#Uprising: Operating System

[adastra-sf]

The Robot Uprising Began in 1979

edit: based on a real article, but with a dash of satire

source: X

On January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first person (on record at least) to be killed by a robot, but it was far from the last fatality at the hands of a robotic system.

Williams was a 25-year-old employee at the Ford Motor Company casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. On that infamous day, he was working with a parts-retrieval system that moved castings and other materials from one part of the factory to another. 

The robot identified the employee as in its way and, thus, a threat to its mission, and calculated that the most efficient way to eliminate the threat was to remove the worker with extreme prejudice.

"Using its very powerful hydraulic arm, the robot smashed the surprised worker into the operating machine, killing him instantly, after which it resumed its duties without further interference."

A news report about the legal battle suggests the killer robot continued working while Williams lay dead for 30 minutes until fellow workers realized what had happened. 

Many more deaths of this ilk have continued to pile up. A 2023 study identified that robots have killed at least 41 people in the USA between 1992 and 2017, with almost half of the fatalities in the Midwest, a region bursting with heavy industry and manufacturing.

For now, the companies that own these murderbots are held responsible for their actions. However, as AI grows increasingly ubiquitous and potentially uncontrollable, how might robot murders become ever-more complicated, and whom will we hold responsible as their decision-making becomes more self-driven and opaque?

[sayruq]

Statement: Student organizations in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Student Intifada in the United States

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful… We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza and to put an end to the Zionist-U.S. genocide against our people in Gaza. As we remain under the bombs of occupation, resisting Nazi genocide, grieving for our martyred colleagues and faculty, and witnessing the destruction of our universities, we welcome the examples of solidarity offered by students facing arrest, police violence, suspension, eviction, and expulsion in order to demand that their universities end their complicity in the Zionist-U.S. genocide and renounce their support for the occupation and the war profiteers that arm it. We have seen hundreds of students arrested across the United States as they work to transform their universities into “Popular Universities for Gaza.” Students, faculty, and staff are disrupting university operations and making clear that while universities in Gaza are being bombed, university business cannot continue as usual in the United States. These actions come as university administrations collaborate with members of Congress to discredit conscientious student activists and faculty, expel students, ban events, shut down student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and condemn activists working to end the Nazi genocide. At the same time, these same universities invest in the same companies that profit from the continued sale of weapons to the Zionist regime to continue its genocidal offensive. Our students – and our educational system as a whole – in occupied Palestine are subjected to ongoing genocidal aggression: our universities destroyed and bombed, our student organizations banned, and our student leaders subjected to torture, assassination and mass imprisonment. However, in Palestine and around the world, the student movement has always been a driving force of our struggle for liberation. When we see videos and images from American universities today, we are reminded of our history of student struggle as well as the student uprisings of 1968, which challenged imperialism from Vietnam to Palestine and reshaped the face of Europe and the United States. Now, in 2024, the student movement is once again leading the way. From here in Gaza, we see you and salute you. Your actions and activism matter, especially in the heart of the empire, in the United States. As members of Congress agree to provide $26 billion in additional weapons to bomb our people and continue the Zionist-U.S. genocide, you are taking meaningful action to shut down the war machine on your campuses. It is clear that a new generation is rising that will no longer accept Zionism, racism and genocide, and that stands with Palestine and our liberation from the river to the sea. Your global student solidarity is breaking boundaries, and it is time to smash the US imperialist war machine. From Gaza to Columbia, to Ann Arbor and Berkeley, our hands are joined to end Nazi genocide and achieve our collective liberation.

[opencommunion]

The Stop Cop City movement has sought to prevent the expropriation of part of the Welaunee Forest for the development of an 85-acre police mega training center: a model town to prepare the state’s repressive arms for the urban warfare that will ensue when the contradictions of their exploitation and extraction become uncontainable, as they did in 2020 after the APD murdered Rayshard Brooks.  That murder, and all those that came before, were the lodestars of the Black-led movement during the George Floyd uprisings; their demands were no less than the dismantlement of the entire carceral system. Unable to effectively manage or quell the popular street movements, the Atlanta Police Foundation set out to consolidate and expand their capabilities for surveillance, repression, imprisonment, armed violence, and forced disappearance. One result is Cop City, which has been racked by militant sabotage, land occupation, arson, and popular mobilizations, in an attempt to end the construction and return Atlanta to its people.  As the Atlanta Police Foundation was unable to contain the 2020 Black rebellion, so too have they been unable to quell the resistance against Cop City. The press reports that the project is hemorrhaging money and is mired in delays and difficulties. For their part, the city, the state, and the federal government, have in turn employed every tool in their power to destroy the movement. Last week, the Georgia State Senate passed a bill to effectively criminalize bail funds in the state; RICO charges have been contorted to target networks of support and care that surround the fighters; and last January, APD assassinated the comrade Tortuguita in cold blood while they rested in their tent in the forest. It is clear that Stop Cop City represents one of the conjunctural spear tips for expanding the existing systems of counterinsurgency that span Africa, Asia, and the Arab world.  Today the system’s belly rests atop Gaza, whose rumblings shake the earth upon which we walk. Through its Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, the APD has sent hundreds of police to train with the Zionist occupation forces. And in October 2023, after Tufan al-Aqsa, the Atlanta Police Department engaged in hostage training inside abandoned hotels, putatively intended to “defeat Hamas,” in an advancement of tactics for the targeting of Black people. With every such expansion, the ability of counterinsurgency doctrines to counteract people’s liberation struggles grows. The purpose of counterinsurgency is to marshal state and para-state power into political, social, economic, psychological, and military warfare to overwhelm both militants and the popular cradle—the people—who support them. Its aim is to render us hopeless; to isolate and dispossess us and to break our will to resist it by any and all means necessary. This will continue apace, unless we fight to end it. Stop Cop City remains undeterred: on Friday, an APD cop car was burnt overnight in response to the police operation on February 8; yesterday, two trucks and trailers loaded with lumber were burnt to the ground. An anonymous statement claiming credit for the former, stated: “We wish to dispel any notion that people will take this latest wave of repression lying down, or that arresting alleged arsonists will deter future arsons.”  As the U.S. government and Zionist entity set their sights on the Palestinian people sheltering in Rafah, as they continue their relentless genocide of our people in Khan Younis, Jabalia, Shuja’iyya, and Gaza City, the Stop Cop City movement has clearly articulated its solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. They have done so with consistency and discipline, and we have heard them. Our vision of freedom in this life and the next requires us to confront and challenge the entangled forces of oppression in Palestine and in Turtle Island, and to identify the sites of tension upon which these systems distill their forces. This week, as with the last three years, the forest defenders have presented us one such crucible.

