Organization Independent Systems Consortium Refugee Agency - I.S.C.R.A

[Altaris]

Independent Systems Consortium Refugee Agency

The Independent Systems Consortium Refugee Agency (I.S.C.R.A) was originally designed to cope with the influx of refugees fleeing their homes due to the AMS viral outbreak. However, even since it's inception it was re-worked to ensure that although it was still able to help refugees made by the AMS outbreak, it does not exclude refugees of other origins.

Unlike other systems that leave refugees lingering in space or in ramshackle shanty towns, ISCRA focuses on integrating the refugees who find themselves under their care. To help integrate the refugees with existing communities, the ISCRA strives to ensure that refugees have homes, employment and opportunities to better themselves and their families.


Process

• Arrival
  • Holonet advertisements and word of mouth will advise all refugees to head to one of the three main screening areas for ISCRA, though smaller, local, branches will be able to handle those who slip through the cracks. Upon arrival, vessels containing the refugees will be required to power down any weapons systems and their hyperdrive - failure to do so will result in their vessel being impounded through use of ion weaponry - in order to proceed to the screening areas.
• Screening
  • Trained volunteers, workers and droids alike will man the screening stations. With full access to the information services of the ISC and it's allies, they will perform medical, psyche and criminal checks. Those who pass the checks will be allowed to proceed to placement but those who do not will either be held aside for treatment (if possible) or ejected from ISC space with a warning not to return.
• Placement
  • Once screened and passed, refugees will be given a short test to gauge their skills before they are then offered placements on different ISC worlds based on their talents and experiences. Families are to be kept together unless otherwise requested by the families themselves and they can either make their own way to their assigned worlds or taken there when transport allows.
• Employment
  • Employers across ISC space, who have signed up to work with ISCRA, will have their vacancies filled by refugees with skillsets matching the job requirements. For those with minimal skills, infrastructure works will take them for the ISC itself to further improve certain services.
• A New Home
  • Once all other stages are completed, refugees are given a pre-fabricated housing block to call their own and expected to begin the process of earning their citizenship within the next year. Safety, employment and housing taken care of, the refugees will prove themselves to be refugees no longer once they have become true ISC citizens.

Main Screening Locations

• Llanic
  • Primarily chosen as one of the main screening locations entering ISC space because it already operates as a entrance into the ISC for many refugees as it is. Something of a shadowport, smugglers and desperate refugees alike naturally gravitate toward Llanic to try and gain entry to the ISC - by establishing a firm presence there, ISCRA will regulate entry that likely would have happened anyway had they not taken steps to do so.
• Mandell
  • A Colony of Bothawui, Mandell is the primary screening area for the North of ISC territory in the Outer Rim. Primarily a bread-basket style colony, there are large swathes of unoccupied fields for ships to land in an orderly fashion around the primary planet-side screening center.
• Attahox
  • Despite smelling rather terrible, Attahox is a planet very used to seeing a high volume of space traffic already as one of the planets on the hyperspace routes to Mimban. Space stations around the planet will serve as the screening locations rather than on the surface of the planet itself.

Placement and Employment

Transport

• Transport of refugees within ISC space from the screening locations will be handled both by the ISC Navy (when their mission allows) but also by private citizens and corporations. All three major screening locations are strategically placed along hyperspace routes in and out of ISC space, allowing for a large amount of traffic. To encourage private businesses to include refugee transport within their time-frames and business models, ISCRA has negotiated favorable tariffs on goods traded with ISC worlds on a sliding scale based on how many refugees have been assisted in their travel.
• Refugees with their own transport will be guided along in convoys from the screening locations and their ships will remain their own even after transport has been completed.

Tatooine

• Not so much a barren world as an empty one, Tatooine has much to offer both the ISC and it's citizens but it currently lacks the citizenry required to actually engage in larger scale industry. Efforts by the ISC to increase the amount of industry on Tatooine are ongoing but have run into roadblocks; primarily a small local population.
• Primary work available; Droid Factory Work, Asteroid Ice Prospecting, Infrastructure Improvements and Hunting.

Lok

• Lok was once a completely barren wasteland used by petty crime lords and either a base or a retreat. During the time of the Empire, industry was forced onto the planet and, later, abandoned by the New Republic. Locals on Lok want something to be proud of and industry is their ticket back to putting themselves back on the Galactic atlas.
• Primary work available; Droid Factory Work, Small Arms Manufacturing, Infrastructure Improvements and Hydroponic Farming.

Lahsbane

• Lahsbane's locals are very inviting to members of the ISC and very eager to reach the same level of industry and technological advancement of the rest of the Galaxy. Because of this, the locals are crying out for experienced technicians, engineers and workers for their first wave of factories.
• Primary work available; Mining, Processing Minerals, Infrastructure Improvements and Repulsorcraft Manufacturing.

Home and Citizenship


New Homes;

• Upon being placed on a planet with employment opportunities, refugees will be housed within pre-fabricated housing blocks on the outskirts of local population centers. While some of these will already be constructed in time to welcome the first wave of refugees, additional housing blocks will be erected by refugees themselves with all materials supplied. During the initial transition phase, refugees will be provided for entirely by ISCRA.
• Once work has begun and the refugees have begun to earn their own Crowns, ISCRA will not prevent them from moving across the planet they work on and they are free to use and invest their funds as they see fit, including in purchasing a new home. If they choose not to, they may remain within the pre-fabricated housing provided.

Family;

• Refugees accepted into the ISCRA works program will be allowed to bring their immediate family (spouses, children) without question so long as everyone within the family passes screening.
• Those already working within the program may 'sponsor' extended family once they have started work within the ISC. This is not a guarantee of entry but it does assist with passing the screening process.

Citizenship;

• Citizenship within the ISC for refugees being aided by ISCRA is dependent on very few things but all of them are incredibly important. Crimes committed before arriving in the ISC will be held against a prospective citizen only if they are the most egregious (murder etc) but any criminality committed while working under ISCRA will result in ejection from ISC space; this is screened for upon entry and randomly checked during the stay. Once granted entry, refugees under ISCRA must complete a citizenship test within the first year after entry; if they do not they will be asked to leave.
• Children of ISCRA refugees will be considered ISC natives by default if they are born within the ISC either during the first year or after the refugees in question have passed their citizenship tests. Children born outside of the ISC will have to pass the child-level citizenship test by the age of thirteen.

Spoiler: Credit

Huge credit to @Nefieslab for taking these ideas and putting them into something tangible.

 

[Logan]

Very neat.

Approved.