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Welcome to James Kemp's Wiki
This is a collaborative web platform that allows people to edit1) the web pages to provide additional content for some of the stories I have written and the roleplaying games that I am involved in, whether as a player or GM.
There are several namespaces operating slightly different wiki subjects. These are, in no particular order:
- Skyss - Story Background - a fantasy novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2016.
- Perfects - background for the near future story and some police roleplaying that I ran in that universe
- Theocracy of Daprav - A D&D campaign that I ran with Glasgow University Games Society around 2002-3.
- Jim Wallman's Universe - a roleplaying by e-mail campaign that I play in, this is an unofficial wiki and none of it is canon unless Jim says it is.
- Interstellar Freelance Unlimited - subset of the Universe pages covering the activities of a mercenary company that we are currently roleplaying every Full Moon.
- Earth Imperium pages. These cover the activities of the Government of the Solar republic (aka Earth Empire) in Jim's Humanity Will Prevail campaign, including the Earth Imperium News Items.
- Free Worlds Alliance - covering the activities of another emerging polity in the Humanity Will Prevail campaign. Mostly contributed by Eric Moroney.
- Universe Background - page collecting the various bits of background info that have come up in various e-mail discussions for the campaigns set in Jim Wallman's Universe.
- Master map of the Universe (6Mb PDF, as at 3212).
- Delta Green - some roleplaying campaigns about horror and conspiracy. The main one was set in Berlin in 1953.
- Free games rules - a collection of free rules for wargames and other sorts of face to face games that I have designed or run.
- Wargames rules - I'm not just a player of games, I also do rules for them from time to time as well as one-off games. A primary outlet for this is through Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Other free rules - at the moment just those for the 1689 (Orange or Lemon? and Bonnie Dundee, respectively about the debates in the Scots Parliament and then the military campaign of Viscount Dundee during 1689) and The Other Side of the COIN (about what makes people become insurgents). All games that I have have produced for Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Background for a near future universe where I have written some fiction and also run some roleplaying games in.
Comments and complaints to me at webmaster@full-moon.info please.
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National Police
There are fewer police services in the UK. England has a national police service overseeing specialist areas and cross border criminals. There are just over a dozen local police services across the country.
National police deal with organised crime, counter terrorism, cyber crime, immigration enforcement, border security, smuggling, armed response reinforcements, fraud, and diplomatic and royal security. They also have intelligence functions where they collate police intelligence and operate the central police systems.
Organisation
National police comprises a number of Groups each of which is lead by an Assistant Commissioner, one of which is the Organized Crime & Terrorism Group (OCT).
Commander Katy Coalfield leads the Counter-Terrorism unit (CT) which has a number of branches.
- CT1 to CT9 each cover a defined geographical area (CT1 is London, CT2 South East, CT3 West Midlands, CT4 North West, CT5 East Midlands, CT6 East of England, CT7 South West, CT8 Yorkshire & Humberto, CT9 North East).
- CT10 is a cyber support unit that provides intelligence as well as protecting critical national infrastructure from online attacks.
- CT11 is an armed response unit for reinforcing regional branches when they need it. It also has specialist forensics and explosive ordnance disposal teams.
- Superintendent Ray Hopkins leads CT12, the branch tasked with dealing with cross-territorial groups.
- Within CT12 section G deals with monitoring the activities of Genetically Modified people. Chief Inspector Sophia Young leads CT12G, she has four serials of hand picked officers.
CT12G are the unit behind Operation Hawkeye which is the surveillance and detention of the genetically modified people in England.
Police Powers
Broadly these are similar to those currently being used. However technological capability is much higher, so some things are used a lot more often, especially powers of remote surveillance. Additionally there has been a requirement for Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology (ACAT) to be fitted to all vehicles manufactured since 2025. This ensures that vehicles are capable of monitoring the road area around them and avoiding collisions without driver intervention. One of the other features of ACAT is that the police can remotely control vehicles to bring them to a halt safely. This is used both as a police over-ride for dealing with stolen vehicles and also to enable smooth passage for emergency vehicles by making traffic give way. Most vehicles on the roads are used automatically, and since 2031 there has been no requirement to obtain a UK driving licence for operating self-driving vehicles.
National Police also have the capability to direct local police to assist them when required. National police officers have wider powers than local police as they also have the powers of both customs and immigration officers when exercising functions against suspected immigration offences or customs evasion (including enforcement of illegal drugs manufactured in the UK as well as those smuggled in). This means that they can usually enter premises without a warrant provided that they have reasonable suspicions.
PACE has been updated, and the replacement Regulations on Police Evidence were last revised in 2045.
