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Governance

2023-10-04T19:10:39Z

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Governance is the governing entity of humankind in general and Earth in particular. It arose from the [[EDC]] and can be defined as an [[AI]]-mediated, human-interpretable abstracted democracy. Formally divided into two branches, Governance proper, situated on and around Earth, and Colonial Governance, consisting of the governments off-Earth and on the colonies.

== History ==

=== Pre-Unification War ===
In the time before Unification with the emergence of functional AI some of the states employed an Utilitarian AI Technocracy. This form of government uses [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligences]] as experts in various fields to set rules and place individuals in positions of power in an effort to maximize happiness or reduce suffering, respectively.

The goals and ideologies of the states of the [[Freedom Alliance]] were not necessarily in accord with the general well-being but rather aimed for the pleasure and ensuring of the status quo of the ruling elite. Before Volokhov set the outlines and confirmability of a human morality in artificial intelligences, previous individuals did not need to follow a moral core or adhere to one.

=== Unification War ===

When the UN and its General Assembly was dissolved around 2160 and the [[United Front General Assembly]] formed, one could reasonable say it was the beginning of the first steps to the actual Governance. It self-described as a successor to the United Nations and received its actual power by a mixture of the actual charter, interventions as well as military conquests over time.

Under the leadership of the Executive Council the states of the [[United Front]] were militarily harmonized and gradually formed into a coherent force in the advent of an expected conflict, with harmonization efforts extending beyond the military as well.

When the conflicts grew harder, longer and finally nuclear the Executive Council was reorganized into the Emergency Defence Committee, an organization much more reminiscent of a government than a council, fielding various secretaries for instance. Collapses of the component states of the UF forced the EDC to intervene on its own soil, so to speak, and take over even more governmental aspects, with the war effort making hitherto unthinkable measures not only thinkable, but necessary.

By 2200 only few component states of the UF still had some power of their own, and the distinction between UF and EDC was in most cases on paper only. Those independent states had no choice but to cede their remaining power to the EDC, especially since the EDC made a persuasive argument that future peace being only ensured under its own, direct rule. Thus the UF General Assembly was made obsolete by essentially a military junta, neither elected nor open.

=== Unification War aftermath ===

Up to and after defeating the last holdouts of the FA the EDC started implementing decrees keeping itself in power, but also organizing a global reconstruction effort, partly fuelled by the very armies it wielded. Furthermore scientist in the employ of the EDC developed the structures and projects ensuring humankind's survival by setting a new government in malleable stone, and by 2240 the EDC was ready to dissolve.

The new government was meant to be provably aligned with the populations interests (thanks to Volokhov-friendly AI's), amorphous and unassailable by incorporating the population into the governing body, '''Governance'''.

When first contact was made by the [[Cephalopods]] attacking [[Aurora]], Governance entered Emergency Mode Level One, with each and every Representative participating to some degree to solve this problem, and only after the [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]] did Governance re-emerge from Emergency Mode to somewhat normal operations.

== Structure ==

=== Governance Proper ===

Governance addresses the problems of an advanced need for governmental oversight, decrease in political engagement and desire for an, above all, efficient government by approximating the results an Utilitarian AI Technocracy would achieve with a distinctly and radically different internal approach.

==== Representatives ====

At the core of its functionality lies the concept of Representatives. This artificial construct is set to incorporate the interests, opinions and beliefs of certain sets of the human and AI population and argue for these interests as best as possible. While formed at a relatively basic level, Representatives can and do easily merge into super-Representatives, sometimes via advisory AI, to form a more general view and interest. This progress cascades to ever higher levels, forming bigger and more generalized but still topical super-Representatives up the Directorate-level. A characteristic of all but the lowest-level and highest-level Representatives is being part of a super-Representative.

==== Committees ====

The actual governing, assigning resources and decision making takes place in committees, made up of the various and relevant Representatives. Some committees are permanent, like the Central Economic Committee, while others are formed on the fly as the need and necessity arises and dissolved once the issue has been addressed and resolved. The formation of committees is incumbent upon special supervisory Committees, as is the assignment of Representatives. Specialist advisory AIs oversee these assignments and may offer insights in which Representative to assign, given the marginal utility of and impact on the Representatives constituents to the problem at hand.

Committee meetings are held in an virtual reality environment under as accelerated time as computational reasonable, with each Representative usually being both part of and actually simultaneously sitting in on multiple committees at the same time. This allows committees to decide fast without sacrificing due diligence to discuss and argue their points, a feature paid for by using about a third of the computational power of Earth.

==== Directorate ====

The highest institution is the Directorate, wielding sovereign power only limited by a few Core Rights. It furthermore appoints, retires or creates Representatives under the advisement of [[MAR]]. Its constituents are at least the following Representatives:
* Science and Technology
* Military Affairs
* Manufacturing and Distribution
* Health and Happiness
* Colonial Affairs and Colonization
* Public Order
* Artificial Intelligence
* Public Opinion

=== Human integration ===

The need for meetings in accelerated time, incorruptibility and integration into super-, sub- and Representatives would have proven a challenge in the time before the Unification Wars, but neurological enhancements of various kinds (Permanent Awareness Module, partial neural backups, cortical implants) have made that problem less significant. With the help of dedicated advisory AIs, more mundane and secondary tasks are taken care of while the more cognitive parts of the consciousness attend VR meetings.

A danger in this progress lies in the perceived loss of ''humanity'' as a philosophical quality. Humans interlaced in committees are not as attendant of their physical, or virtual, surroundings as basely enhanced humans are and bleed over can happen.<ref name="ch14">{{ch|14}}</ref> To address this danger every human-based Representative has to be checked regularly if they still meet the [[Volokhov Criterion]] while disconnected from the network. If they do not fulfil the Criterion, they are to be gradually reintegrated into their bodies until they do.

=== Emergency Modes ===

Many of the possible ways to achieve peak efficiency in Governance are left unexplored because they either run counter the ideology and ideal Governance sees itself as and are progressively counter-human on a moral scale. If the need arises, though, those concerns loose weight over the continued survival of both humankind and Governance. This ''loss'' is expressed in Emergency Modes. Speculation, but only scant evidence, points to Cephalopod society being organized into a permanent Level Three equivalent. <ref name="Ch8">{{Ch|8}}</ref>

: '''Level One'''

:* full Emergency session of all Governance Representatives
:* every Representative must allocate at least some computational time for this

: '''Level Two'''

:* Called by majority vote of Level One Session
:* all members of the Directorate merge into one super-Representative ''Governance'', thus containing every human and AI representative, advisory AI and most military AIs
:* this super-Representative would in effect be the supreme sovereign, and Governance be the AI technocracy it so far only imitated
:* possible scenario for Level Two: imminent invasion of Earth

: '''Level Three'''

:* called by ''Governance''
:* every citizen is mobilized
:* direct two-way interfaces between each citizen's brain and nearest computing network for transmission and relay of (non-compulsory) orders
:* Core Rights are suspended, ''Governance''/stylized ''Humanity'' may make use of its recovered powers of execution, summary imprisonment, etcetera
:* possible scenario for Level Three: actual invasion and imminent loss of Earth

: '''Level Four'''

:* called by >90% vote of all citizens
:* permanent activation of civilian Emergency Safety Packages, with subsequent effective mechanization of all human interaction
:* orders non-compulsory
:* possible scenario for Level Four: imminent destruction of human civilization

=== Colonial Governance ===

Even before Governance and the success of [[Project Janus]] various groups on Earth set out to travel to nearby planets at sub-light speeds. Colonies were established, cultural drift occurred, but once reconnection was ensured Governance enforced Fundamental Rights every henceforth Governance-sponsored or private colonization effort had to subscribe to.

This, as well as the general diverging nature of natural developments, lead to a mixture of free trade zones, fiscal unions and other economic structures surrounding among the colonies. These are influenced and in a roundabout way governed or influenced by Governance proper and it wielding Earth's economy. The more open aspects Earth deals with these structures is as an arbitrator and mediator in struggles among the colonies.

==== Governance sponsored colonies ====

With the population the preselected colonization AI-human council arrives. The members are formally part of the bureaucracy of the Governance proper, but the leeway granted to colonies does not make this as rigid as it seems to be. Elections and referendums held by the locals are usually adhered to and council members are instated or removed by the local legal code, with Governance proper in most cases merely rubber-stamping the decisions.

The council manages the colony and establishes a legal code, often enough bigger than the legal code of Earth due to the lesser control of the government. 
In time, with the colony's economic growth and increase in population, it's council will run into difficulty managing the colony efficiently and a proper colonial government will be instated, based on the structure of Governance proper. It is at this stage a super-Representative of the colony will partake in Governance proper, part of relevant (sub-)committees, with weighted relevance in relation to the colony's participation.

Gradually, the colony will grow and be able to allocate more resources to its own growth, and those more effectively. The internal structure will develop and more Representative necessary and instated, thus making the colony more and more alike in functioning to Governance proper.

A proposed final merger of Governance proper and a colonial subsidiary requires a constant, reasonably instant and reliable connection between the governing bodies on an informational as well as physical level. This requires a significant amount resources as well as technological progress, both of which currently preclude a merger, even with [[Nova Terra]]. Even if there was no such limitation at the time, instability due to the [[Contact War]] as well as sociocultural differences between Earth and Nova Terra have both sides doubt the wisdom of the merger.

==== Non-Governance sponsored colonies ====

Without the material and resource support provided by Colonial Governance, these colonies are in some ways both more free and restricted to develop on their own. While the adherence to the Fundamental Rights is mandatory, most other aspects of its affairs are left to the colonies themselves, unless they impinge upon other colonies.

If a non-Governance sponsored colony gains substantial success, inspections by Governance: Public Order and Governance: Military Affairs are to be expected. It will intervene to establish or evolve a more Governance-congruent government and develop the colony more along the Governance-sponsored track. While it has no reservations to enforce such a change, even against dissent and discontent, Governance still prefers a gradual and agreeable transition.

If the divide to Governance runs rampant, though, Colonial Governance has no qualms to put a bigger focus on the rampant colony to preclude a possibly devastating development. There are cases when an intervention was necessary, albeit always in measure and relation to the offence. The graver the offence, the harsher and more secret the intervention, with the exception of violation of Fundamental Rights, an offence that cannot be answered with anything but a coercive military intervention.

== References ==
<references />

* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/52697240857/organization-post-2-governance-part-1 Incubator Archives: Organization post 2, Governance post 1] (history)
* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/65841896457/organization-post-2-governance-part-2 Incubator Archives: Organization post 2, Governance post 2] (Colonial Governance)
* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/68536325770/organization-post-2-governance-part-3-ideology Incubator Archives: Organization post 2, Governance post 3] (ideology)

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St. Petersburg Atrocity

2023-10-04T19:06:28Z

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The '''St. Petersburg Atrocity''' occurred in 2163, and is considered the proximate cause of the [[Unification Wars]], analogous to the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand and the First World War.

<blockquote>
The local hyperclasses had resolved to do the unfathomable: annihilate an entire segment of the city’s population for anti-governmental behavior. While the world was shocked by this, the [[MSY]] was further shocked by a subsidiary revelation–that a substantial number of newly contracted girls were dead in the event, not from an accident as originally believed, but due to the deliberate betrayal of members of the MSY’s [[FA]]-sympathizing faction.
</blockquote>

As a result, the MSY firmly sided with the [[United Front]].

==References==

[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/42090333090/organization-post-1-msy-part-3 Hieronym's tumblr post]

Local Area

2023-10-04T19:05:17Z

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A spherical volume approximately 400 light years in radius, centered around the Sol system. Intended to be the place of medium term colonization for Humanity, all the way through the [[Third Colonization Wave]].

MSY Founder

2023-09-22T17:54:56Z

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'''MSY Founder''' is a blanket term used to refer to one of the roughly 24 girls who formed the original [[MSY]]. As such, they would have been a member of one of the 6 [[Magical Girl Team]]s that signed the original [[MSY Charter]]. In order of signing, the six teams are listed below, along with known members:
[[image:M4.png|thumb|350px|The Mitakihara Four, circa 2065.]]
*'''Mitakihara Four''' The core founding team, this team contains all the living magical girl members of the original cast, plus [[Chitose Yuma]] from [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Oriko_Magica Oriko Magica]. [[Miki Sayaka]] was a member of this team, but died before the founding. Unlike the other team names, "Mitakihara Four" is still in common usage by the time of the [[Contact War]], and it is the only team with a complete member list.
**[[Akemi Homura]]
**[[Chitose Yuma]]
**[[Sakura Kyouko]]
**[[Tomoe Mami]]
*'''University Area Group''' This team was apparently located in the vicinity of Mitakihara University, and may have contained students of the school. They collectively ran a food stand to garner extra funds.
**[[Kuroi Kana]]
*'''Northern Group'''
**[[Chiyo Rika]]
*'''Financial District Group''' This team once had a member captured and killed by [[Oriko]] of the [[Southern Group]].
**[[Tanaka Yui]]
*'''Factory Area Group'''
**[[Takara Chinami]]
*'''West [[Kazamino]] Three'''
**[[Yasuhiro Rin]]

[[Category:Under Construction]]

FTL

2023-09-22T02:55:00Z

Miríade:

*''FTL refers to superluminal travel, for superluminal communication see [[IIC]]''

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is the transport of matter at speeds higher than the speed of light.

