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          <td valign="top" background="images/design/surround_title_s.gif"><span class="sectionlink"><a href="general.html">General 
            Data</a></span><span class="sectiontext">: <font color="#FF6600">What 
            is the TSA?</font></span></td>
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                                    <p>The Trans-System Authority is an independent 
                                      body funded by 37 trans-gov powers (governments 
                                      or super-corporations that own and operate 
                                      phase gates between solar systems), and 
                                      given jurisdiction over trans-system affairs: 
                                      as defined by a document called The Charter. 
                                      The Charter is a comprehensive document, 
                                      covering disarmament, fair trade agreements 
                                      (most importantly, sharing phase gates), 
                                      and certain basic civil rights that had 
                                      become blurred (or tossed aside) during 
                                      the dark times of the Expansion.</p>
                                    <p>To enforce The Charter, the Trans-Govs 
                                      chose Admiral Rathine Studaber, former head 
                                      of the revived British Secret Service, and 
                                      gave her a budget for a small military force 
                                      &#150; which proved hard pressed to stop those 
                                      same greedy and quarrelsome powers from 
                                      violating almost every agreement they had 
                                      made: often concerning their own citizens 
                                      (termed &quot;population abuse&quot;). It 
                                      was not very long before the TSA had to 
                                      resort to military police actions. Its surprising 
                                      success against the vastly more powerful 
                                      and far better equipped Trans-Govs earned 
                                      it the secret hatred of the same powers 
                                      that created it. They have long been angling 
                                      to curtail the TSA's powers, slash its funding, 
                                      or even dissolve it entirely and replace 
                                      it with something they can control. So far, 
                                      their distrust of each other, and intense 
                                      media scrutiny, has kept the TSA alive. 
                                      The TSA sees itself as the only sane player 
                                      in trans-system politics, and has become 
                                      an unappreciated (and often vilified) champion 
                                      of human rights.</p>
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                                  <p><b>Reading Material<br>
                                    </b>For more detailed information on topics 
                                    related to the history of the TSA and Frontiersmen, 
                                    we recommend the Techtrope article &quot;Gather 
                                    Frontiersmen!&quot; <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/world_marine_start.html"><br>
                                    Click here to read</a>.<br>
                                    For further insight into the war, and the 
                                    Kharaa, your best bet is the eyewitness accounts 
                                    and journals of the soldiers who have fought 
                                    them. <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3db0d16a1ad0ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=3406"><br>
                                    Click here to read</a>.<br>
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