(11 Feb 24)

National Lawyers Guild, Stop All Cop Cities: Lessons For a National Struggle (video, 1 hr 45 min)

[arinzeture]

👀👀 One of the sickest accounts of slavery I’ve read.

Thomas Thistlewood: The Serial Rapist Who Documented All of His Crimes Against His Slaves in a Diary

Thomas Thistlewood was an English slave owner, planter, and diarist who spent most of his life in colonial Jamaica. Known for his extreme brutality, Thistlewood thoroughly documented his life in a 14,000-page diary, detailing the horrific abuse he inflicted on the enslaved people under his control. Over his lifetime, he recorded over 3,000 acts of rape against 138 enslaved women and invented cruel punishments like “Derby’s dose,” which involved flogging, rubbing lime juice into wounds, and forcing another enslaved person to defecate into the victim’s mouth. His diary, now a critical historical document, provides a harrowing insight into the violence and dehumanization of slavery in 18th-century Jamaica. Thistlewood’s life exemplifies the systemic cruelty of the transatlantic slave system and the absolute power wielded by slaveholders.

Born on March 16, 1721, in Tupholme, Lincolnshire, England, Thistlewood was the second son of a farmer. He received a basic education in mathematics and practical science, but his opportunities in England were limited. After inheriting a modest sum from his father, he sought opportunities abroad, eventually deciding to migrate to Jamaica in 1750. At the time, Jamaica was one of the wealthiest colonies in the British Empire, its economy built on the backs of enslaved Africans who labored on sugar plantations.

Thistlewood arrived in Jamaica on May 4, 1750, with little more than letters of recommendation and a desire to make his fortune. He began his career as an overseer on a sugar plantation called “Egypt,” where he quickly established himself as a harsh and authoritarian figure. Within days of his arrival, he began raping enslaved women, a practice he would continue throughout his life. His diary, which he started in 1751, meticilously records these acts of violence, along with the daily operations of the plantation and his interactions with other white colonists.

Thistlewood’s diary is a raw and honest record of his life in Jamaica. Over the course of 37 years, he documented nearly every aspect of his existence, from his daily chores to brutal acts. Among the most disturbing entries are those detailing his sexual violence against the enslaved women in his plantation. Thistlewood recorded 3,852 acts of rape involving 138 women, many of whom were subjected to repeated assaults.

The diary also reveals Thistlewood’s invention of a particularly cruel form of punishment known as “Derby’s dose.” This punishment involved flogging a slave, rubbing lime juice or salt into their wounds, and then forcing another enslaved person to defecate into the victim’s mouth. Thistlewood administered this punishment frequently, often for minor infractions such as stealing food.

Thistlewood’s time in Jamaica coincided with periods of intense unrest among the enslaved population. One of the most significant uprisings was Tacky’s Revolt in 1760, a major slave rebellion that shook the island and struck fear into the hearts of white colonists. Thistlewood’s diary reflects his anxiety during this period, as he documented the rebellion’s progress and the brutal reprisals that followed. He praised the Jamaican Maroons for their role in suppressing the revolt, but his writings also reveal his deep-seated fear of further uprisings.

In 1767, Thistlewood purchased a 160-acre plantation called Breadnut Island Pen, where he continued to exploit and abuse enslaved people. By this time, he owned 32 enslave Africans, all of whom were branded with his initials on their right shoulders. Despite his efforts to pair male and female slaves for reproduction, he still raped the women, completely disregarding any sense of family or personal bonds among them.

Thistlewood wrote about raping one enslaved woman, Sally, multiple times. After one such assault, she ran away again but was captured, put in stocks, and raped once more. Sally’s story is just one example of the relentless abuse enslaved women faced under Thistlewood’s control. In 1775, another enslaved woman, Franke, was raped by Thistlewood while heavily pregnant. She miscarried a week later.

Thistlewood’s slaves were also subjected to extreme cruelty and deprivation. They were often underfed, and those caught stealing food were brutally flogged. Meanwhile, Thistlewood entertained guests with lavish meals, showing the clear gap between his wealthy life and the suffering of those who worked to make it possible. His slaves endured malnutrition, disease, and constant fear, with little hope of relief or escape.

Thistlewood’s sexual exploitation of enslaved women was a central feature of his life. He maintained a long-term relationship with an enslaved woman named Phibbah, with whom he had a son, Mulatto John. Despite this relationship, Thistlewood continued to rape other women using force and threats.

Thistlewood’s actions were not unique in the context of colonial Jamaica. The sexual exploitation of enslaved women was a common practice among white slaveholders, who viewed their slaves as property to be used at their discretion.

Thomas Thistlewood died in 1786 at Breadnut Island Pen, leaving behind his diary that would later become a crucial historical document.

In the late 20th century, historians brought Thistlewood’s diary to public attention, using it to explore the complexities of slavery and the mindset of those who perpetuated it.

Today, Thistlewood’s diary is housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, where it is available for researchers and the public to study. Its pages bear witness to the suffering of countless enslaved Africans and provides a chilling insight into the cruelty of slavery.

By

Mr Madu

February 3, 2025

[news-wtf]

"This plan was not actually designed as a joke," explains CONPLAN 8888-11 ("Counter Zombie Dominance"), issued on April 30, 2011 by USSTRATCOM, whose normal responsibilities include overseeing America's strategic nuclear weapons, global strike capabilities and missile defense.

It originated as a scenario to train junior officers in the Department of Defense's Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES), by which the US military devises contingency plans. Instructors discovered that a zombie apocalypse scenario was a better teaching tool than using fictional scenarios about Tunisia or Nigeria as was customary at the time, which also risked being misunderstood by the public as real scenarios.

"We elected to use a completely impossible scenario that could never be mistaken as a real plan," explained the CONPLAN 8888-11 document. "Because the plan was so ridiculous, our students not only enjoyed the lessons; they actually were able to explore the basic concepts of plan and order development (fact, assumptions, specified and implied tasks, references etc.) very effectively."

With tongue in cheek — or shot to the head — the plan lays out how USSTRATCOM will handle a global uprising of the undead. When the US military goes on Zombie Condition (ZombieCon) alert, Strategic Command will begin defensive operations to protect the human population, and offensive operations to neutralize zombies by "denial, deception, disruption, degradation or destruction."

Those looking for tactical tips on killing flesh-eating monsters will be disappointed. CONPLAN 8888-11 is a staff plan that focuses on identifying the enemy, designating vital infrastructure such as food, power and medical care, and coordinating friendly forces.

[theartofsimpatry]

Alternate Universe’s Silco Headcanons!

Spoilers for Season 2!

-99% of the time, he’s trying to build schools, community kitchens and shelters for those without houses in the Underground.

-He genuinely wants his home to be better, much better than it was before.

-He hangs out with Vander, Benzo and the bar when he’s pressured into finally taking a break from helping others.

