{"data":{"id":18602,"title":"Aremis Post: Home Sweet Home","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/18602-Aremis-Post-Home-Sweet-Home","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/18602","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/18602","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"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"},{"id":28517,"name":"AremisPost_HomeSweetHome.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/ju94llgbxslher\/source\/AremisPost_HomeSweetHome.jpg","alt":"","size":413691,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2022-03-22T16:53:12+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28517","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28517\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"Op-Ed\nBy: Camden Hommel\n\u201cSo what\u2019s your real name?\u201d\n\nPeople have asked me that question more times than I can remember. When I was young, it confused me. As a teenager, it angered me. By now, I\u2019ve accepted it as something most people will eventually ask. I tell them Camden Hommel is my name, and that my parents hoped that giving me a Human name instead of a Tevarin one would make my life a little easier than theirs. In some ways it did and in others it didn\u2019t. Over the years, I came to understand that my parents\u2019 intentions were good and stopped blaming them for the outcome being less so.\n\nWhen my partner and I had our first child, I promised not to put our daughter in the same situation. Amidst the growing Tevarin cultural resurgence, where my partner and I, maybe for the first time, could proudly call ourselves both Tevarin and members of the UEE, we decided to give her a name that honored her heritage. We believed we lived in an age where we could proudly embrace both cultures and wanted our daughter to grow up believing the same thing. Then on October 5, 2945, the Vanduul attacked Aremis and forever turned our lives upside down.\n\nThankfully my family survived, but our housing complex and much of the Tevarin neighborhood in New Corvo was destroyed. Supplies and relief aid flooded into the system but little found its way into our neighborhood. Seeing the way the UEE and its bureaucracy dealt with the Tevarin made me feel like we were the last ones on anyone\u2019s mind. I grew angry and wrote several Op-Eds about our treatment and submitted them to this very paper but none were published. I felt forgotten and left behind. Even though I saw myself as a Tevarin member of the UEE, the system seemed to consider me a Tevarin first and a member of the UEE second.\n\nThis experience wasn\u2019t mine alone. A close friend struggling with the same obstacles eventually gave up on rebuilding their life in Aremis and relocated outside the UEE to Branaugh, a system with a growing Tevarin diaspora. In recent years, it has become a haven for those wanting to immerse themselves in our culture and freely practice some of our long-abandoned traditions. Comms with my friend who moved there sounded intriguing, and after several long discussions with my partner, we decided to move there ourselves. If the UEE was going to see us as Tevarin first and foremost, then we decided that we should too.\n\nMoving my family to Ne\u2019er wasn\u2019t without its complications but, once we settled in, it felt like home in a way New Corvo never did. With the streets full of Tevarin, I didn\u2019t stand out in a crowd for the first time in my life. I ate foods I\u2019d avoided ever since classmates made fun of me for enjoying such \u201cstrange\u201d delicacies. I even helped a local neighborhood group build a small stone course in a vacant lot so our kids could learn to play khuley. And everytime I raised my eyes to the sky, Branaugh II\u2019s majestic planetary rings took my breath away. Never before had I felt so comfortable and accepted. For the first time in my life, I was looked at for who I was instead of what I was.\n\nSure, local security and infrastructure were lacking when compared to most UEE systems, but I truly believed the benefits of being surrounded by other Tevarin choosing to celebrate and evolve a culture that had been dormant for centuries outweighed those issues. Plus, I thought conditions would only improve and community engagement would grow as more Tevarin moved to Ne\u2019er. I was proud to be forging a new Tevarin cultural identity for future generations, but it wasn\u2019t long before I began to question whether that could really happen.