Tiferet Today


 

The planet Tiferet is a very different place now than it was ten years ago.  Although the flag of the Orion Cluster Union still flies from the Ministry Tower, the state once symbolized by it has in reality passed on.  Now a far different government exercises control over the shadow of the former Union. 



Once used to provide citizens with easy access to the Interstellar ComNet,
Coronet Station is now headquarters for the new Internal Security Agency.

In the chamber where the Unification Accords were signed, signalling peace throughout the star cluster, not uncaring bureaucrats dominate the few remaining colonial possessions under their control through force and intimidation.  Where once a free and educated electorate made sure that their chosen representatives worked towards the common good, now appointed henchman of the dictator work tirelessly to twist public perception through lies and threats of violence.  A state of permanent emergency has been declared, giving the leader of the interrim govenrment broad powers and little opposition. 

In the days after the surrender, most of the elected representatives were stained with failure and forced to resign for lack of support.  One of the few exceptions to this was the Assistant Minister for War, Oskar Delavera.  He had gained a reputation as a man with great insight into the enemy and had advocated unorthodox strategies to deal with them.  Strategies that were dismissed by his superiors.  When the more conventional approach they pursued proved so disasterous, only Delavera was able to gather enough support ot form a coalition government.

Once this was accomplished he began a systematic campaign to discredit his detractors and have them replaced by men in his pocket.  Once the entire goverment belonged to him, he took steps to ensure the continuation of his authority without the need for such things as elections.  He tightened his grip on the traditionally free press of Tiferet and turned it into a well-oiled machine designed solely to placate and sedate the population.

With the shock of their unexpectedly quick defeat, and little recent experience with political tyranny, the masses of Tiferet are poorly equipped to deal with this threat, however, freedom of thought and conscience are a tradition enshrined in the ethos of the Union and it will not be long before some at least realize what has happened to them, on that day Oskar Delavera will have made an enemy that cannot be easily dealt with.