{"data":{"id":18548,"title":"On The Path","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/18548-On-The-Path","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/18548","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/18548","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":24700,"name":"UEE_Senate_Hall.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/iqgj0xlutiwj6r\/source\/UEE_Senate_Hall.png","alt":"","size":4260086,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2020-10-05T18:45:04+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/24700","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/24700\/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 portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.3.\nImperator Erin Toi\u2019s autobiography, \u201cOn the Path,\u201d provides an honest and insightful look at her personal life and political ascension to becoming the first post-Messer Imperator. The book\u2019s unique format finds the former Imperator focusing on important days that forever changed the trajectory of her life. Below is the excerpt from March 11, 2777.\n\nMarch 11, 2777 \u2013 SHANGHAI, EARTH, SOL SYSTEM\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to go, Senator Toi.\u201d\n\nWhen asked about that day, those words are first to mind. Calmly whispered to me by Irfan Udell, my security chief, before I could ask the crowd of constituents for more questions. My first in-person event since my election to the Senate was already an hour over schedule. I apologized to those still waiting and asked my staff to gather all remaining questions.\n\nIrfan casually chatted with me during our walk to the hangar. Something he rarely did in the early days. Waiting inside was a full military transport. I had expected a small hopper to ferry me to Shanghai\u2019s waterfront gardens for a sunset walk. Before I could inquire, Ifran handed me a dossier. Irfan informed me that Shanghai officials had just arrested two individuals involved in a plot to assassinate me. Flipping through the files, I saw records of comms discussing my scheduled visit to the gardens, schematics, three suspect profiles, and photos of two people being arrested while unloading crates from a handcart. Since the third suspect was still at large, he deemed it imperative to get me off-world.\n\nWhenever I reflect on that day, Irfan\u2019s calm, professional demeanor always stands out. Only later did I learn how his team had worked tirelessly for weeks to orchestrate the sting without allowing it to affect my appearances or tip their hand to Messer loyalists. If Irfan\u2019s team could defy the regime, then so could I.\n\nPRIME TARGET\nTo anyone paying attention, the Messers effectively began hand-selecting Earth\u2019s senators in the mid-2600s. Although Senate elections still occurred, the eventual winner was always obvious thanks to pervasive ads and a non-stop media blitz focused on a specific pro-Messer candidate. Around the same time, particularly vocal political opponents began to disappear (we now know to Charon\u2019s secret prisons). Earth\u2019s opposition parties withered along with any enthusiasm to run against a Messer-backed candidate, eventually leading to several Senate elections where only one candidate appeared on the ballot.\n\nBy the time I registered my run for the Senate in late 2775, I knew the risk I was taking but didn\u2019t let it deter me. Honestly, I never expected to win. Only to show the empire what was clear to many of us on Earth; the Messer\u2019s political influence was waning.\n\nOnce elected, the Senate assigned me a security team led by Irfan. I had heard that Messer loyalists were known to be installed with the Senate security services to keep tabs on senators, but an emboldened block of anti-Messer senators had recently restructured and reformed the security services to end such surveillance. Irfan\u2019s team quickly earned my trust and eventually my eternal gratitude for their actions in Shanghai. As we broke atmo leaving Earth that day, Irfan promised that his team would continue to do everything within their power to keep me and my staff safe, and I promised to fight like hell to save the empire from the Messers.