Millions of years ago Jutka 0109 was covered in fertile seas. In a process that continues today and will do for many millions of years to come the atmosphere is being stripped away. Vast deserts now exist beside the still abundant seas. Much of the sea life was edible and the planet was capable of... Continue Reading →
Crime & Punishment in the USSP
There are two versions to the crime & punishment story. One is what the people are told and the other is what the people experience. Justice is blind in the USSP It is official political wisdom and established legal practice that crime is a result of economic injustice and power imbalance. Therefore, since the USSP... Continue Reading →
Planet Profile – Baikal: Last Stop for Criminals
Baikal is a home to a prison camp – an Interlag. The small planet has a thriving ecosystem and is an apparent garden world. But its atmosphere is thick with plant-produced hormones. This aerosol cocktail is initially harmless, but the human body acclimatises and eventually cannot function without it. Being deprived of the alien chemicals... Continue Reading →
Interlags – Prison Planets
Earth-That-Was couldn’t handle the growing population and resource needs of humankind… Brave comrades look forward to joyous future in the stars So we emptied the prisons and offered places to anyone else desperate enough to risk the journey. The tired, poor, huddled masses who were yearning to be free flocked for the chance of a... Continue Reading →
Organised Crime in K68
Taking a broad brush to a complicated subject, criminal gangs arise in marginalised communities where people band together for protection. Organised crime on the other hand occurs where communities organise to exploit an economic opportunity made open by ineffective government provision or control. First you get the money... Out here on the fringes of known... Continue Reading →