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Voting closed: April 07, 2013, 10:34:35 am

[Parisbre56]

((I think the only way to successfully manage something large is to delegate.
It's better to have many processes, each working on a small number of tasks than a single process doing everything.
It's better to have one manager per planet then one manager for all planets.
Of course, there is the problem that humans get corrupted and that larger organizations offer better ground for corruption but that problem will always exist no matter the organization type used unless we fundamentally change humans or human society.
There is also the problem of separatist factions arising when people are given more freedom to choose but we should have no problem detecting and crushing those. What valid reason could they have to revolt, anyway? If they have valid reasons to revolt, then we or our delegates are obviously not doing the job right. Only corruption or idealism could cause revolutions if the job is done right.))

[Toaster]

It's better to have one manager per planet then one manager for all planets.

((That's the way the UWM did it, and it didn't work.))

[Parisbre56]

It's better to have one manager per planet then one manager for all planets.

((That's the way the UWM did it, and it didn't work.))

((Because they weren't the right kind of people and not the right kind of system. They didn't do the job right. Got corrupted, slow, inefficient. Didn't use Steve.
If we want humanity to have a unified government, then that's the way to do it. Not exactly like that, I didn't mean exactly one manager per planet. I meant the system. Delegation. Division of work. One body makes general decisions for the entire ARM, another works with Systems or Clusters, another with Planets, and then individual bodies per continent/region, etc. Like Romans. But with less corruption and more democracy.
Sorry for bad writing, writing in a hurry.))

[Toaster]

((We could always vat-grow a few thousand May-drones per planet and unleash them to keep tensions down.))

[Doomblade187]

((We could always vat-grow a few thousand May-drones per planet and unleash them to keep tensions down.))

((But think of the tigers! What will happen to them?))

[BFEL]

((We could always vat-grow a few thousand May-drones per planet and unleash them to keep tensions down.))

((But think of the tigers! What will happen to them?))

I'm sigging this.

[syvarris]

((Allow me to play devil's advocate for a second...))

Something is looking at you through a haze of stardust and flame. Something with eyes made of emerald and waves of gravity distortions that breathes a haze of shattering physics equations. Huh.

The figure points upwards toward the stars with one of it's many cilia. The milky way spins overhead, the white spattering of stars now glowing an angry dull red, it's shape much distorted. The being speaks to you, it's voice a like the sound of cracking glass.

"SentientspeciesmacrolifecycledivinityisselffulfillingKardashevcouldnotpredicttheyliftthestarsanddrinkthewavesoflight"

"Alliscoalescencestarsplanetsgodsallarenotbornbutflowtogetherproductsofimmensitygravitymasssentiencebuiltwithincognitioncarriesinstinctofspeciessurvivorshipevolutiononmacroscalewhatisgodthinkcondensate"

((It may be just me, but I get the feeling that whatever this is was at one point human.))

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lars on hallucinogens when he saw that?  I don't think we should be considering the drug-fuelled hallucinations of a militant religious nutjob when deciding on the laws of our future space empire.

[Toaster]

((Well, IC, he hasn't told anyone [yet].  That, and no.  A UE had attempted to screw with his mind but only got him a bit loopy- Steve sent him to dreamland, where he met that entity.))

[BFEL]

((Hey guys, you know how we haven't decided on a design for our titan yet?

Spoiler: THIS should be our titan (click to show/hide)

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[Pancaek]

((Hey guys, you know how we haven't decided on a design for our titan yet?

Spoiler: THIS should be our titan (click to show/hide)

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((A thousand times yes for TTGL. But what's this about "our" titan? Did I miss anything?))

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: Better (click to show/hide)

[Sean Mirrsen]

((I have to say 'no' to TTGL being our Titan. Because as much as I like TTGL, the Titan is described as being an all-terrain mobile base the size of a small mountain. And you should know that there is only one machine fit to be called that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

))

[piecewise]

Spoiler:  On the Fifth Day of ERistmas Diplomacy gave to me! (click to show/hide)

Lets talk about Aliens shall we? Living ones, at least. There are lots of alien lifeforms, but sentient ones are rare. Humans are fairly unique in the universe, being individualistic, independent,  sentient beings. Most other alien species that could be considered "sentient" are eusocial, with levels of intelligence varying greatly amongst individuals. Colonial pseudo-fungi and Insect like creatures make up the majority of them, and that makes talking to them rather hard. The Haebi are about as intelligent individually as a damn slime mold so negotiating isn't a thing. There are some ant-like aboriginals off in the end of the orion arm. They're normally under the control of pheromones, but if you get them individually they can...sorta understand us. They understood the UWM cracking one of their smaller moons in half, at least. There's another group of what appear to be bipedal beetles hanging around on the edge of the galactic center. They're weirdos. Individually they're pretty smart, but only if you get them away the hive. If they're anywhere in...say...35 light seconds of the Hermaphroditic colony mind then they're no better then drones. Organic Radio system of some kind. Supposedly a few of their individuals were spotted around human colonies, but no one ever checked up on that.

Humanity really hasn't ingratiated itself to any of the aliens in the known universe, either because the UWM's strong arm tactics don't foster friendships, We can't really talk, or because they simply don't know we exist. Though, I suppose ARM could rethink these tactics in the future. If they want to Suffer the Xeno to live.

[NAV]

((Didn't you mention a long time ago in the thread a clone species flying around in spaceships putting up some sort of beacon?))

[Doomblade187]

((And then there's the fact that we/the UWM have genocided a few species as well. We have a ways to go with our reputation.))