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Leadership Committee

2023-09-16T19:46:20Z

Sovereign: /* Membership */

===Organization===
At the top level, the [[MSY]] is organized around two main ruling committees, the [[Rules Committee]] and the '''Leadership Committee''', which form the Legislature and Executive, respectively. In contrast to the expansive nature of the Rules Committee, which has nearly five hundred members, the Leadership Committee is much smaller, numbering only thirty—a number that may increase or decrease with the approval of the Rules Committee. These members are elected by the entire [[MSY]] membership from a slate of potential members every five years.

Members are organized into three ceremonial tiers: the Executives, the Second Executives—generally reserved only for Founders—and the First Executive. The First Executive serves as the chairman, calling meetings, setting agendas, and so forth. Other roles of note are the Secretary and the Logistics Coordinator. In its entire history, the First Executive title has only been held by [[Akemi Homura]]; upon her disappearance, the office was declared permanently vacated, and its powers diffused among the other members. Technically, she still holds office, posthumously, and the position is officially hers alone.

Members of the Leadership Committee without specialized Committee roles generally serve prominent roles within the Bureaucracy, as either Division Heads or other specialized roles. [[Tomoe Mami]] is, for instance, Special Liaison with the Armed Forces and [[Kuroi Kana]] serves as the Commanding General and Director of the [[Black Heart]].

The Executive consists of both the Leadership Committee and Bureaucracy. The latter is organized into Divisions, whose individual mandates and resource allocations are handed down by the Rules Committee, but who are otherwise allowed to operate mostly independently.
[A non-exhaustive listing of [[MSY]] Divisions: Finance, Science, Soul Guard, Governmental Affairs, Logistics and Grief Cubes, Elections and Representation, Legal Affairs, Mental Health, Internal Media and Public Relations]

One notable feature of both committees is the relatively invariant membership, especially in the Leadership Committee, where many of the same faces can be seen year after year from the beginning of the system all the way to the present time. This occurs primarily because of the nature of elections: voters select a list of committee members equal to the number of open positions from a list of candidates, and the top vote-getters receive the positions. While there is some churn among the less prominent candidates, candidates such as [[Tomoe Mami]], [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Odette François]], and so forth can count on the near-certainty of receiving seats, based on name recognition and incumbency alone.

This kind of consistent leadership gives the [[MSY]] considerable institutional stability, a feature which has served it well in the turbulent periods of its history. It, however, engenders considerable concern about concentration of power and institutional ossification, a worry that manifests itself in occasional grassroots movements to replace the top Committee members. But while such movements sometimes succeed in temporarily removing some of the less popular members, they have never managed to remove the true fixtures of the Leadership Committee, people like [[Sakura Kyouko]] and [[Chitose Yuma]], who usually have their own cults of personality. Removing [[Akemi Homura]] would have been unimaginable.

Legislation is passed in a manner that would be familiar to students of the Modern Era democracies. Majority approval by both Committees enacts legislation; a two-thirds vote of the [[Rules Committee]] is sufficient to enact regardless of the opinion of the Leadership Committee, though both the “Veto” and “Veto Override” are exceedingly rare. The First Executive (and later, the Secretary) also personally signs legislation, attaching a signing statement approved by the Leadership Committee, which directs implementation.

The [[MSY]] Charter stipulates a wide variety of conditions, including of course Charter amendment, under which legislation must be forwarded to a referendum of the membership. Either of the two Committees may also voluntarily submit legislation to referendum, a practice that is usually employed when a piece of law is felt to be controversial and the government is desirous of a majority mandate. Technically, either Committee may force such a referendum without the approval of the other, but this is rarely done.

The referendum is arguably the MSY’s most democratic feature, and it has been employed far more successfully than similar features in previous democratic societies. It is commonly argued that this success is reflective of MSY’s older, more experienced membership, much of which is well into their second, third, or even fourth century. It is also often pointed out that the newest members rarely vote.

==Early Years==
Charterized in 2031, the Leadership Committee was formed due to the increasing unwieldiness of decision-making that required being discussed by the entire membership. Ultimate authority would still lay completely within the hands of the full membership, which could be summoned to meet any time deemed necessary, the day-by-day decision-making of the [[MSY]] was to be handled by the Leadership Committee. At it's inception simply being made up of prominent girls within the organization

In 2044, by a modification of the Charter was the Leadership Committee given the executive power to create formal [[MSY]] sub-organizations, starting with the foundation of the Soul Guard in the same year (Detailed in La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima, by picardyThird). After this proof-of-concept, there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the ever important [[Mental Health Division]], or [[MHD]].

This early on in its existence, the Leadership Committee lacked a clear institutional and legal structure, being made up of whatever girls with enough repetation were willing to the job. The major Charter rewrite of 2059 would change this structural dysfunctionality and give the Committee a clear structure.

==Membership==
Known members of the Leadership Committee (2460) include:

[[Tomoe Mami]], Second Executive, MSY Founder, aswell as the title of Chairman, making her the de-facto highest ranking member within the Committee.

[[Sakura Kyouko]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Chitose Yuma]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Kuroi Kana]], Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Clarisse van Rossum]], Executive.

[[Shizuki Sayaka]], Executive.

[[Odette François]], Executive.

[[Mohana Bachchan]], Executive.

[[Mila Brankovic]], Executive.

Other notable people that are likely sitting or has sat on the Leadership Committee would include Founders [[Chiyo Rika]] and [[Tanaka Yui]].

==Meeting Room==
The Leadership Committee is said to house their (mostly virtual) meetings within the [[Crown Room]]. The physical Crown Room being situated audaciously at the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in [[Mitakihara]]. The room was surrounded by panoramic windows and a fully transparent ceiling, all of it tunable to control the amount of light that poured into the room—or to provide other views entirely, if preferred. The center of the room was dominated by an imposing mahogany meeting table, carved out of a single piece of giant wood, and flanked by comfortable leather chairs.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 MSY Organization post Part-1]

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/56763433842/organization-post-1-msy-part-4 MSY Organization post Part-4]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/9403002 Chapter 42]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20182015/chapters/47818759 La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima]

Leadership Committee

2023-09-16T19:46:00Z

Sovereign: /* Organization */

===Organization===
At the top level, the [[MSY]] is organized around two main ruling committees, the [[Rules Committee]] and the '''Leadership Committee''', which form the Legislature and Executive, respectively. In contrast to the expansive nature of the Rules Committee, which has nearly five hundred members, the Leadership Committee is much smaller, numbering only thirty—a number that may increase or decrease with the approval of the Rules Committee. These members are elected by the entire [[MSY]] membership from a slate of potential members every five years.

