Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo’s solution to conflict in the middle east

From the technology page:

  • The calendar is OE (Orbital Era). The show takes place in OE 311.
  • The population of Earth exceeded 10 billion. This caused environmental problems and scarcity of natural resources. The population decided that Earth should recover. Until then, the majority of mankind would need to leave Earth. The place where they moved to needed to be like Earth too. The Moon was out of the question due to gravity and Mars was too far away. Aside from those issues, the Moon and Mars have different atmospheres. Instead of forcefully changing an environment to their liking, they created 5 colonies at the 5 Lagrange Points that would mimic Earth’s atmosphere and landscape.
  • Each colony is called a Structure, and is made of 2+ Archipelagos. Archipelago = Made of seven connecting Islands, forms a hexagon. Island = Cylinder shape. In an Archipelago, the middle Island is a solar energy power plant, and the surrounding six Islands are for living.
  • The highest form of authority is the OU Assembly (Orbital Union) which is made of representatives from each colony. There are also individual governments that operate each colony (Lagrange Government). The Lagrange Government sets “laws, taxes, etc”, while the trivial issues are left in the hands of the governments of each Structure. For comparison, I would say that a colony = a country, a Structure = a state, and an Island = a county.
  • The colonies:
    • Lagrange 1 – The Ule People’s Republic Sphere: China, India
    • Lagrange 2 – The United States of Rayet Sphere: North and South America
    • Lagrange 3 – The Dalibard Joint Sphere: European Union, Eastern Europe, Russia
    • Lagrange 4 – The Ellenberg Union Sphere: Israel, the Middle East, Africa
    • Lagrange 5 – The Kirkwood Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan, Asian nations, Australia

Gundam 00 Solution: Death laser
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo Solution: They’re living together in space

Eej and I find this to be more far out than the rest of SoraKake:

[09:20] <Eej> that is probably the most fantastical element of sora kake
[09:20] <Eej> tbqh
[09:20] <Eej> lelouch colony
[09:20] <Eej> four legged mecha
[09:20] <Eej> all believable
[09:20] <Eej> but that
[09:21] <Eej> no way
[09:21] <Eej> this is Sunrise trolling everyone
[09:21] <Eej> even the I/P conflict

The anime has a backdrop in solving rather large issues. Overpopulation, natural resource scarcity, environment, somehow the Middle East. I’m curious, but SoraKake is gag-ish so I doubt they’ll ever explain how things in the Middle East were resolved.

19 Comments
January 11, 2009 by miasmacloud in Anime
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19 Responses

  1. Reply
    Acadia
    January 11, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    Well the sub I saw said this takes place 10,000 years from now. Dunno, but I would maybe think that would be the reason the conflict was ended. Oh shit we ruined our planet, might as well get along in space? Since the whole issue is that land there, everyone leaving ends that conflict (for now at least).

    • Reply
      miasmacloud
      January 11, 2009 at 1:26 pm

      Passage of time still implies that it ended somehow, and the land thing (and them actually leave into space) is partially why it’s so “wtfrly?” Even though the planet is ruined, people are still on Earth so it would have been possible for them to be among those who stayed behind.

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        Karasu
        January 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

        all the ones who didn’t want to leave were killed, so naturally the ones who live in the colonies are dandy about sharing a colony with their former enemies :D survival!

  2. Reply
    Nazarielle
    January 11, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    Well, at least now we know it’s a troll :p

  3. Reply
    Ginnodangan
    January 11, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    “I doubt they’ll ever explain how things in the Middle East were resolved.”

    Simple, they weren’t. If I’m following this correctly there are multiple islands in each colony so Israel would have got one to themselves and the Middle East and Africa would have got the rest.
    If I’m not following this correctly I FAILZ.

    • Reply
      miasmacloud
      January 11, 2009 at 9:06 pm

      Well, each Lagrange Colony has their own government which implies each colony is like a country of sorts and they’re living in harmony in that country.

      • Reply
        Ginnodangan
        January 12, 2009 at 12:08 am

        Each island could have its own political party which then contributes representatives into the main government. This could then be monitored by the OU to make sure that it is operating efficiently.

        • Reply
          miasmacloud
          January 12, 2009 at 12:29 am

          A colony is comparable to say, the USA, and a Structure is comparable to a state within the USA. I guess an Island would be like a county within the state.

          The webpage says that the big issues (it says “law, tax rate, etc”) are decided by each Lagrange Government, while the trivial details are left to each Structure. I guess the question is whether the Lagrange Government considers religion a trivial detail or not. :ohdear:

          However, to me, the fact the Lagrange Government is calling all of the important stuff still says it’s like a country, meaning Israel and the rest of the ME are all in a country together.

        • Reply
          Ginnodangan
          January 12, 2009 at 1:45 am

          That would depend on whether the government practices proper secularism(where the government is protected from religous influence, not the other way around) or not, which in this case would be the best option.
          It’d probably be best to wait until more information is available though(either through magazine scans, interviews, the actual anime/manga itself, etc).

  4. Reply
    theflow
    January 11, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    it’s obvious; they figured out the ultimate peaceful solution: have everyone hold hands and sing kumbayah

  5. Reply
    Zorak
    January 11, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Welllll, to be realistic as a Physicist/ Space Scientist, as well as a major fan of the O’Neill style colonization (which this really isn’t), most of the colonization efforts early one would involve large international populations being moved in together in space colonies, usually consisting of scientists, engineers, their families, and other workers. Eg, these may be groups that conflict otherwise, but most moving into colonies, one way or another, are scientists.

    Scientists in general are fairly open minded, if only because it gets work done a lot easier, and fightin’ in a colony is BAD NEWS. It’s not like they’d be going “well, let’s shovel 20% of Gaza and 20% of Israel into space ships and send them into a colony and see how this works :D “. Of course I don’t know the setting any more then you said so who knows?

    Also, their colony designs don’t really make much sense at all, despite being at the correct places. They TRY to do it “dohoho they’re O’Neill cylinders, this clearly works”, but they seem to ignore the fact that these colonies are supposed to maintain artificial ‘gravity’ by [i]rotation[/i] (the centripetal acceleration is, by controlling the rotational speed, made to be at 9.8 m/s^2, the standard acceleration due to gravity on Earth), since uh.. how can they individually rotate when they’re in a giant space octagon.

    Pairing colonies in two is good because you can use their connection/ orbits of EACH OTHER to cause them to always orientate towards the sun (which is necessary since they have their own solar panels/ mirrors) but this set up makes no sense that way whatsoever.

    RAAAAR SCIENCE

  6. Reply
    someone
    January 12, 2009 at 4:19 am

    woah the ep1 of that series sucked ass.
    dropped.

  7. Reply
    Eskel
    January 13, 2009 at 5:36 am

    …why is Australia lumped together with Japan and ‘Asian Nations’? O.o

    • Reply
      FuriCuriMatt
      February 2, 2009 at 10:52 pm

      You’d get it if you knew your history. The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere is what Japan was trying to create during WWII. It was to include most of the east Asian countries like China, Korea, and the rest of eastern Asia. They wanted to expand down the Phillipines to Australia and take over the Indian Ocean. They sold it as a way to unite all the Asian countries but everything was really all in the interests of the Japanese. They installed puppet governments and then of course went to war. Thankfully we kicked their butts and stopped it all. Pretty much all the east-Asian nations distrust each other because of the past and are really turned off just by that classification of themselves.

      Anyways this just means there’s another historically unbelievable part in addition to the mid-east solution. It’s not exactly a very well liked or lucky name and does not bode well for that colony.

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