Samson : Note 1

I was born in a test tube. Can’t say I feel any particularly way about it, maybe some base distaste for being a crime against nature from the day I was slated to be conceived.  I have no brothers and especially no sisters, for I am a clone and the term brother couldn’t begin to describe what it feels like to be around one of me. Humans talk about love, love for family, love for strangers. But they don’t know respect, understanding, knowing someone not by word or action but by smell and thoughts unspoken. This “respect” is fostered in the litters in which we were born. 24 man-made souls, from 872 capital ships, raised over a period of 14 years, and taught all the basic essentials of life, mostly what we are, what we are meant to do, and the meaning behind doing so. The meaning is the most important, not because having a purpose in life is important, but because that’s what you’re suppose to understand to avoid being weaned from the litter. Out of 24, seven of us are bound to wash out and those bound to wash out rarely turn the age of 10.

“For we are the glory of mankind.

We fight in their footsteps and through the mouths of angels.

We bring the rains of hell upon the foul things that pollute the motherland with their very existence.

We make life short and bleak for those who fester under the sun and below rocks and even under the sea if there is yet more evils to be found there. ”

And so on and so forth until our lives are ground into dust by the reclaimer protocol that claims our corpses when the enemy has finally slain us. It is, as we like to say, a brutish existence not becoming a softer toned men. Softer tone being that of our human handlers, some too anxious to join the battlefield in glistening armor and flaming sword. We try to discourage the spirit the best we can in those that seem a bit too, “into it”, as the softy’s would say, so at least only those fully trained and ready in body and soul can stand in the darkness and freedom as we do, as we have been born for.

Some of our a soft tone handlers, most from divisions not considered to be part of Noah but part of a greater slice of the government with many branches that my kind are vaguely privy to, would often go through great pains to personally ask why us Samson’s, lauded for our great intelligence, seem content with our “grim fates.” Why we don’t rebel? Which even now, several years into this war, is a primary concern of those who distance themselves from the institution that is Noah.

I have answered this question a few times. Usually with a wizened laugh, stating their concerns are drowned under several facets and sufficiently buried underneath several layers of reasons and understanding. The soft tones have misconceptions about the nature of intelligence, inherently so being very much far removed from what is necessary for survival. For humanity intelligence is merely the sum of facts gathered purposely under a keen mind. In mans natural habitat, the universe simply yields results and the only wall to overcome is the ignorance of the unknown. But for the rest of us, archiving facts means little, and nothing “yields” unless savagely broken. To know, to study, and to ultimately overcome an intelligence keen enough to evade your pursuit, or better fight back, is the greatest show of mental prowess. So they (not all) inherently misunderstood what it means to have a firm head on ones shoulders, at least from our perspective.

Now you can blame our ‘nature’ on the weaning, or our indoctrination from a young age. Maybe its the genes, though no one can deny we were bred to be aggressive, if not eager to spill and cause mayhem. Each layer of reasoning has its toll, though I’ve never meet a Samson to complain about it. The assumptions that we’re either happy to be used or seething with bitterness, is a misconception. To rephrase, we are tools, that much is obvious, but we do not take orders for the love or hate of it. It’s not the adrenaline that rides our veins, or any particular high or thrill that ultimately allows us to swallow the heavy pill of our fates. As a Patriarch is a man, not of science, math, or reading, but of necessity, if not mere students of disciplines long forgotten to time and the Exodus, we Samson’s are students of war. And like any good student, it is not the pleasure, or the ease that drives us, but the necessity of the subject in question. Because someone must learn it, we are merely the volunteers.

Can anyone imagine? Full war-time production of Samson’s can reach, 20928 at any given time, with a six-month delay between batches for each ship can only contain at max 3 litters of potential troops. Not including the ones who are weaned, this method of thinking, some may call even twisted, is shared by each and every one of them. Through potentially 20928 life experiences, or 62784 souls at max capacity. This is why we are clones, not brothers. Clones can differ in behavior, temperament, thought process, and can even deal with variations in environment, but eventually…. you are what you are. And if the core is right, ultimately they’ll avoid getting weaned, and the soft tones will declare another victory for the glory of man.

WuzzDate: Avatar Roku’s Greatest Failure.

Avatar Roku said his biggest failure was not dealing with Sozin when he had the chance. But knowing what we know now, I can say with 200 years worth of foresight that Roku was wrong. Again.

Avatar Roku’s greatest failure was not working with Sozin. A failure Aang fixed 100 years later, not by beating Ozai but by working with Fire Lord Zuko and creating republic city, a dream Sozin had for the world 200 years ago.

First look at the parallels.

Fire Lord Sozin, 200+ years ago had a problem. The fire nation had evolved past being badass version of the air nomads and fully into a industrial and imperial economic power house. Prosperity never seen before brought on a population boom, massive changes in quality of living and a new era of peace and prosperity. Sozin saw all this and thought “why only the fire nation has to live this good.”

