Hi All,
Part iii
The main building of Esther's Souk, the famous banking and insurance market based on the Caldera of Elyisum Mons , Mars, resembles a strange cross between the palace of Versailles , a Greek temple , mogul palace, medieval citadel and public library, with gold leaf stuck onto it for good measure. What looked like a colossal copper and glass Tagine sat on the Panethon like facade .
The house of Gorf Hall LLP, has its office , just by the main lobby. It was one long dimly corridor whose central piece on two walls were the Elgin marbles , purchased for N 2,000,000 (£400 billion) from the UK after Brexit, half of which went to Greece to pay off their debts. The Gorf are natives of Tau Ceti , resemble humanoid frogs in tweed. As luck would have it their home system also contained three planets as big as Jupiter , whose primary constituent was molten gold , which made them all collectively multi billionaires several times over and therefore desiring to make some more money used Esther's Souk as a way to invest in the universe. One of the Gorf's main clients -for reinsurance and funding of their Investment Bank (used by the 139 Dioceses of the wider galactic Anglican Communion)- is the Church Of England via "Via Media Risk Management ", the church's in house brokers.
The Church of England is much like the old Austria -Hungry : an ramshackle anachronistic feature , forever predicted to collapse or split due to its internal contradictions, but some how surviving and holding despite the vicious critics. It was anachronistic because it was the official state church in England , The monarch was supreme governor, including clerics in its legislature, yet a small percentage of Englishmen actually attended its services, in what has become in effect a secular society, yet most Englishmen claimed to be nominal members of this same church! There were more observant Anglicans on Venus or Alpha Centauri than England. It was also always in permanent crisis mode, in this case added to the lists of the usual centuries old debates on women vicars and gay marriages, there was the argument about allowing AI to become Priests i.e. " robot vicars " and as a subsidiary issue whether they could be married in church. A third and final issue was whether this could include gay, lesbian and transgender AI. Robot rights campaigners had also been threatening to "out" some clerics who were allegedly robots.
This related to finances because the Church of England is all about compromise. Thus the investment bank division of the church had been tasked with purchasing and developing planets to which dissident Conservative and Liberal Anglicans could go , in order to avoid a split. These planets would be administered by supportive "flying bishops". All well and good, but poneying up the trillions this required was no mean feat , even if in the long term it would produce a tidy return, finding the cash to cover this exercise was a permanent hand to mouth affair, until the Gorf lead a couple of investment houses in providing full and long term investment in the project.
Unfortunately all of these issues had recently come to a head. The Bishop of Venus, who'd recently been married to her atheist transgender lesbian partner who was also a robot, had been nominated as the next Archbishop of Canterbury , the leader of the Church of England and Anglican Communion. While almost no one in England at the time battered an eyelid or actually cared , it was the spark that set off a financial , diplomatic and military crisis...
Part iii
The main building of Esther's Souk, the famous banking and insurance market based on the Caldera of Elyisum Mons , Mars, resembles a strange cross between the palace of Versailles , a Greek temple , mogul palace, medieval citadel and public library, with gold leaf stuck onto it for good measure. What looked like a colossal copper and glass Tagine sat on the Panethon like facade .
The house of Gorf Hall LLP, has its office , just by the main lobby. It was one long dimly corridor whose central piece on two walls were the Elgin marbles , purchased for N 2,000,000 (£400 billion) from the UK after Brexit, half of which went to Greece to pay off their debts. The Gorf are natives of Tau Ceti , resemble humanoid frogs in tweed. As luck would have it their home system also contained three planets as big as Jupiter , whose primary constituent was molten gold , which made them all collectively multi billionaires several times over and therefore desiring to make some more money used Esther's Souk as a way to invest in the universe. One of the Gorf's main clients -for reinsurance and funding of their Investment Bank (used by the 139 Dioceses of the wider galactic Anglican Communion)- is the Church Of England via "Via Media Risk Management ", the church's in house brokers.
The Church of England is much like the old Austria -Hungry : an ramshackle anachronistic feature , forever predicted to collapse or split due to its internal contradictions, but some how surviving and holding despite the vicious critics. It was anachronistic because it was the official state church in England , The monarch was supreme governor, including clerics in its legislature, yet a small percentage of Englishmen actually attended its services, in what has become in effect a secular society, yet most Englishmen claimed to be nominal members of this same church! There were more observant Anglicans on Venus or Alpha Centauri than England. It was also always in permanent crisis mode, in this case added to the lists of the usual centuries old debates on women vicars and gay marriages, there was the argument about allowing AI to become Priests i.e. " robot vicars " and as a subsidiary issue whether they could be married in church. A third and final issue was whether this could include gay, lesbian and transgender AI. Robot rights campaigners had also been threatening to "out" some clerics who were allegedly robots.
This related to finances because the Church of England is all about compromise. Thus the investment bank division of the church had been tasked with purchasing and developing planets to which dissident Conservative and Liberal Anglicans could go , in order to avoid a split. These planets would be administered by supportive "flying bishops". All well and good, but poneying up the trillions this required was no mean feat , even if in the long term it would produce a tidy return, finding the cash to cover this exercise was a permanent hand to mouth affair, until the Gorf lead a couple of investment houses in providing full and long term investment in the project.
Unfortunately all of these issues had recently come to a head. The Bishop of Venus, who'd recently been married to her atheist transgender lesbian partner who was also a robot, had been nominated as the next Archbishop of Canterbury , the leader of the Church of England and Anglican Communion. While almost no one in England at the time battered an eyelid or actually cared , it was the spark that set off a financial , diplomatic and military crisis...
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