Members are organized into three ceremonial tiers: the Executives, the Second Executives—generally reserved only for Founders—and the First Executive. The First Executive serves as the chairman, calling meetings, setting agendas, and so forth. Other roles of note are the Secretary and the Logistics Coordinator. In its entire history, the First Executive title has only been held by [[Akemi Homura]]; upon her disappearance, the office was declared permanently vacated, and its powers diffused among the other members. Technically, she still holds office, posthumously, and the position is officially hers alone.

Members of the Leadership Committee without specialized Committee roles generally serve prominent roles within the Bureaucracy, as either Division Heads or other specialized roles. [[Tomoe Mami]] is, for instance, Special Liaison with the Armed Forces and [[Kuroi Kana]] serves as the Commanding General and Director of the [[Black Heart]].

The Executive consists of both the Leadership Committee and Bureaucracy. The latter is organized into Divisions, whose individual mandates and resource allocations are handed down by the Rules Committee, but who are otherwise allowed to operate mostly independently.
[A non-exhaustive listing of [[MSY]] Divisions: Finance, Science, Soul Guard, Governmental Affairs, Logistics and Grief Cubes, Elections and Representation, Legal Affairs, Mental Health, Internal Media and Public Relations]

One notable feature of both committees is the relatively invariant membership, especially in the Leadership Committee, where many of the same faces can be seen year after year from the beginning of the system all the way to the present time. This occurs primarily because of the nature of elections: voters select a list of committee members equal to the number of open positions from a list of candidates, and the top vote-getters receive the positions. While there is some churn among the less prominent candidates, candidates such as [[Tomoe Mami]], [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Odette François]], and so forth can count on the near-certainty of receiving seats, based on name recognition and incumbency alone.

This kind of consistent leadership gives the [[MSY]] considerable institutional stability, a feature which has served it well in the turbulent periods of its history. It, however, engenders considerable concern about concentration of power and institutional ossification, a worry that manifests itself in occasional grassroots movements to replace the top Committee members. But while such movements sometimes succeed in temporarily removing some of the less popular members, they have never managed to remove the true fixtures of the Leadership Committee, people like [[Sakura Kyouko]] and [[Chitose Yuma]], who usually have their own cults of personality. Removing [[Akemi Homura]] would have been unimaginable.

Legislation is passed in a manner that would be familiar to students of the Modern Era democracies. Majority approval by both Committees enacts legislation; a two-thirds vote of the [[Rules Committee]] is sufficient to enact regardless of the opinion of the Leadership Committee, though both the “Veto” and “Veto Override” are exceedingly rare. The First Executive (and later, the Secretary) also personally signs legislation, attaching a signing statement approved by the Leadership Committee, which directs implementation.

The [[MSY]] Charter stipulates a wide variety of conditions, including of course Charter amendment, under which legislation must be forwarded to a referendum of the membership. Either of the two Committees may also voluntarily submit legislation to referendum, a practice that is usually employed when a piece of law is felt to be controversial and the government is desirous of a majority mandate. Technically, either Committee may force such a referendum without the approval of the other, but this is rarely done.

The referendum is arguably the MSY’s most democratic feature, and it has been employed far more successfully than similar features in previous democratic societies. It is commonly argued that this success is reflective of MSY’s older, more experienced membership, much of which is well into their second, third, or even fourth century. It is also often pointed out that the newest members rarely vote.

==Early Years==
Charterized in 2031, the Leadership Committee was formed due to the increasing unwieldiness of decision-making that required being discussed by the entire membership. Ultimate authority would still lay completely within the hands of the full membership, which could be summoned to meet any time deemed necessary, the day-by-day decision-making of the [[MSY]] was to be handled by the Leadership Committee. At it's inception simply being made up of prominent girls within the organization

In 2044, by a modification of the Charter was the Leadership Committee given the executive power to create formal [[MSY]] sub-organizations, starting with the foundation of the Soul Guard in the same year (Detailed in La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima, by picardyThird). After this proof-of-concept, there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the ever important [[Mental Health Division]], or [[MHD]].

This early on in its existence, the Leadership Committee lacked a clear institutional and legal structure, being made up of whatever girls with enough repetation were willing to the job. The major Charter rewrite of 2059 would change this structural dysfunctionality and give the Committee a clear structure.

==Membership==
Known members of the Leadership Committee (2460) include:

[[Tomoe Mami]], Second Executive, MSY Founder, aswell as the title of Chairman, making her the de-facto highest ranking member within the Committee.

[[Sakura Kyouko]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Chitose Yuma]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Kuroi Kana]], Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Clarisse van Rossum]], Executive.

[[Shizuki Sayaka]], Executive.

[[Odette Francois]], Executive.

[[Mohana Bachchan]], Executive.

[[Mila Brankovic]], Executive.

Other notable people that are likely sitting or has sat on the Leadership Committee would include Founders [[Chiyo Rika]] and [[Tanaka Yui]].

==Meeting Room==
The Leadership Committee is said to house their (mostly virtual) meetings within the [[Crown Room]]. The physical Crown Room being situated audaciously at the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in [[Mitakihara]]. The room was surrounded by panoramic windows and a fully transparent ceiling, all of it tunable to control the amount of light that poured into the room—or to provide other views entirely, if preferred. The center of the room was dominated by an imposing mahogany meeting table, carved out of a single piece of giant wood, and flanked by comfortable leather chairs.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 MSY Organization post Part-1]

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/56763433842/organization-post-1-msy-part-4 MSY Organization post Part-4]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/9403002 Chapter 42]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20182015/chapters/47818759 La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima]

Leadership Committee

2023-09-16T19:36:16Z

Sovereign:

===Organization===
At the top level, the [[MSY]] is organized around two main ruling committees, the [[Rules Committee]] and the '''Leadership Committee''', which form the Legislature and Executive, respectively. In contrast to the expansive nature of the Rules Committee, which has nearly five hundred members, the Leadership Committee is much smaller, numbering only thirty—a number that may increase or decrease with the approval of the Rules Committee. These members are elected by the entire [[MSY]] membership from a slate of potential members every five years.

