The following was written by current Speaker Arlanna Ryf-av:
As we begin to celebrate 30 years of this grand experiment, we must take the time to remember the person who put their heart, sweat, and mind toward first dreaming and then designing this celebration: Fen Ga-ryn, our speaker of nine years, almost a third of the time our new land has existed.
Editor,
All due respect to your last submitter, but they are so very, very wrong.
I too, was a first responder to Phaelos III, a service technician of sorts. And what your previous writer failed to mention was that in the first three days of habitation, not one, but THREE tables met their end.
The following is a message from Speaker Arlanna Ryf-av:
As Speaker of the Silent Conversation, I want to welcome all of you to our commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of New Gyr. We have worked hard to put together an event that recalls our past but looks towards the future; that reflects the diversity of our land and its people; and that emphasizes our commitments to inclusion and fair treatment of all – be they Innate, Evos, or Augment; be they Dawnlighter or Follower of the Tides. We are looking forward to a joyful, hopeful, peaceful celebration, and we hope that you all will join with us in that spirit.
The G9-45, Enterios’s latest and greatest in un-capped, fully autonomous androids, debuted in a limited sale on Ottsalia last week. Leveraging the most adaptable AI ever produced, it is capable of handling nearly all tasks formerly requiring a human user – completely eliminating the need for human labor, if you can afford the price tag. Though organic staff members may still oversee them in some workplaces, they will likely soon be replaced by robots.
Humans are not machines, and machines are not humans. That’s just reality, and the HUMAN capability to feel empathy has nothing to do with it! New Gyr should indeed be a place of refuge, but granting human status to non-humans will not further that goal.
There is nothing greedy or complacent about using robots for labor that no human can safely do. Frankly, intelligence caps on androids may very well be preventing humans from being ruled by deathless cybermasters!
It has been 30 years since the colonists of Phaellos III declared this world to be New Gyr, a place of safety and refuge for the lost and persecuted. To do this they had to rely on the values of empathy and understanding, reaching out to others who they previously feared or called enemies. Now, however, greed and complacency have lead us to put those same values to shame. All around us, every day, sentient Androids suffer in servitude and enforced ignorance due to an outdated legal definition that could be corrected with a few keystrokes.
A local Augments Rights groups appreciates the enthusiastic support some members of the New Gyr population have been offering to enhanced individuals. As a public service, the group is reminding people to remember to obtain […]
Editor,
I’m probably going to have some people come down on my for this, but the whole folk tale of the “table chopping incident” has gone on for too long and as my days wane, it’s time I speak up.
Editor,
Thanks for the awesome article about Kite. Many people misunderstand it. It’s so awesome to feel free and it makes you feel happy.
I don’t know why it gets such a bad rap. These little red fishies are really tasty and sweet.
The revised Opinion section is intended to be a place for civil debate and respectful argumentative discourse. It is not intended to be a free-for-all where you try to get as many hits in against your opponent like you just landed on Phaelos III.
To the Galaxy at Large,
I had three children once.
My eldest daughter was a researcher and on a surface installation outside of one of the larger caves in the southern hemisphere of Agerre. She was had a brilliant mind and was very gifted, finishing her advanced studies on Baryos two years early. She returned to our homeworld to study the plant and animal life with some new theories about making life-saving medicines. She was killed in an orbital bombardment when Admiral Therra returned.