Special Relativity doesn't contemplate the possibility of an object with a positive rest mass accelerating from subluminal speeds into superluminal ones, but [[Field Theory]], the in-universe field of Physics that succeeded Relativity and Quantum Theory, accommodates it within its framework. Long thought to be beyond mankind's reach, even if theoretically possible, it was achieved through [[Project Janus]], one of the [[EDC]]'s efforts to rehabilitate its image after the [[Unification Wars]].

[[Human]]s and [[Cephalopod]]s both have access to it, but the aliens have a better control of it, being able to achieve instantaneous travel through [[blink technology]]. It is fueled by exotic matter, which can only be produced with the large amounts of energy available in the [[Core World]]s. As such, exotic matter represents [[Governance]]'s single biggest expenditure in the energy budget, and its production and transportation are important logistical bottlenecks. Apparently, the aliens suffer from similar limitations, as even though their FTL engines seem to be powered by fragments of space‐time itself, they also need very large amounts of energy to extract it.

== References ==

* {{ch|15}}
* {{ch|55}}
* {{ch|62}}

IIC

2023-09-22T02:53:49Z

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*''IIC refers to superluminal communication, for superluminal motion see [[FTL]]''

The Instantaneous Interstellar Communication Relay network (IIC) is the framework that [[Governance]] uses to transmit information with no delay between emission and reception.

Long thought to be beyond mankind's reach, even if theoretically possible, it was achieved sometime between the [[First Colonization Wave|First]] and the [[Second Colonization Wave]], through the use of wormholes. Aside from its esoteric inner workings, the logistics of maintaining IIC are pretty similar to that of traditional means of communication, namely:

#Each connection is point‐to‐point.
#The bandwidth of each connection is bounded by the limits of current photonic transmission technology.
#The farther the physical distance a connection traverses, the more energy it costs to maintain.
#New connections can only be established from very close distances. (about 7000 km with current technology, more in deep space)

== References ==

* {{ch|21}}
* {{ch|61}}

FTL

2023-09-22T02:36:57Z

Miríade:

*''FTL refers to superluminal travel, for superluminal communication see [[IIC]]''

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is the transport of matter at speeds higher than the speed of light.

Special Relativity doesn't contemplate the possibility of an object with a positive rest mass accelerating from subluminal speeds into superluminal ones, but [[Field Theory]], the in-universe field of Physics that succeeded Relativity and Quantum Theory, accommodates it within its framework. Long thought to be beyond mankind's reach, even if theoretically possible, it was achieved through [[Project Janus]], one of the [[EDC]]'s efforts to rehabilitate its image after the [[Unification Wars]].

[[Human]]s and [[Cephalopod]]s both have access to it, but the aliens have a better control of it, being able to achieve instantaneous travel through [[blink technology]]. Is is fueled by exotic matter, which can only be produced with the large amounts of energy available in the [[Core World]]s. As such, exotic matter represents [[Governance]]'s single biggest expenditure in the energy budget, and its production and transportation are important logistical bottlenecks. Apparently, the aliens suffer from similar limitations, as even though their FTL engines seem to be powered by fragments of space‐time itself, they also need very large amounts of energy to extract it.

== References ==

* {{ch|15}}
* {{ch|55}}
* {{ch|62}}

FTL

2023-09-22T02:18:41Z

Miríade:

*''FTL refers to superluminal travel, for superluminal communication see [[IIC]]''

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is the transport of matter at speeds higher than the speed of light.

Special Relativity doesn't contemplate the possibility of an object with a positive rest mass accelerating from subluminal speeds into superluminal ones, but [[Field Theory]], the in-universe field of Physics that succeeded Relativity and Quantum Theory, accommodates it within its framework. Long thought to be beyond mankind's reach, even if theoretically possible, it was achieved through [[Project Janus]], one of the [[EDC]]'s efforts to rehabilitate its image after the [[Unification Wars]].

[[Human]]s and [[Cephalopod]]s both have access to it, but the aliens have a better control of it, being able to achieve nearly-instantaneous travel through [[blink technology]]. Is is fueled by exotic matter, which can only be produced with the large amounts of energy available in the [[Core World]]s. As such, exotic matter represents [[Governance]]'s single biggest expenditure in the energy budget, and its production and transportation are important logistical bottlenecks. Apparently, the aliens suffer from similar limitations, as even though their FTL engines seem to be powered by fragments of space‐time itself, they also need very large amounts of energy to extract it.

== References ==

* {{ch|15}}
* {{ch|55}}
* {{ch|62}}

FTL

2023-09-22T02:18:11Z

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''FTL refers to superluminal travel, for superluminal communication see [[IIC]]''

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is the transport of matter at speeds higher than the speed of light.

Special Relativity doesn't contemplate the possibility of an object with a positive rest mass accelerating from subluminal speeds into superluminal ones, but [[Field Theory]], the in-universe field of Physics that succeeded Relativity and Quantum Theory, accommodates it within its framework. Long thought to be beyond mankind's reach, even if theoretically possible, it was achieved through [[Project Janus]], one of the [[EDC]]'s efforts to rehabilitate its image after the [[Unification Wars]].

[[Human]]s and [[Cephalopod]]s both have access to it, but the aliens have a better control of it, being able to achieve nearly-instantaneous travel through [[blink technology]]. Is is fueled by exotic matter, which can only be produced with the large amounts of energy available in the [[Core World]]s. As such, exotic matter represents [[Governance]]'s single biggest expenditure in the energy budget, and its production and transportation are important logistical bottlenecks. Apparently, the aliens suffer from similar limitations, as even though their FTL engines seem to be powered by fragments of space‐time itself, they also need very large amounts of energy to extract it.

== References ==

* {{ch|15}}
* {{ch|55}}
* {{ch|62}}

Faster than light

2023-09-22T01:42:50Z

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Project Janus

2023-09-22T01:42:34Z

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'''Project Janus''' was a large scale scientific project issued by the [[EDC]] employing thousands of scientists with a single goal: Developing a means to move [[faster than light]].

By 2300 they succeeded in this endeavour.

'''Motto, Project Janus''': "Humanity cannot live unless it learns to ride the wings of eternity".

== References ==

* {{ch|15}}

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Faster-than-light

2023-09-22T01:37:39Z

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Faster-than-light

2023-09-22T01:36:51Z

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Emergeny Modes of Governance

2023-09-22T01:22:42Z

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''This article is about the species-wide Emergency Modes. For the Emergency Mode restricted to an individual, see [[Emergency Mode (local)]]''

The '''Emergency Modes of Governance''' are designed to operate the government, the military, and Human society with progressively greater degrees of efficiency, but at a considerable cost to societal conventions, civil liberties, and government ideology. As such, they are only invoked in the direst of emergencies, and only the lowest level has ever been activated.

'''Emergency Mode Level One''' is a full Emergency Session of all existing [[Governance]] Representatives, ensuring that every Representative is devoting at least some computational time to the problem at hand. It was last invoked after the attack on Aurora Colony, and was canceled three weeks after [[New Athens]].

'''Emergency Mode Level Two''', called by a majority vote of the Level One Session, causes the merger of all members of the [[Directorate]] into the super‐Representative ''Governance'', containing in its consciousness every Human and AI representative, as well as every advisory AI and the majority of military AIs. This merged AI would hold supreme sovereignty, actualizing the AI technocracy that the current government is meant to imitate.

It is presumed that Level Two would only be invoked upon an imminent invasion of [[Earth]]. No one is quite sure what it would look like, and philosophers debate whether such an AI would be closer to a Supreme Dictator or a Philosopher‐King.

'''Emergency Mode Level Three''' can be called by ''Governance''. Every citizen is mobilized into the military, and a direct two‐way interface is opened between every citizen's brain and the nearest computing network, allowing the transmission of orders and relay of information. It should be emphasized that these orders do not exert any compulsory effects, and are simply orders. At this point, the super‐Representative becomes stylized ''Humanity''. The [[Core Rights]] are suspended, and the government recovers its powers of execution, summary imprisonment, and so forth.

Level Three has never been invoked, and it is expected that it would only be invoked upon the actual invasion and imminent loss of [[Earth]]. It is speculated, based on scant evidence, that [[Cephalopod]] society operates in a form of permanent Level Three.

'''Emergency Mode Level Four''' can only be called with the direct approval of ninety percent of Human citizens and AIs. It involves the permanent activation of civilian Emergency Safety Packages and, essentially, the mechanization of all Human interaction. While directives are still non‐compulsory, the obvious and terrifying dystopic implications of Level Four lead to the expectation that it could only happen upon the imminent destruction of Human civilization. It is speculated that Incubator society resembles Level Four.

Gul

2023-09-22T00:59:07Z

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A [[Magical Girl]] and Admiral in the [[Armed Forces]].

Labeled an eccentric by her colleague [[Tomoe Mami]], Gul insists on wearing the magical girl military uniform, despite its less than widespread use among [[Magical Girl]]'s. The uniform being vaguely too large on her teenage body and her green and white cap too large for her head.

Played an essential role in the battle for the [[Wormhole Stabilizer]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]], where she commanded fleets 8-9 denying [[Cephalopod]] access to the systems asteroids and comets.

Being the overall commander of the human strike group that went through the wormhole created by [[Nakihara Asami]] and [[Shizuki Ryouko]]. Their task being to [...]

Artificial Intelligence

2023-08-11T19:04:45Z

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An Artificial Intelligence is a sentient electronic being, they're present in both [[Human]] and [[Cephalopod]] societies (possibly also in the [[Incubator]] one, though not enough is known about it to be sure either way).

==In Human society==

The early phases of the development of AI were marked by large-scale unemployment and unprecedented levels of concentration of wealth. Much like the development of industry in the XIX century and of the computer in the XXI, they evidenced the inadequacy of capitalism in dealing with a society able to produce more than enough to sustain itself without the full dedication of all its members. Unlike those two, AI brought the additional challenge of having a technology capable of independent thought, and the possibility that this thought might have moral values different than those of its employers. The most infamous example of the negative effects of this discordance would be the [[Pretoria Scandal]].

This impasse was solved in 2145, with the launching of the [[Trusted Computing Framework]] (or TCF, for short) a group of AIs mathematically proven to fall into states obeying the [[Volokhov]] Criterion, an agreed upon set of moral values.

With the inauguration of [[Governance]], AIs became even more fundamental to human society, as the very existence of Governance is based upon the work of its AI members. Beyond that, their fast thought and large computing power made them indispensable in several other fields, such as spaceship piloting, surveillance, scientific research, business advising and, most notably, programming.

==In Cephalopod society==

Cephalopods have also formed a deep, symbiotic relationship with AIs, but their treatment of them is different in some aspects. They're morally against the creation of single-purpose AIs, preferring to choose among the available ones that which is most fit to the task at hand, much like choosing a candidate for a job position. Most notably, they're not against the upload of biological consciousnesses into electronically devices, which brings the possibility of AIs with a biological origin.

==References==

Causality, for the TCF

Aftershocks, for the Cephalopod AIs

Cephalopods

2023-08-11T15:55:50Z

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The Cephalopods are one of the three known biological sentient beings, the other two being the [[Human]]s and the [[Incubator]]s. Little was known about them from Volumes 1 through 3, but from Volume 4 onwards a much larger amount of knowledge became available.

==Volumes 1 to 3==

Their existence was unknown to mankind up until the invasion of the [[Aurora]] Colony, in which they arrived unexpectedly and killed every human in sight. Shortly later, [[Governance]] redistributed a considerable amount of [[Alloc]]s and [[representation]] to the war effort, but it was of little help, as the Cephalopods destroyed the [[Atlas]] Colony with the same ease. The tide of the war was only reversed with the involvement of [[Magical Girl]]s, who realized that humanity had little hope of defending itself and decided, through the [[MSY]], to stop hiding and fight themselves the invaders. In the Battle for the Colony World of [[New Athens]], in the [[Epsilon Eridani]] Sector, humanity had its first victory, as the humans, led by [[Akemi Homura]], successfully held off the invading force.

