Of course I had come up with an idea for the agricultural attaché while at the office, without access to the thread. (The various social-notworking... er, networking... sites are blocked by the firewall.) Ah, well - let's present both and have a vote.
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''Lieutenant Nyota Nicholls, the ranking local representative of the United Federation of Planets, looked out the window quickly and wondered once again whose bright idea it was to set up the Fen’s consulate in Canada right across the street from the Czech Embassy. Then she shook her head to clear it; this wasn’t the time for idle thoughts. Mr. Keffer wanted to see all the senior staff in his office - a troubleshooter from [[Great Justice] had just arrived.''
The '''Fen Consulate to Canada''' is a typical example of a [[Fenspace Convention] diplomatic posting in a friendly country. It isn’t a full embassy - the Convention doesn’t have the resources to maintain embassies in every nation on [[Earth], or even every large nation - but the Head of Mission is part of the diplomatic community.
This Consulate is located in a decent-size house at 250 Cooper Street, in downtown Ottawa. The location was chosen carefully: It’s downtown (and thus close to the halls of power) but not in the ''expensive'' part of downtown, and the RCMP are already keeping a discreet watch on the area because the Embassy of the Czech Republic to Canada is right across the street.
==Important People at the Consulate==
In order of rank in the Consulate, the senior staff members are:
;Marcus Keffer
:Head of Mission. Like so many of Fenspace’s diplomats, he’s from the [[Interstellar Alliance].
:Mr. Keffer is the sole official Fiver representative to Canada.
;Lt. Nyota Nicholls
eputy Chief of Mission. Senior [[United Federation of Planets|Trekkie] representative.
:Nyota Nicholls is very obviously an Uhura fan, and she ''rocks'' the TOS minidress. She herself is currently [[biomodification|unmodded] and only really looks like either of the character’s actresses in that she’s an attractive black woman in a TOS minidress. She’s from an upper-middle class family from a suburb of Philadelphia. Her parents are retired SMOFs from before the wave who are at [[Utopia Planitia] because they were about to take the Trek biomod plunge to overcome some medical difficulties.
;Jedi Knight Lou Chadwick
:Military attaché. [[Warsie] representative.
;Tara Gale
:Legal attaché. [[Crystal Millennium|Senshi] representative.
:A tall raven-haired beauty originally from Coventry, Tara Gale still has a noticeable English accent despite having earned her law degree at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She’s in the minority of her faction in that her "grrl-power" fandom is spy-fi, not magical-girl; Ms. Gale wears a catsuit to combat, not a fuku.
;Marie-Louise Garneau
:Commercial attaché; coordinates joint Fen/Canadian economic-development and humanitarian-relief efforts with [http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/home CIDA] and [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/international/index.aspx DFAIT], respectively. [[Blue Blazer Irregular] #841, otherwise a Generalist.
:Mme. Garneau has quite a reputation among the Canadian Blue Blazers. While being knowledgeable in economic theory and market forces, many of her commercial evaluations seem to draw upon factors that have no historical or factual bearing on the market. Oftentimes, she will base economic predictions based upon esoteric data points, including the extended meteorological forecast of the region that a market is centered on, the demographic percentages of populace hair or eye color (for products having nothing to do with personal hygiene or beauty supplies; in such cases, she dismisses this information as “irrelevant”); and even the Body Mass Index of the head of the Treasury or Exchequer department. Observers educated in financial and economic theory observing her can draw no easy ties between these data points and her conclusions on a market, leading them to refer to her as the “Voodoo Economist,” and even to go so far as to claim that it is an elaborate smokescreen disguising her less-than-optimum ability as an economist. (The fact that Mme. Garneau is one-quarter Haitian whose great-grandmother was a practicing voudoun mambo until her death contribute to these allegations.) Mme. Garneau takes these claims in stride, cheerfully inviting her critics to “Mordent mon cul en métal brillant!” and lets her record speak for itself. Both Marie-Louise Garneau and her daughter Marie-France are fluent in both French and English.
;Aoi Shatsu
:Scientific attaché. Junior Trekkie representative.
:Aoi Shatsu, a scientist within the Daystrom Institute, originally hails from Kyoto. He tries his best not to rock the boat. He could do a lot better, but prefers not to stand out, instead diligently performing his duty. The nail that sticks up, gets hammered is his motto for life. He used to be something of a cocky ass in college ... which changed after breaking his jaw in a bar fight. He holds a degree in metaphysical biology – a field few if any have even heard of – and is generally regarded as a competent researcher. He came to Fenspace at the suggestion of his brother Akai, who had already joined Starfleet’s security division. His most noted research achievement with the Daystrom Institute was entitled “Influences of a subject's consciousness on the effects of biomodification strain handwavium.”