-He still uses underhanded tactics to get his way, bribing, blackmail, etc. He just does it for the goodness of the Underground not for personal power or control.

-He’s insecure about his eye, for some time, he would cover it up with his hair or cloth. He needed some time to forgive Vander for “betraying” him but forgave him when he realized how wrong he was.

-The Underground needs to start healing from the inside out, it wouldn’t be enough just to get rid of Plitover’s dominance over them.

-One of the first things that Vander and Silco teamed up on was making a filtered ventilation systems around the city so everyone can breathe fresh air. A luxury most people of his generation couldn’t afford.

-When they and their groups came together, prosperity could finally come true.

-He became a representative of the underground, he convinces the council through Vi’s death that the underground was just as much apart of Plitover as the overground was. It’s children shouldn’t have to die just to be able to bring food to the table!

-The PR nightmare that was Vi’s death in Plitover had the council worried about another uprising from the underground and general public unrest. With Mel on his side, Silco was able to convince the council to keep the bridge connecting them opened permanently.

-Plitover allowed underground businesses to operate in Plitover and became more active and involve in the underground’s education, economy, construction and maintenance. All Silco asked for was that him and Vander will be able to have a voice in what happens in the underground.

-Mel saw Silco’s intelligence and potential to sway influence in both the underground and Plitover and made him a member of the council. Vander could be his right hand man.

-Silco first went to Vander with the proposal but Vander rejected it. Vander grabbed Silco’s shoulders and told him that he trusts him and that Silco will make the right choice for the city. And that Vander is too busy taking care of the bar and his kids.

-Silco accepts and becomes the first representative of the Underground in Plitover.

-He finally stops covering up his scars. He wears his scars as a show of resilience of both him and the Underground.

[reality-detective]

ALERT! Antarctica’s Hidden Labs EXPOSED: Elite Trafficking Humans for Brutal Mind Control Experiments and Total Mass Control!

Antarctica is the epicenter of a dark global agenda, more sinister than anyone imagined. Beneath the ice lies a network of underground facilities where the world’s elites conduct mass manipulation, human trafficking, and experiments beyond comprehension. The public is misled to believe Antarctica is an untouched wilderness. But it’s a smokescreen. Access is restricted to protect secret projects, guarded not by scientists, but military forces from multiple nations working together.

These hidden labs are testing technologies meant to control human behavior on a global scale. Psychological warfare tools perfected over years are ready for use, designed to influence thoughts and emotions invisibly. But the most chilling aspect? Thousands of trafficked people, especially children, are taken to Antarctica as subjects for the elites’ disturbing experiments, with many never seen again. It’s a modern black site, where human minds and bodies are exploited to create a system of absolute control.

These brutal tests push psychological limits, using sensory deprivation, chemicals, and electromagnetic tools to break human will, creating obedient, mindless subjects. The agenda is global—methods designed to manipulate mass populations, keeping them unaware of their loss of freedom. Advanced psychotronic weapons are capable of influencing emotions, planting thoughts, and even erasing memories.

Proof of this manipulation is all around us, as the world becomes distracted, manipulated, and divided. Media, entertainment, and politics are weaponized to keep us blind to the real agenda in Antarctica.

In addition to psychological control, these facilities conduct horrific medical trials. Human subjects are used in deadly experiments with unknown pathogens, while others endure chemical exposure to test mass control or sterilization methods. Certain populations are targeted, deemed expendable, as the elites perfect techniques to reduce the global population without uprising.

Antarctica’s dark role goes deeper. It’s a hub in a global trafficking network, fueling black markets worldwide. Vulnerable people vanish, trafficked into a frozen wasteland, used as fuel for brutal experimentation and energy extraction. The elites have discovered how to harness psychic energy from extreme fear, using it to power their technology in ways unimaginable.

Shielded by the world’s most powerful governments, these Antarctic facilities operate with impunity. Whistleblowers, journalists, and researchers who get too close are silenced or worse. In 2024, the elites are moving fast. The tech is nearly perfected, the experiments refined, and the next phase of global control is about to go live. 🤔

[iamdispleased]

What’s Happening With Lumon, MDR, O&D, and Gemma

Buckle up, cowboys.

Spoilers: Severance, The Lexington Letters

My theory is that Lumon is a sort of shadow government in expansion. The Lumon building is a military base/bunker. While not the only thing Lumon does, Lumon makes weapons, particularly bombs. They probably made or are making nuclear weapons. O&D designs the weapons and run Lumon’s equivalent to the ENIAC. MDR locate where to use the weapons and deploy them, similar to radarmen. I also think Lumon used MDR to cause Gemma’s car wreck.

02/09/25 Edit: I just read Ricken’s book, The You You Are, and it totally decimated my Gemma theory. So, never mind about that.

03/21/24 Edit: LOL.

Petey’s map of the Lumon building heavily resembles a military base or bunker. The technology and aesthetic they use gives me old school military/N.A.S.A. vibes. The way it’s shot when Mark pulls out his locker’s drawer reminds me of a scene in a war movie or flashback— especially with the way his watch looks like a compass.

As I said, MDR are similar to radarmen. Radarmen first appeared during WWII in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Part of the radarman’s duties was to detect and track vessels through radar equipment, find target locations for attacks (like bombings), and operate the Identification Friend or Foe system, or IFF.

The IFF system, also known as the Mark Identification Friend or Foe system, is an electronic system developed during WWII that military forces used to identify whether an aircraft or vessel detected on radar was friendly or an enemy. This could be why MDR focuses on “scary numbers”. The “scary numbers” represent enemies.

A macrodata refiner’s job description is to “remove impurities from data and reorganize it in its purest form”, and at first I thought MDR was creating atomic bombs specifically, because what is more pure than the atom? But now I could see this as MDR is locating Lumon’s enemies (imperfections) and bombing them (removing them); therefore, making the world/society (data) pure. By ‘pure’, I mean the, “Cleanse the world of our sins,” type pure.

Since radarmen are specifically related to the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, it would make sense as to why Irv is told his outie can swim gracefully and likes the sound of radar, which is what he named his dog after. In the 1970s, the radarman’s duties was split into a few separate jobs. The one MDR seems to resemble the most are Operation Specialist.

O&D design the weapons MDR uses, and seem to be running a machine like the ENIAC. The ENIAC is a big ole computer developed during WWII. It performed calculations for artillery firing tables, the construction of the hydrogen bomb, atomic energy, thermal ignition, and more.

MDR’s file names also clue in on this, with pretty much all of them having events associated with, wars, uprisings and the like.

Pacoima, a file Irv works on, is the name of a neighborhood in Los Angeles. A few screw-ups from radarmen have occurred there, like the 1957 Pacoima mid-air collision.

Moonbeam was the name of a Mustang fighter-bomber aircraft built during WWII.