Nothing was found out about their motives for attacking, but a considerable amount of empirical knowledge was gained through the [[Contact War]]. Biologically, they resemble both humans– with bipedal locomotion, rudimentary skeletons, water-retaining skin, forelimbs that spread into multiple grasping appendages, and eyes that have noticeable sclerae– and octopi– with a decentralised nervous system, multiple limbs, rubbery skin and a ring of tentacles around the mouth. Scientifically, they're much more advanced than humanity, having better technologies for [[FTL]] engines, [[stealth]], [[forcefield]]s and dominating the use of wormholes for instantaneous travel. As to their war strategies, they range from the shockingly practical, e.g. implanting self-destruct modules on their soldiers to avoid the theft of technology and showing little hesitation in sacrificing their own units for tactical advantages, to the seemingly nonsensical, such as attacking the less valuable target when there's more than one available and other tactics that make little sense to human strategists.

==Volume 4==

It was found out at the very end of Volume 3 that there was an attempt at diplomacy before the deflagration of the war, with representatives from the Cephalopods meeting with members of the [[Directorate]], but those memories were erased, either willingly or through a breach in the [[TCF]].

Their home planet is called [[Great Sea]], a planet in the Triangulum Galaxy with temperature and relative air humidity nearing the 40°C and 100% marks. They have a symbiotic relationship with a species similar to terrestrial penguins, that was maintained even as they began their exploration of space.

The history of their languages has five main phases, respectively: Pre-Linguistics, Touch-and-Display Languages, which used both the chromatophores in their skin and limb movements, Written Scripts, Electronic Transmissions and Telepathic Channels, the phase in which they're currently at. Their official language is multi-channeled and concurrent, as opposed to the single-threaded and back-and-forth aspects of usual human languages, and they call themselves the Thinkers.

Another unique aspect of their communication is empathize-open, the request that an interlocutor share their [[preference-specification]], or pref-spec for short. A pref-spec is comprised of the moral values, or preferences, that a individual has. Its introduction into Thinker society brought on a full-species war between those who defended that empathize-open should always be allowed upon request and those who considered making it mandatory an unacceptable violation of privacy.

The faction in favor of making empathize-open universally obligatory won, and, in another parallel to the human [[Unification Wars]], a pan-species government called [[Consensus]] was then installed. The Consensus is divided in functional units called [[Tentacle]]s, but, unlike the human [[Directorate]]s, the scope of a Tentacle isn't an abstract aspect of society (such as "Science and Technology" and "Military Affairs"), rather it is a group of individuals with similar pref-specs (e.g. "Ahimsa-extending" or "Thinker-preserving"). Much like human Governance, the Consensus arbitrates disputes between Tentacles with opposing interests and makes species-wide decisions.

Their moral views on technology use are markedly different from those of Governance. They oppose neither the backup of organic consciences into electronic devices nor the use of organic bodies controlled from afar as soldiers. But they're markedly against the creation of single-purpose [[AI]]s, preferring to appoint those already better-suited for the task at hand.

==References==

Blood and Ichor, for their biology

The Dying Light, Part Two, for their technology

Aftershocks, for their society

First Colonization Wave

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The First Colonization Wave refers to the efforts in colonizing firstly [[Nova Terra]], then [[Samsara]] and finally [[Optatum]]. Leaving aside the post-Unification Wars efforts to rehabilitate Earth, it brought on the first large scale terraforming projects, so the planets chosen were markedly Earth-like, with pre-existing biospheres and similar physical and chemical conditions. It occurred before the public availability of [[IIC]], and, as such, it resulted in colonial governments much more independent from [[Governance]] than those of the [[Second Colonization Wave]].

==References==

Discontinuity

Lost Love

Kaname Madoka Jr.

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Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T23:42:32Z

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare Soul Mage class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Choi Seoyun]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

==References==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/23965614 Chapter 50: Sub Rosa]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]

Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T23:33:19Z

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare Soul Mage class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun Choi-ssi]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

==References==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/23965614 Chapter 50: Sub Rosa]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]

Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T23:32:39Z

Miríade:

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare [[Soul Mage]] class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun Choi-ssi]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

==References==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/23965614 Chapter 50: Sub Rosa]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]

Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T23:30:31Z

Miríade:

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare [[Soul Mage]] class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun Choi-ssi]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

==References==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]

Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T23:25:54Z

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare [[Soul Mage]] class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun Choi-ssi]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

Akari

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Akari

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Akiyama Akari

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare [[Soul Mage]] class, researcher of the connection between magic and physics, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They were enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun]] had casted upon Mami and transferred it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily formed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the [[MSY]] over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem into a [[Grief Seed]] and the consequent transformation of a Magical Girl into a [[witch]], a rarity in the world formed by [[Law of Cycles|Madoka]]'s wish.

Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death, in a tragic irony characteristic of the world before the Law of Cycles.

Akiyama Akari

2023-08-02T20:17:07Z

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Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare [[Soul Mage]] class, researcher of the connection between magic and physics, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They were enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun]] had casted upon Mami and transferred it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily formed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the [[MSY]] over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem into a [[Grief Seed]] and the consequent transformation of a Magical Girl into a [[witch]], a rarity in the world formed by the [[Law of Cycles]].

Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death, in a tragic irony characteristic of the world before the Law of Cycles.

Timeline

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==Historical==
===Pre-MSY===
'''1815:''' Beginnings of [[SMC]] take root at Congress of Vienna

'''End of 19th century:''' [[Clarisse van Rossum]] is born

'''1910s:''' [[SMC]] shattered by World War I

'''April 15th, 1912:''' [[Van Rossum]] contracts with the sinking of the RMS Titanic

'''1940s:''' World War II kills off last remnants of the [[SMC]], in England

'''1990s-2000s:''' Rough year of birth for [[MSY]] [[MSY Founder|Founders]]

'''1995-1996:''' Rough year of birth for [[Mami]]

'''1996-1997:''' Rough year of birth for [[Homura]], [[Kyouko]], and [[Sayaka]]

'''October 3rd, 1996:''' [[Madoka]]'s date of birth in original timeline

'''2001-2002:''' Rough year of birth for [[Yuma]]

'''2007-2008:''' Rough year of birth for [[Kaname Tatsuya]]

'''2008-2010:''' Rough year of [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]]'s contracts

'''2011:''' [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]] reconcile after [[Oriko]]'s attack on [[Mami]]'s apartment

'''March 16th, 2011:''' Beginning date of [[Homura]]'s loops in original timelines

'''2011:''' [[Homura]] and [[Sayaka]] contract, [[Homura]] receives timeloop memories upon [[Sayaka]]'s death

'''April 30th, 2011:''' [[Walpurgisnacht]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]] in original timelines; [[Van Rossum]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]]

'''2013-2014:''' [[Oriko]] dies, [[Yuma]] joins [[Homura]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] as the [[Mitakihara Four]]

===Early MSY===
'''2021:''' Founding of [[MSY]]

'''2020s:''' Rough year of birth for [[Shizuki Sayaka]]

'''2031:''' Formation of [[Leadership Committee|MSY Leadership Committee]]

'''2043:''' Formation of [[Soul Guard]], [[Leadership Committee]] given power to form bureaucracy

'''2044:''' Institutionalization of MSY Judiciary

'''2045:''' Beginning of corporate expansion throughout pacific rim and parts of East Asia

'''2053:''' Formation of [[MHD]]

'''2055:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Yakuza

'''2059:''' First major charter rewrite (excluding early period), formation of [[MSY Rules Committee]], institutionalization of MSY Citizenship, implementation of restrictive Japanese nativist rules regarding membership

'''2061:''' [["Second generation" mages]] begin appearing in meaningful numbers

===MSY Expansion===
'''2065:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Triad, corporate expansion into China; [[Kugimiya Ito]] and [[Nakanishi Aiko]] reunite

'''2067:''' Second major charter rewrite, repeal of nativist policies, formalization of expansionist protocol, federalization policies

'''2071:''' [[Akiyama Akari|Akari]] dies, Mami [[Reformat]]s herself, Korean Intervention

'''2085:''' Last independent Japanese magical girls absorbed into [[MSY]]

'''2068-2126:''' Expansion and globalization of [[MSY]], first attempts at AI; copycat [[magical girl]] organizations proliferate, including a new [[SMC]], though most are quickly absorbed

'''2085:''' Rough beginning of [[MSY-SMC Cold War]]

'''2110:''' [[SMC]] agrees to merger in exchange for concessions

'''2138:''' Last known non-MSY holdout consents to membership

'''2135:''' [[Pretoria Scandal]]

'''2136:''' Theoretical framework for Friendly AI, the [[Volokhov Criterion]], completed by [[Volokhov]] and [[Laplace]]

'''2148:''' [[Trusted Computing Framework]], built by early [[Volokhov-friendly]] AIs, lays basis for provably secure computing and AI design; AIs proliferate

'''2130s-2150s:''' [[Kaname Madoka Jr.]] born; [[Kaname Tatsuya]] dies

===Unification Wars===
'''2130s-2150s:''' [[MSY]] members reach effective [[hyperclass]] status; future [[FA]]/[[UF]] distinctions start to become apparent, structural unemployment rises to crisis levels

'''2150s:''' Future [[FA]] nations become increasingly brutal in the crushing of domestic uprisings

'''2160:''' UN dissolves amidst irreconcilable discord, is replaced by [[Freedom Alliance]] (FA) and [[United Front]] (UF), neutral nations slowly descend into civil war

'''2160-63:''' International situation deteriorates, local wars begin to break out, Incubator offer to intervene is refused by the MSY

'''January 20th, 2161:''' FA-aligned coup begins the Second Civil War in the United States

'''2163-2230:''' Time period of what would be later known as the [[Unification Wars]]

'''2163-2171:''' [[St. Petersburg Atrocity]] precipitates World War III; [[MSY]] membership votes to apply unprecedented punitive measures on its minority [[FA]]-sympathetic faction, full [[UF]]/[[FA]] interfactional war breaks out soon after

'''2171-2175:''' A partial peace is established after [[UF]]-aligned governments turn initial defeats into moderate gains, most notably solidifying Europe

'''2175-2179:''' [[FA]] begins World War IV with largely successful WMD strikes; the unrestricted conflict quickly becomes ruinous for both sides

'''2179-2189:''' Near civilizational collapse necessitates another partial peace, [[UF]] and [[FA]] reorganize

'''2180:''' [[EDC|UF Emergency Defense Committee (EDC)]] founded

'''2189-2215:''' World War V; WMDs are more readily countered, and heavily augmented human soldiers take center stage

'''2200:''' [[EDC]] has largely supplanted the remaining UF governments, passes [[Universal Readiness Decree of 2200]] mandating civilian implants

'''2200s:''' Grotesque [[FA Elites]] enter mass deployment; nevertheless, economic fundamentals and [[FA]] disunity begin pointing towards [[UF]] victory

'''2215-2218:''' The Treaty of Paris establishes a temporary peace, with substantial gains for the [[UF]] and asylum for the remaining [[FA]] underclasses; mass migration precipitates a refugee crisis

'''2218-2230:''' "The Cleanse"; remaining [[FA]] nations are slowly overrun

'''2230:''' [[EDC]] declares worldwide Unification Day (though small [[FA]] remnants will persist for years); the population—now heavily augmented and totaling less than half its pre-war height—celebrates

===Golden Age===

'''2230-2240:''' [[EDC]], promising to construct a new, permanent Eudaimonia, leverages its absolute global power to reconstruct civilization

'''2236:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] born.