Keep in mind that Sozin was no more of a bad guy than season 1 zuko and even then his motivation taken at face value is far more nobler than zuko’s quest to restore his honor. It was Utopian, a utopia rejected by Roku out of principle and tradition.

Fast forward 200 years later. War has left many areas of the Earth kingdom colonized by the fire nation. At first Fire Lord Zuko declared his intentions to restore the traditional model of the world, completing his promise to the avatar. Unfortunately things weren’t that simple. Under colonization the combined earth kingdom and fire nation citizens actually prospered , just as Sozin predicted they would 100 years ago. Zuko faced with this new “society” chose to preserve it and ultimately asked the avatar to agree. Aang accepted Zuko’s vision and Republic City stands as a beacon of light and true unity for the 4 nations (technically 5 but meh).

Roku in his failings to trust a friend prevented Republic City from being built 200 years earlier, denying the world what would have been 200 years of technology and societal progress.

But to understand how deep this failing goes there is even more parallels to follow.

Roku and Sozin were friends, close friends. Roku said some friendships transcends life times. Roku should have known Sozin and trusted his intention. He should have saw past the dogma and saw the fire nation as more than an imperial force waiting to happen.

Now lets take Aang and Zuko 100 years later. Zuko did bad near ruthless and reckless things to obtain the avatar. Despite that Aang recognized back in season 1 that Zuko was not really a bad guy and they could have been friends a 100 years ago.

Now wait. When Aang said this, we thought he was talking about his fire nation buddy he had 100 years ago. It was almost a generality for “the fire nation can’t be that bad”. Fast forward to when Roku showed Aang that he was good friends with a happy and playful Prince Sozin I don’t think anyone made this critical connection. When Aang said “he and zuko could have been friends in another time” the authors were talking about Roku and Sozin and how their friendship transcended time and even nationalities (just as Aangs relationship with Monk Gyatso transcended Gyatso relationship with Roku).

Can it be thus easily said that the relationship and partnership between Avatar Aang and Firelord Zuko should have also been what have happened between Avatar Roku and Firelord Sozin 100 years ago?

Now look at Sozin and Zuko.

Sozin was a good man and a good firelord. He inherited and over saw the fire nations industrial age. He was an idealist that believed in spreading the wealth around. Though incapable of seeing the perceived fault in his actions he thought it was his and his nations destiny to lead the world to the next age. When Avatar Roku, his friend rejected him not once but twice, the second time leading to a pride crushing bitter defeat, Sozin went down a dark path. Having been forsaken by his brother and de-fanged by the Avatar, Sozin had 25 years to harbor darker and darker feelings. Which all came to a head when given a choice between saving a friends life or fulfilling his dream…he chose his dream. He spent the last years of his life being consumed by the search for the avatar, even wiping out the air nomads to ensure the cycle is broken.

Zuko was rejected by his father and humiliated before his entire nation. He was a good kid but ultimately felt forced to do very wrong things in pursuit of his dream. He was nearly consumed by his search and later the promise of capture of the avatar. He even sacrifice the hope of removing his scar in order to fight Katara and the Aang in hopes of finally pleasing his father.

Roku found contempt for Sozins ideals, choosing his duty as the Avatar over his own brother which ultimately cost him his life, his brother, and his legacy as an Avatar. If Roku had stuck by Sozin, taking his fire nation point of view and using his experience traveling the world and being a part of every people group in the avatar world to refine Sozin’s ideals…who knows what the avatar world would look like 200 years later in Korra’s time.

December 17, 2128

Hello my old friend, though we have called each other many times over the past 20 years, I can’t help but miss the old emails we used to send to each other. I had to reframe myself from typing a message to you yesterday because my wife would have had a fit considering it was our 20th anniversary. I still can’t believe how many things have changed, kids, wives, hell the higher-ups even allowed me to have an intern.

Speaking of work, though my progress is hitting somewhat of a brick wall, my more talented young intern Ms. Christine Baily has been quit eager to make some headway. I hate to bore you with my work, but I consider it a crime for an old friend like you not to know what I’ve been doing all these years. So with Christine’s help I am writing a comprehensive thesis on my work, which is hopefully both educational and easy to read. I’m afraid I may not be able to finish a project like that considering my current workload. However, Christine seems quite anxious to have our work written down for the common man, so she will defiantly finish what I started.

Though I have had more time to ponder current events, I still value your insight into what is happening. I do envy your Masters in Journalism. A major case for concern, is the language that I hear from friends who are now working overseas. Apparently within the World Affiliate of Multinational Nations there is talk of isolating and ultimately penalizing governments that choose not to join WAMN in quick order. WithCanada leaving the NAU to join WAMN and many nations still undecided about joining WAMN, I feel that tensions might rise needlessly. Oh sorry about your site man, I defiantly think it was wrong of the government to shut it down.