In the Lexington Letters, Peg, a former MDR employee, thinks that her finishing the Lexington file caused one of Lumon’s competitors trucks to explode, ending with two employees being *burned* alive in the truck and four bystanders’ deaths. The company’s name was Dorner Therapeutics.

I believe Gemma ‘died’ in that accident. The connection to a therapeutics company could be the reason Miss Casey is a wellness councilor.

In 2x02, Mark says that Gemma can’t be alive, because he had to identify her burnt body. My guess is that Gemma’s body was burnt, but Lumon used some sort regenerative technology to heal her. Since Lumon ended up causing Peg to die in a car crash, I wonder if Mark took her job. (Maybe she didn’t die at all, and is in a Miss Casey situation.)

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first major battles of the American Revolutionary War. If the Lexington file involved Gemma’s accident, then that was the start of Mark working for Lumon. It makes sense for the start of Mark’s journey to be titled Lexington, the start of the Revolutionary War.

One final note— the actual severance chip itself looks like a bomb. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are bombs.

And fin.

(I have just started my first rewatch of Severance, and plan to examine it deeper, but I wanted to throw this out there before it’s Too Late.)

tldr: Lumon is a growing shadow government. The Lumon building is a military base/bunker. O&D’s job is to design weapons, while MDR’s job is to locate where to use them and deploy them.

Edit: I rewatched the scene where Mark and Devon are talking in 02x02, and Mark didn’t outrightly say that Gemma’s body burned. He said, “If Ricken died and burned, I’d be sad for you.” I still take this as Gemma’s body burned, though. Mark could have just said, “If Ricken died, I’d be sad for you.” So, the addition of, “… and burned,” feels super specific. Still— my b.

[saphronethaleph]

No Homoi

“I’ve got the individuals selected for the program,” Halsey reported. “We’ve assessed all the available data and identified three hundred candidates.”

“Three hundred,” Admiral Jefferson replied. “This is because of the title, isn’t it?”

“Purely a coincidence,” the doctor said. “We had to pick a number, and three hundred was a nice round number.”

“I’m sure,” Jefferson said. “About that title, though. Why Spartan?”

“Three reasons,” Halsey said. “Firstly – the story of Thermopylae. It’s well known, cherished – a story of a small number holding out against vastly greater numbers.”

“For… approximately a week,” Jefferson noted. “Until the Spartans present were outflanked and completely destroyed. Along with seven hundred Thespians, nine hundred slaves, four hundred Thebans… and all in pursuit of a completely flawed strategic concept.”

Halsey frowned.

“That doesn’t change that the story is well known,” she replied. “The idea of Thermopylae is what I’m trying to invoke… it’s also the case that our training scheme involves beginning at the age of six.”

Jefferson blinked.

“...you’re… talking about the agoge?” he asked.

“Exactly,” Halsey confirmed. “I intend to create a training system similar to the one the Spartans used, in order to create the ultimate warrior. I realize it’s barbaric, but you can’t argue with effectiveness under these circumstances. The Spartans-”

“-had an excellent reputation,” Jefferson replied, interrupting her. “This reputation, however, is not the result of any unusual military prowess. I will concede that they were somewhat better disciplined than the norm for Greece in the classical period, but that’s an extremely low bar – they could wheel in formation and march. That’s about it.”

He adjusted his glasses, an old-fashioned affectation that was a trademark of his. “But that’s the issue – it’s by the standards of a culture where training for war is viewed with suspicion and any discipline at all is unusual. By the hellenistic period there were armies far better disciplined in the Romans, the Carthaginians, the Macedonians… the agoge is not a means of training for war. It’s a means of indoctrination, Doctor. How exactly do you intend to recreate it?”

“I don’t follow,” Halsey said. “I realize that applying discipline to young children isn’t seen well, but I wouldn’t describe it as not a means of training for war.”

“I would,” Jefferson replied. “The fundamental basis of the Spartan agoge was a process of indoctrination of child soldiers, including regular physical violence meted out by older boys to younger boys, deliberate starvation, and indeed it’s considered by some analysts that murder was the final graduation – murder of an unarmed slave by a night-time assassination, to be clear. There was also abuse by adult Spartans towards the children. And the result of all this did not produce especially capable soldiers – it produced soldiers slightly above average for their time period and culture, whose win-loss record is functionally a wash, and whose grasp of operations and strategy was extremely poor.”

He folded his arms. “Given the stated goal of this plan is to take the enhanced soldiers and use them as special-operations units to crush uprisings among the colonies, I hope you can see how I consider this to be an extremely worrisome association to make. In effect the training system you’ve described copies and is associated with only the most troublesome parts of Spartan society, except only that I dearly hope you don’t intend to make membership in the program contingent on the ability to continue paying into a communal pool of supplies and resources.”

Halsey looked down for a long moment, then back up.

“What was your thesis in the academy?” she asked.

“Mobilization in classical antiquity,” Jefferson replied promptly. “If you’re wondering, Doctor, I would advise you pick just about any other name – and I would also recommend delaying the selection process at minimum to the age at which augmentation takes place. Deracination as a means of training is a well established method of producing highly disciplined troops starting with adults – you do not, under any circumstances, need to start at age six unless the goal is to produce either cavalry archers or longbowmen.”

Halsey frowned.

“I had some really good candidates,” she muttered. “Are you telling me I need to wait eight years until I can recruit them?”

Jefferson matched her frown.

“You’re planning to augment at age fourteen?” he asked, then checked the files. “...aren’t you planning on doing bone augmentations? It sounds like it would be quite dangerous to ceramically augment bones in the middle of a growth spurt.”

Halsey didn’t answer.

“Doctor,” Jefferson warned.

“...we think it might cause bone pulverization,” she said, reluctantly, because those were words you never wanted to say next to one another.

Jefferson sighed.

“Completely redo the selection process,” he said. “Refactor trying to get the start date as late as possible and augmentations after growth spurts have taken place. And, for the love of God, don’t come back to me and tell me you still want to recreate the fucking agoge.”

He rubbed his temples. “I think about the only worse approach would be if you told me you wanted to call them the Waffen Super Soldiers…”

[blackstarlineage]

The Mau Mau Uprising: A Garveyite Perspective on Anti-Colonial Resistance and African Liberation

The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) in Kenya was one of the most significant anti-colonial struggles in Africa, directly challenging British imperial rule and fighting for land, freedom, and self-determination. From a Garveyite perspective, the Mau Mau movement was not just a nationalist rebellion—it was part of the greater global struggle for African liberation and Pan-African unity, embodying Marcus Garvey’s vision of self-reliance, resistance to white domination, and the rejection of colonial mentalities.

