Navigating in a Changed World - Prolog: News of a Changing World by PlatineDragon < Submission

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Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzbarker

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    July 1st, 2018 – Zootopia Times



    TECHNOCRACY: THEIR WONDERS AND SECRETS


  Yesterday, on June 30, Pearl Paradigm Industry, the technology research and development group that was responsible for the creation and maintenance of the climate walls of Zootopia called in a press conference due to an announcement. In this announcement, the CEO revealed that the Pearl Paradigms group is relate to the organization known as "Technocracy".

  The Technocracy has been mention during the course of the interview conducted by Victoria Vulpen. Zillah Ferron, the ferret mage, described the Technocracy as one of the organizations that were able to face the Mage's Association. Described as a group that uses a more scientific approach in everything they do, and that plans to have technology replace the supernatural, however, the CEO of Pearl Paradigms, who describes himself as a member of the Technocracy, therefore a 'technocrat', said:

  "This is the typical thing that mages say. It cannot be helped, once they have their own view of how things work, and it just cannot be helped." He spoke. "Mages do deserve credit, for they act pretty much like us, researching and testing their methods until they have been perfected into working form. However, mages cannot be called true scientists, for they act based on methods that cannot be used freely, and they work only for themselves, while true scientists must dedicate themselves to learning the truth in order to improve the lives of others and to improve society as a whole. We, from the Technocracy, are true scientists, for in spite of developing methods that make use of our Quantic Circuits, we also work in finding ways that these methods can also be utilized and performed by those who don't have them. We try to achieve new ways of understanding the world and new methods to perform the most different tasks, and we work in putting these methods on the reach of the common mammals of this world. For unlike magecraft, which searches for ways to performing tasks, but can only be reproduce by those who are privileged, the true science is something that works in favor of all mammals as a whole. Our methods have been extensively tested and studied, and we now work into putting them on everyone's reach and improve the lives of mammals. That was what we did with the creation of the climate walls, and we still have many plans to use science to improve society and the lives of mammals."

  The stocks have answered to the announcement made, as Pearl Paradigms, as well as other industries and groups also revealed to be relate to the Technocracy, suffered fluctuations in response for the revelation, as well as for the demonstrations that were carry on the same day. Such demonstrations included the exposition of feats and equipment that could only be describe as something out of sci-fi movies.

  "These guys are actually no different from mages, you know?" Said Mason Deerbron, a stock market consultor, "They say that they work in improving society, but they actually have a lot of things that you can only do if you have those circuits of theirs." The Technocracy answered to it by saying once more that they work tirelessly in finding ways for their methods to be performed by those who don't have 'Quantic Circuits', and that as soon as these methods have been tested and perfected, they are released for the public.

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    July 9th, 2018 - The cape of the Mammals Magazine


  It was a picture in black and white of a crowd, with many mammals in shades of gray. However, some of the mammals of that crowd were in color, as if they were different from the rest of the mammals that were in there.


    THEY LIVE AMONG US



    Mages are real and they are among us.

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    July 20th, 2018 – UZA Today



    THE MAGE'S ASSOCIATION AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD


  Back on late June, Queen Elizabeth II, of England, started to make public announcements requesting an audience with representatives of the Clock Tower. These announcements were made via groups traveling and repeating the announcements via the streets and roads of England. This was made, according to sources, because mages were said not to use technology to communicate, and as a result, it would be of little use making the announcement through television and it was not possible to send digital messages. There was also the fact that the precise location of the headquarters of the Association was unknown, except for the detail that it is somewhere in England, in a way that it would not be viable to send a group to the headquarters personally or send messages through the mail.

  On the day July 13th, Queen Elizabeth and dozens of members of the parliament had gathered inside of the Buckingham Palace, waiting for the Association to answer. Meanwhile, a crowd had gathered outside of the palace, formed by reporters and by the common public. This crowd was able to capture the moment when a carriage pulled by heavily decorated ostriches stopped in front of the palace, and three mammals stepped outside and walked into the palace: a wolf, a bear, and an albino impala.

  Later on, it was confirmed that these three mammals were mages, who had been send in answer to the request of the queen, and had the meeting with the mammals in the palace of Buckingham, as per request. According to sources, these mammals, upon entering, were announced as Lords Silverfang and Bearus, both lords and instructors of the Association, and as Milady Vanhorne, one of the thirteen members of the Council.

  "At first we thought that the mages had decided not to answer, because it was taking far too long." Would have said one of the guards who was on duty inside of the palace. "But them these three came in announcing to be representatives, and the impala was claiming to be a member of their council. Of course, when they arrived some asked them for proof that they were mages, and the impala was the one who offered proof. She pulled out some kind of key from her clothes, and said some kind of spell in Latin, and next thing we know there was a swan made of ice flying around in the room, making it snow everywhere. Snow! Inside of the palace! In the middle of July! That was more than enough proof."

