[Noisebridge-discuss] [SPAM] Request for input

[Alex Buie]

I'm certainly hooked! :) That sounds like an _awesome_ story.


-alex


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Mitchel McAllister
<xonimmortal at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'm working on a project set in the future a few years, and wanted input
> on whether the following excerpt sounded appropriate.
>
>      “I see,” she said, subdued. “Even if the political situation were
> removed from the equation, I would still be unable to contact MakerHub. It
> is outside my communication area.”
>
>      The orbital station was virtually outlaw territory, since being
> founded and built by a coalition of hackerspaces across the world. To date,
> few of the remaining planet-bound governments recognized their
> independence, and United Sol Federation was still trying to force the
> habitat to allow teams of “inspectors”. Officially, the habitat was
> considered in violation of international treaties, since the coalition did
> not seek official permissions and vetting before beginning construction.
>
>      Kelly and his sister, with their friends at the San Francisco
> hackerspace, Noisebridge, had been on the team to design the first payload
> launched. Noisebridge had been the winner of an extended, heated bidding
> war via a BitCoin auction.
>
>      The first phase of the habitat's skeleton had been half-finished
> before anyone knew it existed. Construction had continued, even with
> several nations mounting intelligence operations against the coalition. The
> members of the coalition had delighted in leading agents of multiple
> governments on a merry chase, with false launch sites, incorrect dates and
> times, and even several freight manifests that had been pure fiction. On
> one particularly hilarious occasion, the combined air forces of three
> nations had attempted to blockade a launch, only to find their jets
> inexplicably going through a complicated (and bladder-emptying) stunt
> flight routine.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Reverend Mik McAllister
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