Members are organized into three ceremonial tiers: the Executives, the Second Executives—generally reserved only for Founders—and the First Executive. The First Executive serves as the chairman, calling meetings, setting agendas, and so forth. Other roles of note are the Secretary and the Logistics Coordinator. In its entire history, the First Executive title has only been held by [[Akemi Homura]]; upon her disappearance, the office was declared permanently vacated, and its powers diffused among the other members. Technically, she still holds office, posthumously, and the position is officially hers alone.

Members of the Leadership Committee without specialized Committee roles generally serve prominent roles within the Bureaucracy, as either Division Heads or other specialized roles. [[Tomoe Mami]] is, for instance, Special Liaison with the Armed Forces and [[Kuroi Kana]] serves as the Commanding General and Director of the [[Black Heart]].

The Executive consists of both the Leadership Committee and Bureaucracy. The latter is organized into Divisions, whose individual mandates and resource allocations are handed down by the Rules Committee, but who are otherwise allowed to operate mostly independently.
[A non-exhaustive listing of [[MSY]] Divisions: Finance, Science, Soul Guard, Governmental Affairs, Logistics and Grief Cubes, Elections and Representation, Legal Affairs, Mental Health, Internal Media and Public Relations]

One notable feature of both committees is the relatively invariant membership, especially in the Leadership Committee, where many of the same faces can be seen year after year from the beginning of the system all the way to the present time. This occurs primarily because of the nature of elections: voters select a list of committee members equal to the number of open positions from a list of candidates, and the top vote-getters receive the positions. While there is some churn among the less prominent candidates, candidates such as [[Tomoe Mami]], [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Odette Francois]], and so forth can count on the near-certainty of receiving seats, based on name recognition and incumbency alone.

This kind of consistent leadership gives the [[MSY]] considerable institutional stability, a feature which has served it well in the turbulent periods of its history. It, however, engenders considerable concern about concentration of power and institutional ossification, a worry that manifests itself in occasional grassroots movements to replace the top Committee members. But while such movements sometimes succeed in temporarily removing some of the less popular members, they have never managed to remove the true fixtures of the Leadership Committee, people like [[Sakura Kyouko]] and [[Chitose Yuma]], who usually have their own cults of personality. Removing [[Akemi Homura]] would have been unimaginable.

Legislation is passed in a manner that would be familiar to students of the Modern Era democracies. Majority approval by both Committees enacts legislation; a two-thirds vote of the [[Rules Committee]] is sufficient to enact regardless of the opinion of the Leadership Committee, though both the “Veto” and “Veto Override” are exceedingly rare. The First Executive (and later, the Secretary) also personally signs legislation, attaching a signing statement approved by the Leadership Committee, which directs implementation.

The [[MSY]] Charter stipulates a wide variety of conditions, including of course Charter amendment, under which legislation must be forwarded to a referendum of the membership. Either of the two Committees may also voluntarily submit legislation to referendum, a practice that is usually employed when a piece of law is felt to be controversial and the government is desirous of a majority mandate. Technically, either Committee may force such a referendum without the approval of the other, but this is rarely done.

The referendum is arguably the MSY’s most democratic feature, and it has been employed far more successfully than similar features in previous democratic societies. It is commonly argued that this success is reflective of MSY’s older, more experienced membership, much of which is well into their second, third, or even fourth century. It is also often pointed out that the newest members rarely vote.

==Early Years==
Charterized in 2031, the Leadership Committee was formed due to the increasing unwieldiness of decision-making that required being discussed by the entire membership. Ultimate authority would still lay completely within the hands of the full membership, which could be summoned to meet any time deemed necessary, the day-by-day decision-making of the [[MSY]] was to be handled by the Leadership Committee. At it's inception simply being made up of prominent girls within the organization

In 2044, by a modification of the Charter was the Leadership Committee given the executive power to create formal [[MSY]] sub-organizations, starting with the foundation of the Soul Guard in the same year (Detailed in La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima, by picardyThird). After this proof-of-concept, there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the ever important [[Mental Health Division]], or [[MHD]].

This early on in its existence, the Leadership Committee lacked a clear institutional and legal structure, being made up of whatever girls with enough repetation were willing to the job. The major Charter rewrite of 2059 would change this structural dysfunctionality and give the Committee a clear structure.

==Membership==
Known members of the Leadership Committee (2460) include:

[[Tomoe Mami]], Second Executive, MSY Founder, aswell as the title of Chairman, making her the de-facto highest ranking member within the Committee.

[[Sakura Kyouko]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Chitose Yuma]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Kuroi Kana]], Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Clarisse van Rossum]], Executive.

[[Shizuki Sayaka]], Executive.

[[Odette Francois]], Executive.

[[Mohana Bachchan]], Executive.

[[Mila Brankovic]], Executive.

Other notable people that are likely sitting or has sat on the Leadership Committee would include Founders [[Chiyo Rika]] and [[Tanaka Yui]].

==Meeting Room==
The Leadership Committee is said to house their (mostly virtual) meetings within the [[Crown Room]]. The physical Crown Room being situated audaciously at the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in [[Mitakihara]]. The room was surrounded by panoramic windows and a fully transparent ceiling, all of it tunable to control the amount of light that poured into the room—or to provide other views entirely, if preferred. The center of the room was dominated by an imposing mahogany meeting table, carved out of a single piece of giant wood, and flanked by comfortable leather chairs.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 MSY Organization post Part-1]

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/56763433842/organization-post-1-msy-part-4 MSY Organization post Part-4]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/9403002 Chapter 42]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20182015/chapters/47818759 La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima]

Gul

2023-09-16T08:39:37Z

Sovereign:

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 asteriods 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 [...]

Emergency Modes of Governance

2023-09-15T10:37:34Z

Sovereign:

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.

Emergency Modes of Governance

2023-09-15T10:36:48Z

Sovereign:

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.

Emergency Modes of Governance

2023-09-15T10:33:41Z

Sovereign:

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.

Emergency Modes of Governance

2023-09-15T08:54:50Z

Sovereign: Created page with "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 cons..."

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.