Dueling suggestions here - who gets assigned to the Ottawa consulate?
;Weiliang Yeong
:Agricultural attaché. [[Independent Faction] representative.
:One of the Chinese Fen aboard the now-famous “[[A Rock and a Hard Place|Last Train from Beijing],” Weiliang Yeong quickly settled down to run a farm on [[Ganymede]. The [[Boskone War] changed that - when some of his produce didn’t get to the markets on [[Earth] and in [[Cislunar Space|cislunar], he volunteered to serve for the duration. His lack of combat ability quickly became apparent, so he transferred from Great Justice to the Fenspace Convention's consular service. (As he put it, “I'm in the civil service to free up someone else for military service.”) His hands-on experience with farming made him the closest the consular service had at the time to an agricultural expert, and he was posted to the Canadian consular office as the agricultural attaché. Wei’s English is heavily accented.
;Brooke Derby
:Agricultural attaché. [[Independent Faction] representative.
:Brooke Derby is is particularly interested in rescuing heritage seed strains from transplanted areas. She’s an attractive woman of Celtic origin with something of a reputation for wearing denim in all possible forms. She still has a denim furisode kimono in her closet from an event at the Japanese embassy, artfully bleached to form cloud patterns. (Admittedly, that's VERY FINE, very EXPENSVE denim, but still...) There are a few rumors that Brooke was the recipient of a Senshi emergency biomod during the [[Boskone War], but the Embassy Guard Sammies are close-lipped about it.
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;John R. Ericson
ress attaché. Generalist.
:John R. Ericson is a man so adept at fading into the background that even his friends and co-workers sometimes call him J. Random Hacker. (His first two initials certainly don't help.) He’s a member of the Hacker Underspace.
==Other People at the Consulate==
;Marie-France Garneau
:Unofficial "good luck charm." Generalist.
aughter of commercial attaché Marie-Louise Garneau, Marie-France is the youngest person living in the consulate. She attends junior-high school in Ottawa and stays out of politics as much as possible. Marie-France has seen factional rivalries first-hand, and hates them; she’s almost stereotypically Generalist.
;The “Embassy Sammies”
:various guards – identities and quirks to come later, if at all
[[Category:Government]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Entry formatted for the FenWiki. New content is in bold.
''Lieutenant Nyota Nicholls, the ranking local representative of the United Federation of Planets, looked out the window quickly and wondered once again whose bright idea it was to set up the Fen’s consulate in Canada right across the street from the Czech Embassy. Then she shook her head to clear it; this wasn’t the time for idle thoughts. Mr. Keffer wanted to see all the senior staff in his office - a troubleshooter from [[Great Justice] had just arrived.''
The '''Fen Consulate to Canada''' is a typical example of a [[Fenspace Convention] diplomatic posting in a friendly country. It isn’t a full embassy - the Convention doesn’t have the resources to maintain embassies in every nation on [[Earth], or even every large nation - but the Head of Mission is part of the diplomatic community.
This Consulate is located in a decent-size house at 250 Cooper Street, in downtown Ottawa. The location was chosen carefully: It’s downtown (and thus close to the halls of power) but not in the ''expensive'' part of downtown, and the RCMP are already keeping a discreet watch on the area because the Embassy of the Czech Republic to Canada is right across the street.
==Important People at the Consulate==
In order of rank in the Consulate, the senior staff members are:
;Marcus Keffer
:Head of Mission. Like so many of Fenspace’s diplomats, he’s from the [[Interstellar Alliance].
:Mr. Keffer is the sole official Fiver representative to Canada.
;Lt. Nyota Nicholls
eputy Chief of Mission. Senior [[United Federation of Planets|Trekkie] representative.:Nyota Nicholls is very obviously an Uhura fan, and she ''rocks'' the TOS minidress. She herself is currently [[biomodification|unmodded] and only really looks like either of the character’s actresses in that she’s an attractive black woman in a TOS minidress. She’s from an upper-middle class family from a suburb of Philadelphia. Her parents are retired SMOFs from before the wave who are at [[Utopia Planitia] because they were about to take the Trek biomod plunge to overcome some medical difficulties.
;Jedi Knight Lou Chadwick
:Military attaché. [[Warsie] representative.
;Tara Gale
:Legal attaché. [[Crystal Millennium|Senshi] representative.
