{"data":{"id":13254,"title":"News Update: A Struggle for Goodness","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13254-News-Update-A-Struggle-For-Goodness","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13254","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13254","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":753,"name":"NUStruggleFI.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/gz6gccokq9yurr\/source\/NUStruggleFI.jpg","alt":"","size":478889,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-09-11T00:19:34+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/753","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/753\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"NEW UNITED NewsOrg\nA STRUGGLE FOR GOODNESS\nby Yong Phillips\nStaff Writer\n\nLife has a tendency to overwhelm us. From the most powerful of politicians to the settlers on the fringe, it hits us all in different ways, some big and some small. When life smothers us, when we feel that crushing weight on our hearts and in our heads, we learn a valuable lesson about ourselves. In that darkness, we can learn who we are.\n\nJenk Gallen knew that harshness at a young age. Born in the slums of Tram in Ferron, Jenk never knew his parents. His earliest memory was being sold to a local slumlord, named Carlo Yenn. At age nine, he was starting to earn his keep as a drug runner when Yenn died in a mysterious fire. The case is still unsolved to this day. Lt. Michael Garza was a patrolman at the time and was the first responder to the fire. He assisted the supervising detective in the case.\n\n\u201cIt was one of those cases when we had too many suspects. Carlo Yenn was a total stain. He screwed over or owed money to literally dozens of people, all of whom had the means to knock him out and start the fire,\u201d Garza said via comm. \u201cIt was that kid though. There was no proof of course, but you could just tell. After the stories he told, I couldn\u2019t blame him if he had.\u201d\n\nGarza tried to put Gallen through the system, attempting to set him up in communal homes or foster families. None of them took. Gallen never achieved his Equivalency; instead he had multiple run-ins with local police for assault and burglary and spent almost ten years in and out of the penal system. While incarcerated, he became addicted to WiDoW, which helped accelerate his rapid slide to rock bottom.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t until he nearly died of an overdose that Gallen decided to turn his life around. He became a devout member of the Fourth Sun Unity Church and fought to extricate himself from the shadow of his criminal life. He began working as a ground-loader while attempting to complete his Equivalency. During that time, he met Ada Sinclair, who was an educational aide at the local school. She helped him through his studies and the two wed two years later.\nSoon after that, Gallen began to train on cargo ship simulators in his off-hours and ultimately secured a job as a contract pilot. He and his wife saved up Imperials between three jobs to buy their own ship and start him working as a freelance operator.\n\n\u201cHe\u2019d given up all that cheating and lying,\u201d Ada said from the couple\u2019s home in Ferron. the couple\u2019s first child just beginning to show. \u201cI know he had that darkness in him from long ago, but he\u2019d changed. He\u2019d really changed.\u201d\n\nIn the darkness of Jenk Gallen\u2019s past, he was called many things; thief, junkie, robber, criminal and convict. Then he emerged to a new host of names: husband, shipper and expectant father. Now he\u2019s facing a new title: spy.\n\nThe Xi\u2019Ans\u2019 assertions that Jenk Gallen is a spy, revealed last week through diplomatic comm channels, have shaken the UEE. Reactions have been equally convulsant. Len Wilton is a Public Solicitor out of Goss:\n\n\u201cIt makes perfect sense. Of course a covert agency would recruit someone like him. He\u2019s got a background littered with criminal resources. This is a man who\u2019s used to operating outside of the law. It\u2019s just another example of the government\u2019s ridiculously arrogant and hypocritical double-standard when it comes to xenodiplomacy.\u201d\n\nConversely:\n\n\u201cNo. It seems incredibly unlikely,\u201d said Rachel Fo, a former Naval Intelligence analyst who now teaches on Kilian. \u201cEverybody has their own way to vet and tap potential assets, but based on what I\u2019ve seen about Gallen, if I were casing him, his history of addiction and newfound religion would be red flags. They make him too unpredictable, especially for an operation as sensitive as one against the Xi\u2019An would surely be.