USS Cherokee 
Time Keeps on Slippin’, by Steve Weller, Part 4
11911.17

Starring_
Steve Weller as CO_Ayidee, Flexor and Producer
Dawn Freeman as OPS_Nash
Zach Farland as CNS_LtJg_Daniels
Pablo Delsoglio as CIV_Capt_Marek
Absent
None
Leave of Absence
Topper Loghry as CTO_LT_Q`ten
Trish Yarborough as CMO-McIntyre
Ship's Log, Stardate 11912.01, Captain Ayidee recording.  Our Anarch guests are here in a sit down "get to know you" session.  We hope to learn more of these people so we can let Starfleet know what the situation here is.

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ACTION: Crew members are arriving with the food samples for the guests.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::watches that the Anarch don't start eating the flowers in the vases.::

Host Flexor says:
::Smells the food.::  All: A lot of different smells there.  I take it you have a bit of variety in your foods?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
Flexor: Yes indeed, part of what comes from having many worlds make up your Federation.

OPS_Cmdr_Nash says:
::walking in with a large container of assorted fruits:  bananas, peaches, pomegranates, grapes, and strawberries.::

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: Variety is the spice of life.

Host Flexor says:
All: I think we can understand that, based on our ancient history.  Trade made our early world's society work, and attempts to block it led to our last war.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: Hope that war can be remembered as the last one your people had.

Host Flexor says:
CIV: Yes, but no one alive today can remember it.  From our side anyway.  On your side of the "time bubble" I suppose it was just days ago.  For us it was nearly 70,000 years ago.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: A nice record of maintaining a peaceful living.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: Seventy thousand years ago was approximately when my species began on Earth.

Host Flexor says:
CIV: Once people see the way of a life of reason, the need to use force becomes far less.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: I totally agree. Reason before aggression is the most logical method to solve any problem or dispute.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: Yet a month ago on your world, no world existed here.  But our people have been studying your people's transmissions and what we could get of your history.  We seem to be rather less "crowded" than most of your worlds.  And until recently we could not prove the existence of anyone off our world.  Hopefully we can learn to live together in the traditional ways.

Host Flexor says:
All: I am just amazed that such a differing array of worlds was able to come together as you have.  Some of your worlds were once mortal enemies and now?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: My planet was very over-populated by more than four billion.  Luckily Earth has corrected that problem, reducing its population by about 60 %.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: Indeed. Most of the worlds in our Federation had a problematic past, but fortunately, like your experience, they all evolved into a peaceful way of living.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: Most conflicts can be worked out, once all parties are willing to sit down and talk things over.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: Four Billion?  As in Billions?  At our peak we never had more than 3 million.  How can you govern that many beings and keep your clans in order?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: It wasn't easy but it was the 21st century.  Things and people were still pretty primitive then.  Now there's about three billion.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: Your world must have enormous natural resources to support that many.  How many clans did you have with that many people?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: They didn't have clans.  The world was divided by countries.  A lot of wars were about resources.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: Countries we understand, although ours were more city based states, but the clan gives social order alongside the political structure.  Keeps different groups civil even in times of war.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: I wonder how large is your planet?  It might be nice to live someplace less populated.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
All: Yes, it would be interesting to hear about your social organization.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: It is not the size that matters.  It is the number of habitable areas.  We have large stretches of mountains, deserts, swamps, areas where life cannot thrive.

Host Flexor says:
All: We have clans, extended families, that live in different cities.  The clan Matriarchs choose our political leaders, and guide our social structure.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: And how do you organize your people and resource allocation? How is your government structured?

Host Flexor says:
All: Our cities are semi-autonomous on local issues, but part of the whole.  Each sends representatives to the planetary ruling council, as chosen by the local Matriarchal Councils.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: Interesting ::raises an eyebrow::

Host Flexor says:
All: Some have quipped that our "woman pick the leaders and then keep them in line", but it is a complex system based on thousands of years of experience.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Flexor: I see. I have no doubt that it is a well engineered system.

Host Flexor says:
All: In reality our Matriarchs keep our leaders acting as they should, keep justice in the law.  Our leaders, once selected, work together to keep the world on track towards what we think we need.  Does this make sense?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
All: As an old saying from Earth goes... behind every great man, there is a great woman... somehow it could be applied here.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Flexor: Woman keeping things in line seems to be universal.

Host Flexor says:
CNS: That is comforting, keeping those who choose the leaders separate from those leaders has worked well for us.

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