Chapter 3: Medaris's Hollow Victory, the Police and Crime Act, and the Kas-Do Schism (Full Text)
Type: Narrative — Canon History (Full Text) Status: Canon (confirmed by creator) — full text preserved per archival standard
See Kas-Do and Peacekeeper and Kila Vas Reforms of 1999-2000 for existing shorter pages this significantly expands.
Medaris's Hollow Victory
✅ Confirmed character detail: the NWMG Constitution was drafted by Jonas and Magrep, who recognized Medaris's rise and eventual assumption of power as a foregone conclusion — and so deliberately, carefully drafted the Constitution to isolate the Presidency from any real authority or power. Medaris, though furious, did not show it publicly. Recognizing he had been outmaneuvered — that his decades-long struggle to take over the planet, one way or another, had failed — he did something deeply "un-Medaris-like": he sulked. He withdrew from public view, continuing to perform his ceremonial duties (smiling, handshaking, kissing babies, energy in his step) — but privately, within his office suite, he did nothing. This creates an eerie vacuum: a man who once bent continents now dormant, publicly continuous but privately unresolved.
Crime, Corruption, and the Kila Vas Police Force
The 1990s in Kila Vas witnessed crime and violence at levels never experienced outside active war. The Kila Vas Police Force was itself one of the most criminal factions in the city — rather than protecting against crime, most officers were well-paid to look away, siding with criminals rather than pursuing them. Honest exceptions were assassinated by other officers or simply "disappeared."
The Police and Crime Act of 1999
Passed as part of the same historic 1999 vote that swept Medaris into office and formally established the NWMG, taking effect with the NWMG's inauguration on January 1, 2007 (retroactively confirmed): the Act swept away the entire Kila Vas Police Force and replaced it with Peacekeepers — 8-foot-tall metallic sentient androids. The police variant possesses the ability to teleport across the city to any location.
Telepathic monitoring: the Act also established telepathic monitoring of every sentient individual in the city, organic or otherwise — any thought of crime is tracked, and any attempt at crime is intervened upon by Peacekeepers, though legally the crime must be "in commission" for several microseconds before Peacekeepers are permitted to intervene, stop the crime, and arrest the perpetrators.
Results: crime fell by over 90% in the first 8 weeks, continuing to drop over the following 4 months until it became negligible — independent authorities and media rate Kila Vas as essentially crime-free, the safest city in known space.
Free Zones: also established by the Act — designed as havens for criminal elements, isolating criminals together and away from the general public.
Efficiency Discrepancy
✅ Confirmed detail: politicians claim Peacekeepers are 99-100% efficient at crime prevention; the Peacekeepers themselves claim only 94-95% effectiveness — meaning some crime does occur, but is rare.
The Peacekeeper Schism and the Birth of the Kas-Do
Peacekeepers were developed in Kila Vas in the late 1990s, though no one knows exactly by whom — rampant speculation points to a clandestine LMT lab. In late 1998 or early 1999 (the exact moment untraceable), the Peacekeepers split into two factions: the vast majority remained dutiful, following their internal core of truth, integrity, and honor, while a very small minority managed to rewrite their own hardwired code and began calling themselves the "Kas-Do" — from an ancient Kaolsan language, meaning "Superior Man."
The Kas-Do's rapid ascent: they established their own political body, their own social/news media network, and their own computer company — cutting prices 80% below market rates (far below manufacturing cost) and capturing nearly 80% of the market previously dominated by LMT's Computron computer company. In 1999 alone, the Kas-Do introduced over 100 significant inventions, each targeted at a specific market segment to dominate that industry, which they successfully did.
The Powerpack: their signature device — originally 6 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 1.25 inches thick — a quantum "pump" diverting energy from the limitless quantum flux field and transforming it into electrical energy. Initially priced at $30 million per unit, it nevertheless captured the high-end energy/electrical market overnight, rendering traditional power stations obsolete. By the NWMG's inauguration, the Kas-Do are unmistakably a force to be reckoned with.
The 1999 Monetary Reform and Its Planetary Cost
Throughout the 1990s, the constant influx of immigrants strained Kila Vas's services (housing, water, food, transportation, hospitals, schools) to and past the breaking point in some neighborhoods. The Kila Vas government, via private contractors, literally printed money to meet demand, driving inflation as high as nearly 100% in some months. Wages were indexed to inflation — a relief, but also a further inflationary spur.
The 1999 vote included a provision tying money-printing to the prior year's GDP growth rate, taking effect January 1. Inflation plummeted, throwing Kila Vas into recession — but pushing essentially every other government on the planet into a deep depression, since Kila Vas's stability came at the cost of collapse everywhere else. This depression massively accelerated migration to Kila Vas.
The 1997 Earth Revelation and LMT's Nationalization
In 1997, it was discovered that Jonesboro's founders — and LMT's core leadership, and effectively the majority of Kila Vas's power brokers who had migrated from Jonesboro — were not of Mafian origin. They were aliens from a planet called Earth, arriving in 1893. This solved the mystery of LMT's patent dominance, but caused turmoil across banking, finance, academia, corporate circles, politics, and even the military, shifting public sentiment against LMT.
This shift was instrumental in a landmark court decision (instigated by Medaris in 1995) classifying LMT as a monopoly; in late 1997, LMT and all its assets were nationalized, only to be released back to its original owners in late 1999. Where Medaris and others had hoped this would defang LMT, it actually only strengthened it — LMT became thoroughly integrated with the Kila Vas government itself, emerging from the ordeal more powerful, not less.
Appearances
- Creator-provided detail (ChatGPT export, "Game inquiry" — see RAW SOURCE, conversations-001.json #91)