\u201d\n\nRegardless of all the opinions being lobbed from all corners of the Empire, at the end of the day, Jenk Gallen is back in the world of jails and courts. While, the process of Human justice might have become familiar to him, now he\u2019s faced with a different kind of trial. He is joining the very small list of Humans who have faced a Xi\u2019An High Court.\n\nThat is a particularly dangerous concept according to Max Usu, a legal professor on Rhetor whose specialty is intergalactic law with a focus on the Xi\u2019An culture.\n\n\u201cOn one hand, Xi\u2019An trials are notoriously long, so the UEE still has time to try and secure the suspect\u2019s release before they pass sentence,\u201d Usu said, via comm-relay. \u201cThis is pure speculation as I don\u2019t know what evidence they claim to have on the man. Their laws against espionage are quite severe, so if he\u2019s convicted, there\u2019s a very good possibility that he will be executed.\u201d\n\nAda Gallen has taken refuge in work. Her Equivalency program registry has been full for the past few weeks, helping her avoid dwelling on that outcome. She says that she has been in touch with representatives from the Senate, Diplomatic Corp, and the High Advocate\u2019s office. They have all pledged their support in helping to secure her husband\u2019s release.\n\n\u201cThe government\u2019s response has been wonderful,\u201d she said, tears welling up in her eyes. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to talk politics, I just want him to come home.\u201d\n\nEND NEWSFEED","de_DE":"NEU VEREINIGTE NachrichtenOrganisation\nEIN KAMPF F\u00dcR DAS GUTE\nvon Yong Phillips\nPersonalverfasser\n\nDas Leben hat die Tendenz, uns zu \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigen. Von den m\u00e4chtigsten Politikern bis hin zu den Siedlern am Rande, es trifft uns alle auf unterschiedliche Weise, einige gro\u00dfe und andere kleine. Wenn das Leben uns erdr\u00fcckt, wenn wir das Gef\u00fchl haben, dass die Last auf unser Herz und unseren Kopf dr\u00fcckt, lernen wir eine wertvolle Lektion \u00fcber uns selbst. In dieser Dunkelheit k\u00f6nnen wir lernen, wer wir sind.\n\nJenk Gallen wusste diese H\u00e4rte schon in jungen Jahren. Geboren in den Slums der Stra\u00dfenbahn in Ferron, kannte Jenk seine Eltern nicht. Seine fr\u00fcheste Erinnerung wurde an einen lokalen Slumlord namens Carlo Yenn verkauft. Im Alter von neun Jahren begann er, seinen Lebensunterhalt als Drogenschmuggler zu verdienen, als Yenn bei einem mysteri\u00f6sen Feuer starb. Der Fall ist bis heute ungekl\u00e4rt. Leutnant Michael Garza war damals Streifenpolizist und war der erste Helfer bei der Brandbek\u00e4mpfung. Er unterst\u00fctzte den beaufsichtigenden Detektiv in dem Fall.\n\n\"Es war einer dieser F\u00e4lle, in denen wir zu viele Verd\u00e4chtige hatten. Carlo Yenn war ein totaler Makel. Er schraubte \u00fcber oder verdankte Geld buchst\u00e4blich Dutzenden von Menschen, von denen alle die Mittel hatten, ihn auszuschalten und das Feuer zu entfachen\", sagte Garza \u00fcber Funk. \"Es war aber dieses Kind. Es gab nat\u00fcrlich keinen Beweis, aber man konnte es einfach erkennen. Nach den Geschichten, die er erz\u00e4hlt hat, kann ich es ihm nicht ver\u00fcbeln, wenn er es getan hat.\"\n\nGarza versuchte, Gallen durch das System zu bringen, indem er versuchte, ihn in Gemeindeh\u00e4usern oder Pflegefamilien unterzubringen. Keiner von ihnen hat es geschafft. Gallen erreichte nie seine \u00c4quivalenz, sondern hatte mehrere Zusammenst\u00f6\u00dfe mit der lokalen Polizei wegen \u00dcberfall und Einbruch und verbrachte fast zehn Jahre im Strafvollzug. W\u00e4hrend er inhaftiert war, wurde er s\u00fcchtig nach WiDoW, was dazu beitrug, seinen schnellen Abstieg auf den Tiefpunkt zu beschleunigen.\n\nErst als er fast an einer \u00dcberdosis starb, beschloss Gallen, sein Leben zu \u00e4ndern. Er wurde ein frommes Mitglied der Vierten Sun Unity Church und k\u00e4mpfte daf\u00fcr, sich aus dem Schatten seines kriminellen Lebens zu befreien. Er begann als Bodenlader zu arbeiten, w\u00e4hrend er versuchte, seine \u00c4quivalenz zu vollenden. W\u00e4hrend dieser Zeit lernte er Ada Sinclair kennen, die als Lehrerin an der \u00f6rtlichen Schule t\u00e4tig war. Sie half ihm durch sein Studium und die zwei Ehe zwei Jahre sp\u00e4ter.\nBald darauf begann Gallen ausserhalb der Gesch\u00e4ftszeiten mit der Ausbildung auf Frachtschiffsimulatoren und erhielt schlie\u00dflich einen Job als Vertragspilot. Er und seine Frau sparten zwischen drei Jobs Imperials, um ein eigenes Schiff zu kaufen und ihn als freiberuflichen Betreiber zu besch\u00e4ftigen.