Trekking 7
Doctor Mother looked out over the wind ruffled plain of grass on the Planet Cauldron was on. "David was right. I failed badly." She started when a voice replied.
"You did what was necessary. Perhaps even put in the foundation. Plus you helped Fortuna, a lost little girl. Not everything you did was bad. Me for example. I was dying."
Doctor Mother turned from the window and smiled "Hello Rebecca. How goes the new order?"
Rebecca smiled back "Like you don't know. Very well actually. Panacea is with Rodenberry, as Fortuna pathed. Rodenberry, or her AI, are waging economic warfare on the Empire 88, Coil, the Elite, every villain they can find, parahuman and not. Half the congress, a lot of the appointed executive branch. Some of the Judiciary, Us, Kurt is having a blast fighting her off and turning our assets squeaky clean. Then using them to assist her or whoever it is running her finances.
"We have managed most of the S class threats in the western hemisphere. David is feeling better and more powerful than he has in years. He got a fourth slot even. He will need to come see you to find out if it is something Rodenberry did, like my eye. Legend is making the Protectorate some kind of paragon of organizations. The Villain organizations are disappearing into the buffer or hiding in the badlands, or the Mojave dessert deep in some jungle or way up in the north. PHO and the other websites are losing their minds.
"The courts are struggling with tens of thousands of fully documented citizen's arrest, which is what we have decided Rodenberry is doing, every day. Rodenberry is getting the rewards for those. There is some lag for that, but the ones she has been doing all along are starting to come. That will only accelerate.
"The sick and injured are being cured or healed by replicators. All is right and good."
Doctor Mother nodded "And the corporate interest are still trying to gather their wits after losing their bought and paid for legislators and judges. At least the less subtle ones. So, if we keep the pressure on we may get a bloodless coup after all." Rebecca smiled tightly. Doctor mother continued "So a third of the world is heading for a golden age."
Rebecca nodded "It's a start. As Rodenberry penetrates other markets I am sure it will be more than a third. Kurt is getting the paper work together to merge our legitimate assets with the Heberts' family bank which will give her penetration everywhere except China, Africa, and some parts of the Middle East."
Doctor Mother nodded "Meanwhile I have reached an impasse and am going to need to speak with her. That is if we are going to help the case fifty threes'. Fortuna says it will happen soon. I find myself dreading her reaction to what I have done."
"What we have done. We aren't going to let you take all the blame."
"You should, save what you can."
Rebecca shrugged "That's what we are doing. Now, we think she will have a conference with world leaders as soon as she finish's her moon, a month from now at the most. If it is going to be more than a meet and greet it will take months. At least if it does anything productive. We will open a dialog then."
Trekking
Nessa looked at Jessica and nodded toward the raving, unshaven, unshowered, Max Anders. "Time to talk to Purity."
Jessica shook her head "Time to go, then we can talk to her from that Inuit village." The twins helped each other into their furs. They walked outside and got on the matched Artic Cat Z1 Turbo 2009 model snowmobiles.
In the cabin, the enormous log cabin in the deep pristine woods near the Arctic Circle, Max heard the engines start, then wind up to a shrill vibration felt as much as heard. He bellowed and chased the noise with blades forming out of the trail. He wasn't catching the snowmobiles, already doing a hundred miles an hour, and still accelerating, on the snow packed trail. The twins uncaring about the melting snow, it probably had a good month left before it cleared.
Trekking
The president smiled as he talked to his people about legislative strategy. Government was a lot easier when the vested interests didn't own the legislature any more Those senators and congressmen they did own having disappeared, and the evidence of their crimes already being in the hands of the honest federal prosecutors left, with the unimpeachable FBI agents and US marshals investigating to confirm all the allegations had merit. Those allegations would go in front of unimpeachable jurist.
Sadly some of his more prominent donors had also disappeared. That would be all right though. The republicans would have the same difficulty. If not even worse.
