[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "BPGD: Diqiu"     Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences Featured Documents Topic #267
Reading Topic #267, reply 13
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22374 posts
Nov-30-13, 11:45 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
13. "From the Chief's Inbox"
In response to message #0
 
   LAST EDITED ON Dec-14-13 AT 11:27 AM (EST)
 
From: "Avatar Korra" <korra!mir.unitedrepublic.dq>
To: "Benjamin D. Hutchins, Chief of International Police Operations" <gryphon!ipo.zc>
Subject: I'm sorry, what?
Date: Thu Mar 18 2410 16:32:01 +0400 GST

Gryph,

Did the people who compiled the Babylon Foundation's Galactic Gazetteer entry for Diqiu get their information about the Water Tribes from someone in Sanirajak? 'Cause it's completely wrong in several important particulars.

1) The Northern and Southern Water Tribes have been separate countries de jure as well as de facto since 171 ASC. I ought to know, I made 'em that way.

2) The Southern Water Tribe does so have a chief of its own. At the moment her name is Aariak. The Southern Council of Elders in Nanisivik advises her on policy decisions, not Inarik. She doesn't answer to him, either (that's something else they like to claim, when they acknowledge that she exists in the first place).

I ask whether your researchers got their info from Sanirajak because the first point, and the thing about how the South gets by with "a sort of amplified tribal council", read exactly like the official noise that comes out of the North's Department of State sometimes. They've been trying half-heartedly to walk back the separation of the tribes ever since I did it, but they never get beyond sending out a bunch of weaksauce press releases everybody always ignores. It's sad, really. Like some kind of political phantom limb syndrome.

On further review, I don't think the existing BPGD writeup is entirely northern propaganda. There's some truth here that I doubt they'd have passed along - the thing about stereotypes, for instance, and I mean, they probably wouldn't have put in the part about no "Great Chief" (n.b. not a real title) having been fool enough to try and set policy for the south in a hundred years. I admit I got a laugh out of that.

It looks to me like your researcher called someone at the Northern government in Sanirajak, got their usual crap about how there's only one Water Tribe government "but we generally let the Southerners go their own way, it's easier," sensed that it was crap, and took his best shot at figuring out what was actually the case, but he really missed the mark. He could've sorted it out properly just by calling Nanisivik. Heck, or Republic City, they've got ambassadors from both tribes there, they know what the score is. It's sloppy work is all I'm saying. I know your guys can do better.

I bitch because I care!

Lots of love,
Korra

P.S. When are you guys coming out here to see your granddaughter? She's totally adorable. We'll leave the light on for you.


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 BPGD: Diqiu [View All] Gryphonadmin Oct-03-13 TOP
   RE: BPGD: Diqiu drakensis Oct-04-13 1
      RE: BPGD: Diqiu Gryphonadmin Oct-04-13 2
          RE: BPGD: Diqiu Murdock Dec-06-13 14
   RE: BPGD: Diqiu Mercutio Oct-04-13 3
      RE: BPGD: Diqiu Gryphonadmin Oct-04-13 4
          RE: BPGD: Diqiu SpottedKitty Oct-04-13 8
      RE: BPGD: Diqiu pjmoyermoderator Oct-04-13 5
          RE: BPGD: Diqiu Gryphonadmin Oct-04-13 6
          RE: BPGD: Diqiu Mercutio Oct-04-13 7
   An Aside on International Relations Gryphonadmin Oct-05-13 9
      RE: An Aside on International Relations The Traitor Oct-09-13 10
          RE: An Aside on International Relations Mercutio Oct-09-13 11
              RE: An Aside on International Relations eriktown Oct-10-13 12
  From the Chief's Inbox Gryphonadmin Nov-30-13 13
   IPO Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Dec-14-13 15
      RE: IPO Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Jul-31-14 16
      RE: IPO Internal Communication Zemyla Aug-01-14 17
          RE: IPO Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Aug-01-14 18


Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)