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Posted October 21, 2013 08:32 · last edited October 21, 2013 08:39

I have it on good authority (heard it from Cordwainer Bull) that the SC in Wanderers SC stands for "Special Circumstances".

It's a subtle nod to the anarchist utopian works of author Iain M. Banks.

For those not so erudite, Special Circumstances is a covert organisation with a morally ambiguous role best explained by Diziet Sma: "... in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws—the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe—break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist ... special circumstances... That's us. That's our territory; our domain."

Brilliant. Respect to NZF.


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Cordwainer Bull edited October 21, 2013 08:39

I have it on good authority (heard it from Cordwainer Bull) that the SC in Wanderers SC stands for "Special Circumstances".

It's a subtle nod to the anarchist utopian works of author Iain M. Banks.

For those not so erudite, Special Circumstances is a covert organisation with a morally ambiguous role best explained by Diziet Sma: "... in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws—the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe—break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist ... special circumstances... That's us. That's our territory; our domain."

Brilliant. Respect to NZF.

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Cordwainer Bull edited October 21, 2013 08:37

I have it on good authority (heard it from Cordwainer Bull) that the SC in Wanderers SC stands for "Special Circumstances".

It's a subtle nod to the anarchist utopian works of author Iain M. Banks.

For those not so erudite, Special Circumstances is a covert organisation with a morally ambiguous role best explained by Diziet Sma: "... in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws—the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe—break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist ... special circumstances... That's us. That's our territory; our domain."

Brilliant. Respect to NZF.


Cordwainer Bull edited October 21, 2013 08:33

I have it on good authority that the SC in Wanderers SC stands for "Special Circumstances".

It's a subtle nod to the anarchist utopian works of author Iain M. Banks.

For those not so erudite, Special Circumstances is a covert organisation with a morally ambiguous role best explained by Diziet Sma: "... in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws—the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe—break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist ... special circumstances... That's us. That's our territory; our domain."

Brilliant. Respect to NZF.