01-16-2021, 08:50 PM | #1 |
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Centrum Services
I've gotten to wondering about the Centrum Services. I did some searches and here is what I've come up with:
Centrum Services, canonical: Agriculture Ecology Education Energy Health Interworld Justice Logistics Military Mining Transport Uplift
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01-16-2021, 08:52 PM | #2 | ||||
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Re: Centrum Services
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01-16-2021, 08:53 PM | #3 |
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Re: Centrum Services
Other “Services”
Non-Centrum Services: InfinityPatrol: Penetration Service Intervention Service Scout Service? United Kingdom (Homeline): Special Conveyor Service
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01-16-2021, 09:11 PM | #4 |
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Re: Centrum Services
Some comments and observations.
Agriculture - I'd assume this includes fishing and ranching also. Would hunting be a significant food source for Centrum? Ecology - Pollution control, obviously. Did Terraustralis (Australia) have similar invasive species problems? Is the Ecology Service uptight about that to this day? Do they do the weather reporting? Education - Runs the Lyceums, which is everyone from age 10 to 16, so it is huge. Probably runs primary schools also. Does it do any post-secondary education, or is that all part of the respective Services? How much inter-disciplinary academic work is there? Energy Health - Obviously medical care, but likely cares about fitness and lifestyles also. Who actually cooks and serves the food Agriculture produces? Agriculture, Health, a Nutrition Service, or just a subdivision of the predominant Service in a location? Interworld Justice Logistics - Do they do manufacturing, or just storage and distribution? If not Logistics, how consolidated or divided are the industrial and production Services? Military - Has never fought a peer competitor, so may be more about counter-insurgency and conquering lower tech opponents. Mining - Always bickering with Ecology? Transport - Heavily involved with Logistics, obviously. Uplift
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01-16-2021, 09:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Centrum Services
Speculative Services:
Evaluation - One I am working on as the reason Centrum Light is Light. More later. Information or News - Is this part of Education or its own thing? How much importance does Centrum put on having people know what is going on in the worlds?
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01-17-2021, 07:58 AM | #6 |
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Re: Centrum Services
I don't see it; it's desperately inefficient in terms of resources expended per edible calorie. On the other hand, we know Centrum's population is still "small" after the big die-off post 1902, so they probably aren't feeling the pressure for living space that many advanced worlds do.
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