This Day in History: Anthony Tanaka - [Comm-Links](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links) - This Day in History: Anthony Tanaka This Day in History: Anthony Tanaka =================================== Undefined Undefined News Update [Previous](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/13409) [Next](https://api.star-citizen.wiki/comm-links/13413) Content ------- English THIS DAY IN HISTORY December 3, 2757 SET The Painfully Short Life of Anthony Tanaka Over 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’An and Vanduul, initially used by Messer to consolidate his power, had kept the populace in line and ultimately contributed to their submission. Anthony 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’s 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 ‘seditious’ or ‘anarchist’ activity. Tanaka’s 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’t raise a word of protest. They sank their shoulders and lowered their heads further. Tanaka 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. In 2757, Lane Corpos, the Imperator’s 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 ‘entice’ 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. The conditions around the factory diminished almost uniformly, especially when the Guard, a unit of Advocacy agents assigned as Corpos’ 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’t take any more. On December 3, 2757, on the tail end of sixteen-hour shift, Anthony Tanaka’s foreman ordered him to pick up the shift of a co-worker who went into anaphylactic shock after exposure to a ruptured chemical canister. Anthony 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. The 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. A Guardsman entered the factory floor. He calmly approached the young boy, took one look at his dirty face then drew his sidearm. The whole time, the workers did nothing. That 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 — a desire to burn down the corrupt institution that dominated Humanity. Anthony Tanaka became the symbol of that spirit, that Humanity’s willingness to put up with the cruelty of the Messers was coming to an end. It 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. AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE 3. Dezember 2757 SET Das schmerzhaft kurze Leben von Anthony Tanaka Über zweihundert Jahre sind vergangen, seit Ivar Messer in die Rolle des Ersten Bürgers aufstieg, die erste Phase seiner Entwicklung zum ersten Imperator. Im Laufe dieser Jahrhunderte verschärfte die Familie Messer ihren Griff auf die Quelle der Macht, entzog dem Senat den größten Teil ihrer Autorität und korrumpierte die Advocacy in ihre private Polizei. Die Angst vor Xi'An und Vanduul, die Messer zunächst zur Stärkung seiner Macht nutzte, hatte die Bevölkerung auf Kurs gehalten und schließlich zu ihrer Unterwerfung beigetragen. Anthony Tanaka kannte nichts von der Geschichte, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt führte. Anthony wurde in den Slums von Newcastle auf Borea in Magnus geboren und kannte nur eine Welt voller Kontrollpunkte und Regierungsbrutalität. Damals war Magnus zu einem erstklassigen Produktionsstandort für die Munition der massiven Kriegsmaschine der UEE geworden, so dass die lokale Bevölkerung einer ständig zunehmenden Prüfung und Zufallssuche unterzogen wurde, um die unerwünschten Personen und Verräter zu finden, vor denen die Propaganda-Dienste immer warnten. Nachbarn und Freunde würden mitten in der Nacht verschwinden, und die einzige offizielle Antwort auf Anfragen war eine aufrührerische" oder anarchistische" Aktivität. 