Core Planets
The central planets are a wonderland of peace
and technology. All citizens have enough to eat.
They work in glistening skyscrapers and live in high-
rise apartment buildings. The grass is green and the
skies are clear and no one wants for anything. That’s
if you believe the Alliance propaganda.
To be fair, the propaganda is mostly true. Even
the poor who live on the Core worlds rarely want for
shelter or food. Still, contrary to what the Alliance
might want everyone to think, not everyone on the
Core worlds is well-to-do. Those who aren’t wealthy
don’t find life much better than those living out on
the Rim. They may be better schooled, and their
work might not involve dirt collecting beneath their
fingernails, but there are plenty of folk who don’t
much like their lot in life.
Trapped in repetitive, unimaginative jobs,
viewing nothing but the four low walls of a cube all
day, they have the watchful eye of the Alliance on
them at every turn. There is so much surveillance
on a Core world “to prevent crime and ensure the
safety of citizens” that almost everything a person
does is recorded on a monitor somewhere.
The authorities will tell you that crime is almost
non-existent on the Central Planets, since their
scanners are almost everywhere. Still, folk being
folk, there are some who manage to find a way to
poke the Alliance in its electronic eye now and then.
Most folk on the Core worlds are content. They
lead comfortable lives, with time and leisure to
spend with their families. Their children all have
access to the best quality education and health care.
They have found the peaceful, prosperous existence
that mankind has been seeking since he left the
Garden of Eden. If they have to trade away some
of their freedom to get this, they would tell you it
was worth it.
These are the same folk who can’t understand
why other folk on the outer worlds fought so hard
against it.
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