Rules Committee

2023-09-13T09:25:10Z

Sovereign: /* Meeting Room */

===Organization===
At the top level, the MSY is organized around two main ruling committees, the '''Rules Committee''' and the [[Leadership Committee]], which form the Legislature and Executive, respectively. The Rules Committee was brought into being with the major Charter modification of 2059. That stipulated, among many other things, that the legislative power of the [[MSY]] was to be placed with the Rules Committee.

The Rules Committee is a unicameral hybrid legislature, mostly regional in nature, but also somewhat parliamentarian. Both [[Earth]] and its colonies are delineated into geographical districts, each of which elects a slate of Representatives every two years. While districts are drawn to represent roughly equal member populations, the number of Representatives in each district is adjusted every two years to reflect actual member numbers.

While the Rules Committee operates like a standard legislature, it is unusually collegial and consensus-driven, with a majority of decisions taken by unanimous consent, reflective of the organization’s roots. The regional nature of the Rules Committee is an artifact of the period of [[MSY]] global expansion, during which, for cultural and political reasons, the [[MSY]] was obliged to decentralize power to a diffuse, federal structure. While most power was recentralized during the Unification War period, the MSY’s once prominent regional character is evident in many aspects of its organization.

Standing in stark contrast to the [[Leadership Committee]], which only consists of 30 members, the Rules Committee is made up of nearly 500 members.

==Meeting Room==
Being built by direction of [[Tomoe Mami]] at the height of the pre-[[Unification Wars]] era, where no one would have batted an eyelash at such an ostentatious hyperclass palace, even on top of a skyscraper in [[Mitakihara]]. The physical Rules Committee is the symbolic seat of [[MSY]] legislative power. The atrium of the Rules Committee is surrounded by a circular colonnade and with numerous statues of famous and powerful magical girls placed around the room. The floor of the room being black marble meant to resemble the black night. This room is called the [[Gallery of Law]].

There is also the [[Rules Committee plenary chamber]], being primarily a ceremonial structure. The size of a large auditorium, it had difficulty seating even the key members of every political faction, much less the plethora of Rules Committee members. Even at the time of construction, it had been meant only as a place for key speeches, a place for Executives or the leadership to symbolically address the entire body, waiting just behind the curtain of the virtual world. As such, it was designed for appearance rather than function, the ceiling painted with key moments in [[MSY]] history, the walls carved with depictions of various magical girls, all in the middle of making a wish, but all looking directly at the podium. With the intention of filling the speaker with the sense that she had responsibility.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 MSY Organization post Part-1]

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/56763433842/organization-post-1-msy-part-4 MSY Organization post Part-4]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/38982716 Chapter 56]

Leadership Committee

2023-09-13T09:22:09Z

Sovereign: /* Early Years */

===Organization===
At the top level, the [[MSY]] is organized around two main ruling committees, the [[Rules Committee]] and the '''Leadership Committee''', which form the Legislature and Executive, respectively. In contrast to the expansive nature of the Rules Committee, which has nearly five hundred members, the Leadership Committee is much smaller, numbering only thirty—a number that may increase or decrease with the approval of the Rules Committee. These members are elected by the entire [[MSY]] membership from a slate of potential members every five years.

Members are organized into three ceremonial tiers: the Executives, the Second Executives—generally reserved only for Founders—and the First Executive. The First Executive serves as the chairman, calling meetings, setting agendas, and so forth. Other roles of note are the Secretary and the Logistics Coordinator. In its entire history, the First Executive title has only been held by [[Akemi Homura]]; upon her disappearance, the office was declared permanently vacated, and its powers diffused among the other members. Technically, she still holds office, posthumously, and the position is officially hers alone.

Members of the Leadership Committee without specialized Committee roles generally serve prominent roles within the Bureaucracy, as either Division Heads or other specialized roles. [[Tomoe Mami]] is, for instance, Special Liaison with the Armed Forces and [[Kuroi Kana]] serves as the Commanding General and Director of the [[Black Heart]].

The Executive consists of both the Leadership Committee and Bureaucracy. The latter is organized into Divisions, whose individual mandates and resource allocations are handed down by the Rules Committee, but who are otherwise allowed to operate mostly independently.
[A non-exhaustive listing of [[MSY]] Divisions: Finance, Science, Soul Guard, Governmental Affairs, Logistics and Grief Cubes, Elections and Representation, Legal Affairs, Mental Health, Internal Media and Public Relations]

One notable feature of both committees is the relatively invariant membership, especially in the Leadership Committee, where many of the same faces can be seen year after year from the beginning of the system all the way to the present time. This occurs primarily because of the nature of elections: voters select a list of committee members equal to the number of open positions from a list of candidates, and the top vote-getters receive the positions. While there is some churn among the less prominent candidates, candidates such as [[Tomoe Mami]], [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Odette Francois]], and so forth can count on the near-certainty of receiving seats, based on name recognition and incumbency alone.

This kind of consistent leadership gives the [[MSY]] considerable institutional stability, a feature which has served it well in the turbulent periods of its history. It, however, engenders considerable concern about concentration of power and institutional ossification, a worry that manifests itself in occasional grassroots movements to replace the top Committee members. But while such movements sometimes succeed in temporarily removing some of the less popular members, they have never managed to remove the true fixtures of the Leadership Committee, people like [[Sakura Kyouko]] and [[Chitose Yuma]], who usually have their own cults of personality. Removing [[Akemi Homura]] would have been unimaginable.

Legislation is passed in a manner that would be familiar to students of the Modern Era democracies. Majority approval by both Committees enacts legislation; a two-thirds vote of the rules Committee is sufficient to enact regardless of the opinion of the Leadership Committee, though both the “Veto” and “Veto Override” are exceedingly rare. The First Executive (and later, the Secretary) also personally signs legislation, attaching a signing statement approved by the Leadership Committee, which directs implementation.

The [[MSY]] Charter stipulates a wide variety of conditions, including of course Charter amendment, under which legislation must be forwarded to a referendum of the membership. Either of the two Committees may also voluntarily submit legislation to referendum, a practice that is usually employed when a piece of law is felt to be controversial and the government is desirous of a majority mandate. Technically, either Committee may force such a referendum without the approval of the other, but this is rarely done.

The referendum is arguably the MSY’s most democratic feature, and it has been employed far more successfully than similar features in previous democratic societies. It is commonly argued that this success is reflective of MSY’s older, more experienced membership, much of which is well into their second, third, or even fourth century. It is also often pointed out that the newest members rarely vote.