'''2240:''' [[EDC]] dissolves itself and establishes [[Governance]] as its successor

'''2250-2330:''' [[Project Eden]] brings clinical immortality, [[Project Janus]] brings [[faster-than-light]] travel, and [[Project Icarus]] brings plentiful solar energy

'''2260-2280:''' [[First Colonization Wave]] begins the settlement of the [[Core Worlds]]

'''2300-2320:''' [[Second Colonization Wave]] begins

'''2310:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] and [[Ryouko's Grandmother|his future wife]] are on the brink of marriage

'''2333-2335:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] born, with [[Kuroi Nakase]] following shortly after

'''2337-2338:''' [[Erwynmark]] born on the colony [[Bismarck]]

'''2346-2348:''' [[Kuroi Nakase]] contracts, [[Kuroi Nana]] contracts and her wish undoes [[Kuroi Nakase|Nakase's]] contract

'''2350-2360:''' Beginning of [[MSY]] clones project

'''2351-2357:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] breaks contact with her family

'''2375-2381:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] reconnects with sister and father, but not mother

'''2395-2405:''' First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body

'''2420-2423:''' [[Azrael]] born

'''2434-2437:''' [[Azrael]] contracts after the destruction of her colony [[Terra Roja]]

'''2439:''' [[Mami]] suggests that the [[Mitakihara Four]] take a vacation together

===Contact War===

'''2440:''' First Contact with [[Cephalopod]] aliens, destruction of [[Aurora]]/[[Atlas]] colonies, [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]]/[[New Athens]], disappearance of [[Homura]], end of the [[Masquerade]]

'''2441:''' [[Kyouko]] gives first speech announcing her intention to found the [[Church of Hope]]

'''2440-2443:''' [[Mami]] becomes a Field Marshal; [[Joanne Valentin]] switches fields to physics, starts blogging about [[magical girl]] subjects; [[Kuroi Nakase]] and [[Shizuki Kuma]] meet and marry

'''2442:''' [[Ordo Illustrata]] founds their colony on [[X-25]]

'''2445-2446:''' [[Ryouko]] born

'''Mid-2446:''' [[Asaka]], [[Alice]], [[Patricia]] undergo initial training

'''2452:''' [[Samsara offensive]] ends in debacle for the [[Cephalopods]]

'''2452-2453:''' [[Erwynmark|Marshal Erwynmark's]] [[Saharan Raid]] destroys a shipyard and [[wormhole stabilizer]], putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives

'''2457:''' Beginning of [[Euphratic Incursion]]

'''October 1st, 2459:''' [[Kyouko]] begins dating [[Kishida Maki]]

'''Mid-2460:''' [[Simona]] transfers to [[Mitakihara]] as an exchange student

==To the Stars==
Chapter numbers cited for events: ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹

On Earth, time of day translates as follows:

• ''Early morning'' - Roughly 12am-6am

• ''Morning'' - Roughly 6am-12pm

• ''Afternoon'' - Roughly 12pm-6pm

• ''Evening'' - Roughly 6pm-12am

Elsewhere, time of day is local. (A planet may have more than 24 hours in a day, etc.) Date is Earth-standardized.

===Volume 1===
'''September 16, 2460:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] meets friends at school, sees [[Mami]] through the window.¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Demon]]s attack [[Ryouko]] and [[Simona]], [[Ryouko]] contracts after being saved by [[Mami]].¹

''Evening:''
[[Kyouko]] hunts with [[Ryouko]], and discovers planted saturated [[grief cubes]].² Mami watches the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']].³ ⁴

'''September 17:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Ryouko]], along with [[Kyouko]], tells her parents about her [[contract]].⁵ [[Mami]] departs [[Earth]] after meeting with [[Marianne]].⁶

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] reads informational messages about being a [[magical girl]].⁵ [[Kyouko]] visits [[Yuma]] to discuss the saturated [[grief cubes]].⁷ ⁸

''Afternoon:''
[[Mami]] is promoted at a meeting of the [[General Staff]].⁶ [[Ryouko]] receives her implant upgrades and a vision at the [[Ribbon]].⁹ She relates this to the [[Theological Council]].¹⁰

'''September 18:'''

''Early morning:''
[[Ryouko]] has dinner with family and visits the sparring ground beneath the [[Cult of Hope]]'s church with them.¹¹

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Kuroi Abe]] talk about [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother]].¹¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] tells [[Ruiko]] and [[Chiaki]] about her [[contract]]; they watch the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']] together with [[Simona]].¹¹

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] and friends have a sleepover, while [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] assign a spy bug to [[Ryouko]] and assign [[Risa Flores]] to watch over her.¹¹

'''September 19:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] receives first [[grief cube]] shipment and reads about combat.¹²

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] goes on a large [[demon]] hunt.¹²

'''September 20:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] attends event for new [[magical girl]]s, meets [[Asami]].¹³

'''September 21:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] meets her [[MSY]] psychiatrist [[Atsuko Arisu]].¹³

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] studies combat more.¹³

'''September 22:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Shizuki Kuma|Ryouko's father]] brings her to [[Prometheus]], upgrading her [[TacComp]] to V2 and explaining the clone program.¹³ [[Yuma]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] discuss [[Valentin]], [[Simona]], and the [[grief cube]] audit; [[Ryouko]] investigates her family tree.¹⁴

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] attends her farewell party and learns of her aunt [[Kuroi Nana]].¹⁵

'''September 23:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] says goodbye to her family at the [[starport]], takes scramjet to space elevator with [[Asami]].¹⁶

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] reaches space.¹⁶

===Volume 2===
'''September 29th, 2460:'''
Initial raid on the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails.¹⁸ [[Ryouko]], [[Asami]], and [[Meiqing]] enter the final memory-suppressed simulation portion of their training.¹⁹

'''September 30th:'''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] share their wishes with each other, as their week of training on [[New Athens]] ends.¹⁹

'''October 1st:'''
[[HSS Laplace]] is attacked by [[Ceph]] fighters and [[Ryouko]] organizes a magical defense; meanwhile [[Maki]], [[Patricia]], and [[Asaka]] fight [[Ceph]] ground forces on [[Apollo]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]].²⁰

'''October 2nd:'''
[[Ryouko]], recovering from radiation damage from the attack, learns [[Clarisse]] is sentient.²⁰

'''October 3rd:'''
[[Ryouko]] et al. land on the planet of [[Acheron]] for garrison duty and attend a gathering commemorating the [[Goddess]]'s birthday.²⁰ Kyouko, Mami, and Yuma meet virtually to celebrate as well.²¹

'''October 5th:'''
[[Asami]] confesses her attraction to [[Ryouko]], and [[Ryouko]] is recalled from garrison duty to [[Kepler-37]].²¹

'''October 8th:'''
Now aboard [[HSS Zhukov]], [[Ryouko]] is awarded a medal by [[Mami]] and informed that she's been assigned to the second [[wormhole stabilizer]] mission.²²

'''October 9th:'''
[[Ryouko]] meets some of her [[MagOps]] team descending down to [[Apollo]] aboard [[HSS Raven]], and visits her injured [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]].²³

==Possible Future Events==
'''2600s:''' [[Third Colonization Wave]] planned to begin

'''2900s:''' Planned timeframe for human expansion beyond the [[Local Area]]

Walpurgisnacht

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Walpurgisnacht was a [[Witch|witch]] before [[Kaname Madoka]] made a wish to rid the universe from them.

It is heavily implied that [[Clarisse van Rossum]] is the [[Magical Girl]] that originated her, e.g. in [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/1472621 Chapter 22: Shifting Winds] Clarisse arrives at Mitakihara on the same place and time that Walpurgisnacht did when witches existed.

Kaname Tatsuya

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Kaname Tatsuya

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Yasuhiro Rin

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'''Yasuhiro Rin''' is an [[MSY]] Founder and additionally one of the five signatures on the MSY Original Charter, 2021. Yasuhiro signed the charter on behalf of the West Kazamino Three. Rin was one of the MSY's more colorful characters, who had a history of spurning the [[MSY]] for her own pursuits, occasionally to the point of faking her own death. Indeed, she might have been assigned to find Homura when she disappeared—if Rin hadn't disappeared herself at the same time, after having fought valorously at New Athens.

Being picked by [[Chitose Yuma]], alongside her wife Jeannette Smith, to participate in Yuma's operation to counter a conspiracy within [[Governance]] and the Trusted Computing Framework. The couples long-eccentric history, giving Yuma a good sense of their morale compass, deeming them incorruptible.

The research and development of the Spinal Node Tactical Advisor (TacComp) was assigned to the secretly MSY-owned Yasuhiro Conglemerate during the [[Unification Wars]].

== References ==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/1462006 Chapter 11]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/57037153 Chapter 61]

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Chiyo Rika

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'''Chiyo Rika''' is an [[MSY]] [[Founder]] and additionally one of the original five signatures on the MSY Original Charter, 2021. Chiyo signed the charter on behalf of the Northern Group. Served as Speaker of the Rules Committee during [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny], 2070. As the [[Unification Wars]] came to an end, she took part of the subsequent effort to separate MSY officials and the media, eventually resigning from her position in the organization to become a full-time reporter, as seen in [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks].

Possible ancestor of [[Chiyo Noriko]], the MHD psychiatrist who supervised the meeting between [[Shizuki Ryouko]] and her grandfather, [[Kuroi Abe]], after the latter suffered serious injury during an alien raid.

== References ==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks]

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Chiyo Rika

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'''Chiyo Rika''' is an [[MSY]] [[Founder]] and additionally one of the original five signatures on the MSY Original Charter, 2021. Chiyo signed the charter on behalf of the Northern Group. Served as Speaker of the Rules Committee during [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny], 2070. As the [[Unification Wars]] came to an end, she took part of the subsequent effort to separate MSY officials and the media, eventually resigning from her position in the organization to become a full-time reporter, as seen in [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks].

Possible ancestor of [[Chiyo Noriko]], the MHD psychiatrist who supervised the meeting between [[Shizuki Ryouko]] and her grandfather, [[Kuroi Abe]], after the latter suffered serious injury during an alien raid.

== References ==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks]

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Chiyo Rika

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'''Chiyo Rika''' is an [[MSY]] Founder and additionally one of the original five signatures on the MSY Original Charter, 2021. Chiyo signed the charter on behalf of the Northern Group. Served as Speaker of the Rules Committee during [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny], 2070. As the [[Unification Wars]] came to an end, she took part of the subsequent effort to separate MSY officials and the media, eventually resigning from her position in the organization to become a full-time reporter, as seen in [https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks].

Possible ancestor of [[Chiyo Noriko]], the MHD psychiatrist who supervised the meeting between [[Shizuki Ryouko]] and her grandfather, [[Kuroi Abe]], after the latter suffered serious injury during an alien raid.

== References ==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/113488789 Chapter 66: Aftershocks]

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Timeline

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==Historical==
===Pre-MSY===
'''1815:''' Beginnings of [[SMC]] take root at Congress of Vienna

'''End of 19th century:''' [[Clarisse van Rossum]] is born

'''1910s:''' [[SMC]] shattered by World War I

'''April 15th, 1912:''' [[Van Rossum]] contracts with the sinking of the RMS Titanic

'''1940s:''' World War II kills off last remnants of the [[SMC]], in England

'''1990s-2000s:''' Rough year of birth for [[MSY]] [[MSY Founder|Founders]]

'''1995-1996:''' Rough year of birth for [[Mami]]

'''1996-1997:''' Rough year of birth for [[Homura]], [[Kyouko]], and [[Sayaka]]

'''October 3rd, 1996:''' [[Madoka]]'s date of birth in original timeline

'''2001-2002:''' Rough year of birth for [[Yuma]]

'''2007-2008:''' Rough year of birth for [[Kaname Tatsuya]]

'''2008-2010:''' Rough year of [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]]'s contracts

'''2011:''' [[Mami]] and [[Kyouko]] reconcile after [[Oriko]]'s attack on [[Mami]]'s apartment

'''March 16th, 2011:''' Beginning date of [[Homura]]'s loops in original timelines

'''2011:''' [[Homura]] and [[Sayaka]] contract, [[Homura]] receives timeloop memories upon [[Sayaka]]'s death

'''April 30th, 2011:''' [[Walpurgisnacht]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]] in original timelines; [[Van Rossum]] arrives in [[Mitakihara]]

'''2013-2014:''' [[Oriko]] dies, [[Yuma]] joins [[Homura]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] as the [[Mitakihara Four]]

===Early MSY===
'''2021:''' Founding of [[MSY]]

'''2020s:''' Rough year of birth for [[Shizuki Sayaka]]

'''2031:''' Formation of [[Leadership Committee|MSY Leadership Committee]]

'''2043:''' Formation of [[Soul Guard]], [[Leadership Committee]] given power to form bureaucracy

'''2044:''' Institutionalization of MSY Judiciary

'''2045:''' Beginning of corporate expansion throughout pacific rim and parts of East Asia

'''2053:''' Formation of [[MHD]]

'''2055:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Yakuza

'''2059:''' First major charter rewrite (excluding early period), formation of [[MSY Rules Committee]], institutionalization of MSY Citizenship, implementation of restrictive Japanese nativist rules regarding membership

'''2061:''' [["Second generation" mages]] begin appearing in meaningful numbers

===MSY Expansion===
'''2065:''' [[MSY]] takeover of Triad, corporate expansion into China; [[Kugimiya Ito]] and [[Nakanishi Aiko]] reunite

'''2067:''' Second major charter rewrite, repeal of nativist policies, formalization of expansionist protocol, federalization policies

'''2071:''' [[Akari]] dies, Mami [[Reformat]]s herself, Korean Intervention

'''2085:''' Last independent Japanese magical girls absorbed into [[MSY]]

