Subversives
© Kevin Williams
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Subversives© Kevin Williams |
No matter how well-planned and benevolent a society,
there will always be those who don't like the way things are run,
whether objecting on religious, ideological, prejudicial, paranoid, or
egotistic grounds, or even because thy have been manipulated into doing
so. Such subversives will always be a part of the underbelly of
galactic society. And whereas hiders conceal themselves in worldships
or nomadic colonies between the stars, or in the icy bodies of the oort
clouds, and idealists seek to migrate outwards to the periphery and
beyond to establish their own utopias, other clades, phyles, and
subcultures, more militant or fanatical, seek to overthrow the rule of
the imperial hyperturings, or if they cannot do that, at least make
things difficult for them. These are the subversives, the terrorists.
They have been around since the dawn of history, although their names
and their causes may vary. For them the end always justifies the means.
The authorities would dearly love to get their hands on them. But most
often they can't. Viva la revolution!
The Cult of the Exsanguinated Giraffe
Eurekan Cybercracy - Interplanetary Age anarchic collective who used memetic persuasion to win over crews and capture their cargo