\n\n\"Er hatte all das Betr\u00fcgen und L\u00fcgen aufgegeben\", sagte Ada aus dem Haus des Paares in Ferron. Das erste Kind des Paares beginnt gerade erst zu erscheinen. \"Ich wei\u00df, dass er diese Dunkelheit in sich hatte, von vor langer Zeit, aber er hatte sich ver\u00e4ndert. Er hatte sich wirklich ver\u00e4ndert.\"\n\nIn der Dunkelheit der Vergangenheit von Jenk Gallen wurde er als Dieb, Junkie, R\u00e4uber, Verbrecher und Verurteilter bezeichnet. Dann tauchte er zu einer neuen Vielzahl von Namen auf: Mann, Verlader und werdender Vater. Jetzt steht er vor einem neuen Titel: Spionieren.\n\nDie Xi'Ans' Behauptungen, dass Jenk Gallen ein Spion ist, die letzte Woche durch diplomatische Kommunikationskan\u00e4le enth\u00fcllt wurden, haben die UEE ersch\u00fcttert. Die Reaktionen waren ebenfalls krampfhaft. Len Wilton ist ein Staatsanwalt von Goss:\n\n\"Es macht vollkommen Sinn. Nat\u00fcrlich w\u00fcrde eine geheime Agentur jemanden wie ihn rekrutieren. Er hat einen Hintergrund voller krimineller Ressourcen. Das ist ein Mann, der es gewohnt ist, au\u00dferhalb des Gesetzes zu arbeiten. Es ist nur ein weiteres Beispiel f\u00fcr die l\u00e4cherlich arrogante und heuchlerische Doppelmoral der Regierung, wenn es um Xenodiplomatie geht.\"\n\nUmgekehrt:\n\n\"Nein. Es scheint unglaublich unwahrscheinlich\", sagte Rachel Fo, eine ehemalige Marine-Intelligence-Analytikerin, die jetzt an Kilian unterrichtet. \"Jeder hat seinen eigenen Weg, potenzielle Verm\u00f6genswerte zu untersuchen und zu erschlie\u00dfen, aber basierend auf dem, was ich \u00fcber Gallen gesehen habe, w\u00e4ren seine Geschichte der Sucht und seine neu entdeckte Religion rote Fahnen. Sie machen ihn zu unberechenbar, besonders f\u00fcr eine so sensible Operation wie eine gegen den Xi'An.\"\n\nUnabh\u00e4ngig von allen Meinungen, die aus allen Teilen des Reiches ge\u00e4u\u00dfert werden, ist Jenk Gallen am Ende des Tages wieder in der Welt der Gef\u00e4ngnisse und Gerichte. W\u00e4hrend ihm der Prozess der menschlichen Gerechtigkeit vielleicht vertraut geworden ist, steht er jetzt vor einer anderen Art von Prozess. Er schlie\u00dft sich der sehr kleinen Liste der Menschen an, die sich einem Xi'An High Court gestellt haben.\n\nDas ist ein besonders gef\u00e4hrliches Konzept, so Max Usu, ein Jurist am Rhetor, dessen Spezialgebiet das intergalaktische Recht mit Schwerpunkt auf der Xi'An-Kultur ist.\n\n\"Einerseits sind Xi'An-Prozesse notorisch lang, so dass die UEE immer noch Zeit hat, um zu versuchen, die Freilassung des Verd\u00e4chtigen zu erwirken, bevor sie das Urteil verk\u00fcnden\", sagte Usu per Funk-Relais. \"Das ist reine Spekulation, da ich nicht wei\u00df, welche Beweise sie f\u00fcr den Mann haben wollen. Ihre Gesetze gegen Spionage sind ziemlich streng, also wenn er verurteilt wird, gibt es eine sehr gute M\u00f6glichkeit, dass er hingerichtet wird.\"\n\nAda Gallen hat Zuflucht in der Arbeit gefunden. Ihre Registrierung f\u00fcr das \u00c4quivalenzprogramm war in den letzten Wochen voll und half ihr, dieses Ergebnis zu vermeiden. Sie sagt, dass sie mit Vertretern des Senats, der Diplomatie und des B\u00fcros des Hohen Anwalts in Kontakt stand. Sie alle haben ihre Unterst\u00fctzung zugesagt, um die Freilassung ihres Mannes zu sichern.\n\n\"Die Reaktion der Regierung war wunderbar\", sagte sie und Tr\u00e4nen sprudelten in ihren Augen. \"Aber ich will nicht \u00fcber Politik reden, ich will nur, dass er nach Hause kommt.\"\n\nENDE NEWSFEED","zh_CN":"NEW UNITED NewsOrg\nA STRUGGLE FOR GOODNESS\nby Yong Phillips\nStaff Writer\n\nLife has a tendency to overwhelm us. From the most powerful of politicians to the settlers on the fringe, it hits us all in different ways, some big and some small. When life smothers us, when we feel that crushing weight on our hearts and in our heads, we learn a valuable lesson about ourselves. In that darkness, we can learn who we are.\n\nJenk Gallen knew that harshness at a young age. Born in the slums of Tram in Ferron, Jenk never knew his parents. His earliest memory was being sold to a local slumlord, named Carlo Yenn. At age nine, he was starting to earn his keep as a drug runner when Yenn died in a mysterious fire. The case is still unsolved to this day. Lt. Michael Garza was a patrolman at the time and was the first responder to the fire. He assisted the supervising detective in the case.\n\n\u201cIt was one of those cases when we had too many suspects. Carlo Yenn was a total stain. He screwed over or owed money to literally dozens of people, all of whom had the means to knock him out and start the fire,\u201d Garza said via comm. \u201cIt was that kid though. There was no proof of course, but you could just tell. After the stories he told, I couldn\u2019t blame him if he had.