This is part of a story that I am working on. It is written in the style of newspaper and magazine articles. It set in the late 23rd Century. It is, one part satire and one part serious. Enjoy.




In 2288, Chancellor Lewis Baxter was tried and convicted of war crimes commited against Fa'Daar prisoners of war during his 12 year tenure as Galactic Chancellor.
From 2276 to 2289, Baxter rounded up no less than 40,000 Fa'Daar who were granted asylum on Earth during the Mulderian Civil War by Baxter's predesessor,Herbert Zalansky . The Geneva Comission, the human and sentient rights authority, found no less then 73 violations of the 2094 Sentient Rights Act. All were outlined in a 500 page report on Baxter's dealings from when he was elected in 2275 till his inpeachment in 2287.

They include:

Illegal weapons trading with known anti-alien terror groups such as Epsilon and Army of Terra in 2276.

Shooting down a ship thought to be a Fa'Daar warship but instead turned out to be a Grebzorgian civillian cruise-liner in the Mulphas System in 2278.

The kidnapping of a Zurbonian business student in Olypmpus City in the Martian Republic, believing him to have connections to alien terror group Del'Tuur in 2282.

Baxter is currently imprisoned in the Titan Penal Colony and faces a 50-year sentence. This is however, not definite as Baxter has an up coming parole hearing.



For more information about Lewis Baxter read ‘2274-2287: The Baxter Years By Auther Langborn and Vanzo Jones’ ( Soylent Publishing 2291)

Article By
Professor Joe Corrigan, Galactic Historian

Galactic Spotlight Magazine, March 1 2291


I will post more 'articles' in due time. Concrit welcome.

Not an article, but something you might find interesting.


Galactic Chancellors (the dates are the length of terms served.)

Lile Blackthorne [2091-2095]
Brandon Osborn [2095-2102]
Zakarias MacFarlane [2102-2109]
Vincent L. Baum Jnr [2109-2113]
Cyden Warric [2113-2114]
Tenebrus Acton [2114-2118]
Franklyn S. Blavreugard [2118-2121]
Thrannox Vandergeld[2121-2123]
Jared Saunders[2123-2125]
Seigfried Lawson [2125-2127]
Robardo Graham [2127-2129]
Cassandra Maddox [2129-2132]
Vaclav Walden [2132-2135]
Jordan Jenks [2135-2138]
Irena Valcovsky [2138-2141]
Credon Franks [2141-2143]
Cydonia Reynolds [2143-2147]
Tynesius Browne [2147-2153]
Hibran Ollerton[2153-2156]
Cornileus Fridmann [2156-2158]
Joseph Moody [2158-2162]
Zelda Haagenburg [2162-2165]
Lucidius Zimmerman [2165-2169]
Eric Burlington [2169-2174]
Misty Spooner [2174-2178]
Olaf Svenssen [2178-2185]
Walter Golding [2185-2187]
Saul Travers [2187-2190]
Yeardley Lewison [2190-2193]
Pablo Fernendez [2193-2196]
Lois De Witt [2196-2205]
Morgan Jakes [2205-2215]
Bart Carlsson [2215-2220]
Bianca Irving [2220-2224]
Claude DeLuc [2224-2226]
Ben Halington [2226-2233]
Harry Collins [2233-2235]
Daniel Parsons [2235-2238]
Julie Crandel [2238-2241]
Harold Burnham [2241-2244]
Trent Houser [2244-2247]
Tiberus MacIntyre[2247-2254]
Julius Bowers [2254-2256]
Claude Cromwell [2256-2260]
Elliot Thompson [2260-2264]
Herbert Zalansky [2264-2275]
Lewis Baxtor [2275-2287]
Nikolai Borisnikov [2287-2290]
Gustav Stutengart [2290-Present]

The Galactic Times

'Bringing you the News from across the galaxy since 2178'

9 March 2291


Vanzo's View

'As the tenth anniversary of the Orion starliner crash approaches Vanzo Jones asks why havent we gotten answers yet'

March 12 2281, Like November 22 1963, September 11 2001 and August 1 2024, March 12 2281 is a day forever seared into the collective psyce of human civilization. Chancellor Stutengart is declearing this officialy 'Orion Memorial Week' how ever, for the families of those who lost their lives on that fateful day ten years ago, the Chancellor's words are just hollow rhetoric. It has been ten years since Orion 150 exploded above the skies above Johan Feldman Starport in Olympus City, and still we have no answers. The Martian Port Aurthority's official investigation into the crash, released on March 28 2281, listed that there was a 'strong likleyhood that the explotion was caused by the faulty FTL engines. This is however, inconclusive.' The report contained many qualifing words such as 'possibly' and 'not conclusive' in other words a 256-page report saying 'we dont know.' Is the only thing the MPA had to placate the breaved families of those lost. To say that the families were outraged at this would be to make the understatement of the century. At the time I called for a thourogh investigation into the crash by the Earth/Mars Liason Office, in this very coloumn in fact. This is, what should have happned in the first place, but the hand-wringing beraucrats at the Galactic Federation and the Geneva Comission said that this was a Martian affair and that the Earth- authorities had no business getting involved. Nevermind the fact that Earth citizens were among the dead, or that Orion was an Earth-based company. Why did the GalaFed not want to intervene?, because Mars had, for the past 20 years, been a goldmine for intersteller stock-jockeys wishing to take advantage of the recently signed trade agreement with Earth in 2279. Allied Starships, who makes the models for Orion Starliners, did not want troublesome invesigators bodgeing up their business deals. And Allied Starships has several investors, such as Lewis Baxter, the then Galactic Chancellor and Alvin Jameson, the Matian President at the time. Lewis Baxter is currently cooling his heels in the Titan Penal Colony, Alvin Jameson is now the owner of United Astrometrix, manufacturer of FTL engines and a major investor in, you guessed it- Allied Starships.