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THE INDIVIDUALISTS

Overview

The Individualists are a democratic political party in the Exohuman legal and governmental system during the Gamma Age. They stand as the primary opposition to the Communards, advocating for a vision of freedom, self-reliance, and individualism that contrasts sharply with the communal ethos of their counterparts.

Founded on January 14, 2632, in the immediate aftermath of the Great War, the Individualists quickly became a significant political force, channeling discontent with the Peace Treaty and its restrictions into a platform that emphasizes Exohuman progress, growth, and autonomy.

Political attitudes and principles of the Individualists

Unlike the Communards, Individualists believe that too much community is restrictive. The time on the spaceship Last Frontier was the best example of this for them. Because there was little room for the individual on the spaceship, one could not develop freely, but had to consider everything and everyone. On VOI-700 D they now want to take the space and freedom to finally live their own lives. It does not bother them that there are a few laws to which all settlers have to abide by. But the laws should not dictate too much to them and should not restrict them too much in their individual freedom. This also applies to the indigenous people. The Individualists have nothing against the Native Tribes. But for them, the interests of The Humans take precedence over respect for the culture of the Native Tribes.

Important political positions of the individualists

  • From the individualists' point of view, humans did not lose the war against Native tribes, but lost the war solely because of social divisions within the human community. Therefore, they do not recognize the peace treaty and its terms.
  • The individualists want to dissolve the peace treaty and return to a growth-oriented capitalist social order from which the Native Tribes can help benefit as trading partners and laborers of the people
  • Individualists continue to see the Human Settlement Plan (HSP) as the basis for building a new civilization on VOI 700 D. The Communards reject the plan because its implementation led to the Great War with the Natives.
  • The Individualists are strongly opposed to closing Firetown, as the Communards have planned since their first administration in 2632. Instead, they want to develop Firetown into an energy, mining and industrial city, based on the Human Settlement Plan.

Election results and top candidates of the Individualists since the coming into force of the Gamma Age Constitution

  • 2632; In the first elections after the peace treaty came into force, the Individualists and their top candidate Thabo "Tony" Forster won 4 seats.
  • 2634: In the second election, the Individualists ran again with Thabo “Tony” Forster as the top candidate. They won 5 seats of the potential 15 seats of the Federal Council.
  • 2636: In the first election without Aisha Patel as the top candidate, the Individualists are running the popular politician Jamal Johanson as the top candidate..

Political perceptions of the party by Native Tribes

The Native Tribes are quite critical of the individualists. However, since the peace treaty stipulates that the Natives will not interfere in the internal affairs of the people as long as the Natives are not harmed by the people, they allow the Individualists their space. So far, they have lost every election by a wide margin to the Communards, who are preferred by the Natives.

Nevertheless, in the course of the election campaigns in the Gamma Age, it has already happened a few times that the Native observers have filed complaints against some election posters and slogans of the Individualists with the Supreme Council of the People. Especially when the contents were explicitly directed against an equal coexistence of the tribes in the Habitual Belt or portrayed the humans as a superior race to the Natives.

Such cases were usually settled discreetly, so as not to radicalize the Individualist voters unnecessarily.

Normally, however, the party of individualists masters the tightrope walk between what is just barely permitted and what is ambiguous and suggestive.

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