# Daily Life in the Federation ## A series of diary entries from a simple Federation person. ### Written by Peter Wabintosh. Published: 05/09/83392 -------- #### Entry 1 (01/07/83078 | Hudson City on Auroura in the Churchill System, Manitoba Sector, Wescan, Dependent Dominion of Takara): The witcher said it was best to start by giving some background on myself and my family. My name is Peter Wabintosh, I'm a 20 year old male living in Hudson City, on the aurora planet in the Churchill system... do I really need to do the rest? I'm stuck in Wescan, where it is unfortunately safe. My parents began wanting to have me when they realized the war wasn't actually going to end with the defeat of Utopia. I was finally concieved properly when the household received a notice requiring one person over the age of 25 to report to the nearest Federation recruiting office, in the Regina System at least a month away, and enter into service for the Jewel. The hope was that the parental exemption would allow them to get out. It worked for a while. Most other households in Hudson were not so lucky. The big welfare bloc in orbit had some 800,000 'able bodied' people pulled out of it. My friend Tim says that those were all the people whose bodies were still walkable, the rest having melded with the bed or become brains in jars. I have always hated the idea of becoming one of those, as does Tim. Our classmate Daniel is less antagonistic to the idea. He always says that the idea of spending eternity entertained rather than waiting for his soul to recollect and be reborn seemed preferable. He says a life of half-awake slumber as a brain in a jar just sounded right. Better than dying in a war he didn't even get a chance to vote for. Mom and dad agree it was the usual teenage bravado. The city's head Witcher, Lugvuld of Norway-House, came by today. He noticed I haven't been at service lately, honouring the Gods personal, familial, communal, and nation. He said he was worried about me since my dad left. He said that I shouldn't worry. That most of this draft was based on a need to fill ships to fight on more fronts, not because we're losing people. Mom is less confident. She keeps pacing around the apartments kitchen arguing with a ghost of dad, trying to convince him to sell the apartment, undergo some back-room surgury, and then we as a family take a transport to Carloland, and from there flee into the Switzersweeds. I keep hearing dads voice telling her he can't do that. That if the Federeation needs him, he owes it to the Jewel and all its colonies to defend it. That he couldn't let others die anymore while he survives. Honestly, what I'm most scared of is another letter coming. But Lugvuld reassured me, offering a prayer, during which he showed my soul that many were safe, and that the drafts have generally gotten smaller over the last sevear years not larger. These both calmed me. --- ## Future parts - he starts partying, skipping class, taking drugs, and listening to Jyd-I over witchers. - In order to win more debates and arguments, as is the culture he falls into, he starts doing as they do and watching more void-net videos and content, becoming informed on the political issues. - he comes to hate the Federation for all the harm it causes, how it allows systemic issues and oppresses the utopians when they were just trying ot create a more just society compared to the Federation, how the Federation pretends to be equal but actually oppresses Jyd-I ratioanlism and Sigmarim experientialism which he finds deeply insulting, troubling, and problematic. - His household hten reiceves another draft notice, and his mom takes it, asking him to please get off the net and start living his life. He lies to her that he will. - he learns that his dad has been killed while aboard a transport passing through Utopia, destoryed by a group of anti-federation terrorists. Rather htan feeling sad, he begins to feel happy that thousands of federatino oppressors were killed, thereby aiding the liberation of Utopia. he quits his job and begins spending all his time in the void-net campaigning for utopian freedom online - he eventually moevs inot the netizen orbital bloc along with Daniel, and spends all day every day plugged inot the net - After nearly 100 years in the net, while waiting for a video on why the Federatino is evil and vile for trying to suppreses Utopian indenpendence, there is a mid video advertisement in which he sees his mom fighting in the army, getting killed by a Xiao-Ming mech suit. WHen the video resumes, he realies that it includes footage from a team raiding a federation ship, and in a moment of it one of hte utopians opens fire at a Federation soldier walking through a corridor on a trnasport, which he realizes is his father. - After these in 'a moment of weakness' he submits a request to join the army - another 30 years pass before he is forced out of the net, his weak and crippled body pushed into a rejuvination tank. While stuck in the tank, his neural net actives and he is told in his mind that his federation recruitmetn request was now greenlit. - After 5 years of rejuvenation and training he is deployed to fight in Axios, where he begins conducting raids on xiao-ming corporate plants - after 45 year of raiding xiao-ming plants, he spends 9 years relocting to Utopia, where he spends 28 years suppressing 'terrorists'. - Then he spends 7 years relocating to Berlinnic, where he spends the next 30 years fighting in the corridor, and then 8 more after that fighting in Duetchrean territortory. - After which he spends a two years travelling through Deautrea nad Suki corridor having adventures in various systems with his other army pals ont he way back. - once in the Wiebe Soverignty in Berlinnic, he is discharged. Then he uses his free federation ticket ot earth to start heading to Sol. Which takes two years total to get to the Milky Way. - Once in the Milky Way, he begins bumming around looking for work but funding little. Going systemt o system, both out of hte way places and those in the way. Slowly his resentment towards the governemnt begins to build as he keeps finding and hearing of non-discharged, redcued pay, soldiers. On the other hand, those soldier are envious of his freedom and that he recieved hsi discharge bonus - After 10 years bumming around the milky way, he finds out his dad actually survived, was discharged, and was able to buy a mirranada class ship of his own. Happy to be reunited with dad, he joins up. also during this time he marries a beautiful deeply Orthodox Sigmarian girl named Svetlana, who accompanies him on his adventures. - He spends 15 years heading all over the Federation with his dad, exploring various systems, meeting people of note, and effectively becoming a key memebr in the senior staff of a third-rate merchant prince. However, a dispute between himself and his dad's first officer ends when our protagonist chooses to leave the ship in the face of the dawning realize that his dad would rather protect the war buddy he served with for 200 years than his son who he's served with for 15. A large part of this was over Svetlana, and our protaganist chooses hsi wife over his father, as much as hsi father chooses his first officer over his son. - Now cast out, our protagonist takes his military and trade experiences and joins one of the local aristocrats in Saldor, quickly helping him gain relevance in the house of lords, only to realize that the Rey Family essentially contorls the Dominion for a reason, and that the president is selling titles no matter what the Lords say, even if there is mild reform. However, having made many connections amogn the nobility from spending 8 years in noble politics, he moves to working for Lord Contigas in Dipoette as a senior advisor. - he spends hte next 6 years acting as the Lords advisor and aid, helping the Lord to defeat two rival lords who were threatening him, put down a rebellion among the aristocracy when the Lord embrace the progaonstists economic reforms which disempowered the lords aristocacy adn instead empowerd the people, and personally commanded the Lords ground forces as he expanded to bring new regions of Dipoette under Federation rule. - He then spends the next four serving his Lord when he goes to live on Earth, which only actually lasts a year, but it takes 3 years to get there. During which not much happens. - Finally after a year on earth, the Lord dies of old age, and our protagonist then spends hte rest of the time living on an asteroid in the sol system, convering these diary entries into a publishalbe work, and getting it published.