The refugees, 2nd draft

Government

The plane fell out of a small white hole in universe 153 into a valley covered in clouds, locals called it diag. The 162 called it trapped.

San 3 magic based universe 256, magical circle, Sapien cluster.

10th month, June 18, 2996

Cordlen

I woke up to see that I was lying on my back in a forest. Frigid river water rushed around me, whispering doggerel as it went past, something about a dog maybe? Or perhaps it was talking about a wolf.

I stood up with a low groan, everything hurt. I looked around, where was I? Diag, the river said like it was the most helpful thing in the world & that everyone should know it.

I turned around and beheld the broken, scattered remains of a plane. I could tell that it was a plane because it had kept that same basic structure, but the nose looked punched in, there was luggage all over the place and the windows were mostly broken. Behind the plane there were two deep trenches in the ground, one 30 feet wide the other one 5 feet. On either side of the trenches were fallen trees and the plane was covered in leaves, sticks and small scars.

I slowly walked over to see other people milling around, clearly in shock.

Do something, the river muttered, I knew what I had to do. "Everyone!" I shouted; people turned to look at me as I said, "Quit standing around and do something! I want two teams to do that, team one will be anyone who is injured or hurt, I want those people to leave now and go look for other survivors and food."

About thirty people out of the one hundred there went off then. "Anyone left will come with me to the plane to look for other survivors and usable supplies, I want supplies to be put into different piles depending on what they are." I continued, "who wants to take responsibility for organizing everything?"

An old woman stepped forward and said, "I am Idara, I would like to take this responsibility."

"Thank you, Idara." I said, nodding my head to her.

Ligh

I was with Aspira walking toward the plane when she asked me, "What gender do you think the person who was speaking is?" I thought about it for a second the speaker seemed somewhere in between, and their clothes reflected that. Considering this I said, "I believe that they are non-binary." Aspira looked at me with a sly smile, "only one way to find out! Come on!" She then grabbed my hand & dragged me to where the speaker was.

"Hello, I'm Aspira & this is Ligh, we were wondering, what's your name & what gender are you?" Aspira said, as subtle as a bear. They then smiled at us and said, "My name is Cordlen & I am non-binary. You two need to help pick up supplies from the plane."

They began to walk toward the plane & began to talk about bureaucracy, "I think that to manage a town of this size we will need multiple departments, & yes, I said town, even if it's only a few days that we will have to stay here we can't just leave anarchy as a form of government."

We caught up to them as they continued to talk, we helped them fine tune their plan. I do love planning & that is what we were doing. We fine-tuned it to about ten major groups and prepared to tell it to the people.

I would have regaled you with grand tales about the people that we met but with over 100 this book will degrade into a dang yellow pages*. We did learn however that electronics that could communicate with the outside world were made useless somehow, probably Thomas Edison's fault.

Aspira

"We found three dead and five injured." a man by the name of Alvaro said, marking off what the rescue patrol had found. A different person stepped forward next and said, bowing his head as he started, "My name is Lennox, I would like to point out that the search patrol found something else important that they forgot to mention. They found seeds, seeds for crops. They found wheat, potatoes, a few apple seeds, and other choice plants." I would like to note that we never learned who placed the seeds there, but it might have been a rouge angel, or a devil either could have escaped the borders, or they were under orders, who knows. Or Lenox brought them along.

Cordlen the thanked him then said, "Because we need a government to prevent anarchy, chaos, and ruin I, along with the help of the silent knife and Architect Ligh, have decided on departments to lead us." When they mentioned the silent knife a ripple of fear moved through the crowd, and I bowed at them. Which made the villagers near me try to edge away from me. Ligh stood by though, which was nice but risky for her.

"The departments go as such," Cordlen continued, "Agriculture, water & irrigation, defence, the army, trade, labour, health & human services, housing & urban development, transportation, energy, surveyors, and education" they gave us a moment to think and then he continued, saying, "If this organization of departments seems familiar you would be right, they are based the ten after the U.S cabinet.

"To make major laws we must have a meeting of the town, with only about 150 direct democracy is possible. I would also like to add a vote every year to elect cabinet members." They bowed to the collective group and stepped back.

I would like to note that 132 people who could work were there, there were 28 children and 2 seniors.

The entire group was silent for a minute when cordlen stepped forward and began to talk, "Now that you have had time to think I would like to call up a vote, there are two choices, anarchy or this government." they spread out their arms toward the crowd and said, "all in favour of the government?" All 132 hands rose into the air. We would have a democracy.

Cordlen then began to order people to set up multiple different competitions.

After about three hours we had set up the competitions in a large ring about 400 feet away from the edge of the village the area was a clearing bordered by trees that we had rolled in place (The ring stands to this day and is where the first Olympics was hosted) and then we hosted the competitions.

When the competitions were said and done, we voted for 12 leaders for distinct groups, but we did not elect an overseer to keep things fair. The department heads went as follows:

Agriculture: Lenox

Water & irrigation: Cordlen

Defence: Gabriel

The army: Aspira

Economy: Alizee

Labour: Granger

Health & human services: Alvaro

Housing & urban development: Ligh

Transportation: Niki

Energy: Charolotte

Surveyors: Akran

Education: Kara

*Yellow pages were books printed in yellow paper with lists of different people in a profession and their phone numbers, qualification, history, etc.