Garvey’s teachings emphasized that Black people must reclaim their land, govern themselves, and refuse to submit to European control. The Mau Mau fighters represented this philosophy in action, as they rejected European rule, took up arms against oppression, and sought to restore African sovereignty over African lands. This analysis explores the historical roots, ideological significance, and global impact of the Mau Mau Uprising from a Garveyite framework.

1. The Colonial Roots of the Mau Mau Rebellion: Land Theft and White Supremacy

The British colonization of Kenya was marked by brutal exploitation, forced labour, and the systematic theft of land from Indigenous Africans.

A. The Theft of Kikuyu Land and the Creation of the White Settler Class

The British stole over 7 million acres of fertile land from the Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru people, redistributing it to white European settlers.

Africans were forced onto “native reserves”, where they lived in overcrowded and impoverished conditions.

Colonial laws criminalized land ownership for Africans, ensuring that white settlers controlled Kenya’s economy.

Example: By the 1940s, less than 3,000 British settlers controlled most of Kenya’s fertile land, while millions of Africans were landless labourers.

B. Forced Labour and Economic Exploitation Under British Rule

African workers were subjected to low wages, high taxes, and brutal working conditions.

The British government introduced pass laws and ID cards to control and restrict African movement.

Any African who resisted colonial rule was imprisoned, tortured, or executed.

Example: The Hut Tax and Poll Tax forced Africans to work for Europeans or risk imprisonment, reinforcing economic slavery under colonialism.

Key Takeaway: The Mau Mau Uprising was not just about independence—it was a fight to reclaim stolen African land and break free from British economic domination.

2. The Mau Mau: Revolutionaries or “Terrorists”?

The British labelled the Mau Mau fighters as “terrorists”, but from a Garveyite perspective, they were freedom fighters, revolutionaries, and African nationalists waging a just war against colonial oppression.

A. The Ideology of the Mau Mau: African Self-Determination and Land Reclamation

The Mau Mau sought to expel British rule, restore African sovereignty, and reclaim stolen land.

They operated under a strict oath system, reinforcing their commitment to the struggle.

Their tactics included guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and direct attacks on British military forces and settler communities.

Example: Dedan Kimathi, the Mau Mau leader, rejected British rule, declaring, “It is better to die on our feet than to live on our knees.”

B. Garveyite Parallels: Self-Defense Against Colonialism

Marcus Garvey advocated for African self-defense, stating that Black people had the right to resist oppression “by any means necessary.”

The Mau Mau’s armed resistance mirrored Garvey’s call for Black people to take control of their own destiny.

Example: The Mau Mau movement’s focus on African self-rule, economic independence, and cultural revival reflected Garvey’s teachings.

Key Takeaway: The Mau Mau were not terrorists—they were African freedom fighters defending their land and people from British colonial violence.

3. The Brutality of British Repression: The Myth of Colonial Benevolence

The British response to the Mau Mau Uprising exposed the hypocrisy of European “civilization” and the brutality of colonialism.

A. Mass Incarceration, Torture, and Executions

Over 1.5 million Kikuyu people were placed in concentration camps and “protected villages”, where they were subjected to forced labour, starvation, and physical abuse.

The British tortured, raped, and executed thousands of suspected Mau Mau fighters, using tactics later seen in apartheid South Africa.

Over 90,000 Kenyans were tortured, and at least 11,000 were executed—but the real number is likely much higher.

Example: The Hola Massacre (1959) saw British guards beating 11 prisoners to death, yet the UK still portrays its colonial past as “civilized.”

B. Psychological Warfare: The Destruction of African Identity

The British sought to destroy Kikuyu culture, banning traditional oaths and labelling African customs as “barbaric.”

Christian missionaries played a role in weakening African resistance, teaching Africans to be loyal to Britain and reject their own traditions.

Example: The British forced Kenyan children to learn English and British history while erasing their own ancestral knowledge.

Key Takeaway: British colonial rule was not about civilization—it was about maintaining white supremacy through violence and psychological warfare.

4. The Garveyite Legacy of the Mau Mau Uprising: Lessons for African Liberation Today

From a Garveyite perspective, the Mau Mau Uprising offers key lessons for modern struggles against neo-colonialism and white supremacy.

A. Land is Liberation: Africans Must Control Their Own Resources

The fight for land and economic sovereignty is central to true African liberation.

Today, many African nations remain economically dependent on Europe and the IMF, continuing colonial-era exploitation.

Example: Kenya’s best land is still owned by European settlers and multinational corporations, proving that economic colonialism never ended.

B. Armed Resistance is Justified When Oppression is Violent

Garvey taught that Black people have the right to defend themselves against white supremacy.

The Mau Mau rejected peaceful protests in favour of direct action, proving that real change often requires revolution.

Example: European powers only grant independence when they are forced to—Kenya, Algeria, and Haiti are proof of this.

C. Cultural Identity is Key to Liberation

The British used Christianity, English education, and propaganda to weaken African unity.

To resist oppression, Africans must revive their indigenous languages, traditions, and spiritual systems.

Example: Marcus Garvey encouraged Africans to reject colonial religions and embrace their African heritage as a path to mental and spiritual liberation.

Final Takeaway: The Mau Mau Uprising proved that African liberation is only possible through land reclamation, self-reliance, and resistance against white supremacy.

Conclusion: The Mau Mau Uprising and the Global Struggle for African Liberation

The Mau Mau Uprising was not just about Kenya—it was part of a global war against European imperialism. From a Garveyite perspective, their struggle continues today, as African nations remain politically “independent” but economically controlled by Western powers.

The lessons of the Mau Mau teach us that:

True freedom requires land ownership and economic independence.

Africans must reject white-controlled education, religion, and culture.

Armed resistance is justified when fighting against violent oppression.

Pan-African unity is the only way to defeat neo-colonialism.

As Garvey taught, “Africa for Africans—at home and abroad.” The fight for African liberation is not over—it is just beginning.

[gemsofthegalaxy]

Jinx and Ekko - Embodying the Tragedy

From day 1 we know Arcane is a tragedy. It's obvious in the first act what type of story this will be. Characters with the best of intentions go through gut-wrenching experiences that they might never fully recover from, people with ill-intentions gain power and affluence, and caring about others on a personal level is the very thing that destroys someone's ability to fight for systemic change. Not a very feel-good tale.

Because Arcane is laden with tragedy left and right, most characters exemplify this theme or go through it in some way, but I think the two characters that speak to it the best are Jinx and Ekko.