\n\nThe more time I spent in Ne\u2019er, the more I worried about the long-term future for the settlement. Was it truly focused on living, honoring, and expanding upon our great culture traditions or was there something else going on? My concerns began when I started a neighborhood watch and hosted monthly events to discuss how we could improve safety. Not only were the events sparsely attended but some less-than-reputable residents visited my home to advise against implementing any new security measures. I had expected my neighbors to line up for a chance to protect each other just as our ancestors did, but it seems service for the greater good is one tradition yet to be fully embraced. When I met with local leaders about the issue they claimed there was nothing they could do and recommended that I put the safety of my family before that of the neighborhood. The message became quite clear. The system was set up to protect and benefit some Tevarin not but all of us. Sufficiently scared, I stopped hosting meetings and moved my family into another neighborhood.\n\nMy concerns only grew upon learning that my daughter\u2019s school primarily focused on teaching her about the Human-inflicted horrors of the Tevarin Wars and the importance of our \u201cancient traditions,\u201d which primarily consisted of a modern interpretation of the Rijora that felt very different than the original teachings I had learned growing up. Little educational consideration was given to topics outside these two areas, severely hamstringing my daughter\u2019s chances of understanding the modern universe. If she ever chose to leave Branaugh, very little of what she learned would prepare her to succeed in the wider UEE.\n\nThat\u2019s when I realized that I had repeated the errors of my parents on a much larger scale. My intentions when moving my daughter to Ne\u2019er were good, but the outcome was potentially disastrous. My dream of her becoming a proud Tevarin ready to blaze a trail in the modern universe was not a reality. If anything, remaining in Branaugh would not only isolate her physically but ideologically from the rest of the universe. And in the worst case, potentially place her in an echo chamber of ideas that could lead to narrow thinking and exploitation by fundamentalists. Unlike the many long discussions I had with my partner about moving to Branaugh, we only needed to have one short one about leaving.\n\nMy family and I returned to New Corvo last year. While there were many aspects of Ne\u2019er that I loved, the settlement seems to want to recreate an era that\u2019s long gone and a culture that led us on a crash course with Humanity. My experience there has only made me more convinced that the best path forward for Tevarin lies within the UEE. I truly believe that the future of the Tevarin race doesn\u2019t lie in our past but our future, and that it\u2019s our responsibility to integrate the best parts of our great culture with that of the UEE. Because together we can both become stronger and create a better future for us all.","de_DE":"Op-Ed\nVon: Camden Hommel\n\"Wie ist Ihr richtiger Name?\"\n\nDiese Frage haben mir die Leute \u00f6fter gestellt, als ich mich erinnern kann. Als ich jung war, hat sie mich verwirrt. Als Teenager hat sie mich ver\u00e4rgert. Inzwischen habe ich mich damit abgefunden, dass die meisten Leute diese Frage irgendwann stellen werden. Ich erz\u00e4hle ihnen, dass Camden Hommel mein Name ist und dass meine Eltern gehofft haben, dass die Wahl eines menschlichen Namens anstelle eines tevarinischen mein Leben ein wenig einfacher machen w\u00fcrde als ihres. In mancher Hinsicht hat es das getan und in anderer nicht. Im Laufe der Jahre habe ich verstanden, dass die Absichten meiner Eltern gut waren und ich habe aufgeh\u00f6rt, ihnen die Schuld daf\u00fcr zu geben, dass das Ergebnis weniger gut war.\n\nAls mein Partner und ich unser erstes Kind bekamen, versprach ich, unsere Tochter nicht in dieselbe Situation zu bringen. Inmitten des wachsenden kulturellen Aufschwungs der Tevarin, wo mein Partner und ich uns vielleicht zum ersten Mal mit Stolz sowohl als Tevarin als auch als Mitglieder der UEE bezeichnen konnten, beschlossen wir, ihr einen Namen zu geben, der ihr Erbe ehrt. Wir glaubten, dass wir in einer Zeit lebten, in der wir beide Kulturen mit Stolz annehmen konnten, und wir wollten, dass unsere Tochter in diesem Glauben aufw\u00e4chst. Dann, am 5. Oktober 2945, griffen die Vanduul Aremis an und stellten unser Leben f\u00fcr immer auf den Kopf.