  The mages remained inside of the palace in discussion for over two hours, and during this time a lot was discussed, including the positioning of the Association in the matters of public wealth and security, as well as how the Enforcers, their police force, would deal with dangerous mages in case they started to threaten the non-mage population. Afterward, the mages returned to their carriage and left, and the carriage seemed to have disappeared, as it did not appeared in any traffic cam and was not see by anyone in any of the roads of Liondon that would lead to the Buckingham Palace.

  News say that, after this successful peaceful meeting with the Association, governments from around the world have started to follow suit and request meetings with the mages of their own countries. From public announcements to calls on tv, countries and governments around the world are asking for the mages in their jurisdictions to send representatives for meetings.

  Such actions were further reinforced once news came out that the Chinese Government also has had a meeting with mages, as sources tell that the Chinese government had a meeting with no one else than nine members of the Chinese Mage Council, which is called Lóng Yìhuì (Dragon Council). These mammals were not identify publicly, for one of the conditions for the meeting was that their identities, including their species, would be kept in absolute secret to protect them from unwanted attention.

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    July 28th, 2018 – The Inquisitor Gazelle



    THE TRUE MOTIVES OF MAGES


  Mages are getting more and more space in our world, ever since their revealing to the public. Now, this makes us wonder, could it all be part of some kind of plan?

  "I don't doubt that they are planning something." Said a source that chosen to remain anonymous. "These mages have kept hidden for a very long time. Why they were hidden? Because they probably have something to hide, like the fact that they still use mammals as test subjects for their spells and other things. I say that we should have them all locked down before they come for us. They are probably only wanting to gain public favor so they will be able to continue to do their stuff without worrying 'bout the army coming for them."

  "Yeah, I don't think that mages are dangerous in nature." Said Honey Badger, specialist in military training and survival, "But, they could become dangerous depending on their other associations. For example, if they are members of a group dedicated to the supremacy of sheep and into turning the rest of the population into obedient little followers, then we would be in trouble."

  All of this might actually lead us to wonder: are mages truly wishing only to live their lives and continue their researches? Or do they have a final goal that could mean trouble to non-mages?

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    August 2nd, 2018 – The Paw Street Journal



    PUBLIC MAGES


  With the advent of the revealing of mages, many mammals are questioning if the one next to them could be mages. Of course, there are no true way of knowing which ones could be mages, once mages keep to themselves and do not want attention. However, over the last months, some mages have been breaking this stream by announcing publicly to be mages.

  This is said to be a result of the governments requesting the presence of mages as representatives for meetings to discuss laws and important matters. What is known is that mages from around the world are coming forth and announcing their nature as mages for who wants to hear, not much, but the few who do are often public figures. Among them, is the Leoway family, owners of the Leoway Enterprises, great conglomerate in the Oriental Roarope, and famous for their great deal of charity works, who have come forward and announced their nature as mages on middle June, soon after the Roaropean Union asked for mages of many countries to come forward as representatives of the Roaropean community. The Leoway clan made their presence known and admitted publicly for the population and the world, and they have received a great deal of positive response from the public, according to some, due to the many mammalitarian works attributed to them, and to the power of their enterprise.

  Following suit, other important families came forward assuming their nature as mages. Among them, there is the Krila clan, a family of bats that is extremely influent on their native land on Aardlovak, who presented themselves as very skilled in summoning magecraft; and the Lupo clan, a family of wolves famous for the many great musicians that they produced, and who presented themselves as studious of 'music magecraft'. Both families received great public acceptance, both locally and internationally.

  In Nippon, Kazuma Okitsuno, CEO of the Gyumao Conglomerate, came forward and announced his own nature as a mage, even going as far as to make a public demonstration of his magecraft. In Animerica, the figure who recognized publicly to be a mage was Jason Wolf-Powers, owner of the Blue Wolf Capital Brothers, announcing his nature as a mage in a public press collective in which he had appeared with his fur dyed blue, and was creating arcs of lightning from his paws over the heads of a baffled group of reporters. Also during this meeting, Jason Wolf-Powers declared himself affiliated not to the Mage's Association, but to a group called Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose. Details about such group were not given, although some speculate that it could be one of the smaller associations of mages that were spoke about during the interview of Zillah Ferron.

  Each revealing came from an individual who was a public figure, and each one had a result in the market, as the values of the actions have fluctuated accordingly. However, it seems that the revealing had an overall positive effect in the value of the stocks, as the stocks of the Blue Wolf Capital Brothers increased in five points.

  "It is kind of like in the time when interspecies and same gender marriages were legalized." Said a stock negotiator specialist. "Many choose to keep to themselves, but some choose to 'come out of the closet', so to say, and let the world know they are how they are. This has an effect in the stocks, of course. If it is good or bad, well, only time can tell."