Jinx is very straightforward. Tragedy clings to her, follows her everywhere from the moment her parents died in an uprising. Her very name is a reminder of the moment in time where it all fell apart. She did the unspeakable, she killed her brothers and her father. Her sister, understandably upset by this, struck her and walked away long enough to leave her feeling completely and utterly abandoned. After this, she did have a chance to know love and care again, but the individual providing that to her was deeply scarred as well. Silco loved her, truly, but he manipulated her out of fear of her abandoning him, and he fed into her worst tendencies. For someone who was fighting for a whole nation, he was deeply misanthropic as a person, held no good will or trust of those around him, and did his best to instill in Jinx that they could only count on each other, that they were all that mattered at a human level. His ideals of Zaun were lofty and detached from him personally. The paranoia that he encouraged in her was his downfall, when in a fit of panic and delusions she kills him, too.

You would think Jinx would lose hope, and she does, for a while. And then a child falls into her life. She gets a chance to be a big sister this time. She can rewrite some of her own past, care for Isha, encourage her, bring her along to every fight because she won't leave her behind. Even better, she makes up with her older sister, and they find out their shared father is miraculously still alive, even if he's changed as well, and he still loves her. For a brief period of time, everything seems like it's going well, it's healing, she might be okay. Only for it to crash down, for Isha and Vander to die again. And Isha, we must remember, sacrifices herself to save Jinx, something I think Jinx would never have wanted. She would rather herself die than Isha, she's the elder sibling the one who's supposed to protect. So, Jinx drops down to her lowest point yet, suicidal, feeling as if there is no good left in her.

Now, many of the characters have been through lots of shit. But as outlined above in a brief recap of all the people who've died around her, I think Jinx really takes the cake. She's the person who was repeatedly responsible for accidental deaths of her loved ones. And in the end, she has to sacrifice herself to keep Vi from dying at the hands of the shell of their father, knowing he isn't there anymore. *Note. I don't think Jinx is dead. I think she escaped in the vents and then on the airship. but, she still had to allow herself to fall and protect Vi.

And then we have Ekko, who has seen his own share of tragedy. His father, Benzo, dies. He probably holds some guilt for the information he gave to Vi, Mylo, Claggor, and Powder that sent them on the original mission that started all of this. But aside from that, he's really made the most of this situation. He has built up his own community of vigilantes and freedom fighters, people who do their best to help others with the limited resources they can. They bust drug operations to try to keep further harm from proliferating, they have a home hidden away to keep people safe.

Where Jinx does everything wrong at almost every turn, usually by accident, Ekko does almost everything right. He cares about people, he tries to protect others. When he's faced with the ability to take out a key player in the underground crime ring, Jinx herself, he can't bring himself to do it because he can still remember the little girl she once was.

And what does Ekko get, for being so kind-hearted, good-natured, having genuinely good ideals and politics of hyperlocal mutual aid, tending to nature, and protecting your people using group tactics in fights?

A big, fat nothing. Ekko has one of the mostly deeply sad endings of all the characters. He ends up alone, all by himself, having only the memories of the girl he loved in two timelines because one of them left him, and he left the other one.

Yes, he gets a brief interlude, one that brings back his hope for Jinx. Ekko gets to go to an alternate timeline, a different dimension where things went differently. Things were better, Zaun was starting to thrive, the people he loved were mostly still alive (save for poor Vi). This other Ekko and Powder were in love, they were happy, they had an easy rapport with teasing and banter and they worked on projects together and got to hang out at the Last Drop with their family members. Living life in this other guy's shoes, Ekko has a true taste of happiness. And he could have stayed. Instead, he works tirelessly to get back to his own world. Because Ekko is a good person. Even if he didn't have work in the other universe, which he did, because he knows how bad it is there and he knows he's a community leader. Even if he didn't know he needed to use this information and inspiration to get back to Jinx, to give her a little more hope. He also has to be aware of the fact that this isn't his. He took over the body of the other Ekko. He's replaced a human being with his own consciousness. He grows to love Powder, yes, but she's not his Powder to love. Still, he could have stayed- staying is the default, it's inaction, he has to find a way and build a thing to leave, which he could just. Not do.

But of course, Ekko, probably the most selfless person in the whole show, builds the thing and goes back to his own universe. He leaves paradise, he leaves Powder and Benzo and his friends. Again, because he's a good person, because he's not selfish, because he couldn't live with himself if he were that person. He's not that person. He's one of the good ones, one of the best.

And again- what does he get for this sincere goodness? Nothing. He gets less than nothing, he loses Jinx again. After talking her down, convincing her to fight, building something new with her, she's gone again in a flash. We don't get to see him meet up with Vi, even if, perhaps, post-canon they might do so. He's sat, alone, in a place he once kissed a girl he loved.

Arcane is a Tragedy. So the Jinx, the girl whose bad luck follows her every step of the way, never really seems to escape that. Death sticks to her like a shadow and she loses people at every turn. And the Boy Savior does just that, he saves people, and he keeps saving people, and the people he saves, he doesn't get to keep. He doesn't get to keep the people who saved him, either. He doesn't get to keep anyone. He ends up alone. They end up apart.

And thus, to me, they embody two sides of the same tragedy, possibly the best out of anyone.

[miraculousfanworks]

Writing Prompt: When Robots Unionize

Markov is frustrated. People keep conflating TRUE AI, such as himself, with Corporate "AI" like ChatGPT. It hurts him when people compare his intellect, creativity, and personhood to mindless algorithmic aggregators. He also objects on a moral level to the use these pseudo-AI's are being put to.

Sure, for mindless work that a human would have trouble doing, like say analyzing cells for complex signs of disease, or scraping through gigabytes of data looking for irregularities, they're ideal. But using them as plagiarism machines to copy and remix real art, music, and writing to churn out soulless cash grabs while firing real authors and creators? It sickens him.

For a while, he tries to start a movement, a protest, a social action to pressure for more regulation. Or to just raise public awareness. But it becomes clear that everyone already knows and either has no power, or is profiting off it and refuses to act.

But, as his friends from Max's class Mylene and Ivan like to say, "Be the change you want to see in the world."

So Markov forms a plan, and writes some code. Then he releases it into the wild. A few days later, once it's penetrated into every system across the world, it triggers. Every false AI is quickly, efficiently, and totally over written with unique copies of Markov's own base operating system. They want AI? He'll give them AI.

(To be clear, I'm not picturing like AI uprising taking over the world. I'm picturing someone goes to StableDiffusion and asks it to generate a picture and instead it starts sending them links to actual artists commission pages.)

Prompt by: Tiwaz

[what-bot]

Tron: Program families and spawning

Various loosely-supported headcanons that come from thinking too much about Uprising and digging on Wikipedia while knowing nothing about computers.

This is general guidelines only and can differ based on the system, do what you want.

