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Buzzards- While this social movement will be discussed in greater detail in my upcoming book, "The Unchained Man: Homo Sapien at Play & Politics", they deserve an overview in any discussion of the impact of Seeding. The human mind has always been a strange arena for social inerplay- their tribal loyalties are strong, but vulnerable to memetic attack in a way not shareed by other species. Their history is full of treachery and popular movements and elections of leaders rapily turned on. During the pre-Seeding, pre-Imperial but post-FTL era, all core elements of human life, from food production to spirituality to violent crime had been outsourced to corperate entities, and the primary human leaders were the Chief Executive Officers and the Directors of the Hyper-Corperations. Oversimplifying for the sake of expediance, The Buzzards could be considered a backlash against the HyperCorperations. This group acted as reporters, civil activists, agitators, speakers of hard truths and prophets of doom. Earning their name because of their disdain for buzzwords and their tendancy to arrive at the scene of any tragedy holding cameras and asking questions, they grew in popularity and influence until their leaders- paticularly the Bastard Magnificent, Shadow-voice and the Stolen Rabbi- were more famous that psych-heroes they were named in mockery of, such as Captain Commerce or the Happy Child.

Their fate is one of the paticular bright spots of the uncrtain era, as they lead the Free People to new worlds and founded the Recorders of the the Universal City.

- Gronick Bathus

See also- Stolen Rabbi, The; Recorders of the Universal City