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    August 16th, 2018 – The Zootopia Post



    RELIGION AND FAITH IN A WORLD OF MAGES


  Religion has always been part of the lives of mammals, as many consider it as a founding stone in the lives of many. With the revealing of the existence of mages and of their magecraft, there were reactions within the religious communities all over the world. Such reactions varied from overzealotry in regards to mages to a total loss of faith, once the happenings can be interpreted in many different ways.

  During the interview given by Zillah Ferron, the young ferret talked about 'The Church', and how it is an organization that has clashed with the Mage's Association in the past, for considering their actions as 'sinful', but that has now reached a state of mutual non-aggression with mages. Such revelation caused reactions from the people, with a number of the believers and followers of the Orthodox Catholicism, especially the most conservative ones, have adopted the posture that magecraft is a sin, and that all of the ones who practice it are sinners. However, another reaction that has come from such revelation was an indignation by the followers, for it was revealed that the Church knew that the supernatural truly existed, and kept it a secret from their followers during a period of centuries.

  "If they kept it hidden, then they probably must be keeping other secrets." Said Gabriel Rammón, a priest, "In a way, they are actually not that different from the mages."

  Not only that, the revelation of the existence of magecraft also is now something that atheists are using to try to invalidate faith. They are now insisting that the so called 'miracles' could be mere tricks of magecraft, and that the Church itself could be using it to control and influence their followers by making them believe in what is convenient to them. In this point, it is being said that the Church is using magecraft to fool its followers with fake miracles, and that the same could be said by many other religions around the world.

  However, not all reactions are negative, as many are now saying that the existence of magecraft gives weight to other believes. "If magecraft and mages exist, if they are real, this means that everything else can be. The supernatural, the soul, Heaven and Hell, God. All of this could be just as true as what the mages have proven that they can do. Honestly, this kind of thing fills me with hope." said Gunther Huntinton, a leader of a small church in the outskirts of Zootopia.

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    September 11th, 2018 – UZA Today



    COOPERATION AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ENFORCERS AND POLICE


  Keeping law, capturing criminals, and keeping the good mammals safe. This is what has always been the mission of the police forces around the world. It can also be said that this is the mission of the Enforcers, which are the equivalent of the Association to the police, hunting down and capturing dangerous criminal mages.

  Ever since the revealing of magecraft, there have been meetings of the governments around the globe with representatives of mages. Meetings in which many subjects were on discussion, from the positioning of mages in relation to the political parties of the countries, to the way that they upheld their own internal policies locally. However, a subject that was very common was one that talked about how mages dealt with their criminals.

  It was agreed that it was of mutual interest of the governments to help the Association and the Enforcers into the apprehension of criminal mages, once such individuals could easily put lives at risk. With this in mind, many governments around the world, like Zussia, Germanein, Nippon, China, England and, just this week, the UZA, firmed agreements with the Association.

  With such agreements, the Association, more precisely, their Enforcers, now uphold the same level of influence over places held by the Interpaw and by similar international organizations, but only in what concern mages. This way, the Enforcers will have an authority to take over any case in which there is suspicion that supernatural events might be involved. On the same way, the governments will be given ways in which they will be able to contact the Association and request for their help, in which case the Association will evaluate the case and determine if it is or not worth of their interference.

  "This is something that might help us in the long run." Said the defense minister. "For just like we can contact the countries that we have agreements with in case one of their criminals steps in our home turf, we now can contact the Association to deal with dangerous mages who are creating problems in our country. This is good for the Association, for they can better keep control over the mages that break their laws, and be able to better discipline them, and it is good for us, who will be able to call on to someone if we stumble into something that we truly do not understand. It can be said it is a win-win for all of us."

  However, some criticize such agreements, for they claim that it will give the Association even more power of influence over the countries. Supposedly, they will have authority to assume over investigations of police departments and even of national and international agencies, and they could use this to help bury and cover up events related to the Association and their members. Still, many agree that these agreements will have a beneficial effect, for it will allow for the police departments and agencies to have the help of specialized mages of the Association to help solve matters that a non-mage would have problems to solve on their own.

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    September 20th, 2018 – The Morning Report



    SOON WILL BE INAUGURATED ZOOTOPIA'S BIGGEST SHOPPING MALL


  It has been announced that the mall New Den Plaza will be inaugurated this October.

  The new shopping plaza has been in construction for a little over a year, and it is described by some as 'an ambitious project of engineering', and also as a 'tribute to shoppers and consumerism'. It is said to be the biggest shopping mall that was ever built in Zootopia, covering an entire block and with over five stores high.

  "They truly went all the way to build that thing. They even used a technology similar to the one that is used in the climate of Zootopia so mammals of all species can come and enjoy the mall for as long as they want." Said the chief engineer, talking about the special inner areas of the mall, each one built in a way to mimic one of the specific districts of Zootopia, welcoming mammals of different biomes into the place by using a technology developed by Pearl Paradigms, very close to that used in the climate walls.

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