BananasQM
!!4PI2iWoB3fd
(ID: eQifmuq4)
10/28/2025, 5:08:09 PM
No.6324749
Recently, you've been having a lot of thoughts. Specifically about your special project. You might just have a cure for their terrible condition. Even the research would be useful; you don't think the Jaxtians know any creatures on your planet naturally get or have resistance to the protein-collapse. Even this information would be extremely useful; with their genetic modification technology, they could probably do a lot with just a few samples of your little pet and the kelp.
...But how are you actually going to tell the Jaxtians?
At the present day and age, communication with the Hegemony it basically impossible. Broadcast messages can't really be encoded and sent just to them; it's as public to any Swall with a radio. There's also the legal and operational precedent. You assume that your government, InterCon, has a direct line of communication with the Hegemony but that may not be true. Within your autonomous zone, your planet and its twin moons, the Swall are to have air and space superiority. The Hegemony gets the rest of the solar system, and likely rest of the galaxy, if your impression of their imperialist goals is spot on. But even if InterCon can talk to the Jaxtians, will they do it? It would likely have to go through a bunch of official channels. Who would you even tell? Your local magistrate or defense coordinator? Maybe the headmaster of your scouts? But they manage an entire ocean...
Truthfully, you just don't trust the people in charge of you. Call it intuition, but you just don't feel your contributions will be taken seriously. And that's not even counting the possibility of sabotage. It's highly likely that InterCon could try to take your discovery and politicize it in some way, maybe as a bargaining chip to try and regain more sovereignty over your space or nuclear arms, and the Hegemony would try to manipulate things in their favor. And even if you could contact the Hegemony directly... would they even tell their own people? The "Supreme Ruler" is a dictator of their whole society. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; all Swall know this. He might hoard it for himself; or make a special deal with InterCon to have a few plants for his own personal use farmed here, but for the billion of poor, not-noble born Jaxtians? No no, that's much too expensive, too politically inconvenient... you can see it now. You don't want that to happen.
...But how are you actually going to tell the Jaxtians?
At the present day and age, communication with the Hegemony it basically impossible. Broadcast messages can't really be encoded and sent just to them; it's as public to any Swall with a radio. There's also the legal and operational precedent. You assume that your government, InterCon, has a direct line of communication with the Hegemony but that may not be true. Within your autonomous zone, your planet and its twin moons, the Swall are to have air and space superiority. The Hegemony gets the rest of the solar system, and likely rest of the galaxy, if your impression of their imperialist goals is spot on. But even if InterCon can talk to the Jaxtians, will they do it? It would likely have to go through a bunch of official channels. Who would you even tell? Your local magistrate or defense coordinator? Maybe the headmaster of your scouts? But they manage an entire ocean...
Truthfully, you just don't trust the people in charge of you. Call it intuition, but you just don't feel your contributions will be taken seriously. And that's not even counting the possibility of sabotage. It's highly likely that InterCon could try to take your discovery and politicize it in some way, maybe as a bargaining chip to try and regain more sovereignty over your space or nuclear arms, and the Hegemony would try to manipulate things in their favor. And even if you could contact the Hegemony directly... would they even tell their own people? The "Supreme Ruler" is a dictator of their whole society. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; all Swall know this. He might hoard it for himself; or make a special deal with InterCon to have a few plants for his own personal use farmed here, but for the billion of poor, not-noble born Jaxtians? No no, that's much too expensive, too politically inconvenient... you can see it now. You don't want that to happen.