\n\nGl\u00fccklicherweise \u00fcberlebte meine Familie, aber unser Wohnkomplex und ein Gro\u00dfteil des Tevarin-Viertels in New Corvo wurden zerst\u00f6rt. Das System wurde mit Vorr\u00e4ten und Hilfsg\u00fctern \u00fcberschwemmt, aber nur wenig fand den Weg in unsere Nachbarschaft. Als ich sah, wie die UEE und ihre B\u00fcrokratie mit den Tevarin umgingen, hatte ich das Gef\u00fchl, dass wir die Letzten waren, an die jemand dachte. Ich wurde w\u00fctend und schrieb mehrere Meinungs\u00e4u\u00dferungen \u00fcber unsere Behandlung und reichte sie bei eben dieser Zeitung ein, aber keine wurde ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Ich f\u00fchlte mich vergessen und zur\u00fcckgelassen. Obwohl ich mich als Tevarin und Mitglied der UEE sah, schien das System mich in erster Linie als Tevarin und erst in zweiter Linie als Mitglied der UEE zu betrachten.\n\nMit dieser Erfahrung war ich nicht allein. Ein enger Freund, der mit den gleichen Hindernissen zu k\u00e4mpfen hatte, gab schlie\u00dflich auf, sein Leben auf Aremis neu aufzubauen und zog au\u00dferhalb der UEE nach Branaugh, einem System mit einer wachsenden tevarinischen Diaspora. In den letzten Jahren ist es zu einem Zufluchtsort f\u00fcr diejenigen geworden, die in unsere Kultur eintauchen und einige unserer lange aufgegebenen Traditionen frei praktizieren m\u00f6chten. Die Gespr\u00e4che mit meinem Freund, der dorthin gezogen ist, klangen faszinierend, und nach mehreren langen Diskussionen mit meinem Partner beschlossen wir, selbst dorthin zu ziehen. Wenn die UEE uns in erster Linie als Tevarin sehen wollte, dann sollten wir das auch tun.\n\nDer Umzug meiner Familie nach Ne'er war nicht ohne Komplikationen, aber als wir uns erst einmal eingelebt hatten, f\u00fchlte es sich auf eine Weise wie zu Hause an, die New Corvo nie hatte. Die Stra\u00dfen waren voller Tevarin, und zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben fiel ich in der Menge nicht auf. Ich a\u00df Lebensmittel, die ich immer gemieden hatte, seit meine Klassenkameraden sich \u00fcber mich lustig machten, weil ich so \"seltsame\" K\u00f6stlichkeiten genoss. Ich half sogar einer lokalen Nachbarschaftsgruppe, einen kleinen Steinplatz auf einem leeren Grundst\u00fcck zu bauen, damit unsere Kinder Khuley spielen lernen konnten. Und jedes Mal, wenn ich meine Augen zum Himmel erhob, raubten mir die majest\u00e4tischen Planetenringe von Branaugh II den Atem. Nie zuvor hatte ich mich so wohl und angenommen gef\u00fchlt. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben wurde ich als das angesehen, was ich war, und nicht als das, was ich war.\n\nSicher, die \u00f6rtliche Sicherheit und Infrastruktur war im Vergleich zu den meisten UEE-Systemen mangelhaft, aber ich war der festen \u00dcberzeugung, dass die Vorteile, von anderen Tevarin umgeben zu sein, die sich daf\u00fcr entschieden hatten, eine Kultur zu feiern und weiterzuentwickeln, die jahrhundertelang geschlafen hatte, diese Probleme aufwiegen w\u00fcrden. Au\u00dferdem glaubte ich, dass sich die Bedingungen nur verbessern w\u00fcrden und das Engagement der Gemeinschaft wachsen w\u00fcrde, wenn mehr Tevarin nach Ne'er z\u00f6gen. Ich war stolz darauf, eine neue kulturelle Identit\u00e4t der Tevarin f\u00fcr k\u00fcnftige Generationen zu schaffen, aber es dauerte nicht lange, bis ich anfing zu zweifeln, ob das wirklich m\u00f6glich war.\n\nJe mehr Zeit ich in Ne'er verbrachte, desto mehr machte ich mir Sorgen \u00fcber die langfristige Zukunft der Siedlung. War sie wirklich darauf ausgerichtet, unsere gro\u00dfen kulturellen Traditionen zu leben, zu ehren und zu erweitern, oder ging es um etwas anderes? Meine Bedenken begannen, als ich eine Nachbarschaftswache gr\u00fcndete und monatliche Veranstaltungen organisierte, um zu diskutieren, wie wir die Sicherheit verbessern k\u00f6nnten. Die Veranstaltungen waren nicht nur sp\u00e4rlich besucht, sondern es kamen auch einige weniger seri\u00f6se Anwohner zu mir nach Hause, um mir von der Einf\u00fchrung neuer Sicherheitsma\u00dfnahmen abzuraten. Ich hatte erwartet, dass meine Nachbarn sich gegenseitig besch\u00fctzen w\u00fcrden, so wie es unsere Vorfahren taten, aber es scheint, dass der Dienst f\u00fcr das Allgemeinwohl eine Tradition ist, die noch nicht vollst\u00e4ndig angenommen wurde. Als ich mich mit den Verantwortlichen vor Ort \u00fcber das Problem unterhielt, behaupteten sie, sie k\u00f6nnten nichts tun und empfahlen mir, die Sicherheit meiner Familie \u00fcber die der Nachbarschaft zu stellen. Die Botschaft war ganz klar. Das System wurde eingerichtet, um einige Tevarin zu sch\u00fctzen und zu beg\u00fcnstigen, nicht aber uns alle. Ich war so ver\u00e4ngstigt, dass ich keine Treffen mehr veranstaltete und mit meiner Familie in ein anderes Viertel zog.