Looking back to see if the coup forces pursued them, Sgt. Roopgly smiled. Melting into the obscurity the forest presented to all, the Commandant’s saboteurs, with their weapons clutched tightly in soiled bruised hands, glanced back to the flames , dust, and falling debris littering their recent tomb. Commenting somberly, as he jumped into the brush growing along the descending banks of a fast flowing creek, Sgt Roopgly said, “ We are all headed home ….. Sir!”

Who is the individual that is most important to you? What is that something special that is most important to you? We all feel. We all feel, that there are individuals in our life who, if they left us….. our life would end. And there are some things, opinions, sentiments and ideologies which transcend the plane of being important. As humanoids we internalize the environment surrounding us. It is in our nature, to support and protect that, which is important to us. Given the opportunity or the ability to deal with a situation effectively, humanoids harvest the resources aiding them” to guard our prizes “. We all have certain amounts of resources at our disposal, which are either scarce or in abundance.  These resources or lack thereof, may come in the form of a home, equipment, access to monies, knowledge, source of employment, reliable transportation, medical remedies and protection. Of course, there are many more to mention. However, out there in the immense universe, in the world of Anna 7, there exist one formal organization whose sole purpose is to control and utilize this most important resource of all. That is time. Time is the resource we all abuse and then lose. But when it is lost, it can never be reclaimed.

The 22nd Consortium Triumvirate is focused on ‘ the use of its time’. The history of the Consortium began with the abuse of every living man, woman and child, regardless of humanoid origin. Like all revolutions it commenced with ‘ the haves ‘ sticking to ‘ the have nots ‘……..in a real big way. The intolerance of business CEO”s, CCO’s and their like, had long earned the unwanted attention of economist, who always played third fiddle to the sorry actions taken by those great titans of industry. The economist observed for centuries the maligned execution of the top leaders, operating mega-stellar companies, fumbling about with their friends and their like-thinking cousins in government. The populist cried out for accountability. But the inabilities of these unconcerned louts rolled on, committing debacles after debacle of ineptitude and selfishness. The people in the streets and in organizations crying like deserted babes in the woods, turned to groups of very vocal economist for affirmation. The people sensed this attitude of these titans of interstellar industry heading in the wrong direction.

The economist revolted. The revolt began slowly but steadily as the omissions of the two aforementioned parties, actually reached an all time high with even the common man. Sick and tired of their public servants not doing their jobs, the populist proudly listed their discrepancies: no due diligence, which is an ingredient for success in project management; no use of critical thinking throughout the processes and when these idiots formulated ‘ their wonderful ideas ‘, they under funded these projects. These brilliant government servants also did not allowed enough time for proper inspection during construction. These are the discrepancies the Presidential commissioned review board found, while investigating the fourth mining disaster on an asteroid extraction operation which cost the lives of 535 miners and their families. One surviving family member was quoted outside the official government inquiry room saying, “ These fat cats didn’t even follow up on the construction of the ventilation shafts in the mines, much less the families homes! Who knew they were connected? …… Those bastards should have!”

The mourning public besieged the various kinds of interplanetary media outlets, exclaiming the shame and anger of this incident and others like this across the star systems in the galaxy. The leading economists, now speaking in force, eagerly addressed and questioned the ethics and the lack of forethought the executives in charge of these projects failed to perform. At that the same time, the movement among the economist picked up pace. Everyone stood up, sickened by inefficiency. These feelings of dread thrived throughout all the three kinds of humanoids, who experienced the same disgustful practices among their government administrators and the supposed business-savvy managers ruling on their respective planets.

Reaping in their big time salaries and bonuses at the expense of their workers safety and welfare, the outraged public’s sentiments…. fueled the fires of dissent toward those perceived as the corporate elite. As in eons past, the young intelligentsia decried and carried the banners of injustice in protest, for all to see regarding the interstellar industrial atrocities. Whether these debacles happened in the mines of asteroids spinning about in the voids of space or workers gathering highly prized animal excrement from sea caves in minus 245 degrees environments, on the water worlds of the Rettiwtado star system.

Having developed a power base with an ideal platform, from which to speak from, the ‘efficiency economist ‘ or the E2’s as they were called, hit all the media outlets and talk shows, discussing their themes. The E2’s at first, were ignored by the early stellar business/government professionals and scholars of commercial acumen still creeping about, like insects milling about on the floor of a filthy donut shop. However, time is a strange thing. It may heal all wounds but it can also rip a scab off a festering wound too, if its rubbed wrong — or is that right?

Feeling the tide turn against them, as the disgust displayed from the populist loomed over all the lords of space commerce, like the sword of Damocles, these power merchants sensed the worst coming. The brave economist scholars lectured on the failures of business leadership in the space industry genre. This became acerbated by several more large grievous industrial ‘accidents’, resulting in the deaths of several thousands residential family members and workers. The shame of failed ventures, burst forth a rancor of monstrous portions as the cost reached approximately eight hundred trillion of monetary units, in just one incident alone.

Even after that tragic situation, no executive owned up to that mess ….. no real admission of guilt. As if the situation could not get worst, the first industrial, multi-humanoid project disaster, claimed many, many, lives of the assorted citizenry. Desperate to hold somebody responsible and totally accountable for those unfortunate deaths, the assorted citizenry discovered that, the regular recourse of law and justice found in abundance on the surface of the planets, did not apply in the coldest reaches in the void of space, where the laws of their planetary homelands again respectively fell short….literally. Corporate law and the enforcement of industrial rules and regulations, just did not seem important to anyone in power, to make things right.

The origins of this atmosphere of industrial permissiveness came from the leading governments across the star systems leading in the space race. The governments allowed the risky ventures into space in the name of the greed and vanity. The government literally had their hands in the till of business, while turning a blind eye to the recklessness, while grinning like pigs with new slop in the trough, on a sunny day.

Societal disparities continued, perceptions of unfairness grumbled deep in the gut of those whose families tragically effected by mismanagement of projects As history would prove, the failure of management to react positively to their collective failures, would come back to bite them all in the ass. Finally, ready to take the plunge into admitting these E2’s were on to something concrete and substantial, a growing group of those seeking corporate and government justice, took advantage of this timely turn of positive energy, fortifying the E2 movement. The economically minded reformers continued to turn up the heat on their rhetoric, nagging the inept masterminds of government projects along with their paid for think tank endorsing spokesmen. Their battle hymns hammered the theme stating, “….. business professionals must strive for the balance, seeking “ humanity “, with all its aspects vs. increases to the bottom line. “ Not satisfied with the latest methods of exclaiming the desires of the movement, the most influential of the E2’s leaders screaming for change. They authored a treatise , called “ Matters for Consideration: Competency Failures of Intra-Stellar Industries “.

Will the efficiency economist movementsurvive?
What principles of credibility will the E2 Treatise extrapolate upon?