Technology
Police officers on duty are routinely equipped with terminals that record and stream live what they are doing to control. In addition it uses a combination of facial recognition and registered terminal information to identify people that they come across and show the police officer anyone of interest.
This live streaming, and the associated recording process, make it very difficult to amend or fake the footage. Typically in major incidents there are dozens, if not hundreds, of similar feeds. Public order police tend to be very well behaved, having learnt their lessons from those unfortunate enough to be caught on camera and went to prison as a result. It also tends to lead to criminals being convicted for low level crimes committed in front of officers with a shorter time lag and less paperwork. Complaints against police officers also tend to have rapid investigation cycles.
While no-one really likes the police, the technology has improved the general level of trust in the police by society. There being less need to trust one person's word against an other's word.
Genetically Modified Humans Act 2044
When the Hephaestus Scandal broke there was a lot of fear-mongering by certain politicians and the media. This lead to a rushed through Bill in Parliament that became the Genetically Modified Humans Act 2044. The Royal Assent of this act was rapidly followed by the 2044 General Election which resulted in a coalition government formed of fringe parties that had done well from the protest votes.
This lead to extreme restrictions on those that had been identified as having been created (or modified in utero) by Hephaestus and other companies in the late twenties and through the thirties. Most of these children (the oldest were only 22 when the Act was passed) were treatments for genetic diseases that would otherwise have proved fatal. Most of those diseases were specified in the regulations. However there was no way to easily distinguish between those and the ones that were the results of the genetic research without mass testing. Hephaestus had implanted embryos with experimental modifications into a number of women against the terms of their research approvals, and some of those modifications were of dubious intent. Over a fifteen year period Hephaestus were known to have illegally implanted a minimum of 700 embryos into women who thought that they were getting fertility treatment with their own eggs. Affiliated clinics treated almost 10,000 women in the same time period.
Banned Practices
The Act banned the following
- genetically modifying human embryos
- modifications to humans that affected the germ cells
- research into the human genome (except for cancerous cells)
- post-birth genetic treatment (except cancer treatment or specified illnesses)
Restrictions on GM People
The Act distinguishes between those that were modified post-birth and those created by genetic scientists. The restrictions on these groups differ.
Post-birth Modification
Where the reason for this is treatment of one of the specified illnesses listed in regulations and the treatment can be shown not to have affected germ cells (or the subject is sterile) then there are no restrictions, although medical records are endorsed appropriately.
Those with modifications not specified in regulations or where there is an effect on the germ cells are classed as GM and they have broadly similar restrictions applied to them as those created. Typically these people are treated socially as victims of science and there is a level of sympathy for them provided they keep to the restrictions.
- endorsement of citizen card as GM(P)
- not entitled to fertility treatment
- required to notify authorities of change of address
- required to report pregnancies as soon as known to authorities
- cannot donate blood, sperm, eggs or organs
- cannot hold public office or designated professions (currently medical, teaching and food preparation)
- subject to preventative detention if conditions persistently broken
Humans Created by Science
This was the real cause of the fear. Hephaestus had been conducting research involving a combination of combat veterans and prisoners and the worry was that they had combined some of the worst parts of humanity in their experiments (which was, of course, a gross misrepresentation of the facts). However the reality didn't stop the media storm which was picked up by the fringe politicians (and some of the savvier mainstream ones who hoped to stay in power).
These people have the following restrictions:
- endorsement of citizen card as GM
- not entitled to fertility treatment
- required to notify authorities of change of address
- required to report pregnancies as soon as known to authorities
- cannot donate blood, sperm, eggs or organs
- cannot hold public office or designated professions (currently police, military, medical, teaching and food preparation)
- cannot access public funds for higher education
- rehabilitation of offences provisions do not apply
- preventive detention used for persistent offenders
Jim Wallman's Universe
This is a wiki stub for stuff to do with Jim Wallman's universe which is a persistent game environment set in the future. It has a number of roleplaying campaigns and also several specific rule sets for playing wargames.
Humanity Will Prevail
These items relate directly to the ongoing e-mail campaign.
- Earth Imperium of the Solar Republic - pages on the Earth Government and its recent activities
- Operation Boldly Go and follow-up missions
- Scouting the outlying sectors - the current status of Humanity's watch on adjacent sectors of the galaxy.
- Logistics Support to the Combined Human Forces fighting in Sector EJ - the logistics train in place from NEW DRACONIS to Sector EJ.
- MYSTERY - the forces around the MYSTERY system in Q0, major Forerunner site
- Universe Personalities - an attempt to list all the player characters and NPCs and what I know about them.