'''2068-2126:''' Expansion and globalization of [[MSY]], first attempts at AI; copycat [[magical girl]] organizations proliferate, including a new [[SMC]], though most are quickly absorbed

'''2085:''' Rough beginning of [[MSY-SMC Cold War]]

'''2110:''' [[SMC]] agrees to merger in exchange for concessions

'''2138:''' Last known non-MSY holdout consents to membership

'''2135:''' [[Pretoria Scandal]]

'''2136:''' Theoretical framework for Friendly AI, the [[Volokhov Criterion]], completed by [[Volokhov]] and [[Laplace]]

'''2148:''' [[Trusted Computing Framework]], built by early [[Volokhov-friendly]] AIs, lays basis for provably secure computing and AI design; AIs proliferate

'''2130s-2150s:''' [[Kaname Madoka Jr.]] born; [[Kaname Tatsuya]] dies

===Unification Wars===
'''2130s-2150s:''' [[MSY]] members reach effective [[hyperclass]] status; future [[FA]]/[[UF]] distinctions start to become apparent, structural unemployment rises to crisis levels

'''2150s:''' Future [[FA]] nations become increasingly brutal in the crushing of domestic uprisings

'''2160:''' UN dissolves amidst irreconcilable discord, is replaced by [[Freedom Alliance]] (FA) and [[United Front]] (UF), neutral nations slowly descend into civil war

'''2160-63:''' International situation deteriorates, local wars begin to break out, Incubator offer to intervene is refused by the MSY

'''January 20th, 2161:''' FA-aligned coup begins the Second Civil War in the United States

'''2163-2230:''' Time period of what would be later known as the [[Unification Wars]]

'''2163-2171:''' [[St. Petersburg Atrocity]] precipitates World War III; [[MSY]] membership votes to apply unprecedented punitive measures on its minority [[FA]]-sympathetic faction, full [[UF]]/[[FA]] interfactional war breaks out soon after

'''2171-2175:''' A partial peace is established after [[UF]]-aligned governments turn initial defeats into moderate gains, most notably solidifying Europe

'''2175-2179:''' [[FA]] begins World War IV with largely successful WMD strikes; the unrestricted conflict quickly becomes ruinous for both sides

'''2179-2189:''' Near civilizational collapse necessitates another partial peace, [[UF]] and [[FA]] reorganize

'''2180:''' [[EDC|UF Emergency Defense Committee (EDC)]] founded

'''2189-2215:''' World War V; WMDs are more readily countered, and heavily augmented human soldiers take center stage

'''2200:''' [[EDC]] has largely supplanted the remaining UF governments, passes [[Universal Readiness Decree of 2200]] mandating civilian implants

'''2200s:''' Grotesque [[FA Elites]] enter mass deployment; nevertheless, economic fundamentals and [[FA]] disunity begin pointing towards [[UF]] victory

'''2215-2218:''' The Treaty of Paris establishes a temporary peace, with substantial gains for the [[UF]] and asylum for the remaining [[FA]] underclasses; mass migration precipitates a refugee crisis

'''2218-2230:''' "The Cleanse"; remaining [[FA]] nations are slowly overrun

'''2230:''' [[EDC]] declares worldwide Unification Day (though small [[FA]] remnants will persist for years); the population—now heavily augmented and totaling less than half its pre-war height—celebrates

===Golden Age===

'''2230-2240:''' [[EDC]], promising to construct a new, permanent Eudaimonia, leverages its absolute global power to reconstruct civilization

'''2236:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] born.

'''2240:''' [[EDC]] dissolves itself and establishes [[Governance]] as its successor

'''2250-2330:''' [[Project Eden]] brings clinical immortality, [[Project Janus]] brings [[faster-than-light]] travel, and [[Project Icarus]] brings plentiful solar energy

'''2260-2280:''' [[First Colonization Wave]] begins the settlement of the [[Core Worlds]]

'''2300-2320:''' [[Second Colonization Wave]] begins

'''2310:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] and [[Ryouko's Grandmother|his future wife]] are on the brink of marriage

'''2333-2335:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] born, with [[Kuroi Nakase]] following shortly after

'''2337-2338:''' [[Erwynmark]] born on the colony [[Bismarck]]

'''2346-2348:''' [[Kuroi Nakase]] contracts, [[Kuroi Nana]] contracts and her wish undoes [[Kuroi Nakase|Nakase's]] contract

'''2350-2360:''' Beginning of [[MSY]] clones project

'''2351-2357:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] breaks contact with her family

'''2375-2381:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] reconnects with sister and father, but not mother

'''2395-2405:''' First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body

'''2420-2423:''' [[Azrael]] born

'''2434-2437:''' [[Azrael]] contracts after the destruction of her colony [[Terra Roja]]

'''2439:''' [[Mami]] suggests that the [[Mitakihara Four]] take a vacation together

===Contact War===

'''2440:''' First Contact with [[Cephalopod]] aliens, destruction of [[Aurora]]/[[Atlas]] colonies, [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]]/[[New Athens]], disappearance of [[Homura]], end of the [[Masquerade]]

'''2441:''' [[Kyouko]] gives first speech announcing her intention to found the [[Church of Hope]]

'''2440-2443:''' [[Mami]] becomes a Field Marshal; [[Joanne Valentin]] switches fields to physics, starts blogging about [[magical girl]] subjects; [[Kuroi Nakase]] and [[Shizuki Kuma]] meet and marry

'''2442:''' [[Ordo Illustrata]] founds their colony on [[X-25]]

'''2445-2446:''' [[Ryouko]] born

'''Mid-2446:''' [[Asaka]], [[Alice]], [[Patricia]] undergo initial training

'''2452:''' [[Samsara offensive]] ends in debacle for the [[Cephalopods]]

'''2452-2453:''' [[Erwynmark|Marshal Erwynmark's]] [[Saharan Raid]] destroys a shipyard and [[wormhole stabilizer]], putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives

'''2457:''' Beginning of [[Euphratic Incursion]]

'''October 1st, 2459:''' [[Kyouko]] begins dating [[Kishida Maki]]

'''Mid-2460:''' [[Simona]] transfers to [[Mitakihara]] as an exchange student

==To the Stars==
Chapter numbers cited for events: ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹

On Earth, time of day translates as follows:

• ''Early morning'' - Roughly 12am-6am

• ''Morning'' - Roughly 6am-12pm

• ''Afternoon'' - Roughly 12pm-6pm

• ''Evening'' - Roughly 6pm-12am

Elsewhere, time of day is local. (A planet may have more than 24 hours in a day, etc.) Date is Earth-standardized.

===Volume 1===
'''September 16, 2460:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] meets friends at school, sees [[Mami]] through the window.¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Demon]]s attack [[Ryouko]] and [[Simona]], [[Ryouko]] contracts after being saved by [[Mami]].¹

''Evening:''
[[Kyouko]] hunts with [[Ryouko]], and discovers planted saturated [[grief cubes]].² Mami watches the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']].³ ⁴

'''September 17:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Ryouko]], along with [[Kyouko]], tells her parents about her [[contract]].⁵ [[Mami]] departs [[Earth]] after meeting with [[Marianne]].⁶

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] reads informational messages about being a [[magical girl]].⁵ [[Kyouko]] visits [[Yuma]] to discuss the saturated [[grief cubes]].⁷ ⁸

''Afternoon:''
[[Mami]] is promoted at a meeting of the [[General Staff]].⁶ [[Ryouko]] receives her implant upgrades and a vision at the [[Ribbon]].⁹ She relates this to the [[Theological Council]].¹⁰

'''September 18:'''

''Early morning:''
[[Ryouko]] has dinner with family and visits the sparring ground beneath the [[Cult of Hope]]'s church with them.¹¹

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Kuroi Abe]] talk about [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother]].¹¹

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] tells [[Ruiko]] and [[Chiaki]] about her [[contract]]; they watch the [[Akemi (movie)|movie ''Akemi'']] together with [[Simona]].¹¹

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] and friends have a sleepover, while [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] assign a spy bug to [[Ryouko]] and assign [[Risa Flores]] to watch over her.¹¹

'''September 19:'''

''Morning:''
[[Ryouko]] receives first [[grief cube]] shipment and reads about combat.¹²

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] goes on a large [[demon]] hunt.¹²

'''September 20:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] attends event for new [[magical girl]]s, meets [[Asami]].¹³

'''September 21:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] meets her [[MSY]] psychiatrist [[Atsuko Arisu]].¹³

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] studies combat more.¹³

'''September 22:'''

''Early Morning:''
[[Shizuki Kuma|Ryouko's father]] brings her to [[Prometheus]], upgrading her [[TacComp]] to V2 and explaining the clone program.¹³ [[Yuma]], [[Mami]], and [[Kyouko]] discuss [[Valentin]], [[Simona]], and the [[grief cube]] audit; [[Ryouko]] investigates her family tree.¹⁴

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] attends her farewell party and learns of her aunt [[Kuroi Nana]].¹⁵

'''September 23:'''

''Afternoon:''
[[Ryouko]] says goodbye to her family at the [[starport]], takes scramjet to space elevator with [[Asami]].¹⁶

''Evening:''
[[Ryouko]] reaches space.¹⁶

===Volume 2===
'''September 29th, 2460:'''
Initial raid on the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails.¹⁸ [[Ryouko]], [[Asami]], and [[Meiqing]] enter the final memory-suppressed simulation portion of their training.¹⁹

'''September 30th:'''
[[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] share their wishes with each other, as their week of training on [[New Athens]] ends.¹⁹

'''October 1st:'''
[[HSS Laplace]] is attacked by [[Ceph]] fighters and [[Ryouko]] organizes a magical defense; meanwhile [[Maki]], [[Patricia]], and [[Asaka]] fight [[Ceph]] ground forces on [[Apollo]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]].²⁰

'''October 2nd:'''
[[Ryouko]], recovering from radiation damage from the attack, learns [[Clarisse]] is sentient.²⁰

'''October 3rd:'''
[[Ryouko]] et al. land on the planet of [[Acheron]] for garrison duty and attend a gathering commemorating the [[Goddess]]'s birthday.²⁰ Kyouko, Mami, and Yuma meet virtually to celebrate as well.²¹

'''October 5th:'''
[[Asami]] confesses her attraction to [[Ryouko]], and [[Ryouko]] is recalled from garrison duty to [[Kepler-37]].²¹

'''October 8th:'''
Now aboard [[HSS Zhukov]], [[Ryouko]] is awarded a medal by [[Mami]] and informed that she's been assigned to the second [[wormhole stabilizer]] mission.²²

'''October 9th:'''
[[Ryouko]] meets some of her [[MagOps]] team descending down to [[Apollo]] aboard [[HSS Raven]], and visits her injured [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]].²³

==Possible Future Events==
'''2600s:''' [[Third Colonization Wave]] planned to begin

'''2900s:''' Planned timeframe for human expansion beyond the [[Local Area]]

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The Founders of the [[MSY]] are the members of the six teams from the Mitakihara metropolitan area that gathered in 2021 to sign its first Charter, formally creating the organization. Those teams and their known members are:

*[[Mitakihara Four|The Mitakihara Four]]:
:-[[Akemi Homura]] (signatory)
:-[[Tomoe Mami]]
:-[[Sakura Kyouko]]
:-[[Chitose Yuma]]
*[[University Area Group|The University Area Group]]:
:-[[Kuroi Kana]] (signatory)
*[[Northern Group|The Northern Group]]:
:-[[Chiyo Rika]] (signatory)
*[[Financial District Group|The Financial District Group]]:
:-[[Tanaka Yui]] (signatory)
*[[Factory Area Group|The Factory Area Group]]:
:-[[Takara Chinami]] (signatory)
*[[West Kasamino Three|The West Kasamino Three]]:
:-[[Yasuhiro Rin]] (signatory)

Mahou Shoujo Youkai

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The MSY (Mahou Shoujo Youkai, 魔法少女ようかい, usually referred to as the MSY or Union in Standard) is the overarching magical girl organization of TtS, encompassing under its auspices every magical girl alive. In the past, this was compulsory as a matter of practicality—though it was required under MSY law—but now it is a legal requirement and assumption under Governance.

((A separate section on the breakdown and responsibilities of the contemporary MSY, along with known officials, is probably desirable.))

==History==
===Founding===
The MSY was founded in 2021, at a meeting of representatives from six teams encompassing the Mitakihara metropolitan area, the brainchild of the famous [[Mitakihara Four]]. It followed an extensive series of friendship meetings, social gatherings, and group hunts designed to bolster mutual trust. These ~24 girls, collectively considered the MSY's founders, had previously been forced to cooperate in order to counter the depredations of the Southern Group, and were thus on very good terms, facilitating the idea of a mutual aid group.