\n\nSTRATEGIC VISION\nExhausted yet strangely energized from the events of the day, I spoke with Terran Senator Heng Ibrahim who was then the head of the Senate\u2019s Defense Committee. He told me privately what could never be uttered publicly, that the Messers were responsible for sending my would-be assassins, but they still had enough loyal senators to stop any investigation. Despite my desire to confront Imperator Messer X over the incident, now was not the time to pick a fight.\n\nUnofficially though, further details about the failed assassination attempt continued to trickle in. The arrested conspirators, Shigeki Renshaw and Dalton Boudet, were both in possession of valid employee IDs that allowed them to bypass security checks at the Shanghai gardens. An attempt to access information on their comps was thwarted by an advanced encryption system that wiped the devices when a password wasn\u2019t entered within the allotted time. Despite a variety of threats and incentives, Renshaw and Boudet refused to talk and both were killed in jail before making it to trial.\n\nStrategically, it was better to focus that political anger and energy onto issues that improved the Empire for all. To show voters how a good, responsible government could work if they wanted it. Publicly, this included legislation that restored the voting rights of political dissidents (which failed upon introduction, naturally), and behind the scenes, attempting to establish positive diplomatic relations with the Xi\u2019an that eventually led to the Akari-Kr.\u0113 Treaty of 2789.\n\nHistory has proven this strategy effective. In the aftermath of the Messers, we now know the failed assassination attempt angered Linton and Fiona Messer, who believed it made their father look weak. Due to this and various other grievances, the two began plotting what would become the coup at Khanos Stadium that deposed Ulysses Messer X in 2781. While the regime festered from the inside, Senatorial influence increased and positively reformed other parts of the government. I saw the system begin to heal before my eyes. That\u2019s why, when the terrible and bloody 11-year reign of Imperator Linton Messer XI finally came to an end, I felt more confident than ever that everything was going to be ok.\n\nLet\u2019s go to that day next, May 3, 2792.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 9.3.\nDie Autobiographie von Imperatorin Erin Toi, \"Auf dem Weg\", bietet einen ehrlichen und aufschlussreichen Einblick in ihr pers\u00f6nliches Leben und ihren politischen Aufstieg zur ersten Nach-Messer-Imperatorin. In dem einzigartigen Format des Buches konzentriert sich die ehemalige Imperatorin auf wichtige Tage, die ihr Leben f\u00fcr immer ver\u00e4ndert haben. Nachfolgend finden Sie einen Auszug vom 11. M\u00e4rz 2777.\n\n11. M\u00e4rz 2777 - SHANGHAI, ERDE, SOL-SYSTEM\n\"Es ist Zeit zu gehen, Senator Toi.\"\n\nWenn man mich nach diesem Tag fragt, kommen mir diese Worte als erstes in den Sinn. Ruhig fl\u00fcsterte mir Irfan Udell, mein Sicherheitschef, zu, bevor ich die Menge der W\u00e4hler um weitere Fragen bitten konnte. Meine erste pers\u00f6nliche Veranstaltung seit meiner Wahl in den Senat war bereits eine Stunde \u00fcber dem Zeitplan. Ich entschuldigte mich bei den noch Wartenden und bat meine Mitarbeiter, alle verbleibenden Fragen zu sammeln.