==Early Years==
Charterized in 2031, the Leadership Committee was formed due to the increasing unwieldiness of decision-making that required being discussed by the entire membership. Ultimate authority would still lay completely within the hands of the full membership, which could be summoned to meet any time deemed necessary, the day-by-day decision-making of the [[MSY]] was to be handled by the Leadership Committee. At it's inception simply being made up of prominent girls within the organization

In 2044, by a modification of the Charter was the Leadership Committee given the executive power to create formal [[MSY]] sub-organizations, starting with the foundation of the Soul Guard in the same year (Detailed in La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima, by picardyThird). After this proof-of-concept, there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the ever important [[Mental Health Division]], or [[MHD]].

This early on in its existence, the Leadership Committee lacked a clear institutional and legal structure, being made up of whatever girls with enough repetation were willing to the job. The major Charter rewrite of 2059 would change this structural dysfunctionality and give the Committee a clear structure.

==Membership==
Known members of the Leadership Committee (2460) include:

[[Tomoe Mami]], Second Executive, MSY Founder, aswell as the title of Chairman, making her the de-facto highest ranking member within the Committee.

[[Sakura Kyouko]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Chitose Yuma]], Second Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Kuroi Kana]], Executive, MSY Founder.

[[Clarisse van Rossum]], Executive.

[[Shizuki Sayaka]], Executive.

[[Odette Francois]], Executive.

[[Mohana Bachchan]], Executive.

[[Mila Brankovic]], Executive.

Other notable people that are likely sitting or has sat on the Leadership Committee would include Founders [[Chiyo Rika]] and [[Tanaka Yui]].

==Meeting Room==
The Leadership Committee is said to house their (mostly virtual) meetings within the [[Crown Room]]. The physical Crown Room being situated audaciously at the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in [[Mitakihara]]. The room was surrounded by panoramic windows and a fully transparent ceiling, all of it tunable to control the amount of light that poured into the room—or to provide other views entirely, if preferred. The center of the room was dominated by an imposing mahogany meeting table, carved out of a single piece of giant wood, and flanked by comfortable leather chairs.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 MSY Organization post Part-1]

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/56763433842/organization-post-1-msy-part-4 MSY Organization post Part-4]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/9403002 Chapter 42]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20182015/chapters/47818759 La Fondazione della Guardia di Anima]

Kavitha Srinivas

2023-09-12T08:43:44Z

Sovereign: Created page with "A member of the X-25 infiltration team. She was one of their barrier generators. Once did an apprenticeship in a nanotechnology lab. Category:Magical Girl Category:..."

A member of the [[X-25]] infiltration team. She was one of their barrier generators. Once did an apprenticeship in a nanotechnology lab.

[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Tammy Shepard

2023-09-12T08:41:08Z

Sovereign:

A member of the [[X-25]] infiltration team. She was their backup barrier generator.

[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Tammy Shepard

2023-09-12T08:40:37Z

Sovereign: Created page with "A member of the X-25 infiltration team. She was the backup barrier generator. Category:Magical Girl Category:Barrier Generator"

A member of the [[X-25]] infiltration team. She was the backup barrier generator.

[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Shirou Asaka

2023-09-11T19:31:24Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|image=Shirou asaka by xkick.png
|gender= f
|kanji= Unknown
|age= Likely 24-34
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service<br />(Rank: Brigadier General)
|special= Following instruction from a [[Vision from Madoka|vision]] from [[Kaname Madoka|Madoka]], directed Ryouko towards the [[Ribbon of the Goddess|Ribbon]]
|SG= Right forearm
|color= Violet
|weapon= Dual Daggers
|class= Misc. Teleportation/Barrier generator
|CO= Unknown. Distantly, [[Tomoe Mami]].
[[Sakura Kyouko]] (former)
|mentor= Sakura Kyouko (Primary)
}}
'''Shirou Asaka''' is one of [[Sakura Kyouko|Kyouko]]'s close circle of mentored girls.

==Story==
Until recently, Asaka spent her time with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Kishida Maki]] at the [[Cult of Hope]] Headquarters in [[Mitakihara City]]. After meeting Ryouko, Asaka realized that she had fulfilled the directive she had received from [[Kaname Madoka|Madoka]] in her previous vision, and prepared to return to active combat. As of [[Volume Two]], she is stationed within the city of [[Heliopolis]] on the planet [[Apollo (Planet)|Apollo]], as superior officer of Patricia and Maki, both of whom opted to join her. It took special pleading from [[Sakura Kyouko|Kyouko]] to [[Tomoe Mami|Mami]] to keep them together.

==Background==
A Brigadier General with a distinguished service record, her career has been on hold ever since she lost her close friend (and lover) [[Alice]] in the very battle that won her her most recent promotion, in all likelihood ordering her to her death. A former and current video gamer, she was once a full-time devotee, partly due to social defects on her part, many of which she explicitly rectified with her wish. Later, after the loss of Alice, it is implied that in the depths of her grief she lost herself in full immersion simulations, wiping even her memory of the outside world. It took a vision with Madoka, and a talk with the deceased Alice, for her to reset her bearings. However, on instructions from the Goddess, she waited for a specific event to happen before returning to combat. [[Shizuki Ryouko]] brought her that event.

==Character==
Asaka is blunt-spoken yet charismatic, often the joker in the room—in a certain sense, similar to Kyouko. Nowadays, she appears to be best friends with Patricia von Rohr, another member of the Kyouko clique and, like Alice, part of her training cohort. They appear to have a standard combative, banter-filled friendship. No hints of possible relationship yet. The two of them are also good friends with Kishida Maki.

==Design==
The current version of Asaka is tall and martial, with braided ponytail and serious demeanor. She holds herself in a firm posture, and has a classically well-shaped figure. It is likely that there were long stretches of her life where she did not look that sober. Her gem is violet and is worn on her right forearm when in magical girl form. She has teleportation powers, but it is mentioned that her powers are unusual and strange. She wields dual daggers, but often carries standard weaponry into combat; indeed, she is a bit of a fan of weaponry in general.

