| Boss_Talos | Date: Saturday, 01 March 14, 6:58 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Greetings, fellow Nautical Brethren and Sistren,
I am Boss Talos, head of the Gungan Council and so representative leader of the Gungan Majority population on Naboo. Both our worlds are divided by different populations, yours evolved together and so must more easily come to a domestic harmony than the difficulty we have had with the Naboo. Since the Grizmallt Settlers landed thousands of years ago we kept ourselves to ourselves and largely they left us alone as they cannot breathe in aquatic conditions as we do.
There has always been an understanding. The land has largely been left to the Humans who enjoy the climate more than us, and the Water, swamps and marshy areas have been left to us where we peacefully use natural energy in the form of the Plasma in our seas to produce bio-engineered devices of extreme complexity and which are perfectly clean in that they do not pollute our sea.
But now the Naboo found our seas contained richness in Plasma, and that there was call for it off Naboo, so the aristocratic houses and their offworld mercenaries went to war against us to wipe us out and so have us out of the way. The Gungans won this war, along with the less xenophobic Naboo and peace was restored but the issue of plasma extraction never was. So today the plasma, which is mined from our seas is exported offworld for the Human Naboo profit we get no share of. We haven't ever gone to war over this, because we believe in peace, nor when the Naboo have desecrated many holy places.
We wish to take our stand not as humans so often do, with blasters and ships, but with words and right on our side, and we hope Dac and the whole of Mon Calamari Space will recognize and support our cause. And that Calamari Space and the Gungans can establish a reciprocal agreement of freedom of movement, trade and the reciprocal opening of Embassies in Otoh Gunga and your beautiful twin capitals. We would love to be able to send students to your excellent schools of design and engineering so we might too make great scientists as many of your species are. We are called primitives or barbarians and under-educated, but robbed of funding in currency so we can buy resources offworld and denied citizenship or power, what else can we do but live according to relatively simple cycles of nature.
I'd like to petition you to support my bid for talks to resolve this issue by splitting the plasma income according to population percentage, grant citizenship and governmental representation proportionate to our numbers and theirs. Simple egalitarian requests that are hardly radical and redistribute no current property or wealth, eschewing revenge for cooperation in future.
Please, as non-humans who have often spoken of the misery species such as us suffer, aid us in our hour of need, for we worry little help may come from humans who so often lack empathy for those without the same appearance.
Sincerely,
Boss Pica Talos
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Boss of Otoh-Gunga
Bombad General (retd)
Primus Inter Pares of the Gungan Council
Head of the Gungan Equality and Sovereignty Party
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| Senator_Finbar | Date: Friday, 07 March 14, 9:09 PM | Message # 2 |
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| To Boss Pico Talos, Primus Inter Pares of the Gungan Council,
Reading your thoughtful plea to the people and government of Dac for support in your pursuit of a more equitable society on Naboo, I was struck by the similarities of the Gungan and Mon Calamari peoples. It was with a heavy heart that I read of your predicament, and I would like to assist you however I can. Dac, too, has a divided society with many characteristics in common with yours; the Mon Calamari are predominantly shore-dwellers, whereas the Quarren tend to live in the sea. Over the centuries, each species has developed in its own way, and although there have been periods of discord in the history of these two, proud species (not unlike the Gungans and the Naboo), we have always inhabited the same world with respect for one another's basic rights.
This respect is essential to the harmonious cohabitation of a single world, and if it is the case that the Naboo are failing to respect the basic rights of the Gungan people, they should be shamed for not doing so. As the Senator of Mon Calamari Space, I will add my voice to Senator Terrawin's and others who are calling for justice for the Gungan people and do what I can to compel the Naboo into serious negotiations with yourself and the Gungan Council on the topic of resource-sharing and the other issues you raise in your eloquent and moving manifesto. You have a friend in the people of Dac and their Senator.
Yours in brotherhood,
Finbar
Senator of Mon Calamari Space
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