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  • Be warned, absurd political "satire" ahead. Don't worry, the next one is a normal short story. To be released soon(ish).



    Moon Morning Magazine

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    Exciting Trial Ends

    Artist accused of genocide acquitted after 200-year trial

    Earlier today, infamous human artist Vellebeth Andar Undera, the Ringmaker, was acquitted by the Pan-Galactic High Court for Sapient Rights of genocide, but convicted of intentionally damaging protected Pan-Galactic Heritage Sites.

    Both accusations refer to when Vellebeth destroyed the Blorg’s Bane Ring by inducing the local star into going supernova, thus wiping out the ring and it’s population of 9.9 billion organic beings from a pre-interstellar civilization.

    The jury judged him not guilty of genocide, in a ruling that caused considerable uproar amongst the Intergalactic Society of Friends of the Lesser Races, after a series of experts from the GalCorp Institute testimonied that it was “entirely possible” that the Ring inhabitants could have built a civilization by “mere blind chance” and that their “repugnant barbaric behaviour” suggested they weren’t really sapient.

    However, there was no escape for Vellebeth from the charge of intentionally destroying a valuable Heritage Site, and, after a lengthy but unconvincing plea for mercy, the artist seemingly accepted his fate, announcing afterwards he would not appeal the ruling.

    In a landmark ruling Judge 66/228/009 condemned the brain but not the body of the accused, after the defence convincingly argued that although the brain of the accused was the same he possessed when the crime was committed, the body had been entirely changed, and thus should not be included in the punishment.

    The brain of the accused has thus been condemned to 50000 years of cryogenic sleep, during which it will be put in a controlled state under which it will continually replay the moment of the destruction of the ring, while being made to feel the anguish felt by the Curator of the Networked Galactic Mega-Art Museum when he found out the ring had been destroyed.

    His body has already been bought by the Ketter government which has announced it’s intention to turn it into another of it’s automated mindless biological slaves, toiling in the mines of Kettesh. Insiders postulate an agreement between the Ketter and the High Court might already be in the works, one which would allow the Ketter to assist the court with their extensive knowledge of mind-stripping, in exchange for being allowed to use the suddenly mindless bodies left behind by such rulings.

    After the verdict was pronounced, the Chairman of the Galactic Council issued a lauding proclamation: “Today is a great day for all those who believe in the rule of law for all sapient beings in the galaxy. The High Court has been shown to be a modern institution in whose strong shoulders we can safely lay the burden of protecting our inalienable sapient rights.”.

    His egg-sibling, the CEO of GalCorp in the Milky Way, whose company has recently won the GC-promoted lottery for the mineral rights to the remnant of the ring, has similarly expressed jubilation at the ruling, calling it a symptom of a “modern and just intergalactic society”.



    Humanity Declared Invasive Species

    Is it our fault the Blorg have gone mad?

    Unsettling scenes today in the Blorg capital planet of Grolb, as the new chairman of the Blorg Presidium, Friend Oolgboth, has issued an executive order demoting humanity from it’s status as quasi-friend species to invasive species, calling for the “complete eradication” of our species.

    In a frenzied speech, which our correspondent caught and transmitted home almost in full before being taken away to the death camps, the Blorg leader blamed the “treacherous humans” for taking advantage of Blorg friendship to gradually take over the Blorg Commonality.

    Deriding humans as “mindless violent masses” who “breed like Jlorbs in heat” and transform every planet they move to into “human-only no go zones”, he defended his unprecedented decision by alerting to the risk of a human majority within 1900 years, which would “bring ruin to our harmonious Commonality”.

    At this point, the crowd split into two opposing factions, one of which enthusiastically demonstrated it’s agreement with a lavish display of light-brown fluorescence, while their opponents made a strong show of disapproval by flashing their whole bodies in dark brown. A quite riveting, yet completely silent and still, display of the deep political divide that now tears the Blorg Commonality apart.

    While on the Hover-train that would take him to the extermination camps, our correspondent had the opportunity to question some of the Blorg personnel aboard about their thoughts on this unexpected new development.