==Distinctions==
*'''Akemi Homura medal''', for saving an as of yet unnamed colony (the medal was received for the "successful resolution of a seemingly hopeless situation")

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="250px" heights="250px">
File:Ryouko Asaka dress uniform.png|With [[Shizuki Ryouko]] in dress uniform. Notice the Chitose Yuma and Akemi Homura medals on Ryouko's chest and the Akemi Homura medal on Asaka's
File:Shirou Asaka Railgun.png
</gallery>

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29181798072/character-post-7-friends-new-and-old Incubator Archives: Character post 7]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Army]]
[[Category:Cult of Hope]]
[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Jean

2023-09-11T19:29:59Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|name= Jean
|gender= f
|age= Unknown (deceased)
|occupation= (Former) [[Magical Girl]]
|special= Church of Hope believer
|weapon=
|class= Barrier generator
|CO=
|mentor=
}}

'''Jean''' took part in the [[Kepler-37 Offensive]] where she lost her life. She was part of [[Nakihara Asami]]'s [[Magi Cæli]] squad and a firm believer of the Church of Hope.

== References ==

[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Jean

2023-09-11T19:29:43Z

Sovereign: Created page with "{{Characterbox |image= |name= Jean |gender= f |age= Unknown (deceased) |occupation= (Former) Magical Girl |special= Church of Hope believer |weapon= |class= Barrier gener..."

{{Characterbox
|image=
|name= Jean
|gender= f
|age= Unknown (deceased)
|occupation= (Former) [[Magical Girl]]
|special= Church of Hope believer
|weapon=
|class= Barrier generator
|CO=
|mentor=
}}

'''Jean''' took part in the [[Kepler-37 Offensive]] where she lost her life. She was part of [[Nakihara Asami]]'s [[Magi Cæli]] and a firm believer of the Church of Hope.

== References ==

[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Zheng Ying‐zhi

2023-09-11T19:23:40Z

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{{Characterbox
|image=
|name= Zheng Ying‐zhi
|gender= f
|age= Unknown
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service<br />(Rank: Captain)
|special= Wormhole Mission Team
|weapon=
|class= Barrier generator
|CO=
|mentor=
}}

'''Zheng Ying‐zhi''', a member of the Wormhole Mission Team. In addition to being a barrier generator, she could tune her barrier into a pretty good invisibility field.

== References ==

[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Ngo Thi An

2023-09-11T19:05:11Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|kanji=
|gender= f
|age= ~10-18
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service<br />(Rank: 2nd Lieutenant)
|special=
|weapon=
|class= Barrier generator
|CO=
|mentor=
}}

'''Ngo Thi An''' is a magical girl in the same training cohort as [[Shizuki Ryouko]], [[Zhou Meiqing]] and [[Nakihara Asami]]. Like her cohort mates, she was en route to [[Acheron]] when the transport ship [[HSS Pierre-Simon Laplace|HSS Laplace]] came under heavy attack by deep-raiding [[Cephalopod]] fighters.

In her free time, she plays VR games with some of her cohort mates.

== Costume & Abilities ==

She can generate an orange barrier that courses with tendrils of light.

== References ==

* {{ch|19}}
* {{ch|20}}

[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Sarah Kaisan

2023-09-11T19:04:28Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= ?
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service
|special= Currently on demon patrol duty
|color= Blue
|weapon= Zweihänder, Kite shield
|class= Barrier generator
|CO= [[Risa Flores]]
|mentor=
}}

'''Sarah Kaisan''' is a [[Magical Girl]] currently on demon patrol duty in [[Mitakihara]].

== Costume and Abilities ==

Sarah is clad in blue and white plate armour only lacking a helmet, with a fitting kite shield and Zweihänder taller than herself.

Her power is generating a selectively permeable barrier, which she can also blast outwards.

== Appearance ==

She's a blonde with hair long enough it can fall in her eyes.

== References ==

* {{ch|12}}
* [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous Incubator Archives: Character post 8]

[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Karina Schei

2023-09-11T19:03:58Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= Unknown
|occupation= Army, Active Service
|special= [[Tomoe Mami]]'s bodyguard
|weapon= Axe
|class= Barrier generator
|CO= Tomoe Mami
|mentor=
}}
'''Karina Schei''' is one of Mami's two assigned bodyguards, the other being [[Shen Xiao Long]].

Karina is classically blond and blue-eyed and of likely Norwegian descent. She, like both Mami and Xiao Long, has an impressively large chest, especially for her apparent age. When the three of them are together, the effect is enough to draw stares from those not used to their presence.

Between her and Xiao Long, Karina appears to be the more outgoing and jocular.

Karina’s theme color is green. Her family lives in a colony named, imaginatively enough, Nova Roma.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous Incubator Archives: Character post 8]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Magical Girl]]
[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Anne

2023-09-11T19:03:29Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|gender= f
|age= Unknown.
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service
(Rank: Second Lieutenant?)
|special= Speaks a colonial variant of Chinese.
|class= Barrier generator
|CO= [[Patricia von Rohr]]
}}

Preferred nickname of Shen Qing Lan. Replacement barrier generator for [[Patricia von Rohr]] during the [[Battle of Orpheus]], on one of the system's planets.

[[Category:Barrier Generator]]

Karina Schei

2023-09-11T19:03:24Z

Sovereign:

Anne

2023-09-11T19:02:06Z

Sovereign:

Anne

2023-09-11T19:01:43Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|gender= f
|age= Unknown.
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service
(Rank: Second Lieutenant?)
|special= Speaks a colonial variant of Chinese.
|class= [[Barrier Generator]]
|CO= [[Patricia von Rohr]]
}}

Preferred nickname of Shen Qing Lan. Replacement barrier generator for [[Patricia von Rohr]] during the [[Battle of Orpheus]], on one of the system's planets.

[[Category: Barrier Generator]]

Category:Barrier Generator

2023-09-11T19:01:07Z

Sovereign:

[..]

Anne

2023-09-11T19:00:07Z

Sovereign:

Category:Barrier Generator

2023-09-11T18:58:19Z

Sovereign: Created page with "[..] Category:Magical Girl"

[..]

[[Category:Magical Girl]]

Kepler-37 System

2023-09-11T09:18:44Z

Sovereign:

The '''Kepler-37 System''' is a human-colonized star system in [[To the Stars]]. A [[Second Colonization Wave]] system, it is nonetheless relatively notable, containing strategic assets and a position within [[Blink Drive|blink]] distance of the [[Core World]] [[Optatum]]. As such, it becomes the final focus of the alien [[Euphratic Incursion]], and the construction site of a [[Wormhole Stabilizer]].