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 Köpfe weiter. Tanaka arbeitete bei Airbol in ihrer Munitionsabteilung, seine Größe erlaubte es ihm, Schrubbersysteme effektiver zu reinigen als die Erwachsenen. Vier Jahre lang lebte Anthony in einer Firmenkaserne mit fünfzig anderen Kinderangestellten und arbeitete sechs Tage die Woche, wobei der letzte Tag im Pflichtprogramm des Studiums der Menschheitsgeschichte verbracht wurde. Seine Löhne waren praktisch nicht vorhanden, absorbiert von den von Airbol erhobenen Wohnungs-, Bildungs- und Verpflegungskosten. Im Jahr 2757 wurde Lane Corpos, der entfernte Cousin des Imperators, nach einem spürbaren Rückgang der Produktqualität mit der Verwaltung des Magnus-Systems beauftragt. Corpos hatte eine gut dokumentierte bösartige Ader. Der Imperator glaubte, dass er die Bevölkerung des Systems zurück zu ihren früheren Standards "locken" könnte. Sein erster Auftrag bei der Besichtigung der Einrichtung war es, das Lernprogramm abzubrechen und die minderjährigen Arbeiter zu zwingen, die ganze Woche zu arbeiten. Die Bedingungen um die Fabrik herum verringerten sich fast gleichmäßig, besonders als die Garde, eine Einheit von Advocacy-Agenten, die als persönliche Vollstrecker von Corpos eingesetzt wurden, die Sicherheit übernahm. Die Schichten wurden um zwei, dann um vier, dann um sechs Stunden verlängert. Die verfügbaren Lebensmittel wurden bis auf das Notwendigste abgeschöpft, um zu verhindern, dass die Arbeiter an ihren Maschinen zusammenbrechen. Die Tiefe der Grausamkeit und Gleichgültigkeit schaffte es schließlich, etwas in den unterdrückten und besiegten Arbeitern freizusetzen. Sie fanden eine Grenze, an der sie es nicht mehr aushalten konnten. Am 3. Dezember 2757, am Ende der sechzehnstündigen Schicht, befahl Anthony Tanakas Polier ihm, die Schicht eines Mitarbeiters zu übernehmen, der nach der Exposition gegenüber einem gerissenen Chemiekanister in einen anaphylaktischen Schock geriet. Anthony weigerte sich. Dieser zwölfjährige Junge, der vor Erschöpfung und Unterernährung ein dünnes Gleis hat, stand dem Vorarbeiter gegenüber. Immer wieder weigerte sich der Junge. Der Polier versuchte, das Kind zum Schweigen zu bringen, aber der Junge weigerte sich immer wieder. Seine Stimme überwand schließlich das Kreischen und Lärmen 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. Ein Wächter betrat die Fabrikhalle. Er näherte sich dem kleinen Jungen ruhig, sah sich sein schmutziges Gesicht an und zog dann seine Unterarme. Die ganze Zeit über haben die Arbeiter nichts getan. Das war nicht das Ende von Anthony Tanaka. Das Filmmaterial des Futters wurde aus der Fabrik geschmuggelt und fand seinen Weg durch das ganze Reich für 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. Anthony Tanaka wurde zum Symbol dieses Geistes, dass die Bereitschaft der Menschheit, die Grausamkeit der Messers zu ertragen, zu Ende ging. Es würde noch 35 Jahre dauern, aber für einige begann die Messer-Ära zu fallen, als dieser Schuss das schmerzhaft kurze Leben von Anthony Tanaka beendete. THIS DAY IN HISTORY December 3, 2757 SET The Painfully Short Life of Anthony Tanaka Over 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’An and Vanduul, initially used by Messer to consolidate his power, had kept the populace in line and ultimately contributed to their submission. Anthony 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’s 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 ‘seditious’ or ‘anarchist’ activity. Tanaka’s 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’t raise a word of protest. They sank their shoulders and lowered their heads further. Tanaka 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. In 2757, Lane Corpos, the Imperator’s 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 ‘entice’ 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. The conditions around the factory diminished almost uniformly, especially when the Guard, a unit of Advocacy agents assigned as Corpos’ 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’t take any more. On December 3, 2757, on the tail end of sixteen-hour shift, Anthony Tanaka’s foreman ordered him to pick up the shift of a co-worker who went into anaphylactic shock after exposure to a ruptured chemical canister. Anthony 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. The 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. A Guardsman entered the factory floor. He calmly approached the young boy, took one look at his dirty face then drew his sidearm. The whole time, the workers did nothing. That 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 — a desire to burn down the corrupt institution that dominated Humanity. Anthony Tanaka became the symbol of that spirit, that Humanity’s willingness to put up with the cruelty of the Messers was coming to an end. 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