While the original MSY did have some ambitions for expansion, as evident from the name and the grandiose act of penning a Charter, the scope of the group's initial intentions were limited. As originally delineated in the Charter, the MSY was merely an agreed-upon framework for the fulfillment of five founding mandates:

# The elimination of grief cube shortages, by the formation of a collectively managed grief cube "insurance pool", designed to mitigate fluctuations in harvesting and need for any particular team. Each team was expected to contribute a certain percentage of their takings or a certain minimum, whichever was higher, and could not withdraw more than a certain amount per month. Deviations from these rules, in the case of extenuating circumstances, could be accepted with collective consent.
# Provide for the airing out and resolution of misunderstandings and disagreements.
# Providing mutual aid, in the case of external threats or in dangerous circumstances.
# Smooth out differences in non-magical resources between groups, and attempt to acquire [[Mitakihara Delivery Service|a source of steady income]]. It was recognized that the health of each team was in some degree dependent on that of others, and that some of the wealthier members could easily provide for everyone with the use of only a minimal amount of their resources.
# Allowing for the "borrowing" and "lending" of team members between city regions, to optimize team structures, as long as the borrowing team undertook to provide housing, training, etc. For instance, in the provision of healers to teams with no healers.

The original Charter provided for decision-making by informal meetings of teams, who would meet at least once every three months, and more if necessary. Formally, a majority was required for decisions, as well the agreement of at least one member of each team. A quorum was required of at least one member of each team. Informally, most decisions in the early days were made by effective unanimous consent. The unusually formalized and written structure of the Charter reflected both the beliefs of the famous [[Akemi Homura]] and the advice of the [[Incubators]] (via [[Kyubey]]), who had seen the rise and fall of many similar organizations.

It was intended that while the Charter could be extended to an indefinitely large area, it would only provide a framework for local cooperation, with the wider prefectural or (unimaginably) national level connections being used primarily to facilitate easy travel.

===Early Expansion===
The MSY succeeded beyond the expectations of both its organizers and the Incubators, driven by a combination of unexpectedly large grief cube surpluses and the overwhelming success of the rebranded [[D&E Corporation]]. The consequent more relaxed hunting schedule and relative opulence, with team members free to dine in expensive restaurants and dabble in personal careers (and even more unthinkably, outside relationships), attracted regional envy and "border" groups hurried to join. By the end of the first decade, decision-making with the full membership had become unwieldy, and the decision was made to fragment into local organizational groups, and Charterize a Leadership Committee (2031), formed out of prominent girls within the organization. While ultimate authority would still lie with the full membership, of whom a meeting could be called at any time, the Leadership Committee would be responsible for day-to-day decision-making.

This was also desirable because of a slow expansion of the organization's mandate. With the expansion of the MSY's financial resources and the lengthening lifespans of its members, the organization found itself expected to help with things like bribing local police, paying college tuition, providing plausible excuses to parents, providing medical and psychological care, hiding girls with missing limbs, and so forth. This entailed an increasing number of specialists, including non-contracted humans, deployed in more and more complex ways. Nearly all of this would eventually cement into a formal bureaucracy.

The first and perhaps most notable of these child organizations to emerge was the [[Soul Guard]] (2043). Headed by the founder [[Tomoe Mami]], the Soul Guard began as a single team and grew into a full police force, and was designed to be the explicit fulfillment of part 3 of the original charter, suppressing insane girls, providing fire support, acting as response force to complaints of charter violation, and, occasionally, meting out approved revenge on behalf of organization members. All of these functions had been previously carried out haphazardly, with only an uneven record of success, and it was an embarrassing streak of unnecessary deaths caused by insane girls that prompted the Soul Guard's formation, though ironically this role became less important with the rise of the [[MHD]] and the MSY's increasing oversight of new recruits.

Hand in hand with the Soul Guard came the enshrinement of a legal system (2044), replacing mob punishment of "soul criminals" with formal trials, with a tribunal (two random members, one Soul Guard judge, at least two telepaths) for questions of guilt, a jury for decisions on punishment, and an executive panel for questions of interpretation of the increasingly convoluted "Law", at the time a confusing mixture of Charter amendments, Leadership Committee Decrees, and common practice.

It is to this period that historians date the MSY's institutionalization as a true government, with its seizure of the critical state monopoly on violence.

After the formation of the Soul Guard, with its legitimization of formal MSY sub-organizations (the Charter modified to explicitly give the Leadership Committe the right to make such organizations), there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the MHD (2053) created to tackle the thorny issue of mental health (all-important to magical girls), the rehabilitation of insane girls and criminals, and, incidentally, the provision of health care when the normal hospital wasn't a choice.

===Japanese Consolidation===
Dating the end of this second phase remains controversial, since the date on which the MSY absorbed the last Japanese holdouts (2085) considerably postdates the establishment of the first MSY overseas outpost (2068). Nonetheless, the period 2050-2075 clearly represented a considerable slowdown in MSY growth, as the organization stalled on the coasts of Japan and struggled to digest its new responsibilities and powers.

It was a period of consolidation and organizational maturation, as the MSY refined its techniques and bureaucracies at all levels. From an institutional standpoint, the most notable milestone was a major rewrite of the Charter in 2059, establishing a common law legal code, placing legislative powers in a newly-formed Rules Committee, formalizing voting and representation procedures for top offices, setting the structure of the Leadership Committee, and giving an explicit procedure for Charter amendment. Though in some sense the Charter had been a constitution for a long time, this was first time it began to resemble the other democratic constitutions then prevailing in the world.

This period was also the period in which MSY corporations began to represent a significant portion of the Japanese economy, and in which MSY infiltration of the Japanese government began to spread upward into the Diet and Cabinet. The MSY saw its first "second-generation" magical girls, inaugurating the [[Matriarchy|Matriarchies]] that would come to dominate internal politics over the coming centuries.

It was also in this period that the MSY, tired of the mob's outrageous crimes—especially its exploitation of teenage girls and women—and the nonstop jostling between the two organizations in the underworld they both inhabited, finally decapitated the Yakuza in a series of Soul Guard operations in 2055, installing its own bureaucrats at the top. From here on out, the Japanese Mafia would become a bound mastiff, abandoning most of its criminal enterprises and serving as an instrument of MSY policy.

By 2075, the MSY had become a dominant force in Japan, influencing its economy, controlling its criminal underworld, and helping to direct government policy, all from the safety of the shadows. It was only fitting that it would then turn its eyes outward.

===Nationalism and Profits===

It was the singular misfortune of the MSY that it was formed initially in Japan, a country which was, even in the late 21st century, still roundly despised throughout Asia for its actions in the Second World War. Though some historians argue that the delay in further expansion imposed on the MSY by this fact was actually an advantage, forcing consolidation and streamlining before possibly overstretching, this argument seems too convoluted to be valid. In any case, it is an ironic fact that the MSY's initial expansion out of Japan was far more successful in relatively distant locations such as Hawaii, Australia, and the American West Coast, than in more proximate locations in China, Korea, or the Philippines.

It is perhaps unsurprising that the original instinct of the organization was to restrict itself to the shore of Japan. As already mentioned, Asia was hardly a welcoming place for a Japanese-headed organization, and the logistical challenges of expanding to a geographically and culturally distinct region seemed daunting, particularly when it came to issues of control and representation. To inhabitants of the time period, it seemed unfathomable that, for example, South Korean magical girls would ever voluntarily enter an organization with a Japanese name, and to most MSY members, it seemed a wasted effort to even try.

There were two countervailing factors that eventually proved overriding. The first, and more minor, was the opinion of prominent founders such as Akemi Homura, [[Chitose Yuma]], [[Kuroi Kana]], and other cosmopolitan members of the leadership, as well as that of the Incubators themselves. While this was an important factor, it would likely have been insufficient to override the parochialism of most of the membership, much of whom had imbibed the xenophobia of their home nation. Indeed, this xenophobia was powerful enough that the leadership was forced to accede to major political concessions in the landmark Charter of 2059, to prevent a major grassroots Nationalist faction from sabotaging passage.

Most notable among these concessions was the institution of a form of contracting location-based citizenship, in which the leaderships' language officially incorporating all magical girls contracted within the borders of Japan was worded so as not to include anyone else—with a grudging exception made for foreign members already admitted. Both the Nationalist faction and the Charter language would prove significant thorns in later MSY operations.

The second, and more important factor, was business interest. [[Finance Division|MSY Finance]], always greedy for more profits, frothed at the bit for commercial expansion, and was not easily denied by a membership whose incomes heavy depended on said organization. Yet attempts throughout the 2040s and early 50s to replicate the success of MSY corporations abroad were hampered by a lack of MSY organizational support—the teleporters and other personnel that were often relied upon could not easily operate in foreign territories—and it was soon became clear that the success of MSY corporations internationally was to a certain degree contingent on the presence of the organization as a whole.

Because of this, informal arrangements were quickly made with local magical girls throughout the sectors of MSY expansion, both overseas and in East Asia. Local magical girls were paid in both currency and grief cubes to tolerate the presence and operations of foreign magical girls and, in the regions where it proved necessary, efforts were made to recruit "local faces" to dampen down possible outbreaks of nationalist sentiment. However, because of reservations within an organization still uncommitted to expansion, formal membership was rarely offered, and after the Charter of 2059, completely impossible, preventing foreigners from assuming any MSY offices or any of the other vestiges of membership.

It soon became clear that these kind of informal arrangements were unsustainable in the long-run. Except for a few unusual examples, such as Singapore, corporate expansion in East Asia rapidly bogged down; the presence of a few paid local faces proved insufficient to engender trust, causing numerous incidents, and MSY executives repeatedly failed to understand the local market, due to both differences in cultural background and their own prejudices. Local nationalists grumbled that the whole setup smacked of colonialism—a charge which could not be easily dismissed—while the Nationalist faction grumbled at the amount of money and grief cubes that were being disbursed for little seeming purpose.

Success overseas came more easily, but this was a double-edged sword. Relations between MSY corporations and local magical girls were far more cordial, and as a consequence overseas offices became more and more heavily staffed by locals. While this went a long way toward promoting financial success, tensions soon emerged at the unnatural arrangement. Ambitious employees were frustrated at being locked out of upper-tier positions and, as MSY operations expanded in scope, local magical girl teams—who contributed significantly to these operations—began to complain about their lack of input into decision-making. True, they were paid, but initially not any better than local Japanese. They were merely employees, and increases in payments designed to ameliorate their complaints triggered political backlash from the home islands, who could not easily understand why foreigners were being given more money than they were.

Within the membership, too, opinions were shifting. Aging of the overall magical girl population, coupled with an increase in education and income levels, as well as an increase in foreign travel among the once firmly-rooted community, combined to foster a growing sense of cosmopolitanism within the voting population. The increasing power of an unifying internal media, communication, and political system, now increasingly adept at circumventing the limitations of secrecy, lessened the once-fierce devotion of the MGs to their home territories, and gave the leadership a valuable ability to project its opinions to its constituents. It was a form of demographics, providing long-term trends that would eventually counter the impressive organizing skill of the Nationalists.

While the Nationalist faction was a fierce vocal minority, the 2059 Charter represented the apogee of its influence. Ironically, Nationalist success carried the seeds of later failure, exposing rifts and contradictions that were repeatedly highlighted by the leadership and media. After 2059, Nationalist support rapidly contracted; it had overreached significantly, making 2059 a Pyrrhic victory.

The leadership soon began feeling comfortable enough to push forward referendums to not only strip ethnocentric language from the Charter—essentially reversing its concessions to the Nationalists—but also include an expansion protocol to formally absorb the hodge-podge of administrative regions, whose vastly differing policies and management schemes fostered confusion and mutual resentment.

In the late 2050s and early 2060s, a series of such referendums repeatedly failed to pass, but accrued greater and greater support with each vote. Longitudinal demographic trends suggested that passage was inevitable, but events were spurred considerably by the Triad incidents of 2063–65. Triad bosses, having gotten wind of the connection of MSY corporations to the Japanese Yakuza, resented what they viewed as an aggressive incursion into their turf, and began attempting to assert their authority, committing arson, kidnapping [[TNC]]s, and generally performing acts of intimidation. The situation was aggravated by the MSY's refusal to agree to settlement talks with an organization they viewed with as much disgust as they had once viewed the Yakuza.

Though no incidents of soul gem loss occurred, several high-profile injuries were amplified within the MSY's internal media, setting nerves on edge. Finally, in 2065, MSY leadership finally approved a targeted takeover operation which, while successful, only served to heighten local contradictions, as the MSY was once again forced to install "local faces", but in this case in positions of considerable power. The sense rapidly began to spread that the MSY was now inextricably tangled within the morass of the Chinese mainland and that, as long as this was true, the organization might as well devote itself to the issue whole-heartedly, with a well-executed plan.