General Universe Background
Miscellaneous bits here to do with the Universe include:
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- Bounce into Action wargame rules for company level actions sitting between 'Starship Soldier'2) and 'Plan A'3)
- Space Pirate random crew generator giving you a names crew with homeworld, skill level, criminal record and crew function.
Interstellar Freelance Unlimited
Mailing Lists
There are several mailing lists used to support the play by e-mail games mentioned above. These are run using mailman and so have a web interface for managing your subscription as well as publicly accessible web archives. These are the publicly accessible mailing lsits, there are some others but those are by invitation only.
- berswar - the 'official' list for Humanity Will Prevail where posts should all be in character. You can use these links to the berswar list interface and the berswar mail archives to subscribe to the mailer or read its posts.
- OOC - An Out of Character (OOC) list for the players in the Humanity Will Prevail game where all the admin messages and general chatter goes. Mostly this is all game related but out of character rather than wildly off topic. OOC list interface and OOC mail archives
- SM (Starship Marine) - a list for those of us that play universe related roleplaying games on or around the full moon each month in the South London area. Currently we are playing in the Interstellar Freelance Unlimited (IFU) campaign. Some of this is played by e-mail through this list and other parts are done face to face with whoever can make the sessions. SM list interface and SM mail archives
Other material may well feature on occasion.
| this page is a game resource for Jim Wallman's Humanity Will Prevail play by e-mail game. None of the material on this domain is canon unless Jim says so. |
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Belgica Treasury Accounts
Prepared by Glitius Decianus
Valerius Asiaticus, the Governor of Belgica, has insisted that I keep a proper set of accounts for out Treasury that it may be audited by the Letters to the Roman Senate or Imperial Officials if required. I do not see why this need be done and I think that he did not trust me enough to make sure that there are funds sufficient to pay his legions. History has shown that I paid the German Legions for a year after Rome had stopped sending us money. It was not my fault that they then marched on Rome and sacked it.
| Period | Description | Entry |
|---|---|---|
| SEPT. LXVIII | balance: | 0 |
| Income | 70 | |
| Pay, 2 x Legions | -60 | |
| Roads | -7 | |
| Postage | -1 | |
| Admin Costs | -1 | |
| Balance | 1 | |
| Credit | Governor Belgica | -25 |
| to pay for | Mil.Gov.Ger.Sup. | -10 |
| the legions | Mil.Gov.Ger.Inf. | -10 |
| Interest | -21 | |
| Gov.Brit. | -15 | |
| Legions | -150 | |
| Balance | -230 | |
| NOVEM. LXVIII | From Rome | 280 |
| Postage | -3 | |
| Balance | 7 | |
| DECEM. LXVIII | Income | 70 |
| Roads | -7 | |
| Admin | -5 | |
| balance | 66 | |
| Legions (I, IV, V, XV, XVI, XXI & XXII) | -245 | |
| Balance | -179 | |
| from the Senate | 47 | |
| Religious Ceremony | -5 | |
| balance | -137 | |
| MAR. LXIX | Income | 70 |
| Admin costs | -3 | |
| Roads | -7 | |
| From Rome | 300 | |
| Balance | 233 | |
| redeeming credit note | -140 | |
| redeeming credit note | -75 | |
| redeeming credit note | -30 | |
| redeeming credit note | -50 | |
| Legions | -290 | |
| Fleet (CLASSIS BRITANNICA) | -25 | |
| Balance | -377 | |
| JUN. LXIX | From Rome (Senate) | 235 |
| Income | 40 | |
| Admin & Roads | -10 | |
| redeem credit note | -35 | |
| Legions Loyalty Bonus | -200 | |
| Balance | -347 | |
| Temple to Minerva | -25 | |
| Legions | -272 | |
| Fleet | -10 | |
| Balance | -654 | |
| SEPT. LXIX | Surplus Income (Gallia & Belgica) | 170 |
| Legions (I (Germania), I (Italia), IV, V, XIV, XV, XVI, XXI, XXII, | -325 | |
| Court case admin | -40 | |
| Subsidy to Britannia | -50 | |
| Upgrade Legions on the Rhine | -50 | |
| Balance | -949 | |
| Upgrade new Legion | -30 | |
| Subsidy to Gov.Brit. | -25 | |
| Balance | -1004 |
For those of you wondering how the treasury managed to run with a deficit practically all the time then read the letters to the Letters to the Roman Senate asking for more cash. I also wrote letters of credit on the Imperial and Republic Treasury as appropriate for the time. I somehow doubt that these will be honoured gived subsequent events…
- About Glitius Decianus
- Fabius Fabullus wrote home to his Mother & Father
- The Who Was Who?
Chairman William Jackson
From the Free Worlds Alliance, former High Admiral and current Chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers. Played by Eric.
