I seek all Unionist writers to contribute to the first issue of the soon-to-be bimonthly Union Vanguard! We are a radical publication seeking to further the ideas of Union Nationalism and the future of the Union of Independent Territories! Serve your national interests and get paid to do so!

Pay is 500c/word for new writers. After three issues, pay graduates to 1000c/word and writer earns a position on the Vanguard masthead.

Writers must:
Be literate (obviously), charismatic and interesting
Type accurately
Be able to supply a 150-to-300-word column on a bimonthly basis
Be of pure UIT blood. Serco and Itani need not apply, as the position will not be offered.

The Union Vanguard is not an equal-opportunity employer!

What if they're technically UIT, yet a pirate with UIT standing, and 1.5 UIT parents with .5 Itani? Oh crap, SN's secret! Anyway, it sounds like a cool idea and I know a certain pirate who would love to give an Arrrrticle or two

Let me ask you this: Is a dog with one Schnauzer parent and one Poodle parent a Schnauzer or a Poodle?

The answer? Neither. It is a mutt, and so are you. Your UIT parent did a great disservice to the nation when he or she lay with one of the under-races, for you seem genetically predisposed to strength and wit. You would have made a great Unionist, but I'm afraid you are too tainted by the Itani blood to ever be fully trusted.

However, we'd love to have you aboard as a cartoonist! Racially accurate caricatures encouraged!

Get back to me.

Sorry about the screwiness in here. I was messing around in the thread and somehow deleted Essian's post. Should be back to normal, now.

Just like a Serco, messing about in UIT business. Where, I might add, he does not belong.

Starbucks WANTS to join! But I guess a cartoon position would be *okay*...

Stick it in your pipe and smoke it, radical. Without the Serco and Itani, the UIT would BE nothing and HAVE nothing. We owe our prosperity to the exploitation of their wars and technology. No TRUE, self-respecting UIT would disregard the important roles the Serco and Itani have played in shaping our destiny.

!) He sounds like an Akanese. All he needs is the zeal to kill off the other "races" now

B) Keep talking like that and the Akanese will take care of your tongue for you >_>

C) Quiet they tongue about mixed blood, radical.

Luckily, the Serco do not recognize the concept of freedom of speech. We'll just imprison the writers.

Wait. I'm excluded from something ELSE?
I reserve the right to snicker and poke fun at the upcoming publication, then.

What the F**K are you talking about, Dyhelical Twerp? Our technology has been our own for a LONG time. We're the ones who discovered Xithricite and developed Xirite, which is what fuels the War these days. The Serco biotech is seldom used, and the Itani tech we do not really use at all. Get your head out of where you put it up and get some perspective; the Serco and the Itani are only good as clients to exploit, and the Union existed just fine before we ran into either of those idiots (again)!

Count me in as a writer, Essian.

Very good! I see your spirit and appreciate the strength of your conviction!

The truth is that the Serco merely want us back as slaves. They can't get the concept of our independence through their titanium-encased skulls! As for the Itani, they are so absorbed with examining the back wall of that philosophical dead-end alley Eo drove them down that they can't see us soaring over their heads!

We must teach them of our newfound strength of will, and the sense of purpose forged by our superior blood! The Union will no longer be dealt with as a prodigal child, but instead as the rightful heirs to the galaxy that we are!

Hmmm...what if i paint my ship yellow?

:p

Gees...why you cutting it down only to UIT?
UIT like me :)
and TPG love me =D

So...i could be a...er....half-UIT :p

We have no need for human slaves. You need to really open your eyes and look around you instead of admiring your own navel, figuratively speaking.

The replacement of the skeletal structure in the process of cyborgisation is not usually done using solid metal alloys, but ceramics (of varying composition), closely resembling the human one (since that is almost the non plus ultra).

Given that we all stem from the same base race, our 'blood' is more or less interchangeable.
There was not sufficient time for major upheavals in the evolutionary process since the closing of the wormhole, and minor mutations do not count.

I suggest you do not let your fascist zeal get the better of you and publish the actual facts instead of semi-digested pseudo-facts you presume to have found in your morning tea's leaves.

-- Mifune Toshiro kanchou, head of MedRAR at the First University of Terra II

Essian's strange, and that's coming from me, your UIT guy. Probably should begin the hunt now..

Yeah...I'd have to agree with you guys on that--Essan has lost it. While I'm not a big fan of the Dominon, and I'm still a bit miffed about those Itani-blockades a few months back, Essan's fascist zeal is most decidedly not Union-Like.

RelayeR watches the situation and it's participants closely as she begins to plan new REI contract discussions with TPG.

"The Vulture is looking better and better", she muses.