{"data":{"id":13412,"title":"This Day in History: Anthony Tanaka","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13412-This-Day-In-History-Anthony-Tanaka","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13412","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13412","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":727,"name":"ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j9vnjqd2pny04r\/source\/ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1869743,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-08-19T21:16:16+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727\/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":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nDecember 3, 2757 SET\n\nThe Painfully Short Life of Anthony Tanaka\n\nOver two hundred years had passed since Ivar Messer ascended to the role of Prime Citizen, the first phase in his evolution into the first Imperator. Over those centuries, the Messer family tightened their grip on the fountain of power, stripping the Senate of most of their authority and corrupting the Advocacy into their private police force. The fear of Xi\u2019An and Vanduul, initially used by Messer to consolidate his power, had kept the populace in line and ultimately contributed to their submission.\n\nAnthony Tanaka knew none of the history that led to this point in time. Born in the slums of Newcastle on Borea in Magnus, Anthony knew only a world of checkpoints and government brutality. At the time, Magnus had become a prime manufacturing site for the munitions of the UEE\u2019s massive war machine, so the local populace was subjected to ever-increasing scrutiny and random searches to find the undesirables and traitors the propaganda dispatches were always warning against. Neighbors and friends would disappear in the middle of the night, and the only official answer to inquiries involved \u2018seditious\u2019 or \u2018anarchist\u2019 activity. Tanaka\u2019s parents both worked in the factories and lived under the blanket of fear without question. At the age of seven, Anthony was called to work at the Airbol plant. His parents didn\u2019t raise a word of protest. They sank their shoulders and lowered their heads further.\n\nTanaka worked at Airbol in their munitions division, his size allowing him to clean out scrubber systems more effectively than the adults. For four years, Anthony lived in a company barrack with fifty other child employees and worked six days a week, with the last day spent in the mandatory learning program studying Human History. His wages were virtually non-existent, absorbed by housing, education and food charges levied by Airbol.\n\nIn 2757, Lane Corpos, the Imperator\u2019s distant cousin, was appointed to administer Magnus System after a noticeable decline in product quality. Corpos had a well-documented vicious streak. The Imperator believed that he could \u2018entice\u2019 the populace of the system back to their previous standards. His first order upon touring the facility was to cancel the Learning Program and force the underage workers to work all week.\n\nThe conditions around the factory diminished almost uniformly, especially when the Guard, a unit of Advocacy agents assigned as Corpos\u2019 personal enforcers, took over security. Shifts were extended by two, then four, then six hours. Available food was skimmed to the barest of essentials that would prevent workers from collapsing on their machines. The depths of cruelty and indifference eventually managed to unlock something in the downtrodden and defeated workers. They found a limit where they couldn\u2019t take any more.\n\nOn December 3, 2757, on the tail end of sixteen-hour shift, Anthony Tanaka\u2019s foreman ordered him to pick up the shift of a co-worker who went into anaphylactic shock after exposure to a ruptured chemical canister.\n\nAnthony refused. This boy of twelve years old, withered rail thin from exhaustion and malnutrition, stood his ground against the foreman. Again and again, the boy refused.\n\nThe foreman tried to silence the child, but the boy kept refusing. His voice eventually overcame the screech and din of the working factory, attracting the attention of the other workers, who watched in silence. The machines slowly stopped until there was just the defiant, sobbing voice of Anthony Tanaka repeatedly refusing to work anymore.\n\nA Guardsman entered the factory floor. He calmly approached the young boy, took one look at his dirty face then drew his sidearm.\n\nThe whole time, the workers did nothing.\n\nThat was not the end of Anthony Tanaka. Footage of the feed were smuggled out of the factory and found their way throughout the Empire for those bold enough to defy the Imperator. A mood had been growing for quite some time \u2014 a desire to burn down the corrupt institution that dominated Humanity.\n\nAnthony Tanaka became the symbol of that spirit, that Humanity\u2019s willingness to put up with the cruelty of the Messers was coming to an end.