How peaceful was the Green Peace?
The Pax Veridis was certainly one of the more significant periods in Earth history. It is considered to be the period from 2184 until Dorian Thain and the other Harappans on the first diplomatic mission to Earth pointed out problems with the Green Bible in Earth year 2391 (Harappan Year 200).
We’ll discuss the fall of the Greenies tomorrow.
Today we discuss the period of the Pax Veridis. Called the Green Peace because for over two hundred years there was no open conflict or war on Earth. There was oppression, a stifling of the arts and a crackdown on any dissent.
Things were rough for anyone with an idea of their own, but the trains ran on time and everyone had a job. No one starved during the Pax Veridis but nothing of lasting value was created either.
The early part of the Pax Veridis was when the LC or Leadership council solidified their power base. The Scribes Guild began as the mouthpiece for the LC as the LC went underground. The Criers which formed more organically as a response to failing media infrastructure during the decades of environmental disasters were quickly brought into the government fold and used as venues for LC propaganda.
The final block that formed the government apparatus was the SID. They were created directly by the LC. The SID was tasked to provide a manufacturing base, supplement crops grown in village farm cooperatives and to continue scientific research.
Over the roughly two hundred years following the creation of the SID they became more and more independent, so that by the time Harappan diplomats wrecked the credibility of the LC the SID saw that as an opportunity to establish their own political power. History tells us how THAT went.
The LC’s penchant for working from the background did not serve them well when things started falling apart. When the Earth Revolution began in Greenfield, N. A. the LC had no real way to respond. Their police force had diminished over the years and offered no protection for members of the LC. Their fall was swift and complete.
Tomorrow: The Fall of the Greenies and Greenfield.
Never mix red wine with Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 87
Earth Year 2479
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