    Friend Guard Bebbellg cheerfully proclaimed his full throated support of the new measures, deriding humans as “a plague”, a race “incapable of adapting” who “rudely refuse our friendship” and “refuse integration” by “creating their own friend-less human-only ghettos inside our cities”. He cited the recent very mediatised case, where a human pupil reportedly refused to shine in the grey-brown colours of welcome when a new Blorg classmate joined her class.

    Friend Cook Maggobbo was more ambivalent. He was afraid of the exponential growth experienced by the human population across Blorg worlds, which the Blorg cannot compete with, due to their lengthy mitosis process, and the growing trend of human “illegals” in his home town who passed by him without acknowledging his enthusiastic grey-brown greetings, in a blatant breach of Blorg costumes.

    Still, he was mildly apprehensive that the complete extermination of humans within Blorg space was antithetic to Blorg values of friendship and solidarity.

    The United Nations of Earth has announced it will use “all available options” to force the Blorg Commonality to repel the order and restore humanity’s previous status as a quasi-friend species. It has announced it’s intention to recall it’s ambassador from Blorg space with haste, and has submitted a request for a motion of censure in the Galactic Senate, due to be discussed at some point in the next two to four hundred years



    Letters to the Editor

    The Minute of Hate has arrived


    Good evening

    I wish to issue a complaint, in the strongest terms possible, due to the realisation of an interview, in the previews issue Nº 199902928282 of this very magazine, with the leader of the depraved, amoral anti-social cult known as the Order of the Lawyers. That this association of deranged individuals should rise again two hundred years after the Purge, should be cause of great chagrin for all right thinking individuals. In no way should we give these deviants a place to publicise their dangerous ideas, much less under the jocular terms in which this interview was conducted. As a long time reader of this magazine, I am appalled!

    Sincerely,

    Mr Bill Right from New New York



    Greetings Bourgeois Lapdogs!

    I’m the Secretary General of the Communist Party (Marxist Leninist Maoist Cyber-Hoxhaist Red Banner Tendency) or CPMLMCHRBT, and I write to you today to protest the wildly unfair and biased characterization of the Ketter People’s Devourers in the previous issue of this magazine.

    It is common knowledge that the comrades at the Ketter People’s Devourers have been target of a long running slander campaign by the imperialist pigs at the UN secretariat, with the shameless aid of the crypto-imperialists and faux-leftists of the pseudo-left intelligentsia, who immediately reject and defame any successful non-human socialist state, laying bare their bourgeois attachment to the reactionary concepts of “sapient rights”, “personal freedom” and “socioeconomic equality”.

    The so-called proof produced by your sell off journalists amounts to nothing more but United Nations Intelligent Agency forgeries, reactionary exiles from whose mouths drip dirty lies and mischaracterised footage of species-specific socialist activities which naturally deplore our bourgeois human sensibilities but certainly delight the comrades of the Ketter species who partake in them.

    We would furthermore like to condemn your repulsive interview with the speaker of the Communist Party (Marxist Leninist Maoist Cyber-Hoxhaist Hammer and Sickle Tendency), or CPMLMCHHST, in which that crypto-capitalist revisionist rat shamelessly spat on and distorted the glorious legacy of comrades marx, lenin, mao and cyber-hoxa.


    Revolutionary Regards

    Comrade Sir Philip Jones-Herbert





    Greetings, lefty fascist journos

    This letter has the purpose of thoroughly TRASHING your ridiculous article about GREAT PRESIDENT Little Fairy of OUR United States of America. How dare you globalist scum cast doubt upon the President’s immaculate academic accomplishments, you DUMBFUCKS? You poor dumb fuckers think someone can’t get twenty three Master’s Degress without ever setting foot on your COMMUNIST BRAINWASHING ENDOCTRINATION CAMPS??? Well HE did, deal with it!

    And as for that SNOWFLAKE you interviewed who whined about our GREAT PRESIDENT’s service on our GLORIOUS ARMED FORCES? Tell that treasonous cunt that if I ever run across him I’ll make what our AWESOME PRESIDENT did to his friends, the natives of Congo or whatever, seem like child’s play!

    And those “experts” you consulted who told you that we are now an “Undemocratic Autocracy”, fuck them! They wouldn’t know freedom if it bit them in the ASS. Tell those well behaved well paid blind SHEEP dancing to the tune of their CORRUPT ATHEIST EURO governments, in America rule the Americans!