\n\nIt would still take thirty-five years, but to some, the Messer Era began to fall when that shot ended the painfully short life of Anthony Tanaka.","de_DE":"AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE\n3. Dezember 2757 SET\n\nDas schmerzhaft kurze Leben von Anthony Tanaka\n\n\u00dcber zweihundert Jahre sind vergangen, seit Ivar Messer in die Rolle des Ersten B\u00fcrgers aufstieg, die erste Phase seiner Entwicklung zum ersten Imperator. Im Laufe dieser Jahrhunderte versch\u00e4rfte die Familie Messer ihren Griff auf die Quelle der Macht, entzog dem Senat den gr\u00f6\u00dften Teil ihrer Autorit\u00e4t und korrumpierte die Advocacy in ihre private Polizei. Die Angst vor Xi'An und Vanduul, die Messer zun\u00e4chst zur St\u00e4rkung seiner Macht nutzte, hatte die Bev\u00f6lkerung auf Kurs gehalten und schlie\u00dflich zu ihrer Unterwerfung beigetragen.\n\nAnthony Tanaka kannte nichts von der Geschichte, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt f\u00fchrte. Anthony wurde in den Slums von Newcastle auf Borea in Magnus geboren und kannte nur eine Welt voller Kontrollpunkte und Regierungsbrutalit\u00e4t. Damals war Magnus zu einem erstklassigen Produktionsstandort f\u00fcr die Munition der massiven Kriegsmaschine der UEE geworden, so dass die lokale Bev\u00f6lkerung einer st\u00e4ndig zunehmenden Pr\u00fcfung und Zufallssuche unterzogen wurde, um die unerw\u00fcnschten Personen und Verr\u00e4ter zu finden, vor denen die Propaganda-Dienste immer warnten. Nachbarn und Freunde w\u00fcrden mitten in der Nacht verschwinden, und die einzige offizielle Antwort auf Anfragen war eine aufr\u00fchrerische\" oder anarchistische\" Aktivit\u00e4t. Tanakas Eltern arbeiteten beide in den Fabriken und lebten ohne Frage unter der Decke der Angst. Im Alter von sieben Jahren wurde Anthony zur Arbeit im Werk Airbol berufen. Seine Eltern haben kein Wort des Protestes erhoben. Sie sanken ihre Schultern und senkten ihre K\u00f6pfe weiter.\n\nTanaka arbeitete bei Airbol in ihrer Munitionsabteilung, seine Gr\u00f6\u00dfe erlaubte es ihm, Schrubbersysteme effektiver zu reinigen als die Erwachsenen. Vier Jahre lang lebte Anthony in einer Firmenkaserne mit f\u00fcnfzig anderen Kinderangestellten und arbeitete sechs Tage die Woche, wobei der letzte Tag im Pflichtprogramm des Studiums der Menschheitsgeschichte verbracht wurde. Seine L\u00f6hne waren praktisch nicht vorhanden, absorbiert von den von Airbol erhobenen Wohnungs-, Bildungs- und Verpflegungskosten.\n\nIm Jahr 2757 wurde Lane Corpos, der entfernte Cousin des Imperators, nach einem sp\u00fcrbaren R\u00fcckgang der Produktqualit\u00e4t mit der Verwaltung des Magnus-Systems beauftragt. Corpos hatte eine gut dokumentierte b\u00f6sartige Ader. Der Imperator glaubte, dass er die Bev\u00f6lkerung des Systems zur\u00fcck zu ihren fr\u00fcheren Standards \"locken\" k\u00f6nnte. Sein erster Auftrag bei der Besichtigung der Einrichtung war es, das Lernprogramm abzubrechen und die minderj\u00e4hrigen Arbeiter zu zwingen, die ganze Woche zu arbeiten.\n\nDie Bedingungen um die Fabrik herum verringerten sich fast gleichm\u00e4\u00dfig, besonders als die Garde, eine Einheit von Advocacy-Agenten, die als pers\u00f6nliche Vollstrecker von Corpos eingesetzt wurden, die Sicherheit \u00fcbernahm. Die Schichten wurden um zwei, dann um vier, dann um sechs Stunden verl\u00e4ngert. Die verf\u00fcgbaren Lebensmittel wurden bis auf das Notwendigste abgesch\u00f6pft, um zu verhindern, dass die Arbeiter an ihren Maschinen zusammenbrechen. Die Tiefe der Grausamkeit und Gleichg\u00fcltigkeit schaffte es schlie\u00dflich, etwas in den unterdr\u00fcckten und besiegten Arbeitern freizusetzen. Sie fanden eine Grenze, an der sie es nicht mehr aushalten konnten.\n\nAm 3. Dezember 2757, am Ende der sechzehnst\u00fcndigen Schicht, befahl Anthony Tanakas Polier ihm, die Schicht eines Mitarbeiters zu \u00fcbernehmen, der nach der Exposition gegen\u00fcber einem gerissenen Chemiekanister in einen anaphylaktischen Schock geriet.\n\nAnthony weigerte sich. Dieser zw\u00f6lfj\u00e4hrige Junge, der vor Ersch\u00f6pfung und Unterern\u00e4hrung ein d\u00fcnnes Gleis hat, stand dem Vorarbeiter gegen\u00fcber. Immer wieder weigerte sich der Junge.\n\nDer Polier versuchte, das Kind zum Schweigen zu bringen, aber der Junge weigerte sich immer wieder. Seine Stimme \u00fcberwand schlie\u00dflich das Kreischen und L\u00e4rmen der Fabrik und zog die Aufmerksamkeit der anderen Arbeiter auf sich, die schweigend zusahen. Die Maschinen stoppten langsam, bis es nur noch die trotzig schluchzende Stimme von Anthony Tanaka gab, der sich immer wieder weigerte zu arbeiten.\n\nEin W\u00e4chter betrat die Fabrikhalle. Er n\u00e4herte sich dem kleinen Jungen ruhig, sah sich sein schmutziges Gesicht an und zog dann seine Unterarme.\n\nDie ganze Zeit \u00fcber haben die Arbeiter nichts getan.\n\nDas war nicht das Ende von Anthony Tanaka. Das Filmmaterial des Futters wurde aus der Fabrik geschmuggelt und fand seinen Weg durch das ganze Reich f\u00fcr diejenigen, die mutig genug waren, sich dem Imperator zu widersetzen. Seit geraumer Zeit wuchs eine Stimmung - der Wunsch, die korrupte Institution, die die Menschheit dominierte, niederzubrennen.