\n\nIrfan plauderte w\u00e4hrend unseres Spaziergangs zum Hangar ganz beil\u00e4ufig mit mir. Etwas, das er in den ersten Tagen nur selten tat. Drinnen wartete ein voller Milit\u00e4rtransporter. Ich hatte einen kleinen Hopper erwartet, der mich f\u00fcr einen Spaziergang bei Sonnenuntergang zu den G\u00e4rten am Wasser von Shanghai bringen sollte. Bevor ich mich erkundigen konnte, reichte mir Ifran ein Dossier. Irfan informierte mich, dass die Beamten in Shanghai gerade zwei Personen verhaftet hatten, die an einem Attentatsplan auf mich beteiligt waren. Als ich die Akten durchbl\u00e4tterte, sah ich Aufzeichnungen von Kommunikationen, in denen mein geplanter Besuch in den G\u00e4rten besprochen wurde, Baupl\u00e4ne, drei Profile von Verd\u00e4chtigen und Fotos von zwei Personen, die verhaftet wurden, w\u00e4hrend sie Kisten von einem Handkarren abluden. Da der dritte Verd\u00e4chtige noch auf freiem Fu\u00df war, hielt er es f\u00fcr dringend erforderlich, mich aus der Welt zu schaffen.\n\nWenn ich an diesen Tag zur\u00fcckdenke, f\u00e4llt mir immer wieder Irfans ruhiges, professionelles Auftreten auf. Erst sp\u00e4ter erfuhr ich, dass sein Team wochenlang unerm\u00fcdlich daran gearbeitet hatte, die Aktion so zu inszenieren, dass sie weder mein Erscheinungsbild beeintr\u00e4chtigte noch den Messer-Loyalisten in die H\u00e4nde spielte. Wenn Irfans Team dem Regime trotzen konnte, dann konnte ich das auch.\n\nHAUPTZIELSCHEIBE\nF\u00fcr jeden, der aufmerksam ist, haben die Messers Mitte der 2600er Jahre damit begonnen, die Senatoren der Erde von Hand auszuw\u00e4hlen. Obwohl es immer noch Senatswahlen gab, war der letztendliche Gewinner dank der allgegenw\u00e4rtigen Werbung und der ununterbrochenen Medienpr\u00e4senz, die sich auf einen bestimmten Pro-Messer-Kandidaten konzentrierte, immer offensichtlich. Etwa zur gleichen Zeit begannen besonders lautstarke politische Gegner zu verschwinden (wir wissen jetzt, dass es sich um Charons Geheimgef\u00e4ngnisse handelt). Die Oppositionsparteien auf der Erde verk\u00fcmmerten zusammen mit dem Enthusiasmus, gegen einen von Messer unterst\u00fctzten Kandidaten anzutreten, was schlie\u00dflich zu mehreren Senatswahlen f\u00fchrte, bei denen nur ein Kandidat auf dem Stimmzettel stand.\n\nAls ich Ende 2775 meine Kandidatur f\u00fcr den Senat anmeldete, kannte ich das Risiko, das ich einging, aber ich lie\u00df mich nicht abschrecken. Ehrlich gesagt hatte ich nie erwartet, dass ich gewinnen w\u00fcrde. Ich wollte dem Imperium nur zeigen, was vielen von uns auf der Erde klar war: Der politische Einfluss der Messer war am Schwinden.\n\nNach meiner Wahl wies mir der Senat ein Sicherheitsteam unter der Leitung von Irfan zu. Ich hatte geh\u00f6rt, dass Messer-Loyalisten bei den Sicherheitsdiensten des Senats untergebracht waren, um die Senatoren zu \u00fcberwachen, aber ein ermutigter Block von Anti-Messer-Senatoren hatte die Sicherheitsdienste k\u00fcrzlich umstrukturiert und reformiert, um diese \u00dcberwachung zu beenden. Irfans Team hat sich schnell mein Vertrauen und schlie\u00dflich meine ewige Dankbarkeit f\u00fcr ihr Handeln in Shanghai verdient. Als wir an diesem Tag die Erde verlie\u00dfen, versprach Irfan, dass sein Team weiterhin alles in seiner Macht Stehende tun w\u00fcrde, um mich und meine Mitarbeiter zu sch\u00fctzen, und ich versprach, wie der Teufel zu k\u00e4mpfen, um das Imperium vor den Messern zu retten.\n\nSTRATEGISCHE VISION\nErsch\u00f6pft und doch seltsam erregt von den Ereignissen des Tages, sprach ich mit dem terranischen Senator Heng Ibrahim, der damals den Verteidigungsausschuss des Senats leitete. Er erz\u00e4hlte mir unter vier Augen, was niemals \u00f6ffentlich ausgesprochen werden durfte, n\u00e4mlich dass die Messers f\u00fcr die Entsendung meiner M\u00f6chtegern-Attent\u00e4ter verantwortlich waren, dass sie aber immer noch genug loyale Senatoren hatten, um jede Untersuchung zu verhindern. Obwohl ich Imperator Messer X wegen des Vorfalls zur Rede stellen wollte, war jetzt nicht der richtige Zeitpunkt, um einen Streit zu beginnen.