Apr 26 2015
GFC celebrating Earth Day 2015
On April 22 the world wide Earth Day was celebrated to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Climate change has already had devastating impacts around the world. Of course, those who understand climate change know that if humanity continues on its current trajectory, these impacts will only get more severe. How can you talk about solutions and hope when the impacts of climate change get worse by the day? Well, you look for stories. You look for stories of people banding together to make their communities more resilient. This is what the GFC Earth Day Event “Green expo” aimed at.
The expo was hosted by the organisation team under the lead of Fleet Admiral Katrina and took mainly place in Galaxy Park in Galaxy Sim. The Expo lasted for one week from 18th April to 25th April and included entertainment, education and celebration.
To name a few events which took place I like to list the following: Sophie Johnson (hydregion) won the Greedy Tournament in the bar of the RP facility Phoenix Station above Sovereign sim which was very entertaining. Or the opening party which also took place in the bar.
Fleet Goldenberg* planned to host a discussion on the topic “Personal and mass-scale natural power via wireless kinetic energy exchange”. But the event was cancelled due lack of participation. Fleet Goldenberg wanted to discusses how kinetic energy generated by body movement might be harnessed – like wrist-watches powered by kinetic energy – and amplified to power more energy-demanding devices carried by an individual or embedded inside the body. In addition he wanted to explore how such energy may be exchanged over short-range distances between groups of people such as passers-by in the street in order to provide mutual charging through wireless exchange of electrical energy: a system that would provide natural energy for the entire planet if adopted globally, with the only limit on the amount of power available being the amount of food available to sustain the human populace.
Our Academy Commandant RoBobby McMillan hosted a lecture at the academy with the topic “Star Trek as an inspiration”. The movies and series continuously discuss problems and dilemmas of today in terms of social as well as ecological matters, or its results transferred in to the Trek universe. So as one example commandant McMillan used the movie Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home, which showed us that if we destroy the ecological diversity on earth and species are die we may have trouble in the future. Maybe we won’t be attacked by aliens for doing so, but there might be consequences. Everything about it tells us that we have to be careful with our planet: not just with the animals, but also with our atmosphere. While most Star Trek episodes are about something else than the environment, they do show the importance of our plane. Not necessarily in their storylines, but in what the characters do, how they behave and by the technology they created. The replicators are a good example for this, as they are an ultimately recycling device. Leftovers are just deposited back into the replicator, and changed back into energy, for people to use another time. They are, in essence, the humanity we should inspire to become. It’s a positive outline of the future, so take the Trek future as an inspiration for our actions today.
If we all take a stand (not only on Earth Day but through the whole year) so that together we can show the world a new direction there can be BILLION ACTS OF GREEN.
On the expo space in the Galaxy Park many divisions showed the beauty of our planet earth as well as ways to make a small step to a healthy and environmental friendly future. Those examples included the link to movie on YouTube showing the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. A second example is an organisation donating to plant trees for only using the internet,
So we should follow the topic of the GFC Green expo 2015 and “start today for a trek universe tomorrow”, as without a planet earth there won’t be a first contact with the Vulcans nor a federation, which means also no GFC.
All those examples proof that It’s Our Turn to Lead, which was this year’s official theme of the Earth Day by the organization Earth Day Network.
The author also likes to thank all people from the fleet who helped to make this event come true.
*Fleet Goldenberg is the co-owner of the non-profit company Sambiglyon (www.sambiglyon.org), which operates the chain of non-prof land rental ‘Eduislands’ in Second Life. Fleet has spoken at GFC events in previous years on subjects such as Star Trek technology, warp drive physics, Stargate wormholes and the reconciliation of scientific and spiritual approaches to world issues.
Jul 19 2015
GFC Summer Ball 2015 – Live long and prosper
On Saturday 18th July 2015 GFC held its summer ball. This year the theme was “Vulcan – Live long and prosper”. The balls take place to honour the hard work of our members and award and promote those who deserve it.
Most GFC officers, all in dress uniforms, gathered at 1pm SLT in front of the Roddenberry Centre in the Galaxy SIM for a pre ball party. The Galaxy Plaza was decorated with a circle of stones and statue of Vulcan guards. The centre of the plaza was filled with a red carpet and stairs with fireplaces at the side leaded to a platform in front of Roddenberry Centre.
At 2pm SLT the dancing came to a closing point and at the platform shuttle arrived. 2 officers of the fleet boarded each shuttle and the auto pilot brought the officers to Sovereign sim. On the way the shuttle passed Constellation sim, GFC Tactical Camp in Sovereign and entered the Sovereign wormhole. In the orbit of Vulcan the shuttles came back to normal space, passing mount Seleya the shuttles landed in front of a plaza at the bottom of the Vulcan’s holy mountain.
When all shuttles with the GFC officers and the guest have reached Vulcan and gathered on the plaza a role-play started. It was centred on a story of the Katra of Surak (Vulcan philosopher and scientist founding the modern Vulcan civilization).
After the first part of the role-play finished all where asked to claim the stairs up to temple on top of mount Seleya. Half way up the role-play continued with the final saving of Suraks Katra.
Finally at the top of the temple we recognized the images of Star Trek actors who passed away lately (e.g. Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and Grace Lee Whitney (Yeomen Rand)). The members of the fleet took a moment to honour the fallen fallow Starfleet officers and comrades.
Reaching the other side of the temple the officers stood in front of a small path leading to the platform above mount Seleya. Where the Vulcan priest brought back the Katra of Surak to his dead body. This ended the role-play which started at the foot of the mountain.
Now the formal program could start with awarding and promoting our officers and members who worked so hard to help the senior admirals leading the fleet into a successful future. VFADM Mechanique and FADM Bixby where the chairs of the event and leaded through the program, calling the officers to the podium to say few words when receiving a commendation.
The ball came to its end with presenting a newly created video to celebrate the GFC anniversary. For details of the video please see the following post: GFC anniversary video.
After this it was time to celebrate the promoted and awarded officers. Therefore the party continued on the plaza at the bottom of mount Seleya.
The author of this post likes to congratulate all awarded and promoted officers, and looks forward to the next ball: Live long and prosper.
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