Chairman
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a civilian organization that creates opportunities for more storytelling and worldbuilding in the Outer Rim reminiscent of the Peace Corps
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Announcement of Formation
Mya Jesel
Susefvi
Yumfla
Sector Rangers
Peace Corps
- Organization Name: The Outer Rim Development Corps, ORDC
- Classification: Non-Profit Humanitarian
- Affiliation: Outer Planets Alliance, Susefvi
- Organization Symbol: A star above two clasped hands
- Description: The Outer Rim Development Corps (ORDC) is a government sponsored and administered program founded and run by the Susefvi government as a way of investing in the Outer Rim, not for financial gain, but for the betterment of struggling worlds that lack the resources, expertise, and capability, for whatever reason, to establish a stable, safe, and law-abiding society.
- Headquarters: Yumfla
- Domain: They work in the Outer Rim territories, when invited by the local governing body, but can potentially expand into the Midrim if requested.
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SOCIAL INFORMATION- Hierarchy: The ORDC is run at the strategic and visionary level by a Director, who is held accountable by an Executive Board, composed of individuals appointed by the government, chosen for their experience in administering humanitarian organizations, or voted in by the members of the Corps on a regular basis. Below them is the professional administrators and middle to upper management who run the day to day activities of the various projects, departments, and sectors. Below them is the technical side of things- the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, and other highly skilled practitioners who will deploy to various worlds where they are needed. Finally, at the bottom, and the most numerous, are the ordinary members of the ORDC. The volunteers. These are the (usually) young people who want to gain real life experience doing humanitarian work, want to make the Outer Rim a safer and more survivable area, and volunteer for terms up to three standard years to work and live on a project.
- Membership: Approximately 15,000 individuals altogether, primarily volunteers (who are paid a living stipend), with fewer and fewer up the management chain. Volunteers sign up on the holonet, interview at their local Corps representative's office, get training on job skills, language, and intercultural living, and then deploy to their project. OOC, if someone wants to write as a member, just say the character is a part of the Corps, probably either a volunteer or skilled consultant.
- Climate: Very optimistic, a friendly organization full of people who want something more from life and want to make the galaxy better. Supportive of each other's roles and work. Tight community both while in the Corps and among alumni.
- Reputation: While a new organization, the concept is very ambitious and idealistic. People aren't sure yet how effective they'll be, but there's high hopes and a lot of respect and excitement.
- Curios: Volunteers get t-shirts and hats with the logo on it. Most full-time employees have a closet full of these as well.
- Rules:
- Planetary sovereignty and agency: ORDC will only work in worlds where they were invited and their projects will be at the behest of the local government.
- Professionalism: The ORDC will always act with the utmost professionalism and highest standards of accountability.
- Neutrality: ORDC volunteers and project coordinators will not take sides in local political disputes, nor will ORDC resources be used to further one political agenda or another.
- Quality: ORDC projects will be of the highest quality when it comes to safety, reliability, and impact.
- Goals: The goal of the ORDC is to create an Outer Rim that is safe, survivable, and stable for all of its inhabitants through civic development, infrastructure and engineering projects, as well as activist organizers, lawyers, and investigators who work to change laws and systems that perpetuate injustices upon their inhabitants, calling attention to crimes against sentients, slavery, and other oppressions to bring about a democratic and healthy society for its members, especially in the frontier and colony worlds.
MEMBERS
Mya Jesel, Founder
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The galaxy is a wild place, even outside the Core. The Outer Rim is the lawless frontier in many places, but there are a few systems, rich in resources and old in development, that have established themselves as stable civilizations. Susefvi is one of them, being a moderately small mining and manufacturing system with low population and a strong rule of law from the establishment of the colony as well as a respect for individual freedoms which caused them to leave the Corporate Sector. Yet, they stayed that way for centuries, and even with their joining of the Outer Planets Alliance, they mostly kept to themselves and lived a quiet life, forgotten by most of the galaxy.
President Mya Jesel felt they could do more. Initially elected and re-elected several times on her platform of worker's rights, unions, strong community investment, and citizen engagement, she began to wonder if there was a way to take that further. The Outer Rim was plagued with slavers, criminal cartels, drugs, and all sorts of groups that prey on innocent people. Recognizing that the lack of developed societies in the Outer Rim contributed to this, she began putting plans into motion. First, she invited the Sector Rangers to establish an Outer Rim headquarters on Susefvi and OPA territory for more law enforcement. But that wouldn't help with the lack of social systems that discourage crime and exploitation, so she realized they needed to build up the Outer Rim. For this, she consulted the Susefvi legislature, and in conjunction, they conceived the dual ideas of the Outer Rim Developmental Lease Program, which leased equipment to worlds in the Outer Rim that couldn't afford or manufacture their own, and the Outer Rim Developmental Corps, focused on people willing to help build and develop other worlds at the direction of the local government to best suit their needs, with the hopes of increasing the number of highly developed systems within the Outer Rim.
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