The warbuilding guide to interstellar warfare - Story A

Tennouji Mirei can be considered in history as a prodigy, though rather a not so typical type of prodigy, if we are to judge from operational sense and the normative qualification that we are using to judge candidates on intelligence, even with IQ-MVT advancement on gauging intelligence (see [12] and [44] for matters regarding such test). Her ability comes from the effectiveness in logistics, the ability to, as old wisdom say, sense the room of the situation unfolding, as historian remarked of her decisive under-the-curtain action against the Coalition of Expansionism, and a rather stern and cold-hearted outerime ¹, with characterization also in utilizing a stance on technological structural depth, which at the time was unpopular on similar scale to her logistical conservatism.

¹ A borrowed word from Espinasial world, of which to express external face and both expression in one word. The origin of the word stems from a rather unique history on the founding of the 7th Expedition to Espinasial. Here, because of the last six failures, the leader at that time, Victorique Machen, had to adapt to such hostile environment by putting a strategy of a thousand faces, even while using his distorted facial expression from an accident during the 5th Expedition, making it a rarity of vanity for such action. For more information, see Frank Eridenberg’s The Expedition of the Four Headless Rhime, which by itself considered by critique a rather weird titling but comprehensive record of Espinasial and the totality of the mid-period on the Second Age of Sails.

During the final quarter of 2057 to 2059, after only one year of the engagement that almost crippled the entire Imperial World, a trend that is statistically sudden, even by current standard, was created almost from thin air. The period was dubbed the Tuco Outbreak, taking the name from Tuco del Elmo, but morphed into a negative stance - an expansionism outbreak. The term was coined by Councillor Nicholas Korogov, of whom commented during an interview of September 2058

「 We are inherently going toward destruction at large. While there are certain factions, and I myself, whom worried of such escalatory rate in which expansions and colonialism are being made toward the Outer Regions, we all know how unpopular it is to the people. After that first shock, it seems to me that the people have decided that we should not stay in the way of expansion, but to further that out. Unfortunately, it becomes a problem because it is mostly the Inner Region and Core World populations who want the expansion, which I figure because they perceive the current territorial width as insufficient. And that would also bring about the disagree in which the Outer Regions and it subsidiary Colonies will get. The current situation is mitigated, as you may already know, only by a rather costly decision of Crown Princess Mirei (with a narrow win of 50.5-49.5 on major Parliamentary House), but sooner or later, it may bring about the collapse of the Empire, if we do not fix it. 」- Councillor Nicholas Korogov, Interview at House of Chancellor, morning September 24th, 2058.

As said, the context of the expansion is unknown exactly, but can be explained by major characters and figures as a deliberate stance on external protection on depth, perceived by the general intuition on the old concept of borders during the legacy 19th to 21st Century. As such, it creates the unsolvable tension that was not easy to fix: on one hand, if you extend military control, of which Crown Princess Mirei abides to do so in respect of Outer Colony crisis, oppression is the general outcome perception of such act, thus bring about tension on the idea of separatism. The resource-rich, strategically golden region of the New Expanse (of which the name that we called area carved by this outbreak), simultaneously is the region of interest for a lot of non-state actors, and both the traditional aristocrats. Such was to be paving ways for a new internal conflict - or rather, as most historian settled on - the era of stability fragmentation.

「 It is due for me to interpret the situation back then as a rather inevitable structure risk. I mean, we all like melodrama and the figure of a strong actor, but Crown Princess Mirei is not that? She is rather more pragmatic than anyone in the Parliamentary, and most people in the high-order voting section knows that. If you were to sit in the weekly summit of the Parliament, you will see the polarity gradually pushing into a trifecta, which are really hard to control against. We all knew in our mind that someone was pulling the string, if not to try pushing for a more relaxed opportunistic carving, while laying under the banner of the Imperial rule. At that time, we just did not know how to accept it yet. 」 - Parliamentary and High Council Judge Xihao Jiang, 59th Speaker order of the General Parliamentary, private interview on January 12nd, 2077.

Crown Princess Mirei

TBH

INTELCOM Dilemma

Particularly, INTELCOM is altruistically villainous toward a wider general public, is of the rather controversial histories of such. Formally, under INTELCOM, civilian code is one of the most often debated point of view. Certain figures in the Parliament, during the time of the 44th Speaker of the Parliament, Jamie Ardone, noted of the dilemma, as what was also discussed of several anti-agency watchdogs.

「 […] Unnecessary as far as I can see, back then, it is a legitimate concern. Intelligence agency has always been the hinge where secrecy and legitimacy clashes. When I partook on the last session, one Councillor directly asked, ‘are we to sacrifice the legitimacy of this chamber, on what basis, to grant the people of hidden face the chance to assimilate obligation and compliance toward their own goal?’, to the wider public hearing. It created an outrage I most certainly never seen of the time when I served as a Councillor, before I took place being the Speaker. The tension never quite settled, to the extend of my knowledge that I can provide you of. You both need secrecy to work on intelligence, otherwise any act of gathering information is announcing you are doing it, which defeats the entire purpose. But our body of law, even the CIVRRP’s main faction admitted to me, cannot reliably smooth the seams so much so to regulate a hidden hand of not touching its own master. Some might say, we are not even their master at all, and when Sir Heirmann proposed the upgrade of civilian oversight, I would like to say it is both a great, and a dangerous gambit. 」- Semi-public interview on 1557th Session of the General Parliamentary, Jamie Ardone, 44th Speaker of the Parliament, Auxillirate of the Chamber of Lords, private residence, December 2023.

