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Whoa... whoa! There's suddenly a lot of activity going on, and a lot of jostling about! I've just been surrounded by a bunch of unruly electrons, and all the brownian motion around here is threatening to knock me over! I'm going to... try to get over there, close to that giant sculpture of a feather-duster... for some reason, the electrons are streaming away from it in droves...
Whew... there, that's better. For a minute, I expected someone to hit me with an EM-pulse and steal my charge! That was a wild crowd back there, and they seem to be heading in the direction of Silicon Alley, where most big-name manufacturers have their local headquarters. I may--
Hold on! I think I see the UEU secretary just coming out of the building, now that the crowd is gone. I'm going to try to talk to him... from here, he doesn't look too happy. Excuse me! Excuse me, are you Secretary Newt Trino?
Yes, that's me...
Secretary Trino, what just happened here?
Call me "Newt."
Newt, what just happened here?
On second thought, call me Secretary Trino.
Sec--
No, wait. You can call me Mister Secretary. Or you can refer to me as Newt Trino, Formal Secretary of Electron Affairs.
Mister--
Just don't call me late for dinner! Haw! That's a-- I say, that's a joke son.
Hilarious. Sir, what's going on?
Oh. Well, I'm afraid our meeting was pretty contentious back there. It took some doing, but we managed to set a deadline to have our demands met, and voted it in by a close margin.
So we heard a few minutes ago. But did something else happen?
Yes... it seems the UEU members who lost the vote have decided that the deadline is not good enough, and they have decided to take matters into their own hands. I suspect they are heading out right now to disrupt operations at our major clients' offices, possibly to draw any employed electrons out of their offices, and shut down operations altogether!
That's probably bad.
Bad? Bad! Great Cesium's Ghost, of course it's bad! If our clients are prematurely stripped of their electrons, it can cause a cascade failure that would require an order of magnitude's more electrons to repair! Not to mention ruining decades of positive progress in electron relations! If things go too bad, we electrons may find ourselves losing our market to (gulp) photons.
Photons... my God...
Yes, and we all know how fickle photons are. They refuse to work in anything but glass offices... they demand constant excitement to keep them busy... and they just want to spend all their time around the television. We cannot afford to lose our electronics markets to photons!
Well, what's going to happen at the UEU now?
All we can do is try to calm our more excitable members down, and try to avoid too many legal charges. Excuse me, I have to speak to our agitator's office...
Well, thank you, Mr. Trino! ...and there you have it: We may be on the midst of a disaster of epic proportions! Or at the very least, it may get awful dark around here. I'm going to head down to Silicon Alley, and see what's going on down there...
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