Most people don’t. It takes a special combination of skill, courage and intelligence to become a member of the MilOps Cartel armed forces. Whether they’re police, stratospheric fighter pilots, satellite marines, or even the elite member of the ultimate WEC fighting team, the Silencer Corps, the fighting men and women of the World Economic Consortium are the best of the best.

Multitudes aspire to wear one of the uniforms of the WEC. Only a few are ever chosen.

Are you one of the special few?

If so, contact your MilOps Cartel office for more information.

We know that as a dedicated citizen-partner of the WEC, you want to meet your quotas and enhance your Personal Productivity Index. That’s one goal we all share.

But there’s a right way, and a wrong way to do anything. When it comes to saving time and increasing productivity, cutting corners in safety is the WRONG WAY.

Productivity analysis reveals that when safety regs are followed to the letter, industrial site productivity increases an average of 4 to 9 percent.

Safety “shortcuts” get you nowhere fast. Cutting corners on safety will not only decrease your productivity, it also puts you at risk of serious injury or even death, and if you’re injured as a result of ignoring safety regs, you or your heirs will be held liable for all repair costs stemming from the accident, as well as your years of lost productivity. It’s just not worth the risk.

This public service message brought to you by the WEC Citizen Productivity Cartel.

After more than two centuries of looking, Consortium scientists say they are right on the brink of finally achieving the holy grail of cybernetics – a true autonomous artificial intelligence.

The first real electronic individual could be on line within as little as five to ten years, according to the experts at the Consortium’s Global Cybernetics Forum, held all this week in Perth.

The most exciting revelation as this year’s forum was the conference on Project: SHODAN, a previously confidential long-term research project of the Cybernetics Cartel, based in Chicago, SHODAN is designed to produce a program that’s not only capable of human-like though and emotion, but that also far surpasses human intelligence levels. Dr. Titania Omolu held spellbound the capacity audience in the 40,000-seat main auditorium of the Perth Hall of Commerce with her presentation, describing how a fully functional SHODAN AI could manage and maintain all the operations and functions of a self-contained orbital research facility housing more than 1000 citizens with only minimal human support.

Although excitement over the SHODAN project has dominated the conference so far, an equally enthusiastic response about a much more imminent goal is expected after tonight’s keynote address by Dr. Gregor Hoffman, chairman of the Inter-Consortium Cybernetics Committee. Dr. Hoffman will speak on recent developments in biomechanical enhancements for military and security purposes.

The Titicaca Satellite Monitoring Station in the Andes Mountains was destroyed late Wednesday night in a terrorist attack, leaving nine dead.

According to a release issued today by the Andes Region Administrative Office of the Vigilance Cartel, the remote but lightly defended station was completely destroyed by a small group of terrorists using sophisticated anti-personnel weapons and high explosives. Seven Security Cartel guards and two Vigilance Cartel technicians were killed, and three more techs were injured in the attack. Although the terrorists’ tactics showed a reckless disregard for civilian life and property, luckily there were no other casualties. Details of how the terrorists reached and accomplished their objective are being withheld for security reasons. The exact cost of the facility is classified, but the news release puts the monetary cost of replacing it at “well above” 1.5 million credits.

The attack may mark an ominous shift in the tactics of anti-Consortium forces, according to General Salvatore Adkinson, an expert in terrorist activities with MilOps Cartel. In an exclusive Top Line interview, General Adkinson said, “This attack was not the work of a few disgruntled locals. It seems to be the work of a well-trained, heavily armed paramilitary force striking from some unknown central location. If so, this represents a dramatic upswing in terrorist efficiency and deadliness.

The advantage that we have against such tactics, however, is that it makes it much easier for the authorities to trace and locate rebel forces. A heavily armed strike force, no matter how well-trained, can’t simply appear out of this air, then vanish away the same way.”

According to a spokesman, Security Cartel officials are still considering their response to the attack, but a dramatic increase in defensive measures for monitoring stations is a “virtual certainty.”

Two new security servomechs were unveiled yesterday at the Security Cartel central R&D labs in Berne, European Region. The new servomechs are the next generation in the acclaimed 4000 line of anti-personnel security platforms, and a radical new concept that combines the efficiency of a maintenance servomech with effective security capabilities.

The APP-4400 is a lager, more deadly cousin to the APP-4210, currently the most popular military-grade security platform in the world. The 4400 features twin 60-mm pulse cannons and fire-resistant polyalloy titanium armor, and is capable of a top speed of 45 kph. Effective immediately, 4210s are being taken out of production, and the 4400 will be phased in over the next two years to replace the older model.

The MS-110 is the first general production model in a new line of servomechs that combine the versatility and convenience of a general purpose maintenance model with defensive armament and advanced security programming. The MS-110 will be used both as a secondary defensive measure is high-security areas, and as a primary defensive tool in many less-sensitive technical and industrial facilities. In addition to being programmable for a wide variety of mechanical, custodial and technical duties, the MS-110 also mounts a .30 caliber defensive weapon. All the MS-110’s function are controlled by an advanced, 2 teraops CPU cluster.

At the servomechs’ introduction ceremony, Professor Joseph Wilmar, Executive Engineer in Char of Special Weapons and Armor Development, said, “Together, these two revolutionary designs mark a dramatic leap forward in the security, and therefore the efficiency, of Consortium facilities worldwide.”