-December 17, 2128- Becker Bradley Jr. to Erik Riddler Burton. Only a handful of countries have yet to join the World Affiliate of Multinational Nations (formerly the AESU). The leader of the WAMN President Yaw Ben Kartwright, holds a meeting with legislators of  WAMN to discuss future actions with “transitional” states.

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November 24, 2108

Happy Thanksgiving, I believe you have much to be thankful for. I read the second email you sent after the 15th of September. Yes I will be attending the wedding in December. Now on to less loftier matters, the speech pretty much confirmed a lot of conspiracy theories you picked up on the web, some I believe myself. The African European State Union, AESU for short, is real and is happening. The paper work will take a while, but when they get that conglomerate up and running we are going to have a big shape up of regional powers. At worse this may cause panic, which will show up as tension, and may escalate to something more. This is pretty much unprecedented, no one really knows what to make of it. If you want to know my theory (which you probably do), the old OWG is rearing its head on this one. Many of the OWG are praising this move and I can’t seem to blame them, the world just got smaller.

P.S, if you’re going to send pictures of your supermodel wife to my email, the email of a soon to be married man, at least make sure you’re in more than one of those pictures.

-November 24, 2108- Erik Riddler Burton to Becker Bradley Jr. On November 27th, 2108 the French Prime Minister also severing as the president of the EU speech was leaked to the public. In this speech the Prime Minister called nationalism the root of all evil, and called for all nations to make way for a new age, where the people will live on one earth and under one sovereign government.

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September 15, 2108

Don’t feel so guilty, I couldn’t have read your email even if you sent it earlier. I’ve been working on a theory on synthesizing atoms into molecules using very complex magnetic fields. Ok you probably don’t want the long explanation on how you can possible do that, so I’ll go directly to a topic of interest. But I do have to say congratulations on getting married. I see you have come a long way from drunken senior at the freshmen orientation party. Be sure to remember to invite me to the wedding.

I still haven’t gotten over NATO being disbanded; I mean wow times have changed huh? From what I’ve been able to glean, it appears that the EU and AU are discussing the nature of their organization and how the UN will play in the future. With the CAU (Central Asian Union), PAU (Pacific Asian Union), MEC (Middle East Coalition) being considered the concept of single states unrepresented by a larger body is becoming unlikely. The UN was originally an organization that facilitates relationships between individual states. However, with a lack of individual states and the relevance of large international organization, can the UN actually act in the best interest of states still unaligned with their neighbor?

P.S I can’t help but think we are going in the wrong direction. Maybe it will all work out in the end.

-September 15, 2108- Becker Bradley Jr. to Erik Riddler Burton. The French Prime Minister, severing as the president of the EU at the time (recent EU laws allow Prime Ministers of individual EU states to be appointed to the Presidency for a 28 month term), invites the AU leaders to a special two months long conference to discuss the future of the EU and AU in the international stage. The closing speech will be televised at all cable and local stations during 11th of November, 2108. However a month later the EU cancels the televising of the speech.

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April 2, 2108

Becker I greatly apologize for the lateness of this email, a lot has happened since our last exchange. I have a fiancée now, and the wedding plans, my web column…so much stuff I need to take care of! But at last now I have finally time to address concerns you are probably too busy to truly meditate on. Congratulations on your Nobel Prize!! I did get a chance to read that article concerning your work, unfortunately I did not understand a word of it, but I wasn’t a science major at USC like you were. Now concerning the meat of this message; I have to say I too am startled at the speed in which our world is changing. Though many would say “progressing”… I leave the word choice to you my friend. Do not be mistaken what Doc. Trenton and those who have published similar pieces of work are suggesting, is a One World Government. By proxy the United Nations, the largest international body to date, would be a logical starting place for these reforms. The idea flaunted a year ago is now a full-blown political movement, global in retrospect. So the idea of reforming the UN, though grass-roots at best, is not completely out of the question.

But the movement soon realized that they will be hitting a brick wall, unable to adapt a true One World Government, or OWG for short, through the UN. It might not make a lot of sense inherently, but it is quite common sense to people who understand the nature of the UN. The UN, despite the bureaucracy, is still a democracy with very loose and limited powers over the individual laws of member states. In which case you might as well say it has no powers over its individual members, except the power provided by enforcement via sanctions. Even then, sanctions, if even voted on, can only “strongly” persuade a nation from its original course; which again assumes said nation even cares. UN cannot be vested more power beyond its initial democracy and even if it did; we by all means would love to see the UN actually enforce these powers (which you might have deduced it can’t).

