Superhuman World 2025: The Immigration Trial!
Judge Joanna Witten presiding.
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Highlights:
(Wyatt P. Ferguson) I am an immigrant here, from the SW10 earth. I've contributed to your economy. I can testify about these others.
Our world was dying. We were huddled around the Yellowstone Cauldron
for the last remaining warmth in our Global Cooling crisis. I went on missions across frozen terrain to find remaining drugs in pharmacies.
At the end, people took injections to help them hibernate. Our acting President Trump was among them.
My own relatives and I found other ways out and places to go. I still
don't know where half of them are. But I do have to compliment
Powernauts on building a brave new world - even if my relatives and I
stayed behind until the end.
Now we have new migrants. At least hear them out.
(Judge Witten) You say "new world". Is this literal, or figurative?
(Wyatt) Both, in a sense. They diverged their Earth from my former one, and "raptured" our population to form its own. This Earth is now
known as SW12. You could ask Professor Powernaut for details. Even
your Professor Psychovant gives lectures about that.
(Judge Witten) We'll invite them to testify. But back to the matter at hand... There were apparently saucer aliens alongside you. What is
their role?
(Wyatt) They were tourists. They felt your planet to be hostile to tourists after their most recent visit. So they left.
(Wyatt) My involvement with them is on record. I have records into this decade (
https://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/page.php?fn=2022_annual.txt ),
both SW10 and Powernaut directories.
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(Timothy T. Thompson, a.k.a. Red Vigil) We came from that dying world
to which you refer as SW10. We have a proposal to renew it, through geothermal power partially from off-world sources. We merely ask to
stay here while we can invite willing people to come with us.
(Judge Witten) Mr. Thompson, what *is* your proposal?
(Red Vigil) We shall go there and warm our part of the world. Eventually others shall form around us.
(Judge Witten) If you can engineer such a thing, why hasn't that been done before now?
(Red Vigil) You did not have the technology of the year 2146. My tower has that.
(Judge Witten) Others shall review your engineering proposal. What is
your proposal for a legislative and justice system?
(Red Vigil) Of course I shall administer it, just as for any new colony in American history. New systems shall arise as the population
wishes.
(Judge Witten) I gather you have already lived for centuries since 1858. What is to prevent you f