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Daily Life on an Anarchist Hab

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Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture
Daily Life on an Anarchist Hab
We've had a few of these kinds of threads so far, so why not one about anarchists?
Monican Monican's picture
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Where I live there are a number of anarchist communes or "collective houses" where people (mostly young people, although there are a number of wise old hippies) organize along principles of mutual consent, mutual aid, and solidarity. Every person who is part of the house has a say in how things are done, and can expect a share of all the tools, food, chores, resources, and responsibilities that come with living there. Addendum: For outer system SCUM swarms and anarchist habitats, I imagine the culture heavily emphasizes self-sufficiency, compared to inner system SCUM pirates/anarchist groups which may emphasize living off of society's waste (or outright theft, either politically motivated and strategic, or simply selfish). Not so easy to be a pirate or parasite way out rimward. For a great examination of anarchist social structures in a sci-fi setting, I really recommend bolo'bolo by PM: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8884417/bolobolo.pdf
Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture
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The Über scum barge I'm using as decors for my story and possibly recurrent haven for Scum PCs (so far I haven't got any, but that might change) work as a system faring moving habitat, taxiing people around, renting to those who can or are willing to pay, or work as volunteers. I might make a setting paper for The Eye, but here's a bit of a first look. It still needs to be worked and details may change The Sumeria Six is a two kilometers long ship with two toruses turning in opposing direction Qatari and Garza. If you can afford to pay a square meter rent that would rival the ones of La Jolla in Pre-Panamerica days, the very expensive residences in Qatari, the torus offering a 4 kilometers long and 100 meters wide tubular environment somewhere between Dubai, Las Vegas and Singapore. A luminous city in the middle of a wide oasis with a wild night life of hi-class clubs where Titanese, Extropian and Argonaut travels or egocast to be able to let their hair down, and crossing orbit with the Carnival of Goat twice a year. the gravity is a comfortable .7g Garza is the "work zoning" of ore raffinery, raw materials factories, farming and cultivating. the gravity is .5 ins this 3 kilometers ring. It provides employment and rep source for the people in the Core. The Core of the Barge, 250 meters wide, like the Torus is a cosmopolitan mix of criss crossing streets between what is called there Tragras, like an "indoor cluster habitat" meet trailer park (hense the name: Trailer Grapes) with conduits between them called Medinas. Everybody knows everybody in a TraGras. Hexagonal tubes twelve meters across with one 'trailer' like cabin per side, seven meters deep and about 2 meters wide, with five trailers vertically, separated by 8 or 9 meters. The walls are painted and decorated by the habitants of the TraGras who shares everything together like extended famillies. I'm still working out, with Kindalas' kind help, the number of those TraGras, streets and avenues. There is one major traffic artery in the Core, called the Boulevard, going from the helm to the engines, passing through the zero-g gardens and warehouse and the hubs leading to Qatari and Garza (respectively called the Theme Park and (working title) Union Station) There is a game often played by the habitat of the Tragras, a sort of paintball meet football meet ice hockey played in 0g with floating crates used both as cover and bouncing surface. There is no fix number of player per team, nor fix number of team involved in a game session. One player of teach team is unarmed with painter (those are generally in AR display, but...well, it's Scums we're talking about, here!), but well armored. he's playing the 'ball', so to speak. There are two ways to score points: escort your team's ball to your team goal zone untagged or capture an adversary ball and take him or her to your goal zone. Once a player is tagged or KO, he's out for the game. the game is out when only one team has at least one player on the field. once a ball is tagged or KO, another player looses his or her gun and become the ball. A ball can dodge, grapple, vault over and push, but not hit. Walls around the game area are part of the play field. As you can imagine this game can be quite violent. I'm still thinking about a name for that, hem, sport. The barge-wide championship has been, however, named: it's called the SUPER BRAWL if you have ideas for the name of the sport or teams. Since I don't know how many Tragras there'll be, I don't know how many teams there's going to be. The story's character's Tagras team is called the Sand Sharks. As you can imagine, the XP of these game are quite liked and games are broadcast on the Barge's Mesh.
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jackgraham jackgraham's picture
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Monican wrote:
Where I live there are a number of anarchist communes or "collective houses" where people (mostly young people, although there are a number of wise old hippies) organize along principles of mutual consent, mutual aid, and solidarity. [... rather comprehensive discussion of collective/co-op housing ...]
The only thing you left out was that these places also tend to host the best parties. :)
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Monican Monican's picture
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Oh absolutely! Such a better scene than the bar/club scene. It's amazing how much friendlier/wilder/more fun everything gets when every little social interaction is no longer mediated by capitalism.