Biesel elections

[Gollee]

Right, much like the SA election from a while ago, we are now having TC elections.

Fill this in, post them here, and next week, I will post up a voting thread.

Name of party: 

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: 

Brief description of the candidate:

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?:

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?:

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics):

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?:

What other information about the party do you want to include?:

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I'm excited to see what people come up with!

The goal of this initial creation is to just create the parties that we will actually be voting for.

The winners of this contest will have their parties be put in the Tau Ceti senate in roughly equal numbers, and they will be competing to have a candidate for their party elected president in the elections after this one!

There is no length requirement for applications. Write as much as you want that you feel will get the idea of your party across.

[Jboy2000000]

Name of party: The Tau Ceti Elite Liberal Party

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Jay Goode

Brief description of the candidate: A 77 year old man. Born on Biesel, he started off as a community college dropout at age 20, started off in the political process being a punk who attended peaceful demonstrations in the TC. Went back to school when he turned 23, this time going to collage to study law and politics at an actual college. He kept studying until he was 39, receiving masters in both. He joined the Elite Liberal Party at age 41, working up doing demonstrations of his own, giving speeches, until he become the candidate he is today 36 years later.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Tau Ceti based companies owned by the party itself. Hospitals, education centers, restaurants, and vault housing on the planets not so easily inhabitable.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Highly Opposed to NT and all Mega Corps influencing politics in TC.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): For equal rights to Unathi and Tajaran, anti-extradition, but for limiting human rights of synthetics.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: No

What other information about the party do you want to include?: The Tau Ceti Elite Liberal Party is currently has a hostile attitude towards the SA, especially after the passing of the Tajaran Exclusion Act.

[rrrrrr]

obligatory right wing party ala GAIA

Name of party: Conservative Party

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Dr. João Villechaize

Brief description of the candidate: 59 year old man. Not a career politician. Native Bieselian. Graduated med school at the age of 26. Joined the party at the age of 37.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Private donors.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Against, due to recent actions by SolGov due to Operation Napoleon. Supportive of most other megacorporations.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): Unathi and Tajaran, as aliens, are incapable of assimilating into human culture. Xeno rights have zero priority - attempting to pass something like the Tajaran Exclusion Act that also extends to Unathi would not be out of the question if the party wins. Other than that, synthetic rights are seen as a non-issue. Synths with human brains may experience some changes for the better, but other than that little will change regarding synthetic rights.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: No.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: Would almost definitely jump at the chance to attack a left-wing party that calls itself 'elite' as classist and anti-blue collar.

[Dea Tacita]

Name of party: Social Democratic Alliance of Tau Ceti

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Aamina Al-Harthi

Brief description of the candidate: The only child of a mining family from New Gibson, Aamina struggled for much of her early adulthood to pay for a university-level education until finally receiving a scholarship from a NGO funded by the Sol-Alliance based Worker's Party. After which she majored in Political Science and Political Theory, before returning to New Gibson and being elected to a local council. Shortly after, in collaboration with numerous other left-leaning politicians/activists on New Gibson, Aamina founded the Social Democratic Party of New Gibson, which later fused with similar parties on Biesel to form the Social Democratic Alliance of Tau Ceti. She has since won election into the Tau Ceti senate twice on her aggressively anti-megacorp, left-wing platform. She is 42 years of age.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Largely private donors, along with significant contributions from the Worker's Party of the Sol Alliance. Large corporate donations are staunchly rejected

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: The Social Democratic Alliance has mixed views on Nanotrasen, while the party itself is heavily anti-megacorporation. Many within the party have softer views on Nanotrasen, due to the massive expenditure NT has put into the system's infrastructure, and how many jobs NT provides system-wide. Though Aamina herself is notably anti-NT, to the point of proposing breaking up in-system NT assets due to their near monopoly on Tau-Ceti commerce.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): The Alliance, and Aamina herself are pro-Xeno and Pro-IPC (Due to IPCs being sentient beings), however they are fiercely against the proliferation of Cyborg and AI technology due to their tendency to replace sentient workers. They are also demanding higher wages for Xenos in-order to prevent Human jobs being lost to them simply because of lower pay.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: The SDATC has a largely positive view of the Sol Alliance. Though recently relations have taken a dip due to the election of the ATLAS-GAIA coalition.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: While tremendously Pro-Xeno rights, the Party is against further Xeno immigration, which due to the situation on Ahdomai has increased dramatically. This is justified by the party as a need to focus on the needs of Tau-Ceti denizens before assisting others.