\n\nInoffiziell sickerten jedoch immer mehr Details \u00fcber den gescheiterten Attentatsversuch durch. Die verhafteten Verschw\u00f6rer, Shigeki Renshaw und Dalton Boudet, waren beide im Besitz g\u00fcltiger Mitarbeiterausweise, mit denen sie die Sicherheitskontrollen in den Shanghai Gardens umgehen konnten. Ein Versuch, auf die Informationen auf ihren Computern zuzugreifen, wurde durch ein fortschrittliches Verschl\u00fcsselungssystem vereitelt, das die Ger\u00e4te l\u00f6schte, wenn ein Passwort nicht innerhalb der vorgegebenen Zeit eingegeben wurde. Trotz einer Vielzahl von Drohungen und Anreizen weigerten sich Renshaw und Boudet zu reden und wurden beide im Gef\u00e4ngnis get\u00f6tet, bevor sie vor Gericht gestellt wurden.\n\nStrategisch gesehen war es besser, diese politische Wut und Energie auf Themen zu konzentrieren, die das Imperium f\u00fcr alle verbessern. Um den W\u00e4hlern zu zeigen, wie eine gute, verantwortungsvolle Regierung funktionieren kann, wenn sie es wollen. Dazu geh\u00f6rten in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit Gesetze, die das Wahlrecht f\u00fcr politische Dissidenten wiederherstellten (die nat\u00fcrlich bei ihrer Einf\u00fchrung scheiterten), und hinter den Kulissen der Versuch, positive diplomatische Beziehungen mit den Xi'an aufzubauen, die schlie\u00dflich zum Akari-Kr.\u0113-Vertrag von 2789 f\u00fchrten.\n\nDie Geschichte hat bewiesen, dass diese Strategie erfolgreich war. Im Nachgang zu den Messers wissen wir nun, dass der gescheiterte Attentatsversuch Linton und Fiona Messer ver\u00e4rgert hat, da sie glaubten, dass ihr Vater dadurch schwach aussah. Aus diesem und anderen Gr\u00fcnden begannen die beiden, den Putsch im Khanos-Stadion zu planen, durch den Ulysses Messer X im Jahr 2781 gest\u00fcrzt wurde. W\u00e4hrend das Regime von innen her schwelte, wuchs der Einfluss des Senators und reformierte andere Teile der Regierung. Ich sah, wie sich das System vor meinen Augen zu heilen begann. Deshalb war ich, als die schreckliche und blutige 11-j\u00e4hrige Herrschaft von Imperator Linton Messer XI endlich zu Ende ging, zuversichtlicher denn je, dass alles gut werden w\u00fcrde.\n\nKommen wir nun zu diesem Tag, dem 3. Mai 2792.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.3.\nImperator Erin Toi\u2019s autobiography, \u201cOn the Path,\u201d provides an honest and insightful look at her personal life and political ascension to becoming the first post-Messer Imperator. The book\u2019s unique format finds the former Imperator focusing on important days that forever changed the trajectory of her life. Below is the excerpt from March 11, 2777.\n\nMarch 11, 2777 \u2013 SHANGHAI, EARTH, SOL SYSTEM\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to go, Senator Toi.\u201d\n\nWhen asked about that day, those words are first to mind. Calmly whispered to me by Irfan Udell, my security chief, before I could ask the crowd of constituents for more questions. My first in-person event since my election to the Senate was already an hour over schedule. I apologized to those still waiting and asked my staff to gather all remaining questions.\n\nIrfan casually chatted with me during our walk to the hangar. Something he rarely did in the early days. Waiting inside was a full military transport. I had expected a small hopper to ferry me to Shanghai\u2019s waterfront gardens for a sunset walk. Before I could inquire, Ifran handed me a dossier. Irfan informed me that Shanghai officials had just arrested two individuals involved in a plot to assassinate me. Flipping through the files, I saw records of comms discussing my scheduled visit to the gardens, schematics, three suspect profiles, and photos of two people being arrested while unloading crates from a handcart. Since the third suspect was still at large, he deemed it imperative to get me off-world.\n\nWhenever I reflect on that day, Irfan\u2019s calm, professional demeanor always stands out. Only later did I learn how his team had worked tirelessly for weeks to orchestrate the sting without allowing it to affect my appearances or tip their hand to Messer loyalists. If Irfan\u2019s team could defy the regime, then so could I.