\u201d\n\nGarza tried to put Gallen through the system, attempting to set him up in communal homes or foster families. None of them took. Gallen never achieved his Equivalency; instead he had multiple run-ins with local police for assault and burglary and spent almost ten years in and out of the penal system. While incarcerated, he became addicted to WiDoW, which helped accelerate his rapid slide to rock bottom.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t until he nearly died of an overdose that Gallen decided to turn his life around. He became a devout member of the Fourth Sun Unity Church and fought to extricate himself from the shadow of his criminal life. He began working as a ground-loader while attempting to complete his Equivalency. During that time, he met Ada Sinclair, who was an educational aide at the local school. She helped him through his studies and the two wed two years later.\nSoon after that, Gallen began to train on cargo ship simulators in his off-hours and ultimately secured a job as a contract pilot. He and his wife saved up Imperials between three jobs to buy their own ship and start him working as a freelance operator.\n\n\u201cHe\u2019d given up all that cheating and lying,\u201d Ada said from the couple\u2019s home in Ferron. the couple\u2019s first child just beginning to show. \u201cI know he had that darkness in him from long ago, but he\u2019d changed. He\u2019d really changed.\u201d\n\nIn the darkness of Jenk Gallen\u2019s past, he was called many things; thief, junkie, robber, criminal and convict. Then he emerged to a new host of names: husband, shipper and expectant father. Now he\u2019s facing a new title: spy.\n\nThe Xi\u2019Ans\u2019 assertions that Jenk Gallen is a spy, revealed last week through diplomatic comm channels, have shaken the UEE. Reactions have been equally convulsant. Len Wilton is a Public Solicitor out of Goss:\n\n\u201cIt makes perfect sense. Of course a covert agency would recruit someone like him. He\u2019s got a background littered with criminal resources. This is a man who\u2019s used to operating outside of the law. It\u2019s just another example of the government\u2019s ridiculously arrogant and hypocritical double-standard when it comes to xenodiplomacy.\u201d\n\nConversely:\n\n\u201cNo. It seems incredibly unlikely,\u201d said Rachel Fo, a former Naval Intelligence analyst who now teaches on Kilian. \u201cEverybody has their own way to vet and tap potential assets, but based on what I\u2019ve seen about Gallen, if I were casing him, his history of addiction and newfound religion would be red flags. They make him too unpredictable, especially for an operation as sensitive as one against the Xi\u2019An would surely be.\u201d\n\nRegardless of all the opinions being lobbed from all corners of the Empire, at the end of the day, Jenk Gallen is back in the world of jails and courts. While, the process of Human justice might have become familiar to him, now he\u2019s faced with a different kind of trial. He is joining the very small list of Humans who have faced a Xi\u2019An High Court.\n\nThat is a particularly dangerous concept according to Max Usu, a legal professor on Rhetor whose specialty is intergalactic law with a focus on the Xi\u2019An culture.\n\n\u201cOn one hand, Xi\u2019An trials are notoriously long, so the UEE still has time to try and secure the suspect\u2019s release before they pass sentence,\u201d Usu said, via comm-relay. \u201cThis is pure speculation as I don\u2019t know what evidence they claim to have on the man. Their laws against espionage are quite severe, so if he\u2019s convicted, there\u2019s a very good possibility that he will be executed.\u201d\n\nAda Gallen has taken refuge in work. Her Equivalency program registry has been full for the past few weeks, helping her avoid dwelling on that outcome. She says that she has been in touch with representatives from the Senate, Diplomatic Corp, and the High Advocate\u2019s office. They have all pledged their support in helping to secure her husband\u2019s release.\n\n\u201cThe government\u2019s response has been wonderful,\u201d she said, tears welling up in her eyes. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to talk politics, I just want him to come home.\u201d\n\nEND NEWSFEED"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":45,"created_at":"2013-09-11T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-28 14:32:04","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":13253,"next_id":13255}}