[Owen]

Name of party: The Tau Ceti Jingoist Party

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Aurelia Dimitru

Brief description of the candidate: Aurelia Dimitru was born and raised on Mendell City on Biesel. Dimitru is now 65 years old and has been working in the political field all of her life. She is has seen much success on the minor levels and now is running for president in order to straighten out the Republic’s currents status and grow their strength.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Privately owned human companies along with many donations from wealthy Humans.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: They are approving of Nanotrasen at this moment of time as they can both help each other gain more power. Who knows what the future holds with that though.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): The party views all the other races as inferior to Humans and believe they shouldn’t live on the same planets as them. They do not believe that the alien races are equal to Humans at all.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: No, they want to cut all ties with the Sol Alliance and build up a larger military in order to control the surrounding area.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: The Tau Ceti Jingoist Party are focused on creating a stronger and better maintained military in order to stop any threats that any of the Alien races may pose. They are not publicly hating the Sol Alliance too much but they only plan to be friendly as long as they have to. Once they gain enough power they will hope to take other systems from the Sol Alliance because they do not approve of the peaceful ways of the Sol Alliance or Biesel. They believe that in order for the Human species to survive as a whole they need to be more aggressive.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Name of party: The Traditionalist Party of Tau Ceti

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Joseph Gruber

Brief description of the candidate: A 46 year old Caucasian man with greying hair. Joseph was born on Earth and immigrated to Tau Ceti at the age of 19. Earning a degree in political science from the Mendell City Institute of Law, Joseph served as a lobbyist working for various megacorporations prior to joining the Traditionalist Party and getting involved in low level politics himself. Highly conservative and focused on building up Tau Ceti's economic backbone in preparation for hard times that may come.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Various megacorporations and trans-stellars, as well as a number of private donors.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Largely positive, viewing Nanotrasen as one of the pillars of Tau Ceti's economic strength.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): The party is not very focused on issues involving xenos, though they do oppose the amount of leniency being shown to the hostile Uneth government, and would be in favor of military action, should it come to it. Many of the members are openly anti-xeno, and are happy with the passing of the Tajaran Exclusion Act, though the party itself has no official statement on the matter. Most of the members also believe that synthetics should be restricted more than they currently are.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: Mixed feelings. Trade with the Sol system obviously benefits Tau Ceti's economy, but all-in-all, the Traditionalists would rather see the influence of the Sol Alliance greatly reduced, and for the Biesel government to be more independent.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: The party is in favor of a greater degree of self-government rather than letting outsiders have control. They are also in favor of building up the military, to cut down on reliance on the Sol Alliance for defense. Along with the economy and defense, the party is also heavily focused on reforming education for Tau Ceti, citing a need for more skilled workers in the labor force.

[EORhappiness]

Name of party: The Workers Party

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Candidate for President in the upcoming election: corporal Edik Leonidovich Tolstoy (Human, Russian Descent), Doctor Of Politcal Science, Doctor of Economics, Masters in Military Tactics, Fifteen Years in Biesal Military Service (52 Earth-years of age)

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Brief description of the candidate: Edik Is a Devout Socialist and Universalist, Heavily Preaching Workers rights and The Unionizing of The Republic as well as the fact that Xenos are Humanities complete equals and That all species deserve the Exact same rights, He is a middle-aged man and has served a modest military service of fifteen years for the Republic with an honorable discharge at the rank of Corporal, He is well Educated and speaks for the common worker and civilian, speaking in public rallies about Social-Services such as Unemployment Subsidies, Disability Benefits and Improving work Conditions all around, But also Expressing an open friendliness to Mega-corporations, especially nanotrasen, promising them more freedom to work around the system and is interested in created a unique relationship between the republic and nanotrasen in witch both the Republic and Nanotrasen could benefit.

