money-parasite or the rest of the systems are going to fall down with it. This may not be popular to say but I guarantee that people are thinking it; this was Earth’s big idea to make up for the terrible things that they did over the Messer Era. We in Terra have a clear conscience because our forefathers managed to distance themselves from the awfulness of that Age. If Earth wants this ridiculous project to clear their conscience fine but I don’t see why we have to go down with the ship.

Maybe it’s time for us to be on our own. </translate>

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