Refounding Scouts and Charging Katya's Line

What's necessary for charging the Nomarche line?

Some things we know about stat caps and ascension

Some things we know about models for charging the three bloodlines and about options for charging Katya's line in the "charge in paralell, one political hegemon" scenario

Questions/concerns to consider

What infrastructure is needed? How to build it?

Interactions of the three realms

Funding

Suggestions

Put Scouts in charge of the jumpgates (not currrently a function of government, and we have the toy to make it happen). Possibly in conjunction with putting them in charge of some other things. (Ciernan)

Could AIs support the Scouts or take over some of their original mission? (Hippocrates)

Some thoughts from Katya.

Capsule summary of Scouts from Jim's day

Plan for refounding Scouts (in progress)

Mission statement

Structure (long term)

Logistics of refounding (and short-term structure)

• Recruit adults to run troops and kids to be in them Jim and Katya are presently working on recruiting people to be Scoutmasters/run troops locally, and to be planetary coordinators/contact people. Since we don't have Manuals yet, this is ground-laying work (found troops, do appropriate activities, some informal merit badge info), with more official structure to come later. (We're doing this on planets as we get to them.)
• Secure funding and financial infrastructure We're looking into financial/legal help with a Foundation, so we can get donations from philannthropists and have somewhere to keep them. (So far, this has been looked into on New Light.)
• Get Katya associated with Scouting in the public eye Sparky Cola is starting some Scout-themed ad campaigns, including both Girl and Boy Scouts, and both Jim and Katya. (Mostly in Blue, through Slatifant Beeges; Red version started up but less spiffy; ditto Crux, but they're lower tech, so probably ad campaigns are less pervasive.)
• Production and distribution of Scout Manuals Jim is working on a research project to construct Scout manuals; he expects help from Geoffrey Oxford in producing them when that's possible. Jim has in hand: a Scoutmaster manual, 2 Boy Scout manuals (one Jim's), 3 Girl Scout manuals (Dylanna's + 2 constructed by her). In general, it's not possible to read a manual unless it's keyed to you.
• Create the official organization and get people into it This is dependant on having successfully formed proto-troops, finding adults to coodinate at local & planetary levels, and having Manual production up and running. It will also take funding, logistics/administration, probably some legal hoop-jumping, and some more decision-making about the philosophical stuff.
• Scout troops resident on Hippocrates
• Building-with-a-scout-symbol-flag?
• What about Dylanna?

How you can help

• Assist with Scout Manual research project (ask Jim for details; it's mostly tech-y).

How will Katya-and-Scouts fit into the larger three-thrones picture?

Current status of negotiations with Donella, Jayla, and non-bloodline political leaders:

• Donella Melcamot
2781.199: We spoke with Donella about the jump gates. She was concerned that the potential for opening gates would increase Red/Blue tension. She is interested in opening the Nurl/Juice gate. We also spoke to her about marrying Shaddam. She didn't like that idea and refused.

2781.300: We spoke to Donella again about unification. She has been considering ways to bring the other Linked Worlds into the Blue Hegemony. However, she thinks that we do not want to hear plans which do not involve her marrying Shaddam, and thus she did not tell us about her plans. She would like assistance in bringing other systems into the Blue Hegemony; she asked whether we could assist in influencing Lord Stannis or the Architect.

• Jayla
Jayla says she will not disrupt any plans that we make. Jayla seems less interested in having all three Hegemons work together on a grand plan; Katya wonders if she thinks each line should make their own plan. Jayla would like to devote half of her line's share of the Brochoah fund into rebuilding Vircus. Katya isn't sure what Jayla thinks, and thinks we should speak to her about it.
• Shaddam Marchant (and Viktor Marchant)
2781.249: We spoke with Shaddam about the jump gates. He was particularly concerned with the Crux/Nonesuch jump gate, and had several ideas regarding the politics of opening that gate. Katya forgets what was said about the gates to Stannis Law and Tinara; perhaps Hippocrates, Ciernan, or Ruehan remember? Katya also doesn't remember if he said anything about the potential for opening jump gates increasing the Red/Blue tension, as Donella suggested that it would.

2781.249: We also spoke to Shaddam about marrying Donella. He didn't like that idea. He wants to discuss various options to the Plan with us, and we agreed. We will speak about this again later.

2781.343: Jim and Katya spoke to Viktor. He has a crazy "braid" charging-the-lines plan which involves swapping the blood lines in and out of two political thrones. He pointed out flaws in our plans, and they pointed out flaws in his plan, and we both agreed to think about it. Viktor is also worried about Red being swallowed in a merger, and is more concerned about there being a Red-like Hegemony than about there being just one Hegemony.

• Lord Stannis
2765.023: We spoke with Lord Stannis about opening the jump gates in his system. He is not interested in opening the gate to the Well. He will think about opening the gate to Tinara. We also spoke to him about the unification of Red and Blue. He is not happy with the idea, and thinks that it will be an impossible task to accomplish.
• The Architect
We haven't spoken to the Architect about this since the Flames.
• Outworlds leadership
Note: The Outworlds are not a single political unit. 2781.264: We spoke to the Crux Parliament about opening the jumpgates. They (and Pierogi) chose to open the Crux/Pierogi gate; they are thinking about opening the Crux/Nonesuch gate. We spoke to members of Parliament and envoys from the other Outworlds about urging Red and Blue to settle their differences.