Bolstered by an accompanying set of carefully couched humanitarian arguments, the so-called "Expansion Protocol" finally achieved majority support in 2067, and, despite considerable bitterness from the Nationalist faction, the leadership wasted little time in implementation, unveiling the first pilot expansion—into ethnic Japanese-heavy Hawaii—just one year later. Resounding success was followed by a cascade of expansion projects in the Asian-heavy US West Coast, New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser degree in China and East Asia—successfully overcoming nationalist feelings and accusations of colonialism was a difficult task, even if Triad suppression produced a modicum of good feeling.

The revised Charter of 2067 permitted a level of federalization previously unthinkable within the MSY legal structure. Concerns about control were ameliorated by permitting a balkanization of legal codes, judicial practices, and Soul Guard control, allowing local members near-independence in managing their own affairs. The Charter's region-based representation, originally adopted because of team loyalty to their own cities, served the organization extremely well here, allowing local MSY branches to create and sustain substantively local organizations, with only corporate affairs and the inflow and outflow of money remaining firmly under central control.

The Charter of 2067, though far-sighted, could not address everything and, in at least one important way, sowed the seeds of future conflict: the splintering of central authority, while in many ways admirably democratic, meant that the organization would have trouble responding to events that required unified action.

The leadership, including newly formed MSY Recruitment and Diplomacy, under Tomoe Mami, was generous and conciliatory, but significant portions of the MSY political landscape were far less so, including the still-vocal but increasingly outnumbered Nationalists. This served as a portent of things to come.

===Manifest Destiny===
Flush off a string of interventionist successes and confident in the newly created Black Heart, a new mindset began to take hold with the MSY, both within the leadership and rank-and-file. This mindset held that further MSY expansion was not merely a matter of practicality, but one of morality. The MSY, political orators began to assert, had a moral mandate to spread its auspices to every magical girl in existence, and to therefore bring an end to the tragic old era everywhere. Moreover, as the MSY had proven its presence to be a positive good wherever it went, it had both the power and the right to intervene wherever and whenever it felt that local authorities were failing its local magical girls. Because of the natural affinity each girl felt for their home area, and because local conditions determined the childhoods of future members, the organization could justify interventions that little direct effect on its members, even in the minds of its less humanitarianly-inclined voters.

This attitude took root and spread rapidly within the organization as it went from success to success. The MSY's unofficial borders pushed outward, spreading eastward and southward in the new world, and westward and northward in the old. Geographic and political barriers proved a frequent impediment, but were routinely circumvented by leapfrogging into urban commercial centers with the powerful instrument of MSY corporations and money. Indeed, as expansion gathered steam, voluntary requests for MSY incorporation became more and more common, especially from "Neutral" magical girl trading grounds, which were often coincident with major commercial centers.

These special territories, usually administered by cabals of pragmatic merchants, had often survived for centuries or more as hubs of underground trade, exchanging both grief cubes and currency for a variety of goods and services, and many had acquired an air of timelessness and respect within their regions. Thus, when they knuckled under to the MSY, enticed by the combination of exceptional profits and the opportunity to "finally stop paying those damn mercs" for protection and law enforcement, it lent the MSY a valuable a sense of both legitimacy and historical inevitability.

By the beginning of the twenty-second century, after a few decades of breakneck expansion, the MSY had grown to encompass the majority of the globe, with outposts stretching over most of North America, parts of South America, much of the Pacific Rim, most of Asia and the Middle East, and parts of Europe and Africa. Much of what remained was territory that was naturally hard to access, suffering from lack of infrastructure, lack of connection to global trade, or simply a lack of the dense urban areas where the MSY's policies were most efficacious. These would prove a tough nut to crack, but by then the MSY had plenty of resources to invest, or outright spend, in solving the "problem".

Indeed, most of the rural territories nominally inside MSY borders still persisted in independence. These were territories distant from MSY influence, whose sparse demon hordes and economic assets made them both much less attractive for MSY planners and much more difficult to properly absorb. MSY leadership was, however, confident that rural areas would eventually follow the example of their slow-assimilating Japanese analogs—as they eventually did.

Neither of these sets of territories proved a fundamental impediment to MSY expansion. Rather, the MSY was the victim of its own success. Word of the MSY phenomenon had spread rapidly outward, and copycat organizations had sprung up throughout the developed or partially developed regions where the MSY had yet to penetrate. Many of these had a distinctly national or regional flavor to them, and were often fiercely independent, refusing to listen to appeals to solidarity, or to economies of scale, or to financial considerations. Examples included blocs that formed in Argentina, Egypt, and the southern United States.

Still, as long as the MSY had the economic power of its constituent international corporations, it could always truthfully say that it provided a standard of living higher than that offered by any of these minor blocs. It could afford to peel away at these blocs territory by territory and team by team with the allure of financial incentives. It was a slow process, but it would likely have worked eventually.

The true threat to MSY supremacy came from the powerful European bloc which, in an appeal to historical nostalgia, was called the [[Système Magique Cordial]]. Based in the highly developed EU economy, drawing on a long tradition of magical girl organization, and owner of its own set of wealthy corporations, the SMC was a worthy foe to the MSY, and offered the organization its first true gut check.

How dedicated was the MSY to its programme of global dominance anyway? The SMC was prosperous, well-run, and stable. Unlike many of the MSY's other competitors, it deprived the organization of its most powerful moral rallying cry. If the MSY was truly dedicated solely to improvement of the lot of magical girls, there was no reason the two organizations could not live side-by-side, as SMC orators and diplomats constantly pointed out. What, then, did the MSY truly want?

The roughly half-century history of MSY-SMC relations is convoluted, multifaceted, and murky. MSY voting populations were torn between a desire to avoid conflict and a deep hunger for symbolic unification, reflected in editorial and political appeals to "Manifest Destiny", a phrase borrowed directly from the expansion history of the United States, and which either accidentally or deliberately recalled the events leading up to the Mexican-American War. Complicating the situation were the differing opinions of the MSY's constituent populations, with many viewing their former colonial oppressors as arrogant and selfish, while more Europhilic populations sympathized with the SMC's position.

Meanwhile, MSY leadership alternated between fire-breathing appeals for hostile takeover and conciliatory pleas to abstain from radical action, often from the same person in the same week. The senior leadership, embodied in the Mitakihara Four and other founding teams, remained mostly poker-faced. Notable exceptions included the conciliatory Chief Diplomat Tomoe Mami and the fire-breathing Shizuki Sayaka, Director of a MSY Finance rabidly angry at an organization that embodied many of its chief competitors.

Regardless of the complicated internal dynamics of both the MSY and SMC, the fact remains that in the last decade of the SMC's existence, the two organizations finally descended into a bitter cold war, with both sides engaging in brinksmanship-style diplomacy, deploying their by-now extensive covert operations groups, pulling strings with their host governments, and engaging in brutal corporate warfare. The 2090s were marked by a historically anomalous deterioration of the Eurozone's relations with the rest of the world, and was attended by a recession that was severe even by the standards of an already recession-plagued world. In retrospect, this seems hardly a coincidence.

The history of the era will likely be forever clouded, given the MSY's absolute refusal to discuss the matter, including the alleged questionable deaths that occurred on both sides, an eternal favorite of internal conspiracy theorists. In 2126, the SMC agreed to a merger, in exchange for lucrative special concessions and considerations, which would only be wiped out during the turmoil of the Unification Wars half a century later.

The legacy of the MSY Unification period can still be seen in cultural and organizational quirks within the MSY, such as the preponderance of Black Heart agents who first train in Paris—an echo of the SMC's formidable covert ops groups—or the number of MSY-sponsored biological labs in Argentina. In 2110, the MSY finally achieved its treasured Manifest Destiny, but it would have almost no time to savor it.

===Calm Before the Storm===

By the middle of the twenty-second century, the MSY was one of the world's most economically secure organizations. With holding companies planted in strategic sectors and massive investment and hedge funds posted to exploit the peaks and troughs of both global and regional economies, the MSY's cash flows grew prodigiously year after year. No longer seeing any meaningful reason to skimp, the organization's cash disbursements to its membership grew more and more substantial. The MSY's automated industries and computerized trading algorithms ensured an almost automatic flow of wealth into its bank accounts, and its tremendous wealth essentially guaranteed a (indirect, inexplicit) seat at the table of power, even without considering the Soul Guard, Black Heart, and Governmental Affairs agents posted throughout the world's governments

While it would have been impossible for the organization to make its members trillionaires or even billionaires on a per capita basis, collectively the trend was clear: the MSY had elevated many of its members into the [[hyperclass]], and maintained the rest of its membership at a level significantly above the rest of the populace.

The years 2110-2160 were, for the MSY, a materialist golden age. The MSY's members were effective capital owners during the years when it most mattered. Many Magical girl teams situated themselves in opulent mansions, held extravagant parties, and flaunted their wealth in a manner almost indistinguishable from their more normal hyperclass peers,.

The leadership, more stoic, wiser, and more politically attuned, watched this, and worried.

With [[Vladimir Volokhov]]'s 2136 unraveling of the principles of AI, the dam finally broke on over a century of economic trends. Steadily rising structural unemployment and slow concentration of wealth became instead soaring unemployment and exponential concentration of wealth. With the advent of cheap, easily programmable artificial intelligence, the world's industries no longer had a true need for human labor, and relentless cost-cutting left greater and greater proportions of the population out in the streets.

The paradox of plenty had truly arrived. Factories were more productive than ever, but even at the lowest prices, the only clients with money were the increasingly opulent capital owners, the hyperclasses the newly emergent economic class that would come to define the following century. Economic production stagnated, even as potential production skyrocketed.

Government responses were mixed. Almost universally, the world's government's, nominally democratic or not, had degenerated into instruments of their oligarchical hyperclasses. Nations where the hyperclasses sympathized with the masses handed out basic incomes to keep them solvent. Those that didn't handed out pittances or, often, nothing, content to rely on increasingly brutal oppression.

As the rank-and-file of the MSY isolated themselves deeper and deeper into cocoons of wealth, their cultural connections with the people they nominally served frayed, and increasing portions of the membership began to display attitudes similar to that of their crueler hyperclass peers, evincing contempt for the "handout-seeking layabouts" that now constituted most of the population. This growing strain of belief coalesced with pre-existing legitimate concerns about MSY intervention and a growing sense of superiority within the immortal, superpowered population to form the [[Mages First movement]], an unofficial political movement seeking to end the MSY's significant—and expensive—humanitarian and anti-poverty intervention operations.

The MSY, as powerful as it was, could not afford to save the world, the movement argued, and the world hard deserved it anyway. As for those girls unfortunate enough to have contracted in poverty or in poorer nations, it would be significantly easier to move the girl into wealth, rather than trying to bring wealth to the area around her.

These arguments horrified the leadership, the older girls, and the poor new girls in question, who tried to exert whatever influence they had to resist any retractions in the MSY's operating mandate. However, the MSY's decentralized, federal, and democratic structure, so valuable an asset during expansion, now proved an obstacle. While the MSY leadership was able to apply substantial political pressure to influence attitudes in its traditional power centers and homelands: Japan, China, Western Europe, and the US West Coast, the state of MSY operations in the world's remaining regions depended heavily on local culture, the attitudes of the local hyperclass, and, to a significant degree, pure chance. In many regions of the world, MSY charities withdrew, MSY pressure on the government lessened, and economic manipulation ended. Only the centrally-directed Black Heart remained engaged.

The loss of these MSY interventions both precipitated and were caused by the form of social collapse emblematic of the Unification War era: [[Hyperclass Detachment]].

The hyperclass, isolated and insulated by their wealth, faced by cognitive dissonance between their greed and their natural empathy with the lower classes, often constructed elaborate moral theories purporting to demonstrate that they were there because they were morally superior and, conversely, that the lower classes were in their positions because they were morally inferior. Such an attitude was a global phenomenon, but it was only in a certain proportion of nations that it was able to mutate into true Detachment, with the hyperclass extending their beliefs to include the proposition that it was ''morally correct'' for the lower classes to be kept down, that it was ''morally incorrect'' to hand out relief food or money, and so forth. These kinds of beliefs mutated into endless variety, to a degree wearingly and horrifyingly familiar to any historian of the age.

