Zarfef Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 (edited) Aether Empire National News August 07th, 2010 ______________________ [B]"Greetings crétins, I am Garrard Jabez your national propaganda feeding agent. Thank you this evening for embracing your true destiny and tuning in to watch this mindless blabber. Let's start with some overly-dramatic fanfare, an abstract shot of 3d shapes and some unrelated media followed by important events that are not truly breaking news."[/B] [B]"Today, the national congress of villains announced a recent set of national social reforms that will greatly effect your life and any feeling you might have of liberty whatsoever, perish the thought. In an national act that many Aether teenagers are claiming [I]"just isn't fair"[/I], the Aether Empire today announced new legislation on the limitations of driving. As of September, when the new law goes into effect, no one will be allowed on the roads that is younger then 21 years of age."[/B] [B]"In addition to these new limitations, drivers caught driving aggressively or dangerously will be limited by having speed limitations placed on their cars - first limiting them to 45 M.P.H. which will limit them from traveling on highways and then to 25 M.P.H. at which point you may as well give it up and just ride a bicycle. Congressmen claim that the law will reduce accidents and injuries among young people and will also have a positive effect on the national environment. At the very least, it should reduce traffic on the national underground high-way system developed last month which foreshadowed a massive growth in national traffic."[/B] [B]"If you are particular fond of driving, but still haven't acquired the years to get behind the wheel however, perhaps you should start getting your grades up. The Aether Empire plans to allow special privilege driving permits to individuals within the society who show superior maturity and advanced grades such that they have proven themselves logical and mature individuals. While the direct rules used to determine whether or not a student is nominated for the privilege has not been made public, it is suspected that an excellent understanding of science and math will be a key factor in an effort to inspire young people to enter the maths and sciences - placing the jocks on foot and nerds behind the wheel."[/B] [B]"It should be noted that this is only one of a variety of national youth reforms being discussed by the group of old men. The congress of villains plans on discussing future reforms later this week that include the development of a "paths of life" scheme that would encourage young people to stay in school, including mandatory conscription into labor camps or the henchmen of the Aether Empire at 21 years of age after prior youth training. Congressmen say that the act allows young people who are coming of age to start to make important decisions and grants them alternative paths to that of education. Students who choose to work in labor camps would be taught a wide variety of useful trades that are key in the maintenance and upkeep of infrastructure and the daily lives of citizens around the country, while the henchmen service is a national defense aspect that protects us all. That stated, given any law, someone is going to cry fowl and a protest by obvious lazy parasites to the nation, e.g. teenage dropouts, was held outside of the congress today but received little attention."[/B] ______________________ [B]"In other news, Admiral Von Zepplin has requested an emergency joint meetings of staff in order to "discuss matters of national security and stability". No news as of yet concerning what the Admiral wishes to discuss, but the nation's small brown-water patrol craft have been spotted patrolling the waters and several squadrons of X-13s have been flying patrols over the area as well. There has been no word yet from Von Zuk as to what the concerns are as the general simply stated that [I]"The empire is simply taking precautions to ensure regional stability and not planning on engaging in any major military campaigns[/I]. Still, an estimated 50,000 troops are being moved to the port city of Tanga where they are awaiting further orders."[/B] Temp OOC: Apologies, this is supposed to have been in fantasy RP... how did it get posted here ? Edited August 7, 2010 by Zarfef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fizzydog Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 South Sudan finds Aether Empire driving laws to be...a bit extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amyante Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 *** Private to Aether Empire *** "Zargathia has had the pleasure of introducing an oil phase-out several years ago, and having all civilian traffic switched to electrical engines. These are much quieter, and more importantly with our current technology simply incapable of driving over the speed limit. If there is much resistance to these new laws, you might want to consider alternative fuel sources as well. At the very least, anyone complaining about it will face the environmentalist lobbies so that'd be one less thing to worry about." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarfef Posted August 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 (edited) [B]Aether Empire Nightly News August 10th, 2010[/B] ______________________ [B]"Greetings once again crétins, I am Garrard Jabez your national propaganda feeding agent. Thank you this evening for embracing your true destiny and tuning in to watch this mindless blabber.."[/B] [B]"First up in the news. Over the last several days, Aether Empire stocks have been showing some fairly slow growth in what national economists are calling a minor national slow-down. Investors in the market are claiming all sorts of possible origins for the slow-down, from recent legislation on young drivers, to worries over proposed military action, but as of yet there seems to be no conclusive answer if such a thing can even be defined."[/B] [B]"The worries today, were struck down however with a new report suggested that the housing market is up. Stocks on the housing market were up by about 4% due to recent immigration to the empire and government plans to expand affordable housing within the same. Still, over the long run, there seems to be quite a few concerns within the market that things still may be heading down within the long term and so we can expect to see some rocky roads ahead."[/B] ______________________ [B]"Well, if you're worried about the market, maybe you need to start turning to a higher power. Recent polls have shown an increase in the construction of new churches across the Aether Empire. Church-goers in the evil empire say that their belief in God is the key to a better life, including several primary villains. The same poll showed that the most popular religions in the Aether Empire were Neo-Shinto, Gnosticism and Heretical Christian."[/B] OOC: PM IG is going to start hampering my economy soon, well this could be much worse... much much worse. Edited August 11, 2010 by Zarfef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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