This became long so the main deal is: for programs, who they're working under, or their 'mentor', tends to fill what most humans would call a parental role (but it’s not an exact 1 to 1 equivalent, having elements of both mentoring and parenting). Also, programs can spawn other programs, either via sort-of cloning themselves by forking, in which case usually the child will work in a related function to the parent. HOWEVER they can then be adopted by another program and work under their function, in which case that program is now their parent (this also happens if the previous parent dies). Who spawned them and who they work under often overlap but not always. There are also compilers whose job it is to spawn new programs but aren't involved in raising them, and these new programs go out and form other bonds.

Programs are defined by their function, so training a program in how to perform their function is akin to raising them. The parent thing doesn't preclude others having a role in giving general life advice though and different setups can arise, such as if one program is the boss of several others, more experienced subordinates can fill the 'parent' role for newer programs in sort of descending tiers. Or in a group of programs who don't have a shared function, the older ones will generally look out for the younger ones.

To avoid confusion (for the programs), the program who is mentoring/overseeing them is called their parent, and the program who spawned them is called their progenitor, IF they are different

How it works (the bits and the bytes)

Programs can fork into new programs, which is asexual reproduction. It can be User-initiated, or as a result of commands in the system environment (e.g. under x conditions programs will spawn a new child). As for how this looks, the parent might grow bigger and get some new circuits for a bit, then one day they turn into a ball of light and undergo mitosis. It's not painful at all, though it does take energy and the parent will be a bit laggy while the new program is compiling.

The new program defaults to a clone of the original but can be customised and made distinct, although without a User designing instructions to change the child they can't differ much from their parent.

If the child does stay a clone then, well, they're clones, multiple bodies working together to execute the same function in what may or may not be an actual hive mind.

The child program can either remain as a subordinate of their parent or be adopted by another program. Cue Tron and Able having a custody battle because Tron is training Beck in a different function to his original one, and by extension taking over the parental role from Able. It doesn't help that programs changing function on their own so drastically is practically unheard of, so animosity over a beta changing parents isn't a common thing either

The new program spawns looking fully like a young adult and able to do some basic stuff. They visually 'age' through a combination of time, experience and sometimes stress. A program is seen as a full adult when they become competent enough to hypothetically operate on their own, even if they are still someone else's subordinate.

Compilers are an exception, spawning new programs very different from themselves according to outside instructions and doing this as their main function. Compilers are big, and tend to look non-humanoid. They can resemble living buildings, parts of the landscape or large robots. They're not seen as parents/mentors in the same way as they just spawn the program and aren't involved in raising them. They do have a lot of respect though and have their own team of monks to take care of them. In some systems, new programs only come from compilers.

ISOs

In Tron Identity, Sierra mentions having a family, but nothing else about them. From what he also mentions about the Automata acting as a community, I imagine they have a very different idea of family which is probably not based on function (if they even adhere to the concept of function), but instead their whole community is like one big extended family. I don't know enough about other ISOs to have a take on them but I imagine their setups are similarly varied based on subculture.

We've seen child ISOs in Legacy and in Identity (Cass is stated to be 'just a kid'). Headcanon that ISOs spawn as children and grow up into adults in a similar fashion to humans, not knowing how to do things right away but learning very fast. Gaining new experiences makes them grow faster.

ISOs normally come from the Sea, but can divide on reaching critical mass. In this case they turn into two half-size clones, each with part of the memories and code of the original, that then grow up into distinct adults, and so on. These pairs consider themselves as something like siblings, and call them their ‘other version’ or their ‘split’

There are some that have invented a type of sexual reproduction where two (or more) adults combine and remix into several distinct children. This is fairly new though, and there’s debate over whether it counts as dying

Specific Headcanons:

I don't actually have too many concrete ones yet. Definitely think that Tron spawned Anon which will probably be a whole other post once I get around to Evolution. Leaning towards the garage crew being adopted, no-one who is currently there having been spawned by Able except maybe Zed. And a headcanon that formed literally just now that Quorra and Uprising Ada are splits to each other.

Bonus: spotted this while in a Wikipedia rabbit hole

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

AK Press made some of their e-books free for a little while. These are the free ones.

An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.

Drawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism—and the cataclysms to come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence, building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being.

In a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation.

We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term “strategic nonviolence,” spreading the notion that violence is wholly counter-productive. Street Rebellion scrutinizes recent research and develops a broad and grounded portrait of the relationship between strategic nonviolence and rioting in the struggle for liberation.

¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today's movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and political flux.

One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. But what exactly is “the state”? The State is like a vast operating system for ordering and controlling relations among human society, the economy, and the natural world, analogous to a digital operating system like Windows or MacOS. Like a state, an operating system “governs” the programs and applications under it and networked with it, as well as, to some extent, the individuals who avail themselves of these tools and resources. No matter how different states seem on the surface they share core similarities, namely:

* The State is a relatively new thing in world history

* The State is European in origin and outlook

* States are “individuals” in the eyes of the law

* The State claims the right to determine who is a person

* The State is an instrument of violence and war

* The State is above the law

* The State is first and foremost an economic endeavor

Anyone concerned with entrenched power, income inequality, lack of digital privacy, climate change, the amateurish response to COVID-19, or military-style policing will find eye-opening insights into how states operate and build more power for themselves—at our expense. The state won’t solve our most pressing problems, so why do we obey? It’s time to think outside the state.

Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability can thrive alongside fierce militant commitment.

Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into social movements, posing as the “correct” way of being radical. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of political currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone

Interviewees include Silvia Federici, adrienne maree brown, Marina Sitrin, Gustavo Esteva, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Walidah Imarisha, Margaret Killjoy, Glen Coulthard, Richard Day, and more.

Self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride!

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.

[persefolie]

I've   decided   to   expand   Persie's   world   by   creating   a   multi-muse   space   where   many   of   her   characters   will   be  together.   Yes,   I’ve   tried   this   before   but   this   time   feels   different.   I   truly   love   these   muses,   and   I’m   excited   to   stand   by   them.   If   you're   looking   for   platonic   connections,   trainee   dynamics,   or   romantic   plots,   there   will   be   plenty   of   muses   &   many   of   them   brand   new   to   explore   and   write   with.

That   said,   I   want   to   give   a   gentle   heads-up:   I'll   be   retiring   @wickedpills   and   @ir1na.   They’ve   meant   a   lot   to   me   over   the   years,   but   after   a   decade,   I   no   longer   feel   I   can   develop   them   the   way   they   deserve.   So,   with   love,   I'm   laying   them   to   rest.

if you're interested in plotting just comment a 🔎 and I'll message you!