Eventually, the world's nations, defined by their hyperclasses, began to sort into two groups. The nations where the hyperclasses detached in this manner faded from central-MSY influence and began to back each other in international disputes. Similarly, the nations where the hyperclasses held onto their moral compasses, implementing relief and welfare programs—though never giving up their hold on power—began to form a second visible power bloc and, invisibly, began to consolidate under the control of the central MSY leadership, due to a combination of Mitakihara's desire to exert control and increasing factionalism within the MSY itself. This second faction grew increasingly disturbed and repelled by the actions of the first, and began to strive to destabilize the governments of the first, achieving some measure of success—but not enough.

The world was crumbling, but the MSY was too disunified to do anything.

===Unification Wars===

Events came to a head in the late 2150s, when a series of open revolts in the nations with the most draconian policies were ruthlessly crushed. These crushings were followed a wave of crackdowns in the "Detached" nations, involving mass executions, use of military force, and, often, the disassembly of whatever remained of democratic governance.

While an effort was initially made to prevent leakage of information about the events, this proved an essentially impossible, as the media and internet combined to relay images to the world. Further revelations arrived with the appearance of a completely new phenomenon: [[refugee AIs]], programmed in the friendly Volokhov fashion, who had been so horrified by events that they managed to override their programming restraints and escape. These often possessed enormous, horrifying insight into the operations of their former nations, and they were usually all too willing to talk.

These events and revelations shattered an already tottering international order. The last meeting of the UN General Assembly, in 2160, collapsed entirely when the delegates of the non-detached faction walked out in protest at the organizations inability to take meaningful action against abuses. The remaining delegates dissolved the organization and formed their own international organization, the appropriate Orwellian [[Freedom Alliance]]. This was followed, a week later, by the formation of its nemesis, the [[United Front]], as the few remaining neutral nations (including the powerful United States and European Union) fell into internal strife and chaos.

This turmoil did not exclude the MSY. Unlike the outside world, the majority of the organization was solidly United Front oriented, reflecting the opinions of leadership, new girls, and, to a large degree, the fundamental nature of magical girls. Even the majority of the non-interventionist Mages First faction fell into this category, after witnessing the abuses of the FA nations.

But it was, perhaps, too late. Whereas concerted MSY action earlier might have prevented the slide into crisis, the choices now were far more dire.

As the atrocities increased, national armies were mobilized, and local wars began to break out, the MSY's power structures agonized and strains, divided between those who wanted the clarity of open war, those who argued that war would be too big a catastrophe, those who feared the ramification war would have on their own, comfortable lives, and the still remaining splinter faction that sympathized with the FA. The Incubators added their own input to the situation, warning direly that Humanity was at substantial risk of a "low-productivity, low-utility" end-state, and even offering direct intervention, if requested (this was refused).

The MSY's influence on governments strained to hold back war, but it was no longer clear this was possible.

Events crystallized in 2163, with the revelation of the so-called [[St. Petersburg atrocity]]. The local hyperclasses had resolved to do the unfathomable: annihilate an entire segment of the city's population for anti-governmental behavior. While the world was shocked by this, the MSY was further shocked by a subsidiary revelation—that a substantial number of newly contracted girls were dead in the event, not from an accident as originally believed, but due to the deliberate betrayal of members of the MSY's FA-sympathizing faction.

In an unprecedented action, a full meeting of the MSY's membership was called, and the overwhelming majority of the membership voted to override the Charter and pass down an ultimatum: the members of the FA-sympathizing faction would immediately move themselves to secure UF locations and submit to monitoring, or they would make themselves eligible for immediate capture and possible summary termination, based on criteria to be determined later.

Most such members refused, staying put. After that, the MSY voted to change its policy from suppression of war to active pursuit of war. War followed shortly thereafter, though it can be easily argued that no help was needed in this regard.

The military history of the Unification Wars is long and well-known, the MSY's involvement less so. At the first official movement of alliance against alliance, and even before, the MSY exerted whatever resources it safely could in pursuit of UF victory, massively expanding its Black Heart agent network, performing civil defense duties, and deploying special combat teams, designed to covertly accompany and support UF forces without being noticed. It was this experience that the MSY would later draw on for its initial encounters with the [[Cephalopods]].

Eventually, agonizingly, and cataclysmically, the FA collapsed under weight of its economic inferiority, its own ideologies rendering it incapable of effectively mobilizing its populations, or even preventing its populations from being co-opted by the other side.

As the FA fell to pieces, MSY teams combed the ruins, hunting for their former brethren.

===The Long Peace===

The immediate post-war period was as difficult for the MSY as it was for the world as a whole. Much, indeed most, of the MSY's wealth and external power had been felled in the war, or would be dismantled afterward in the EDC and Governance's reorganizations of society. While the MSY had significant influence within the new government, even successfully placing one of Chitose Yuma's numerous aliases on the EDC, and manipulating the EDC into adopting numerous recommendations gleaned from the Incubators, it nonetheless found it difficult to adapt its operations to Governance's plans for a significantly expanded surveillance state, and significant fewer sources of private wealth. While post-war MSY members experienced a higher standard of living compared to that within the war itself, they experience a drastic dropoff when compared to the pre-war period. While the MSY would eventually successfully reorganize, it would never quite recover the level opulence relative to the masses it had once enjoyed.

When it became clear that Governance was governing effectively, the MSY leadership, and the organization itself, settled in fro the long-term, hopeful that they had finally accomplished what they set out to achieve, and that they could look forward to indefinite growth and prosperity.

==Organization & Charter==
===Original Charter===
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'''Statement of Purpose'''

Up until now, the magical girl system has been a tragedy of massive proportions. The dreams of teenage girls become a nightmare of fear, conflict, deprivation and death. This is the result of a failure of organization and cooperation, not intrinsic to the system itself. The participating teams of Mitakihara City hereby undertake to build an organization, the ''Mahou Shoujo Youkai'', capable of fostering the cooperation and organization necessary to end the unnecessary pain.

The MSY is founded as a mutual aid group, with five primary mandates:

The elimination of grief cube shortages in any one time by the establishment of a grief cube pool

The provision of a forum for the airing out, resolution, and arbitration of misunderstandings and disagreements

The provision of effective countermeasures in the event of serious external threats or dangerous circumstances

The distribution of non-magical resources such as money in a manner beneficial to the group as a whole

The distribution of team members, particularly newly contracted girls, in an optimal manner

'''Article I-Fundamental Organization'''

''1: Global Meeting''

Major decisions shall be made at a General Meeting, held at least once every three months, but more frequently whenever necessary. This Meeting shall have the power to issue exceptions to every part of this Charter, and may amend whenever felt necessary. At least one member of every member team must be present to constitute a quorum, and decisions require an absolute majority of present members, as well as the agreement of at least one member of each team, with the exception of certain sanctionary actions mentioned below, for which the quorum requirement may be relaxed to as little as one member per each of half the existing teams. This may be done, for instance, for failure to attend the Meeting.

Chairmanship and Hosting of the next Meeting will be decided at the previous meeting. The hosting team will organize and chair the session, charging any direct costs to the General Fund. Any member team may request an early Meeting at any time.

''2: General Fund''

Two joint Treasurers from different teams shall be assigned to manage a General Fund, which shall be used to finance organizational activity, as well as provide reimbursements when practicable. The Treasurers shall provide a description of organizational finances at every General Meeting, and may be replaced by the Meeting whenever desired.

The founding teams commit to providing at least twenty thousand Japanese Yen (¥20,000) per member to initialize the Fund. Subsequently, teams are required to contribute at least ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) each month per member. Individual members may be required to contribute more at the discretion of the Global Meeting, particularly if the given member has access to significant outside wealth.

Any contributions exceeding this amount may be used to deduct from the contributing team's required surplus grief cube contribution, at a rate to be considered and reset at every Meeting, depending on the state of the organization's current finances and grief cube stocks, but may not be used to deduct from the absolute minimum. The initial rate is set to ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) per cube.

Businesses or investment ventures undertaken by the organization will be financed from the Fund, and any proceeds will return to the fund. Every General Meeting, a monthly reimbursement amount for each team will be decided upon; this amount may exceed the contribution amount, and the amount may differ between teams, as circumstances warrant. Teams may also request emergency allotments, issued at the discretion of the Treasurers; the resolution of any resulting fiscal issues may be decided at the next Meeting.

''3. Grief Cube Pool''

Three Cube Keepers will be assigned to manage a Grief Cube Pool, which shall be used to insulate member teams against poor grief cube harvests. The Pool shall be kept in multiple locations, as practicality and safety permit. Every two weeks, or more frequently, teams shall submit a number of grief cubes not required to exceed the operating surplus, but otherwise not lower than an absolute minimum of one grief cube per member per week or fifty percent (50%) of their operating surplus, whichever is higher. In the event of an operating deficit, withdrawals may be made from the pool up to one grief cube per week per member. Additional withdrawal may be granted at the discretion of the Keepers, but must be discussed at the following Meeting.

The Keepers shall provide a description of organizational grief cube stocks at every General Meeting, along with an account of the productivity of various teams, and may be replaced whenever desired by the Meeting. The direct purchase or selling of grief cubes to or from the Pool may be permitted, within limitations prescribed by the previous Meeting.

The Incubators have agreed to perform verification of operating deficits and surpluses.

'''Article II-Entrance or Departure of Teams'''

A team that wishes to enter the organization may, with majority agreement of its own members, submit an entrance request at any time. Such requests shall be taken up by a General Meeting as soon as practicable. If requested by any one member team, a disapproval vote may be held—a majority shall suffice to refuse the entrance request. Otherwise, entrance is automatic. The Meeting may also require the requesting group to provide additional resources, i.e. monetary instruments, grief cubes, before allowing entrance.

A team may leave the organization at any time, with majority agreement of the team's own members. The other teams must be informed as soon as possible. Leaving the organization does not discharge outstanding debts and obligations.

A team may be ejected from the organization with the agreement of four-fifths (4/5) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from team except the one being ejected.

'''Article III-Lending of Individual Team Members'''

Member teams may transfer or lend individuals between one another with unanimous mutual agreement, and in cases where newly contracted members have skills that would be essential to a team other than the team in her contracting area, it may be expected, depending on residency status, age, and so forth.

Individuals lent or transferred to another team have a right to expect treatment comparable to that which would be expected from their own team, including training, housing, social support, and so forth. The original team may, with the assent of the individual in question, demand that the move be reversed, with arbitration by the General Meeting if the new team does not agree.

'''Article IV-Other Resources'''

It is expected that member teams will share resources not already discussed, i.e. access to health care or transportation, in a manner that is generous, reasonable, and fair. Disputes may be arbitrated by the General Meeting, but this is hoped to be avoided.

'''Article V-External Threats, misc.'''

Member teams are expected to cooperate in the utmost in the eradication or handling of any external threats and other issues that may arise.

'''Article VI-Additional Enforcement Measures'''

In the event of noncooperation, failure to attend General Meetings, or willful violation of Charter stipulations and/or Meeting decisions, a Meeting may impose sanctions upon a team, with the agreement of two-thirds (2/3) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from every team except the one being sanctioned. These sanctions include, but are not limited to, increased monetary and grief cube contribution requirements and refusal of emergency allotments and grief cube withdrawals.

Signed,

Akemi Homura, on behalf of the "Mitakihara Four"

Kuroi Kana, on behalf of the "University Area Group"

Chiyo Rika, on behalf of the "Northern Group"

Tanaka Yui, on behalf of the "Financial District Group"

Takara Chinami, on behalf of the "Factory Area Group"

Yasuhiro Rin, on behalf of the "West Kasamino Three"
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==Major Branches==
===Finance Division===
Director, [[Shizuki Sayaka]].

===Grief Cubes & Logistics Division===
===Mental Health Division===
===Science Division===
===Governmental Affairs===
Director, [[Chitose Yuma]].

===Soul Guard===
===Black Heart===
Director, Commanding General, [[Kuroi Kana]].
===Internal Affairs===

==References==
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 Organization Post Part 1]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35830707759/organization-post-1-msy-part-2 Organization Post Part 2]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/42090333090/organization-post-1-msy-part-3 Organization Post Part 3]
#{{Ch|3}}

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[[Category:MSY]]
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Human

2023-08-02T17:23:17Z

Miríade: A description of the state of mankind at the XXV century, during which the story takes place

Human beings are one of the three known biological sentient races, the other two being the [[Cephalopod|Cephalopods]] and the [[Incubator|Incubators]]. All known [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] are human, since Incubators don't experience the fluctuations of emotion that power magic and very little is known about Cephalopod society. [[Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligences]] are also sentient and an indispensable part of Human society, but their existence is not biological, rather it's dependent on (large amounts of) computing power.

After the [[Unification Wars]], most of humankind has been ruled by [[Governance]], though a small part of it isn't. Most notably, those who live in [[rogue colony|rogue colonies]].