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Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: Many people have financed the party even several mega-coperations after the promise of more freedom when it comes to the corporations and even Nanotrasen themselves have donated a modest amount to the party and due to sympathy of cause they have also received donations from the People's Republic of Adhomai,Einstein Engines and many others, They saw a spike in funding from private donations after ATLAS gained moderate power in the Sol-Alliance, and again when the alliance passed the Tajaran Exclusion act.

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What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Accepted, and loyal, The workers party believes that nanotrasen is a "Must-have" To keep the republics economy at the level it is, There are some things they would like to improve upon such as Treatment of xeno employee's, however the party is willing to negotiate and compromise to achieve this and does not believe it needs to be an immediate change and can be something done over the long term.

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How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): The workers party is heavily universalist, believing that non-humans deserve the exact same rights and treatment as humans and have attracted many non-humans and human-sympathizers to their ranks because of this.

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Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: The party is on uneasy terms with the alliance- At best, they do not trust them right now especially after electing the ATLAS party into power (their near political opposites) and passing such decree's like the Tajaran exclusion act witch goes against one of the very foundations of the party.

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What other information about the party do you want to include?: There is a much more Detailed explanation of the party located here at this lore-canonization application I have out for them. http://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=4498 that should cover just about everything anyone wants to know- and even has a picture of the leading members at their latest conference.

Edited December 23, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

Name of party: Brotherhood of Tau

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Karl Jhoonda

Brief description of the candidate: Karl Jhoonda was originally a humble colony administrator for an outlying prospective world in an adjacent system to Tau Ceti. The colony's major wealth came from the settlement's very close proximity to an ancient xenoarcheological dig site that revealed a massive underground network of tunnels and housing, though the sub-levels contained dangerous, lethal levels of an unknown gas. The colony itself was named after Karl's father, who was initially wealthy enough to organize the set-up of the colony for the small group of 40 people to make a new life for themselves. Over the course of 30 years, the colony's numbers grew to near 300. The colony was eventually found and razed by mercenary squatters over time, and Jhoonda eventually had to evacuate the colony's population.

Frustrated and angered with himself for being unable to protect the home of the people that counted on him, he was later convinced by a close advisor to appeal to the Biesellian Congress to help back an armed attempt to reclaim the colony of Jhoonda. The Republic was mixed and unable to decide on sending support to secure the colony. This attempt was not without its own fruit, however, as a wealthy Congresswoman expressed interest in the troubles of Jhoonda. They spoke to Karl and offered financial and political backing, provided that Karl was willing to drum up a movement for the colonial interests of Biesel, and name the Congresswoman as a chief benefactor and supporter. Karl agreed, if only to put his own mind at ease.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: The Brotherhood of Tau has financial backing from a narrow array of smaller colonial and farming corporations, as well as financial support from two wealthy Biesellian Republic officials in Congress.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Supportive. Although NanoTrasen's main focus has always been on plasma refinement and bluespace research, NT has supported colonies before with their ultra-modern technologies. The Brotherhood of Tau hopes to seize the attention of the massive mega-corp to assist the Brotherhood's agenda of system-wide interlinking of independent colonies.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): Hostile towards Unathi, due to the presence of unforgiving, brutal and unmerciful Unathi raider groups in the outlying sectors. Karl himself has spoken publicly multiple times denouncing the Iswezki for not adopting a hostile approach against other Unathi raiders and murderers of innocents, including colonists. Distrustful of Tajara, generally due to the aggressiveness and disrespective personalities that the race often adopts towards humans. The party does not have a predisposition of synthetics, with the exception of free-willed ones. The party is otherwise warm towards droids and other bound programmed units, though not directly advocating for the rights of synthetics.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: Distrustful, if not spiteful. The Jhoonda family and the original colonist group that departed Sol had its misgivings towards the Alliance's conservative view on expansion, and its tight iron fist on colonies it owns. The Jhoonda expedition understood the risks of setting up a colony without the Alliance's direct authorization and financial/military backing, and they unfortunately paid for it.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: In short, the Brotherhood of Tau is a closely-knit, moderate organization composed of supporters of the Biesellian Republic, its expansion, and colonial interests. It hopes, upon being elected into office, to bring armed support to the colonists settling in the Outer Systems, and create trade routes between systems to support the Republic.