\n\nMeine Bedenken wuchsen noch, als ich erfuhr, dass die Schule meiner Tochter sich haupts\u00e4chlich darauf konzentrierte, ihr die von Menschen verursachten Schrecken der Tevarin-Kriege und die Bedeutung unserer \"alten Traditionen\" beizubringen, die in erster Linie aus einer modernen Interpretation der Rijora bestanden, die sich sehr von den urspr\u00fcnglichen Lehren unterschied, die ich als Kind gelernt hatte. Themen, die \u00fcber diese beiden Bereiche hinausgingen, wurden kaum ber\u00fccksichtigt, was die Chancen meiner Tochter, das moderne Universum zu verstehen, stark einschr\u00e4nkte. Sollte sie sich jemals entscheiden, Branaugh zu verlassen, w\u00fcrde nur sehr wenig von dem, was sie gelernt hat, sie darauf vorbereiten, in der UEE erfolgreich zu sein.\n\nIn diesem Moment wurde mir klar, dass ich die Fehler meiner Eltern in einem viel gr\u00f6\u00dferen Ausma\u00df wiederholt hatte. Meine Absichten, als ich meine Tochter nach Ne'er brachte, waren gut, aber das Ergebnis war potenziell katastrophal. Mein Traum, dass sie eine stolze Tevarin wird, die bereit ist, einen Weg in das moderne Universum einzuschlagen, war nicht realisierbar. Wenn \u00fcberhaupt, w\u00fcrde ein Verbleib in Branaugh sie nicht nur physisch, sondern auch ideologisch vom Rest des Universums isolieren. Und im schlimmsten Fall w\u00fcrde sie m\u00f6glicherweise in einer Echokammer von Ideen landen, die zu engstirnigem Denken und Ausbeutung durch Fundamentalisten f\u00fchren k\u00f6nnten. Im Gegensatz zu den vielen langen Diskussionen, die ich mit meinem Partner \u00fcber den Umzug nach Branaugh gef\u00fchrt habe, mussten wir nur eine kurze Diskussion \u00fcber den Weggang f\u00fchren.\n\nMeine Familie und ich sind letztes Jahr nach New Corvo zur\u00fcckgekehrt. Es gab zwar viele Aspekte von Ne'er, die ich geliebt habe, aber die Siedlung scheint eine l\u00e4ngst vergangene \u00c4ra und eine Kultur wiederherstellen zu wollen, die uns auf einen Crashkurs mit der Menschheit gebracht hat. Meine Erfahrungen dort haben mich nur noch mehr davon \u00fcberzeugt, dass der beste Weg f\u00fcr die Tevarin innerhalb der UEE liegt. Ich bin der festen \u00dcberzeugung, dass die Zukunft der Tevarin-Rasse nicht in unserer Vergangenheit, sondern in unserer Zukunft liegt und dass es unsere Aufgabe ist, die besten Teile unserer gro\u00dfartigen Kultur mit der der UEE zu integrieren. Denn gemeinsam k\u00f6nnen wir beide st\u00e4rker werden und eine bessere Zukunft f\u00fcr uns alle schaffen.","zh_CN":"Op-Ed\nBy: Camden Hommel\n\u201cSo what\u2019s your real name?\u201d\n\nPeople have asked me that question more times than I can remember. When I was young, it confused me. As a teenager, it angered me. By now, I\u2019ve accepted it as something most people will eventually ask. I tell them Camden Hommel is my name, and that my parents hoped that giving me a Human name instead of a Tevarin one would make my life a little easier than theirs. In some ways it did and in others it didn\u2019t. Over the years, I came to understand that my parents\u2019 intentions were good and stopped blaming them for the outcome being less so.\n\nWhen my partner and I had our first child, I promised not to put our daughter in the same situation. Amidst the growing Tevarin cultural resurgence, where my partner and I, maybe for the first time, could proudly call ourselves both Tevarin and members of the UEE, we decided to give her a name that honored her heritage. We believed we lived in an age where we could proudly embrace both cultures and wanted our daughter to grow up believing the same thing. Then on October 5, 2945, the Vanduul attacked Aremis and forever turned our lives upside down.\n\nThankfully my family survived, but our housing complex and much of the Tevarin neighborhood in New Corvo was destroyed. Supplies and relief aid flooded into the system but little found its way into our neighborhood. Seeing the way the UEE and its bureaucracy dealt with the Tevarin made me feel like we were the last ones on anyone\u2019s mind. I grew angry and wrote several Op-Eds about our treatment and submitted them to this very paper but none were published. I felt forgotten and left behind. Even though I saw myself as a Tevarin member of the UEE, the system seemed to consider me a Tevarin first and a member of the UEE second.\n\nThis experience wasn\u2019t mine alone. A close friend struggling with the same obstacles eventually gave up on rebuilding their life in Aremis and relocated outside the UEE to Branaugh, a system with a growing Tevarin diaspora. In recent years, it has become a haven for those wanting to immerse themselves in our culture and freely practice some of our long-abandoned traditions. Comms with my friend who moved there sounded intriguing, and after several long discussions with my partner, we decided to move there ourselves. If the UEE was going to see us as Tevarin first and foremost, then we decided that we should too.