Many would argue that if all nations adopt the same laws unilaterally, according to whatever guidelines that come out of the UN of course, that the UN’s job will be made easier and we would have a true OWG. The plan coined the Universal Constitution is a logical idea, but lacks foresight. As I, like many others, have pointed out; even if you do get everyone to adopt a Universal Constitution unilaterally to avoid the mess of having each nation vote to adopt it, than by what means do you ensure that there isn’t 100 different versions of a legislative document that you couldn’t get anyone to vote on in the first place. Not only would enforcing one version of that document be impossible, finding a version of the Universal Constitution that all the states of the world can agree on will defiantly never happen.

So thus a new, even more efficient approach was taken, where the UN simple recognized “nations bond together by treaty or alliance forming a union. With the exception of alliances formed solely for the purpose of co-military dependence or trade.”Effectively allowing the EU, AU, and the USAN to be voting blocks with the weight of all its member states, instead of observer status members or only allowed full participation during certain occasions at best, and also effectively reducing the number of countries needed to pass resolutions without getting rid of vital votes. The perfect start to the OWG, since now individual nations held less sway over the decision-making power of the UN. Pressure for nations in the Middle East, Asia, and even the USA with North American region, to become part of a multinational organization sharing a common currency, possessing a legislative body, common borders, courts, free trade, and joint military is mounting.

-April 2, 2108- Erik Riddler Burton to Becker Bradley Jr. Becker never got a chance to read it until September 1st, 2108. NATO was disbanded August 29, 2108, because of concern over non-EU nations having influence over the global policy of the EU. America, Canada, and Mexico form the NAU, North American Union, August 30, 2108.

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May 30, 2107

To all confused readers. This post and similar post I, the wuzzman, will make like it are not part of the main story, i.e Story of a David, but are separate entities which are given their own categories. Please enjoy this short story which will be updated once per week and do come back for other new stories or shorts posted through out the weekday. Again sorry for any confusion, I do enjoy your rage too much.

“We lack the humility of our fathers”, my dad tells me after reading Doc. Trenton article. While I understand why it has gone through most intellectual and political circles, the fact that copies of it can be found in the local newspaper is quit startling. Though I do not have the time to follow the news lately, recent work at the lab gives me hope we can make major headway in large-scale atom realignment.However I do not wished to go uninformed for too long, so can you please tell me your opinion of this quote;

“The worlds inequality can be explained through simple deduction. Are we not divided by nations, along borders, govern by laws, that inherently ignore the fact that we all live on the same planet? Competition between countries, which is all but natural considering the nature of a nation, will produce winners and losers, and the losers will inherently be the very people who these states claim to protect. Why is it then a surprise, that a large portion of the population in any society remain in poverty? Yet simply knowing this does little good, we have known for years this is the outcome of our political system(s). It is only by doing, through appropriate action, that we can come to an absolute solution that benefits the people. First, by acknowledging that a divided world is inherently an evil world, lacking freedom and equality that we the people deserve. Second, and by far the most important thing to acknowledge, is that we all live on one planet, and for the benefit of every living person in that planet, should be a government that protects all the people of that planet.

P.S Good points you raised last time.

-May 30, 2107- Becker Bradley Jr to Erik Riddler Burton. Becker Bradley earned the nickname the Modern day Alchemist during an AP science article published in July 4, 2107, concerning his work in magnetic fields and atomic bonds..

May 26, 2107

To all confused readers. This post and similar post I, the wuzzman, will make like it are not part of the main story, i.e Story of a David, but are separate entities which are given their own categories. Please enjoy this short story which will be updated once per week and do come back for other new stories or shorts posted through out the weekday. Again sorry for any confusion, I do enjoy your rage too much.

When did nationalism become the great social evil plaguing the 22nd century? How do you answer such a question, considering what is about to take place on the world stage? We the people are not asked to ponder these questions, neither are we asked to consider the implications; yet my curiosity cannot be simply set aside for the sake of change. But we have changed, if very little, but through the subtle waves of what transpired before. Did not our fathers defeat Hitler, end the era of the Black Curtain, and fought the good fight against the social injustices of their time, yet even they knew, with a great humbleness that their efforts, though large, will not change the fundamental issues of humanity.

We approached the 22nd century after fighting the good fight against organizations that wished the civilized world harm, yet the fundamental issues remained unsolved. The symptoms of injustice, simple became the cause, for the poor of 2001 were the same poor of 2101. Economic fluctuations that caused upheavals of administrations, many times whole governments, in the frenzy for answers lacking hard solutions. Were we not still divided by social-economic class, race, religion, and even world-view? Were these not issues that the world should have left behind in the 21st century?

– May 26, 2107- Erik Riddler Burton, American Web Columnist, age 31. Sends email to a young Becker Bradley Jr, Researcher in Magnet Fields and Atom Manipulation, age 26. After reading article written by British college professor Doc. Edward Curt Trenton the 3rd published on January 30th, 2101.