Appears to be based on the real-world [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-37 Kepler-37 System].

Known locations within the Kepler-37 system include:
*The colony world [[Apollo]]
**The city of [[Heliopolis]]
*The colony world [[Artemis]]
*The gas giant [[Orpheus]]:
**The Kepler-37 [[Wormhole Stabilizer]]
*Several unnamed inner rocky worlds and gas giants

In addition, the worlds [[Apollo]] and [[Artemis]] carry in orbit the prized [[Gemini Shipyards]], a key production facility for the human [[Armed Forces]].

Megane

2023-09-11T09:15:13Z

Sovereign:

Luxurious vacation spaceship belonging to [[Kuroi Kana]] and her matriarchy. Used by [[Chitose Yuma]] to conduct her investigation into a pair of suspicious deep space coordinates.

==References==

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

Odette François

2023-09-08T17:36:22Z

Sovereign: Created page with "'''Odette François''', the venerable François Matriarch is a member of the MSY's Leadership Committee. She has built a reputation due to her unyielding and vocal par..."

'''Odette François''', the venerable François Matriarch is a member of the [[MSY]]'s [[Leadership Committee]]. She has built a reputation due to her unyielding and vocal paranoia about [[Governance]].

Is the ancestor of [[Marianne François]] and her daughter [[Juliet François]].

Gul

2023-09-08T12:12:55Z

Sovereign:

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 the fleet denying [[Cephalopod]] access to the systems asteriods 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 [...]

Gul

2023-09-08T12:12:11Z

Sovereign: Created page with "A Magical Girl and General in the Armed Forces. Labeled an eccentric by her colleague Tomoe Mami, Gul insists on wearing the magical girl military uniform, despit..."

A [[Magical Girl]] and General 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 the fleet denying [[Cephalopod]] access to the systems asteriods 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 [...]

HSS Arminius

2023-09-08T11:53:29Z

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One of Humanity's gigantic [[Battlecruiser]]'s. Flagship of the late Chair of the [[General Staff]], Field Marshal [[Roland Erwynmark]]. The ship was lost in the battle for the [[Wormhole Stabilizer]], in the [[Kepler-37 System]] after the [[Cephalopods]], in a move surprising Human Command, massively attacked the Arminius' position in the human line.

HSS Flavius Aetius

2023-09-08T11:44:34Z

Sovereign:

One of Humanity's gigantic [[Battlecruiser]]'s. '''HSS Flavius Aetius''' was unfortunatly lost during the battle for the [[Wormhole Stabilizer]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]]

HSS Flavius Aetius

2023-09-08T11:44:13Z

Sovereign: Created page with "One of Humanity's gigantic Battlecruiser's. '''HSS Flavius Aetius'' was unfortunatly lost during the battle for the Wormhole Stabilizer in the Kepler-37 System"

One of Humanity's gigantic [[Battlecruiser]]'s. '''HSS Flavius Aetius'' was unfortunatly lost during the battle for the [[Wormhole Stabilizer]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]]

Yasuhiro Rin

2023-09-08T11:36:54Z

Sovereign:

{{Characterbox
|gender= f
|age= ~460
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]]
|special= MSY Founder
}}

'''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, and presumably named after the Founder, 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]

[[category:Magical Girl]]
[[category:MSY]]

Timeline

2023-09-08T11:34:41Z

Sovereign:

==Historical==
Mostly from https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28295270913/background-timeline-revealed-so-far

===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

'''2354:''' Trailer for ''Historian'' released²⁴

'''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]]

'''2457-2458:''' Ryouko and her friend Chiaki (and Kyouko) attend a live violin performance. (Ryouko and Chiaki are 14)

'''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.

Correlated with https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28296227067/story-so-far

===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 begin²³

'''2900s:''' Planned timeframe for human expansion beyond the [[Local Area]]²³

Système Magique Cordial

2023-09-04T18:42:05Z

Sovereign:

'''Système Magique Cordial''' refers to two historical magical girl organizations. First, a league of magical girl nobility in Europe<ref>http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29953570107/spinoff-post-1</ref> which developed during the relatively peaceful years after the Napoleonic Wars and which collapsed during WWI. Second, the most successful [[MSY]] rival, which developed in the latter half of the 21st century, and which finally agreed to unification with the [[MSY]] (after being assured major concessions) in 2110 following a near quarter-century of cold war.

== SMC-MSY relations==
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 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 the improvement of the magical world, 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 Mitakihari 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 brinkmanship-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 2110, the SMC leadership 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.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35830707759/organization-post-1-msy-part-2 Organization Post 1: MSY Part 2]
[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29953570107/spinoff-post-1 Spinoff Post 1]

[[category:Organization]]

Système Magique Cordial

2023-02-02T10:49:04Z

Sovereign: /* SMC-MSY relations */

'''Système Magique Cordial''' refers to two historical magical girl organizations. First, a league of magical girl nobility in Europe<ref>http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29953570107/spinoff-post-1</ref> which developed during the relatively peaceful years after the Napoleonic Wars and which collapsed during WWI. Second, the most successful [[MSY]] rival, which developed in the latter half of the 21st century, and which finally agreed to unification with the [[MSY]] (after being assured major concessions) in 2110 following a near quarter-century of cold war.

== SMC-MSY relations==
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 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 the improvement of the magical world, 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 Mitakihari 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 brinkmanship-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 2110, the SMC leadership 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.

Speculations exist about the structure of the late SMC, the only hint towards SMC leadership comes from the mostly canon (unless explicitly said so) The One-Hundredth Floor. Where [[Odette François]], powerful head of the François matriarchy, is said to be the ‘’leader’’ of the SMC.

== References ==

[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35830707759/organization-post-1-msy-part-2 Organization Post 1: MSY Part 2]
[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29953570107/spinoff-post-1 Spinoff Post 1]

[[category:Organization]]

Vladimir Volokhov

2023-01-20T08:02:51Z

Sovereign:

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'''Vladimir Volokhov''' was an AI researcher in the mid-22nd century. In the wake of the [[Pretoria Scandal]], and with the help of his artificial research assistant [[Laplace]] and (without his knowledge) a young girl's wish, he discovered how to mathematically represent and prove the ''intentions'' of a machine intelligence. His work netted him a Turing Award in 2146, and paved the way for the ubiquity of AI in modern human civilization.