    Under our GREAT PRESIDENT Little Fairy’s PIOUS AND CHRISTIAN rule, we will continue to fight for our right to bear arms, no matter how much you whine about “irradiated wastelands”. It’s our damn land, and we will never surrender our personal use atom bombs. YOU SNOWFLAKES DEAL WITH IT.

    Our BEAUTIFUL WOMEN will keep being safe in the comfortable security of our WELL ARMOURED cellars, the TREASONOUS FAR LEFTIES will keep being eviscerated on sight by our boys in blue, and WE WILL COUP WHATEVER WE WANT!

    You are loosing and you know it. Why just yesterday your rubbish magazine reported that the GLOBALIST PERVERTS at the UN themselves will help us build our ALL AROUND ESCAPE PROOF CONTINENTAL WALL! In your face, leftie fascist scum!


    Patriotic Regards

    Mohammed Smith III, Retired Major-General of the United States Purification Corps
     
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    Genesis
  • Genesis

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    All creation implies previous destruction. A truth even our distant ancestors, simple minded and slow individuals living brief and inconsequential lives, were nonetheless aware of.

    Despite how far we’ve came, that is one law of physics we will never be able to bend or break. We need solid matter to work our miracles.

    And that is why, since the Arcturus Tribemind discovered the art of Universe Genesis, two hundred and twenty two million years ago, we have been snuffing out the stars of the Milky Way one by one. To feed our insatiable appetite for Creation.

    For these last millions of years, Universe Genesis has been the occupation of choice of humankind. Hunger, suffering, death, and indeed even corporeal existence, have been eliminated. Inequality has been vanquished, as any nobody can now harness the matter of entire star systems and the energy of dozens of stars. Political strife, religious clashes, all are rendered meaningless now that anyone can proclaim themselves emperor of any deserted star system and clone a million dutiful cultists to their exact specifications.

    Our worldly accomplishments, adventures and deeds all are surpassed in the fantastic realms of Deep Virtual-Reality, where any dream, any creative impulse, any wish, no matter how unfeasible in the real world, can be realised.

    Is it any wonder then, that this fad has enthralled us all?

    And, as has been the case through story, our fashions demand tangible sacrifice from our environment.

    To create our universes, we accelerate a Star’s life circle, so it goes supernova in centuries instead of eons. For the descendant of the star, the black hole, is the seed of the new universe. Beyond the Singularity lies a wholly different reality, ours to tamper with as we wish, provided the correct steps are taken during the Supernova process.

    Each year hundreds upon hundreds of stars go Supernova, the night sky turned into a dazzling fireworks display for every planet in our galaxy and beyond.

    Within an eon or two, we will have exhausted all the stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy turned into both a graveyard of stars, and a nursery of universes. Then we will journey into the next galaxy and harvest it’s stars. Then the next, and the next, ad infinitum.

    After creation, we are but observers, unable to communicate with, travel to, or interfere in any way with our Creation. During creation, however, our power is limitless. The laws of physics are ours to bend and twist however we wish, we can seed a million sapient species or make the universe barren of all life, we can fill it with swarms of galaxies or with a single lonely planet.

    Our works are boundless in scope and diversity.

    However, as of late, a disturbing trend has emerged across our Creations. More and more of us seem focused on creating Universes with one ever common theme: one intelligent species, seeded on a vast but barren universe, left free to grow and explore, turning outwards to a galaxy it hopes full of others only to find silence.

    And when it looses hope of community, it discovers the message embed by the Creators in some fundamental mathematical formula, or on it’s genetic code, or on the disposition of galaxies in it’s observable horizon: “Sorry guys, your existence is just a mean joke.”.

    Should we be concerned this kind of work is becoming more and more common? Is this a symptom of a species wide psychopathy? Do we need their pain to enjoy our power? In an age where we have conquered all that there is to conquer, discovered all there was unknown, do we derive pleasure from finding a way to exert control in realities foreign to ours?

    Perhaps, but in any event we can at least rest content that it is not something which affects only our kind. We are not the first to think and act this way.

    Credit for these devious impulses must go to those who created our own universe, and wrote their own message on the fabric of our reality.

    Bastards.

    From Confessions of the Creator, a message discovered by the species In’Ilk encoded in the digits 90000 to 9876 of Pi.
     
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