Today's Edition
A fun and happy greetings to everyone out there today! This is Marsha Wong.
And I'm Hillary Binzer. You're reading the latest from Your Edition Today!
A new guideline promulgated by Control earlier today officially disbands private firms throughout the Bunker. The conglomerates to which they were associated have expropriated their assets and assumed responsibility for assimilating their functions.
And rightly so, Marsha. The sharp rise in terrorist activity warrants extreme action. And let's be honest: the private firms never really served any useful purpose anyway. They had merely devolved into vehicles for vice and corruption. I mean, let's be honest: since when was greed ever a healthy motivation for any activity?
The public interest trumps arrogance and selfishness every time, Hillary. Keep in mind the private firms were never officially sanctioned in the first place, just tolerated as an experiment in economic efficiency. All the important and necessary services remained safely in the hands of the conglomerates. Given the sudden and alarming shortage we face of a variety of basic materials, the boys over at Control decided to end what had obviously turned out to be a dreadful failure.
And we all know what that means, citizens. Failures on such a large scale can only be attributed to one thing: traitors. The private firms were clearly a haven for them. Links between their activities and the current, overwhelming surge of sabotage and disruption have not clearly been established, but agents from Homeland Security are sure to reach that conclusion sometime soon.
Of course, the Bunker is a utopia, and its loyal citizens the epitome of resourcefulness. Great strides against the terrorist hordes have been made. Here are but a few instances we can report to you.
This is by no means a complete list, citizens. Marsha is merely referring to those that have come to our attention.
That's what I said, Hillary.
Just being clear about this, Marsha.
A neighborhood runner in B-6 sector was apprehended yesterday for entering apartments in her territory that were beyond her security clearance. Further investigation revealed that the apartments' occupiers had all mysteriously disappeared several weekstretches previously. Unfortunately, the surveillance in that part of B-6 sector has also disappeared. The neighborhood runner – I'm sorry, but we don't have a name for you – obviously has a great deal to answer for. Homeland Security assures us that a list of her fellow conspirators is being compiled as you read this.
A nuclear disaster in Y-8 sector, V-6 sector, F-10 sector, X-8 sector, R-10 sector, and C-4 sector was narrowly averted when fresh teams of reactor core attendants arrived at their new assignments. The previous reactor core attendants had – almost to a man – abandoned their posts, leaving spent fuel in several reactors. Unfortunately, sectors G-7, N-8, B-8, and J-10 were not so lucky. Remember, citizens, nuclear power is entirely safe and fun!
Also, three daystretches ago a gang of bandits suspected of being members of that outlawed organization, Acey Distorted, ran rampant through several departments of E sector, tossing EMP charges with abandon. The electromagnetic pulses wreaked havoc with the local machinery. According to several reports, a number of cybots subsequently ran amok, causing casualties at a medical clinic in E-5 sector. When the gang broke into the sector exchange and tried to enter E-2 sector – which was beyond their security clearance – guardians from Defense opened fire. There were no survivors.
Well, that's all the time we have for you today. Stay tuned for another dispatch of Your Edition Today! as soon as we can get it to you.
And remember: we are citizens of the Bunker. Each and every last one of us.
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Interested readers can find out more about the Bunker in my sci-fi adventure novels, Thank You For Your Cooperation and Your Call Is Important To Us.
And I'm Hillary Binzer. You're reading the latest from Your Edition Today!
A new guideline promulgated by Control earlier today officially disbands private firms throughout the Bunker. The conglomerates to which they were associated have expropriated their assets and assumed responsibility for assimilating their functions.
And rightly so, Marsha. The sharp rise in terrorist activity warrants extreme action. And let's be honest: the private firms never really served any useful purpose anyway. They had merely devolved into vehicles for vice and corruption. I mean, let's be honest: since when was greed ever a healthy motivation for any activity?
The public interest trumps arrogance and selfishness every time, Hillary. Keep in mind the private firms were never officially sanctioned in the first place, just tolerated as an experiment in economic efficiency. All the important and necessary services remained safely in the hands of the conglomerates. Given the sudden and alarming shortage we face of a variety of basic materials, the boys over at Control decided to end what had obviously turned out to be a dreadful failure.
And we all know what that means, citizens. Failures on such a large scale can only be attributed to one thing: traitors. The private firms were clearly a haven for them. Links between their activities and the current, overwhelming surge of sabotage and disruption have not clearly been established, but agents from Homeland Security are sure to reach that conclusion sometime soon.
Of course, the Bunker is a utopia, and its loyal citizens the epitome of resourcefulness. Great strides against the terrorist hordes have been made. Here are but a few instances we can report to you.
This is by no means a complete list, citizens. Marsha is merely referring to those that have come to our attention.
That's what I said, Hillary.
Just being clear about this, Marsha.
A neighborhood runner in B-6 sector was apprehended yesterday for entering apartments in her territory that were beyond her security clearance. Further investigation revealed that the apartments' occupiers had all mysteriously disappeared several weekstretches previously. Unfortunately, the surveillance in that part of B-6 sector has also disappeared. The neighborhood runner – I'm sorry, but we don't have a name for you – obviously has a great deal to answer for. Homeland Security assures us that a list of her fellow conspirators is being compiled as you read this.
A nuclear disaster in Y-8 sector, V-6 sector, F-10 sector, X-8 sector, R-10 sector, and C-4 sector was narrowly averted when fresh teams of reactor core attendants arrived at their new assignments. The previous reactor core attendants had – almost to a man – abandoned their posts, leaving spent fuel in several reactors. Unfortunately, sectors G-7, N-8, B-8, and J-10 were not so lucky. Remember, citizens, nuclear power is entirely safe and fun!
Also, three daystretches ago a gang of bandits suspected of being members of that outlawed organization, Acey Distorted, ran rampant through several departments of E sector, tossing EMP charges with abandon. The electromagnetic pulses wreaked havoc with the local machinery. According to several reports, a number of cybots subsequently ran amok, causing casualties at a medical clinic in E-5 sector. When the gang broke into the sector exchange and tried to enter E-2 sector – which was beyond their security clearance – guardians from Defense opened fire. There were no survivors.
Well, that's all the time we have for you today. Stay tuned for another dispatch of Your Edition Today! as soon as we can get it to you.
And remember: we are citizens of the Bunker. Each and every last one of us.
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Interested readers can find out more about the Bunker in my sci-fi adventure novels, Thank You For Your Cooperation and Your Call Is Important To Us.
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