:A tall raven-haired beauty originally from Coventry, Tara Gale still has a noticeable English accent despite having earned her law degree at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She’s in the minority of her faction in that her "grrl-power" fandom is spy-fi, not magical-girl; Ms. Gale wears a catsuit to combat, not a fuku.
;Marie-Louise Garneau
:Commercial attaché; coordinates joint Fen/Canadian economic-development and humanitarian-relief efforts with [http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/home CIDA] and [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/international/index.aspx DFAIT], respectively. [[Blue Blazer Irregular] #841, otherwise a Generalist.
:Mme. Garneau has quite a reputation among the Canadian Blue Blazers. While being knowledgeable in economic theory and market forces, many of her commercial evaluations seem to draw upon factors that have no historical or factual bearing on the market. Oftentimes, she will base economic predictions based upon esoteric data points, including the extended meteorological forecast of the region that a market is centered on, the demographic percentages of populace hair or eye color (for products having nothing to do with personal hygiene or beauty supplies; in such cases, she dismisses this information as “irrelevant”); and even the Body Mass Index of the head of the Treasury or Exchequer department. Observers educated in financial and economic theory observing her can draw no easy ties between these data points and her conclusions on a market, leading them to refer to her as the “Voodoo Economist,” and even to go so far as to claim that it is an elaborate smokescreen disguising her less-than-optimum ability as an economist. (The fact that Mme. Garneau is one-quarter Haitian whose great-grandmother was a practicing voudoun mambo until her death contribute to these allegations.) Mme. Garneau takes these claims in stride, cheerfully inviting her critics to “Mordent mon cul en métal brillant!” and lets her record speak for itself. Both Marie-Louise Garneau and her daughter Marie-France are fluent in both French and English.
;Aoi Shatsu
:Scientific attaché. Junior Trekkie representative.
:Aoi Shatsu, a scientist within the Daystrom Institute, originally hails from Kyoto. He tries his best not to rock the boat. He could do a lot better, but prefers not to stand out, instead diligently performing his duty. The nail that sticks up, gets hammered is his motto for life. He used to be something of a cocky ass in college ... which changed after breaking his jaw in a bar fight. He holds a degree in metaphysical biology – a field few if any have even heard of – and is generally regarded as a competent researcher. He came to Fenspace at the suggestion of his brother Akai, who had already joined Starfleet’s security division. His most noted research achievement with the Daystrom Institute was entitled “Influences of a subject's consciousness on the effects of biomodification strain handwavium.”
Dueling suggestions here - who gets assigned to the Ottawa consulate?
;Weiliang Yeong
:Agricultural attaché. [[Independent Faction] representative.
:One of the Chinese Fen aboard the now-famous “[[A Rock and a Hard Place|Last Train from Beijing],” Weiliang Yeong quickly settled down to run a farm on [[Ganymede]. The [[Boskone War] changed that - when some of his produce didn’t get to the markets on [[Earth] and in [[Cislunar Space|cislunar], he volunteered to serve for the duration. His lack of combat ability quickly became apparent, so he transferred from Great Justice to the Fenspace Convention's consular service. (As he put it, “I'm in the civil service to free up someone else for military service.”) His hands-on experience with farming made him the closest the consular service had at the time to an agricultural expert, and he was posted to the Canadian consular office as the agricultural attaché. Wei’s English is heavily accented.
;Brooke Derby
:Agricultural attaché. [[Independent Faction] representative.
:Brooke Derby is is particularly interested in rescuing heritage seed strains from transplanted areas. She’s an attractive woman of Celtic origin with something of a reputation for wearing denim in all possible forms. She still has a denim furisode kimono in her closet from an event at the Japanese embassy, artfully bleached to form cloud patterns. (Admittedly, that's VERY FINE, very EXPENSVE denim, but still...) There are a few rumors that Brooke was the recipient of a Senshi emergency biomod during the [[Boskone War], but the Embassy Guard Sammies are close-lipped about it.
end of section that's up for debate
;John R. Ericson
ress attaché. Generalist.:John R. Ericson is a man so adept at fading into the background that even his friends and co-workers sometimes call him J. Random Hacker. (His first two initials certainly don't help.) He’s a member of the Hacker Underspace.
==Other People at the Consulate==
;Marie-France Garneau
:Unofficial "good luck charm." Generalist.
aughter of commercial attaché Marie-Louise Garneau, Marie-France is the youngest person living in the consulate. She attends junior-high school in Ottawa and stays out of politics as much as possible. Marie-France has seen factional rivalries first-hand, and hates them; she’s almost stereotypically Generalist.;The “Embassy Sammies”
:various guards – identities and quirks to come later, if at all
[[Category:Government]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012