\n\nAnthony Tanaka wurde zum Symbol dieses Geistes, dass die Bereitschaft der Menschheit, die Grausamkeit der Messers zu ertragen, zu Ende ging.\n\nEs w\u00fcrde noch 35 Jahre dauern, aber f\u00fcr einige begann die Messer-\u00c4ra zu fallen, als dieser Schuss das schmerzhaft kurze Leben von Anthony Tanaka beendete.","zh_CN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nDecember 3, 2757 SET\n\nThe Painfully Short Life of Anthony Tanaka\n\nOver two hundred years had passed since Ivar Messer ascended to the role of Prime Citizen, the first phase in his evolution into the first Imperator. Over those centuries, the Messer family tightened their grip on the fountain of power, stripping the Senate of most of their authority and corrupting the Advocacy into their private police force. The fear of Xi\u2019An and Vanduul, initially used by Messer to consolidate his power, had kept the populace in line and ultimately contributed to their submission.\n\nAnthony Tanaka knew none of the history that led to this point in time. Born in the slums of Newcastle on Borea in Magnus, Anthony knew only a world of checkpoints and government brutality. At the time, Magnus had become a prime manufacturing site for the munitions of the UEE\u2019s massive war machine, so the local populace was subjected to ever-increasing scrutiny and random searches to find the undesirables and traitors the propaganda dispatches were always warning against. Neighbors and friends would disappear in the middle of the night, and the only official answer to inquiries involved \u2018seditious\u2019 or \u2018anarchist\u2019 activity. Tanaka\u2019s parents both worked in the factories and lived under the blanket of fear without question. At the age of seven, Anthony was called to work at the Airbol plant. His parents didn\u2019t raise a word of protest. They sank their shoulders and lowered their heads further.\n\nTanaka worked at Airbol in their munitions division, his size allowing him to clean out scrubber systems more effectively than the adults. For four years, Anthony lived in a company barrack with fifty other child employees and worked six days a week, with the last day spent in the mandatory learning program studying Human History. His wages were virtually non-existent, absorbed by housing, education and food charges levied by Airbol.\n\nIn 2757, Lane Corpos, the Imperator\u2019s distant cousin, was appointed to administer Magnus System after a noticeable decline in product quality. Corpos had a well-documented vicious streak. The Imperator believed that he could \u2018entice\u2019 the populace of the system back to their previous standards. His first order upon touring the facility was to cancel the Learning Program and force the underage workers to work all week.\n\nThe conditions around the factory diminished almost uniformly, especially when the Guard, a unit of Advocacy agents assigned as Corpos\u2019 personal enforcers, took over security. Shifts were extended by two, then four, then six hours. Available food was skimmed to the barest of essentials that would prevent workers from collapsing on their machines. The depths of cruelty and indifference eventually managed to unlock something in the downtrodden and defeated workers. They found a limit where they couldn\u2019t take any more.\n\nOn December 3, 2757, on the tail end of sixteen-hour shift, Anthony Tanaka\u2019s foreman ordered him to pick up the shift of a co-worker who went into anaphylactic shock after exposure to a ruptured chemical canister.\n\nAnthony refused. This boy of twelve years old, withered rail thin from exhaustion and malnutrition, stood his ground against the foreman. Again and again, the boy refused.\n\nThe foreman tried to silence the child, but the boy kept refusing. His voice eventually overcame the screech and din of the working factory, attracting the attention of the other workers, who watched in silence. The machines slowly stopped until there was just the defiant, sobbing voice of Anthony Tanaka repeatedly refusing to work anymore.\n\nA Guardsman entered the factory floor. He calmly approached the young boy, took one look at his dirty face then drew his sidearm.\n\nThe whole time, the workers did nothing.\n\nThat was not the end of Anthony Tanaka. Footage of the feed were smuggled out of the factory and found their way throughout the Empire for those bold enough to defy the Imperator. A mood had been growing for quite some time \u2014 a desire to burn down the corrupt institution that dominated Humanity.\n\nAnthony Tanaka became the symbol of that spirit, that Humanity\u2019s willingness to put up with the cruelty of the Messers was coming to an end.\n\nIt would still take thirty-five years, but to some, the Messer Era began to fall when that shot ended the painfully short life of Anthony Tanaka."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":90,"created_at":"2013-12-04T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 22:29:46","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13409,"next_id":13413}}