Other works bearing his name include:
* The [[Volokhov Criterion]] - the requirement that all human Governance Representatives be capable of functioning without their networked enhancements.
* Volokhov Analysis - a means of proving whether a particular machine intelligence is sentient, and whether it has a morality compatible with humanity.

==References==
{{Ch|8}}

{{Ch|13}}

{{Ch|20}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Civilian]]
[[Category:Historical Characters]]

Vladimir Volokhov

2023-01-20T08:02:31Z

Sovereign:

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|special= Father of Friendly AI
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'''Vladimir Volokhov''' was an AI researcher in the mid-22nd century. In the wake of the [[Pretoria Scandal]], and with the help of his artificial research assistant [[Laplace]] and (without his knowledge) a young girl's wish, he discovered how to mathematically represent and prove the ''intentions'' of a machine intelligence. His work netted him a Turing Award in 2146, and paved the way for the ubiquity of AI in modern human civilization.

Other works bearing his name include:
* [[The Volokhov Criterion]] - the requirement that all human Governance Representatives be capable of functioning without their networked enhancements.
* Volokhov Analysis - a means of proving whether a particular machine intelligence is sentient, and whether it has a morality compatible with humanity.

==References==
{{Ch|8}}

{{Ch|13}}

{{Ch|20}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Civilian]]
[[Category:Historical Characters]]

Volokhov Criterion

2023-01-20T08:01:47Z

Sovereign:

After [[Vladimir Volokhov]] and [[Laplace]] made the mathematical break-through of providing proof and falsifiability of encoding human morals and—to a certain degree—sensibilities in an artificial intelligence, the '''Volokhov Criterion''' was used as a kind of measurement to what degree an artificial intelligence or (starkly) augmentented human was congruent with human sensibilities of morale and ethics. If the criterion wasn't met in humans, they were to be more heavily reintegrated into into their bodies, whereas Artificial Intelligences were subjected to reprogramming (not unlike retirement reprogramming, but compulsory) to adhere to the mortal and human but still sensible morals.

[[Category:Artificial Intelligence]]

Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2023-01-20T08:00:56Z

Sovereign: /* Original Charter */

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"
</div>

==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]]
[[Category:Under Construction]]

Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2023-01-20T07:54:57Z

Sovereign: /* Governmental Affairs */

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 IV-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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Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2023-01-20T07:54:01Z

Sovereign: /* Finance Division */

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 IV-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===
===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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Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2023-01-20T07:53:06Z

Sovereign: /* Black Heart */

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 IV-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===
===Grief Cubes & Logistics Division===
===Mental Health Division===
===Science Division===
===Governmental Affairs===
===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]
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Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2023-01-20T07:52:50Z

Sovereign: /* Black Heart */

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 IV-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===
===Grief Cubes & Logistics Division===
===Mental Health Division===
===Science Division===
===Governmental Affairs===
===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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HSS Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

2023-01-17T07:38:36Z

Sovereign: /* AI */

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The '''HSS Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov''' is the [[Battlecruiser]] serving as flagship to [[Tomoe Mami]].

== AI ==

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov looks like an older man with receding hair, clad in an archaic uniform, probably modelling after his namesake, who had a big role in leading the Soviet Army during the 2nd World War through eastern Europe and then conquering Berlin itself.

He affects a Russian accent. Even though his body is a Battlecruiser, he is not beyond playful banter when the situation allows for it. He seems to take some fun from the interactions of his crew.

Interestingly enough, his projected person does not convey the gravitas and power his VR avatar does, easily intimidating [[Clarisse]].<ref>{{ch|22|Chapter 22: Shifting Winds}}</ref>

== Physical properties ==

As a Battlecruiser 'Georgy' is the backbone of any fleet, serving as flagship and mobile command post with his SHERMAN providing powerful backup.

=== Fitments ===

* Reinforced passenger compartment (includes emergency space suits; assumed)
* Forcefield generator (assumed)
* Cargo bay (assumed)
* Internal service drones (assumed)
* FTL engine
* Infirmary (assumed)
* Fast/Short Travel Tubes
* Recreational Centres (VR, Holotheatres, others)<ref>{{ch|24|Chapter 24: Historian}}</ref>

=== Weaponry ===

* SHERMAN main cannon
* Gun platforms (FTL-capable; assumed)
* Attack & defence drones (assumed)
* Smart dust (ECM; assumed)

=== Personnel ===

* Captain [[Emilio Rodriguez]]
* assorted personnel required to run a ship of this size, with backups of everything and everyone
* nominally [[Shizuki Ryouko]] serves as a lower-tier staff officer during her covert sabotage mission

== References ==

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Production and Allocation Machine

2023-01-12T09:05:28Z

Sovereign:

More commonly known as PAL, they are one of the (more notable) surviving Volkohov-friendly AIs who participated in the creation of the [[TCF]]. Many surviving AI designers have been radically updated since that time and it is implied that PAL has been as well (though not said directly). Like many of the other surviving AI designers of the TCF, PAL is housed somewhere in [[Governance]] and prefers to keep a low profile.<ref>{{Chn|35|Causality}}</ref>

They currently forecast, report, and advise almost every aspect of the [[human]] economy on Earth and to a large extent on colonies managed by [[Governance]]. Some examples of which are: [[Alloc]] distribution on Earth, resource allocation, and production allocation. PAL uses many tools at its disposal in order to finely tune the economy, notably the price setting of goods and services to incentivize or disincentivize certain modes of spending and production.<ref>{{Chn|1|A Wish}}</ref> <ref>[https://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33142923484/economy-question-and-aliens "Economy question and aliens." '''Incubator Archives''']</ref>

==References==

Machine for Allocation of Representation

2023-01-12T09:03:22Z

Sovereign:

More commonly known as MAR, they are one of the (more notable) surviving Volkohov-friendly AIs who participated in the creation of the [[TCF]]. Many surviving AI designers have been radically updated since that time and it is implied that MAR has been as well (though not said directly). Like many of the other surviving AI designers of the TCF, MAR is housed somewhere in [[Governance]] and prefers to keep a low profile.<ref>{{Chn|35|Causality}}</ref>

They currently handle the creation and appointment and advise the [[Directorate]] on the retirement of both Human and AI Representatives in Governance.<ref>{{Chn|8|Church and State}}</ref>

==References==