Trekking
Danny walked around the assembly room. It was enormous. The outside of it, where the wall should have been around the top level of the semi circle was a ten meter high solid sheet of foot thick transparent aluminum. "Taylor?"
Taylor smiled "I know, well Starfleet can use it, The Federation. Lisa says we can have concerts in it. Canary is interested. It isn't wasted space. Plus it is used by the ventilation system as a kind of buffer space. It is kept at a atmosphere of overpressure."
Danny laughed "I dont think 'wasted space' is something you have to worry about Little Owl. Even with this and the Diplomatic deck, two hundred exactly equal offices might have been a little much, you know there are at most a hundred and ninety six countries in the world. Some people dont even count Taiwan, Japan and Switzerland either."
Taylor grimaced "I am fixing those people and the countries, and I dont think Ziz can bomb them from her hiding place. The big chicken." Taylor grimaced.
Danny smiled "I doubt you are going to get many representatives from Africa or the Middle East."
"I know, I thought the religious nuts in the US were bad. At least they didn't pervert their religion into the apostacy of hatred and misogyny."
"Well, they kinda did but it was six hundred years or so ago. They got better? I know you still dont think much of them but they are improving. Educating more of them so they can read their own holy text and think critically, rather than depending on a few among them who can read and have agenda's will help." Danny shrugged.
Taylor eyed him "And yet I have hundreds of priest in the buffer."
Danny pinched the bridge of his nose. The mainstream religions were making his life hard. Taylor had wanted to go after the Pope as the leader of the organization was responsible for the actions of the organization. She had a list of crimes that ran to a ream of paper, legal paper, in eight point type, on both sides.
Rose was already working over the religious organizations bank accounts and paying reparations. The Priest, Imans, Mullahs and Rabi's too. It was a problem. They couldn't convince Taylor, Rose, Maleficent, any of them to stop either.
Like witht he governments really. The legislatures should have gotten rid of those laws they liked to selectively enforce. Well the new ones could.
This case with a defendant claiming it was impossible to get a fair trial after an 'arrest' by Rodenberry because it prejudiced the jury into an assumption of guilt as everything she arrest people for had unimpeachable evidence was going to go to the supreme court. Danny grimaced. How would those idiots survive making a politically biased ruling in contravention of their oath?
Lisa looked at him and shrugged "They won't, they know it, so they will do the best they can. It will be the first honest ruling ever." Danny laughed and laughed.
"And the Senate and Congress will get their shit together after both changed hands four times with appointments from their states as twenty percent of them went into the buffer, then ten percent of the replacements"
"You would have thought they would have learned after the first time. This latest crop just had traffic fines and misdemeanors at most to clear up. They should get their stuff together and start working on governance soon. I can't believe Obama survived with just clearing up fines." Lisa tapped her chin.
"He won a seat, then before it expire he won the next higher, all the way to the presidency, He didnt have time to be the normal Chicago machine politician maybe. It was a bit of a meteoric rise. Right person, right place, right time. I bet he regrets it now. He is going completely gray." Danny said thoughtfully.
Taylor huffed "That isn't my fault. I can fix it if he wants." Lisa grinned at her. She huffed and crossed her arms under her chest.
Danny looked at her "You need a bigger under suit. Does your breastplate and exoskeleton still fit?" Taylor looked down and grinned. Lisa had to sit down she was laughing so hard. Taylor was so funny. Mad scientist, Genius tinker, awkward teenager, and adolescent girl all rolled into one. This was so fun. Her power poked her. Well yes, when it isn't being horribly dangerous.
Trekking
"Yes leader." Number one got up, saluted and left the office to complete his mission. Find parahumans who dont need to breath, wont have their fluids boil at low pressures and can operate at the temperatures found in orbit. It didnt need a genius to understand what these parahumans mission would be. Now how could the Yangban facilitate the mission and win. Taking over the space station Rodenberry had built would be the first step, then they could take over her ship. After that, the world was theirs.
Like it was hers now really.
Venus could be made a planet for Parahumans only though. Under his rule. For the emperor of course. Yes, this had great potential.