Current Position
Since 3207.231 he has been Chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers of the SWDA/FWA. This is effectively the highest position in the FWA. (In fact, it was at his suggestion that the Lamster Summit Meeting, which renamed the SWDA the FWA, was convened.) He leads the FWA's defense policy from Naval Headquarters on Lamster, the center and de facto “capitol” of the FWA. He gave the first “State of the Alliance” speech there.
Biographical Details
Jackson was born in Alder City, Gat, on 3140.244. He is married to Lurleen Jackson, a native of Lamster, and they have two children together, Kyle Jackson and Jasmine Jackson. Kyle is an officer in the FWA navy, while Jasmine is Chief of Staff for Ali Elliam, the President of Gat (a close friend of Jackson's.) Jackson has two grandchildren, Amanda Jackson and Harold Jackson
Distinguishing Features
Religion
Jackson is a lifelong member of the Universal Church
Career History
Before becoming an Admiral, Jackson commanded a C5A in a battle against a pirate C4 and C2 as a Captain in Gat's navy. For this victory, he was awarded the Medal of Valor, Gat's highest award for valor.
Admiral and High Admiral
He was head of the Gattian armed forces before the formation of the Alliance. After its formation he was appointed High Admiral (the highest rank in the Seven Worlds Defense Alliance.) He helped form and train the first combined fleets and was critical in efforts to obtain professionally built warships, such as the CVI Starbuck.
Chairmanship of the Seven Worlds Defense Alliance
He was elected Chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers in 3207.231. His election marked a new direction in Alliance politics with the first election of a non-Minister to the post. The Council had previously been regarded as a “talking shop” where little was done. Jackson's tough, no-nonsense reputation was a major factor in his election. His replacement as High Admiral was Hermione Xen. As Chairman, he has launched the anti-piracy operation Operation Wolfhound, which rapidly became an intervention culminating in a battle on 3207.386 at the Lon Chaney system. He dispatched a C5A to Kami to assist in repairing its orbital, later called Operation Friend in Need. He strengthened the Alliance navy with professionally built warships, especially in planetary defense, where he replaced all C5As with DDIs. On 3207.320 he suggested that the SWDA should sign several international treaties, which ultimately lead to the Lamster Summit Meeting on 3208.023.
Chairmanship of the Free Worlds Alliance
As the Chairman of the Free Worlds Alliance, he negotiated and signed a non-aggression pact with the MAFC and later one with the UoX. He launched Operation Panama, an anti-piracy sweep through neighboring systems. On 3209.034, he announced the formation of the Alliance's first military shipyard, the first to be built by a minor power and the first outside of Quadrant 1. He also masterminded the creation of the Interplanetary Interdiction Missile (All information about IPIMs is currently classified, save that they are an anti-piracy weapon.) Jackson has supported the Alliance's traditionally close ties with the UoX. He negotiated and signed a non-aggression treaty with the Martian Association's Quadrant 1 governor. He later signed a non-aggression and friendship treaty with the UoX. He dispatched military advisors to the independent worlds Charley and T20. On 3209.160, he visited Damper, his first visit off Lamster since becoming Chairman. He then visited the independent world of Long Dough, his first visit to an impendent world since becoming Chairman. He met with First Minister Ashanti of the Solar Republic on Lamster, in the first meeting between the FWA and the Head of State of a great power, where the FWA-SR non-aggression treaty was signed. He also proposed a Galactic Anti-Piracy Conference to be held on Lamster. His popularity and that of the Alliance has risen steadily throughout his Chairmanship. Currently the FWA has the highest popularity of any independent power. He has remained a committed Federalist, championing the cause of reforming the Free Worlds Alliance into a closer union. Jackson has also supported the expansion of the FWA and greater solidarity between independent worlds. Recently, Jackson has been pushing for the creation of a Federation between the FWA worlds. He was one of the authors of a draft constitution for the proposed “Federated Planets of the Outer Quadrants.” Jackson led the Free Worlds to victory in the FWA-Z155 War.
Other Information
He is good friends with Ali Elliam, the president of Gat. They met when Jackson was an officer in the Gatian military and Elliam was a Senator.
Hobbies
Jackson enjoys watching baseball. He is also a great bowler.
| Preceded by | Military positions | succeded by |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Achenson | Admiral of Gat 3192-3202 | Richard Elliam |
| n.a. position created | 1st High Admiral of the Seven Worlds Defense Alliance 3202-3205 | Hermione Xen |
| Preceded by | Political offices | succeded by |
| Micheal Wilson | 2nd Chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers 3207-present | incumbent |