\n\nMoving my family to Ne\u2019er wasn\u2019t without its complications but, once we settled in, it felt like home in a way New Corvo never did. With the streets full of Tevarin, I didn\u2019t stand out in a crowd for the first time in my life. I ate foods I\u2019d avoided ever since classmates made fun of me for enjoying such \u201cstrange\u201d delicacies. I even helped a local neighborhood group build a small stone course in a vacant lot so our kids could learn to play khuley. And everytime I raised my eyes to the sky, Branaugh II\u2019s majestic planetary rings took my breath away. Never before had I felt so comfortable and accepted. For the first time in my life, I was looked at for who I was instead of what I was.\n\nSure, local security and infrastructure were lacking when compared to most UEE systems, but I truly believed the benefits of being surrounded by other Tevarin choosing to celebrate and evolve a culture that had been dormant for centuries outweighed those issues. Plus, I thought conditions would only improve and community engagement would grow as more Tevarin moved to Ne\u2019er. I was proud to be forging a new Tevarin cultural identity for future generations, but it wasn\u2019t long before I began to question whether that could really happen.\n\nThe more time I spent in Ne\u2019er, the more I worried about the long-term future for the settlement. Was it truly focused on living, honoring, and expanding upon our great culture traditions or was there something else going on? My concerns began when I started a neighborhood watch and hosted monthly events to discuss how we could improve safety. Not only were the events sparsely attended but some less-than-reputable residents visited my home to advise against implementing any new security measures. I had expected my neighbors to line up for a chance to protect each other just as our ancestors did, but it seems service for the greater good is one tradition yet to be fully embraced. When I met with local leaders about the issue they claimed there was nothing they could do and recommended that I put the safety of my family before that of the neighborhood. The message became quite clear. The system was set up to protect and benefit some Tevarin not but all of us. Sufficiently scared, I stopped hosting meetings and moved my family into another neighborhood.\n\nMy concerns only grew upon learning that my daughter\u2019s school primarily focused on teaching her about the Human-inflicted horrors of the Tevarin Wars and the importance of our \u201cancient traditions,\u201d which primarily consisted of a modern interpretation of the Rijora that felt very different than the original teachings I had learned growing up. Little educational consideration was given to topics outside these two areas, severely hamstringing my daughter\u2019s chances of understanding the modern universe. If she ever chose to leave Branaugh, very little of what she learned would prepare her to succeed in the wider UEE.\n\nThat\u2019s when I realized that I had repeated the errors of my parents on a much larger scale. My intentions when moving my daughter to Ne\u2019er were good, but the outcome was potentially disastrous. My dream of her becoming a proud Tevarin ready to blaze a trail in the modern universe was not a reality. If anything, remaining in Branaugh would not only isolate her physically but ideologically from the rest of the universe. And in the worst case, potentially place her in an echo chamber of ideas that could lead to narrow thinking and exploitation by fundamentalists. Unlike the many long discussions I had with my partner about moving to Branaugh, we only needed to have one short one about leaving.\n\nMy family and I returned to New Corvo last year. While there were many aspects of Ne\u2019er that I loved, the settlement seems to want to recreate an era that\u2019s long gone and a culture that led us on a crash course with Humanity. My experience there has only made me more convinced that the best path forward for Tevarin lies within the UEE. I truly believe that the future of the Tevarin race doesn\u2019t lie in our past but our future, and that it\u2019s our responsibility to integrate the best parts of our great culture with that of the UEE. Because together we can both become stronger and create a better future for us all."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":35,"created_at":"2022-03-23T01:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"4 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-28 07:32:48","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":18601,"next_id":18603}}