\n\nPRIME TARGET\nTo anyone paying attention, the Messers effectively began hand-selecting Earth\u2019s senators in the mid-2600s. Although Senate elections still occurred, the eventual winner was always obvious thanks to pervasive ads and a non-stop media blitz focused on a specific pro-Messer candidate. Around the same time, particularly vocal political opponents began to disappear (we now know to Charon\u2019s secret prisons). Earth\u2019s opposition parties withered along with any enthusiasm to run against a Messer-backed candidate, eventually leading to several Senate elections where only one candidate appeared on the ballot.\n\nBy the time I registered my run for the Senate in late 2775, I knew the risk I was taking but didn\u2019t let it deter me. Honestly, I never expected to win. Only to show the empire what was clear to many of us on Earth; the Messer\u2019s political influence was waning.\n\nOnce elected, the Senate assigned me a security team led by Irfan. I had heard that Messer loyalists were known to be installed with the Senate security services to keep tabs on senators, but an emboldened block of anti-Messer senators had recently restructured and reformed the security services to end such surveillance. Irfan\u2019s team quickly earned my trust and eventually my eternal gratitude for their actions in Shanghai. As we broke atmo leaving Earth that day, Irfan promised that his team would continue to do everything within their power to keep me and my staff safe, and I promised to fight like hell to save the empire from the Messers.\n\nSTRATEGIC VISION\nExhausted yet strangely energized from the events of the day, I spoke with Terran Senator Heng Ibrahim who was then the head of the Senate\u2019s Defense Committee. He told me privately what could never be uttered publicly, that the Messers were responsible for sending my would-be assassins, but they still had enough loyal senators to stop any investigation. Despite my desire to confront Imperator Messer X over the incident, now was not the time to pick a fight.\n\nUnofficially though, further details about the failed assassination attempt continued to trickle in. The arrested conspirators, Shigeki Renshaw and Dalton Boudet, were both in possession of valid employee IDs that allowed them to bypass security checks at the Shanghai gardens. An attempt to access information on their comps was thwarted by an advanced encryption system that wiped the devices when a password wasn\u2019t entered within the allotted time. Despite a variety of threats and incentives, Renshaw and Boudet refused to talk and both were killed in jail before making it to trial.\n\nStrategically, it was better to focus that political anger and energy onto issues that improved the Empire for all. To show voters how a good, responsible government could work if they wanted it. Publicly, this included legislation that restored the voting rights of political dissidents (which failed upon introduction, naturally), and behind the scenes, attempting to establish positive diplomatic relations with the Xi\u2019an that eventually led to the Akari-Kr.\u0113 Treaty of 2789.\n\nHistory has proven this strategy effective. In the aftermath of the Messers, we now know the failed assassination attempt angered Linton and Fiona Messer, who believed it made their father look weak. Due to this and various other grievances, the two began plotting what would become the coup at Khanos Stadium that deposed Ulysses Messer X in 2781. While the regime festered from the inside, Senatorial influence increased and positively reformed other parts of the government. I saw the system begin to heal before my eyes. That\u2019s why, when the terrible and bloody 11-year reign of Imperator Linton Messer XI finally came to an end, I felt more confident than ever that everything was going to be ok.\n\nLet\u2019s go to that day next, May 3, 2792."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":8,"created_at":"2022-02-09T02:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"4 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-18 11:32:03","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":18547,"next_id":18549}}