[XChrisUnknownX]

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IC: THE GIBSON LAW PARTY'S FUNDERS, upon realizing that there was little hope for Scythe to garner widespread popularity in Biesels elections, dispersed, and their votes will be declared in the upcoming election for the party that most represents their interests.

OOC: Formally withdrawing. Came up with a cooler side storyline to follow while the Biesel Elections are ongoing.

Name of party: The Gibson Law Party

Candidate for President in the upcoming election: Dr. Markus Scythe

Brief description of the candidate: Dr. Scythe is an 80-year old surgeon and resident of New Gibson that is most known for catering to NanoTrasen employees and wealthy private individuals. His medical practice is notorious for turning away anyone without the ability to pay or anyone convicted of a serious offense.

Who are the party's biggest financial backers?: A few wealthy New Gibson families have put together a large treasury fund to carry the Gibson Law Party through the next election. A few self-described followers of the Monetology religion have also contributed to the fund, claiming that Tau Ceti has not reached its full potential.

What is its opinion on Nanotrasen's level of influence in Tau Ceti?: Largely positive, stopping short of one-hundred percent support. The Gibson Law Party supports the strict adherence of Biesel Law for all NanoTrasen stations and installations, or a 50,000 credit annual tax for any NanoTrasen installation that operates outside the structure of Biesel Law.

How does the party view the non-human minorities? (Unathi, Tajaran, synthetics): Gibson Law Party is indifferent to alien minorities and feels they should be treated no better or worse.

Is the party friendly to the Sol Alliance?: The party seeks to impose a steep tax upon any Sol Alliance goods, businesses, individuals, and employees in Tau Ceti.

What other information about the party do you want to include?: Dr. Markus Scythe has revealed Gibson Law Party's intention to introduce the Zero Crime Bill, under this new act, 1. Capital Punishment for Murder would be legal. The preferred capital punishment under the Zero Crime Bill would be space exposure/exposure to vacuum or void. 2. All crimes that were not murder, in addition to their normal punishment, would include mandatory psychiatric assessments of not less than ten sessions paid for by the violator, and added to the violator's public debts if unpaid. 3. Those accused of an offense would not be entitled to a lawyer or tribunal. 4. RESERVED FOR SENATE ADDITIONS. 5. Crimes would be judged and sentences imposed exclusively by Magistrates. 6. The Republic of Biesel would formally withdraw from the Luna Convention, citing its inefficiency in dealing with hardened terrorist organizations. 7. Criminals originating a non-Tau Ceti sector, particularly criminals originating from the Sol Alliance, would be subject to a mandatory surcharge of 50,000 credits per offense. non-Tau Ceti offenders without the ability to pay could carry the debt for up to a year before facing life in prison. 8. A 50,000 credit annual tax would be brought against corporate installations that choose to operate outside of Biesel Law.

The party's treasury is currently large enough to operate for a year. If it does not gain popular support, its backers are likely to defund it and attempt to influence victor parties. Its major supporters are folks with no criminal record.

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OOC: See top.

[Jboy2000000]

Weren't we supposed to vote or something last week?

[Gollee]

shit, got distracted; gimme a day to organise things.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

This is currently on hold while we reshuffle some things around and reorganize! I admit that this was a bit rushed and a sterilized form of an original idea.

We will still integrate accepted parties into the upcoming shenanigans.

[Owen]

So, was this a thing that was going to happen? Or are we just going to forget about all of this? Just thought I would bring this back up.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

http://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=51616#p51616

Campaign season has begun!