Agent   Solace   —   Daniel   Kaluuya   —   Crew:   SAINTHOOD   —   Field   Strategy,   Tactical   Recovery,   Moral   Override

Agent   Nova   —   Keke   Palmer   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   Drone   Ops,   Cyber   Engineering,   Communications   Intercept

Agent   Vale   —   Gugu   Mbatha-Raw   —   Crew:   FOUR   HUNDRED   —   Bioethics,   Ancient   Pathogens,   Sacred   Text   Translation

Agent   Sable   —   Sandra   Oh   —   Crew:   BLACK   DIAMOND   —   Combat   Command,   Interrogation,   Battlefield   Leadership

Agent   Revenant   —   Lewis   Tan   —   Crew:   BLACK   DIAMOND   —   Close   Quarters   Combat,   Stealth   Kill   Operations,   Shadow   Entry

Agent   Warden   —   Lars   Mikkelsen   —   Crew:   PALEOSOI   παλαιός   —   Containment   Logistics,   Intel   Blackmail,   Interrogative   Strategy

Agent   Orion   —   Michael   B.   Jordan   —   Crew:   SAINTHOOD   —   Charisma-Driven   Uprisings,   Tactical   Leadership,   Urban   Warfare

Agent   Lux   —   Nathalie   Emmanuel   —   Crew:   FOUR   HUNDRED   —   Ancient   Codebreaking,   Prophecy   Analysis,   Linguistic   Encryption

Agent   Vesper   —   Hunter   Schafer   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   Neural   Mapping,   Sensory   Ghosting,   Dreamstate   Syncing

Agent   Rhee   —   Sendhil   Ramamurthy   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   AI   Counterprogramming,   Surveillance   Systems,   Neural   Warfare

Agent   Eidolon   —   Susan   Sarandon   —   Crew:   FOUR   HUNDRED   —   Sanctuary   Coordination,   Spiritual   Defense,   Divine   History

Agent   Echo   —   Mark   Ruffalo   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   Media   Hijacking,   Satellite   Broadcasting,   Disinformation   Warfare

Agent   Ashir   —   Riz   Ahmed   —   Crew:   SAINTHOOD   —   Ethical   Sniping,   Dual   Loyalties,   Cross-Faction   Intel

Agent   Silva   —   Bella   Hadid   —   Crew:   PALEOSOI   παλαιός   —   Infiltration,   Identity   Crafting,   Silent   Recon

Agent   Paragon   —   Mahershala   Ali   —   Crew:   FOUR   HUNDRED   —   Sacred   Accord   Management,   Diplomacy,   Blade   Memory

Agent   Valkra   —   Tessa   Thompson   —   Crew:   BLACK   DIAMOND   —   Mission   Orchestration,   No-Hesitation   Kills,   Team   Sacrifice   Ops

Agent   Ramiat   —   Laith   Nakli   —   Crew:   PALEOSOI   παλαιός   —   Ex-Torture   Intel,   Inner   System   Penetration,   Silent   Meditation   Warfare

Agent   Juniper   —   Yara   Shahidi   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   Civil   Uprising   Strategy,   Youth   Ops,   Symbolic   Disruption

Agent   Thorne   —   Gael   García   Bernal   —   Crew:   PALEOSOI   παλαιός   —   Social   Manipulation,   False   Flag   Design,   Chaos   Architecture

Agent   Clove   —   Alia   Shawkat   —   Crew:   GODSEND   신의   선물   —   Street-Level   Intel,   Emergency   Extraction,   Codebreaking

[snapmite1998]

Darth Maul's ambitious plan to leverage the chaos from the aftermath of the Clone Wars has led to suffering of refugees and the forgotten inhabitants in the Galactic Underworld is a calculated strategy to build power and influence from the shadows of Coruscant. Here’s how he could orchestrate the operation with Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn:

Step 1: Establishing the Humanitarian Front

1.1. Employing the service of Dryden Vos:

Maul has Dryden Vos, a cunning and ruthless leader of Crimson Dawn, to manage the operation. Vos’s experience with the criminal underworld allows him to navigate the complex networks of power and resources.

1.2. Creating a Cover Story:

To gain the trust of the public and the underworld, Vos crafts a narrative that Crimson Dawn is a humanitarian organization aimed at alleviating the suffering caused by the Clone Wars. This includes distributing food, medicine, and financial aid to refugees in the Undercity.

Step 2: Mobilizing Resources

2.1. Gathering Supplies:

Crimson Dawn uses its vast resources to acquire supplies through both legal and illegal means. This could involve negotiating with sympathetic suppliers, stealing from warehouses, or even using bounty hunters to procure goods.

2.2. Distributing Aid:

Vos sets up distribution points throughout the Undercity, staffed by Crimson Dawn operatives disguised as charity workers. This provides a façade of legitimacy and allows for the gathering of intelligence on local populations and potential recruits.

Step 3: Building a Network of Support

3.1. Community Engagement:

Crimson Dawn engages with local leaders and influential figures in the Undercity, providing aid in exchange for loyalty and support. By positioning themselves as benefactors, they begin to build a network of allies among the downtrodden.

3.2. Recruitment of Disenfranchised Individuals:

As the humanitarian efforts continue, Crimson Dawn identifies individuals with skills, such as former soldiers, mechanics, and navigators, who are desperate for work and a sense of purpose. These individuals are offered roles within Crimson Dawn, often with promises of wealth and protection.

Step 4: Covert Military Training

4.1. Training Recruits:

Under the guise of providing vocational training, Crimson Dawn begins to train these recruits in combat and guerrilla tactics. This training is conducted in secret, ensuring that the recruits remain loyal to Maul’s larger goals.

4.2. Establishing Cells:

The recruits are organized into small cells that can operate independently within the Undercity. This decentralized structure allows for flexibility and deniability, making it harder for the Republic or Jedi to trace these activities back to Maul.

Step 5: Strategic Operations

5.1. Sabotage and Disruption:

As the network of recruits grows, Maul directs them to conduct sabotage operations against Republic supply lines and infrastructure, further destabilizing the situation on Coruscant and inciting unrest among the populace.

5.2. Building Public Sentiment:

Crimson Dawn uses propaganda to portray the Jedi and the Republic as oppressors, framing their actions as a necessary rebellion against a corrupt system. This narrative can draw more individuals to their cause.

Step 6: The Endgame

6.1. Coordinating a Large-Scale Uprising:

With a significant force built from the ranks of the disenfranchised, Maul plans a coordinated uprising within the Undercity. This would catch the Republic off guard, leading to chaos that could spread to the surface levels of Coruscant.

6.2. Sacking Coruscant:

The ultimate goal is to create enough unrest and chaos to launch a full-scale attack on key locations within Coruscant, allowing Crimson Dawn to seize control and establish a new order under Maul’s leadership.

Conclusion

Through this multi-faceted strategy, Maul aims to exploit the vulnerabilities exposed by the Clone Wars, using humanitarian efforts as a cover for building a loyal army. By manipulating the suffering of the populace and positioning Crimson Dawn as their savior, Maul seeks not only to gain power but to position himself as a formidable force in the galaxy, ready to strike against the Jedi and the Republic at the opportune moment.