Essay - Insurrection Introduction David Webber and Steven White's (1990) Insurrection is...

Insurrection

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David Webber and Steven White's (1990) Insurrection is a science fiction novel whose story is a loosely disguised interg*****lactic version of the American War of Independence. The dominance of the Corporate Worlds over the Fringe ***** has split ***** Terran Federation both politically and militarily. The Inner World leaders have exploited the Outer ***** populations politically, economically, ***** militarily in *****ir war against the Khanate. Once the ***** ends, the Inner World populations are remiss to relinquish the newfound powers won during ***** conflict. To counteract the increasing power of the Fringe *****s, the leaders of the Corporate Worlds admit the Khanate ***** the Federation. Faced with growing exploitation and dominance, the Fringe Worlds mount an insurrection.

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After helping ***** Corporate ***** defeat the Orion *****, the Fringe Worlds ***** determined to maintain the power they ***** accumulated. However, the ***** ***** are unwilling to relinquish ***** and invite the Khanate into the Legislative Assembly of the ***** Federation to help quash ***** Outer Worlds. ***** ***** is a p*****rallel of the American ***** of *****, with the Fringe Worlds representing the ***** Colonies and the Corporate Worlds ***** British forces. Like the local militias ***** ***** Colonies resisted British power, so the ***** Worlds resist the efforts of ***** Corporate *****. Fed up with British dominance and exploitation ***** the Colonies, its leaders' perceptions of British leadership mirror those of Fionna toward ***** Federation, "After twenty-five years in the Assembly...Fionna had learned the bitter, sordid realities of the Federation's government" (White and Weber *****, 7).

***** Fr*****ge Worlds' people ***** aware of the exploitation of their people and resources by the ***** Worlds. When their attempts to call them to task for such ***** is thwarted ***** Fringe World leaders, the Fringe Worlds secede from the Federation and become ***** rebel Republic. This is similar to the Colonies secession from Britain. The blocking of freedoms ***** political strengths of the Fringe Worlds by the Corporate Worlds leads ***** war. We see that the Corporate Worlds' ***** often act in unfair and unethical ways to rob the Fringe Worlds of ********** political and individual freedoms. As Fionna tells us quite early, "She'd ***** long since ***** it was in the closed committee meetings that the ***** Worlds wove ********** webs" (White ***** ********** 1990, 8).

***** systematic exploitation of the Fringe ***** at the hands ***** the Corporate Worlds ***** not something that remains unknown to o*****rs though it does occur in a cl*****ndestine manner. We see this when David Haley, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and citizen of Old Terra, longs for a return to ***** time ***** Old Terra was powerful. Haley's travels ***** the ***** Worlds have shown him that conflict is inevitable if the Corporate Worlds ref*****e to permit ***** Fringe ***** their political and individual freedoms: "He knew the hostility and hatred for ***** Corporate Worlds festering on the Fringe Worlds—and what has happening under the false cordiality of the delegates'