Science fiction. The corrupt tribunal

Science fiction. The corrupt tribunal

"It was a forced and assertive remark that could not be ignored, because she meant it this time. She had been assertive many times in the past as well, but today she sounded different and her mood was that of someone who would have it her way anyway. Her indignation was justified. Most of us know that, but there are many tribunal members who feel she is being emotionally too extravagant when it comes to expressing her fantasy based scientific ideas and proposals. But I feel her ideas are groundbreaking and they have everything to cause a much needed scientific revolution. "

These were my views on the girl who was being targeted by most of the senior tribunal members because they feared her intellectual originality. And I confessed it before a few members of the tribunal present in the room where she had addressed us in her inimitable style. Where she mentioned her favourite phrase once again, "Hell will break loose!"

"Hell. Really hell! Is that what you said? And do you even have the vaguest idea about what hell is? That you so easily announce that hell would break loose. You must be day dreaming or else you would not have said it."

And this was the worried and pretentiously bold reaction from one of the senior most tribunal members present in the room. He was trying his best not to feel intimidated by her strong words. But he was not able to remove the thin layer of fear that he was dealing with secretly. Secretly for him, but it was very obvious to many of us.

More than anything else and anybody else, at this stage you may want to know more about the girl who warned all of us so boldly. And this time she meant every word that she said, and we all were sure she would do something that would surprise all of us. And you should not be misled by the opposition she received from one of the senior tribunal members. Who in reality was scared and already thinking what the girl might do next.

So, who is this girl?

She is from the family who had established this town and her father is very influential, because now he is the president of the tribunal that has diversified interests. One of them being intergalactic travels. And the girl had been disgruntled with the tribunal members because they had rejected her proposal to modernise intergalactic travel sector.

Her father and the man who spoke to her tersely today were the ones who had opposed her proposal, citing budgetary constraints. And she had walked out of the meeting red faced, because she was of the belief that the tribunal was spending funds on space explorations that were trivial, as they served no purpose at all. Neither were they aimed at generating profits for the tribunal to fund new and bigger missions, nor were they missions seeking to uncover new cosmic secrets that would benefit the scientific community that worked for the tribunal.

And when she heard the tribunal had no funds to spare for her plan to modernise intergalactic travel, she walked out infuriated and miffed with all of the tribunal members. Particularly with her father and the man who was trying to act boldly, although he was deeply worried that she might expose his inefficiencies and his profligate spending spree that he was on through intergalactic projects that made no sense at all.

But I knew something strange and unexpected was going to happen very soon. Something that would disrupt the old order and make way for the new order and new hierarchy in the inter-galactic tribunal. What exactly and when would this upheaval take place, I had no idea. But that it will happen, I was sure about it!

Many days passed and nothing untoward happened. The man who was used to bluffing was busy sharpening his keen sense of bluff, whereas the girl's father was busy managing the affairs of the tribunal, but what was keeping the girl busy was a mystery. However, I knew she would do something very soon and then everything may either change for good or for worse. But a change anyway!