What Sir Ardone said was never resolved even now, as we can see of particularly conspiracy theories and the often famous social perception, almost perceived to be the no-speak rule of the intelligence ambiguity, but the point rather, lies in the almost paradoxical notion of what Mr. Heirmann, one of the Lords in the Chamber of Lords during the time, proposed of. On the surface, increasing civilian oversight, for example from code band D to code band C, allows for an implied strict notification protocol, to ensure knowledge are presented on-time and per basis pre-effect. However, the intuition is rather reversed of the institutional norm. Elevating a civilian protocol is equivalent to shifting the ceiling on which the first base of the institution would receive the raw, unfiltered reports from. Taking such for a repeated inquiry, code band A would go through the entire upper-body of the State, then come the High Council alongside the Chamber of Lord, then comes the other judicial and governing parties, such are Parliaments, Senates, Civilian Representative Parliament, and pass all the way down until the last cog of the machine receives the news. In a sense, this means if the head of the Hydra is an accomplice to the intelligence, a coup d’état would not start from the base. It would be the revolt from the top.

This structural impossibility has been there, as far as we can consider of the concept of Machiavellianism, during which of the Old Era where politics were focused on one celestial being, the Core World Earth. For now, our position can be regarded as the impossibility of the maximalism. That is, we fix ourselves on the anthropological minima. We do not assume that the actor in particular of the system is capable of full honesty and goodness, for the arbitrary anthropological baseline such is settled. Of the other cards in the deck, we do not presuppose that such actor can be capable of absolute evil, again basing on the settled arbitrary baseline. When people are capable of both loyalty and betrayal, safeguard must be focused on both. Such is why when Herrmann proposed such basis, the outrage was so large that cemented the 1557th Session as a favourite entry - where institutional pressure got a leak from the population demands, and where even the High Council could not escape of its insulation ²

² During the 1557th Session, seven, i.e. half of all High Council Action Member was dismissed of service, setting it as the highest amount of simultaneous dismissal ever in the modern Imperial history. Such also however, introduces a subtle breach - the need for replacement.

Such concept is not rare or exotic. Often, even until now, records are hidden or missed into the forever changing and shuffling of the structure itself. However, just as much as all of the comradely and truly of trust in the behaviours of actors stand side by side, and often of the chamber where decisions are told, there are enough deception of such values as for any actor to be of free will, per its arbitrary meaning as for the subjective uncertainty in prediction, of every single actor to another in the room, such is to bring forward the hysteria of the mass, and the anchoring of theoretical values on those that do not abide such. The system itself requires institutional entropy to build up, for it not then the system would not operationalise on itself. However, such system is always finite, and when entropy breaks through, such would require you to pour the system into the larger cup, and wait for another rung of downpour. In a sense, idealism and focal points can be a vantage point, such is to say the system absorbed all the functionals, and amplified all noises, whether it serves a singular perceived direction, or allowing deceptions under that directive following. So much so is to say, that perhaps the shift in focus of the Long War, is truly the external field aligning the factors already there. Just that, then the field is applied, the direction instead of all unilateral, broke off into all angles.

Some justice needs to be done in the previous sentence, of which is to say of a field concept applied into a constitutional actor. Per the perspective of the simple physical theory, take a lattice of constrained configurations, full of internal actors configured in certain ways and of pertaining properties that gives coherence of the lattice, even if the wider structure is categorized as impure. Such is also the reflective substrate of what a multi-cultural empire can be, and such is our living space. Then, perhaps, under the applied external force, different from the throughput of its usage on itself, that the actors in those place are free of the conventional safeguard, and increase instability locally or so. The system, from the outside, are still relatively stable, especially at the border points. However, the inside of the operating machine is rather a mess - of different actors layering downward while trying to move on their own properties, of the safeguard failing because external pressure forces the internal safeguard to be overloaded with both central tendency and both external tendency. And when the external force is large or perceived large enough, the system breaks itself, unable to hold coherence unless one reconfigure it into another container, and let it solidify until again, the system builds up to fill the container and break it out ever again. Under the lens of those in physical study, one can also see to replicate the sun, we only need a laser, which is a rather antique technology. Unfortunately in this case, perhaps the sun that those people of the time reacted against, is simply a torch, holding close.

After such, one often talk about impossibility being not the right kind of prediction as to be inevitable. Indeed, much of the history of press conferences and the concept of public hearing and domain predictions, are of the realization that in certain sense, such can be reverted of its future effects, under a rather specific hurdle of informing and warning. However, as we shall see, those warnings while earned, were untouched, not because it bears no cost of and of no value, but because we often only predict the future and relinquish the probability we don’t like. The problem in such approach, however, is that there exists no system with infinite motion, where every action of moving something, requires something else to be spent of, and to be diffused. As such, political powers are the same, as it burdens the system thinking itself as self-sufficient and sustained of a frame, to be of infinite motional strength, while the actual state of affair is much more constrained. Per political theorists, such as Edward Humoid, and Levela Marie-Astrid, every action requires stoppage of others, or delays of which propagate to a wider network of demands. The supply and demand problem is therefore not simply as two line intersect of one another in the precise ideal middle, but rather the game of grabbing resources enough that the other actor cannot move while they can. Such will be the next chapter focus, and one of the historiographical section in which we discover the period of pre-War, i.e., the discovery of the signals from which we know currently as the Buiteaardse wese et Vreemdeling, of which in the Afrikaans-Latina dialect, means the “Foreigner of Extraterrestrial”.