Free Academical State of Oxford (Apocalypse: 2012)

Free Academical State of Oxford
Free Academical State of Oxford
Timeline: Apocalypse: 2012
OTL equivalent: Oxford

Flag Coat of Arms
Capital	Oxford
Largest city	Oxford
Other cities	other cities
Language   official	English
others	other language
Government	Meritocracy
Legislature	Council of Universities
President
Lord Councillor
Area	area km²
Population	population
Established	1st January 2013
Independence	from the UK
declared	de facto
Currency	Stirling
Time Zone	GMT
summer	BST

21st December - 27th December: Student Riots and Mass Migration

The Apocalypse caused, as in many places, mass rioting and looting as people, scared and disorientated, attempted to cope. The large body of students in Oxford caused particular problems. Oxford Town Hall and St. Aldergates Chambers were burnt down by a mob of protestors on the 23rd (with the loss of life of many council members) due to the Councils seeming inability to do anything.

25th December - Conference of Universities

On Christmas Day, desperate to halt the chaos, staff and leaders from the Universities along with surviving members of the Council convened at Somerville Collage to disscus the problem.

People present at the Conference

• Doctor Alice Prochaska, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, Principal of Somerville College.
• Doctor Frances Lannon, FRHistS, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall.
• Professor David Clary FRS, President of Magdalen College.
• Professor Richard Carwardine, FBA, FRHistS, FLSW, President of Corpus Christi College.
• Sir Martin John Taylor, FRS, Warden of Merton College.
• Councillor Ruth Wilkinson, Formerly Liberal Democrat
• Councillor David Williams, Formerly Green Party
• Councillor John Tanner, Formerly Labour
• Councillor Mike Rowley, Formerly Labour
• Councillor Craig Simmons, Formerly Green Party
• Councillor Elise Benjamin, Formerly Green Party
• Giles Ian Henderson, CBE, Master of Pembroke College

Discussions:

The meeting started at noon on Christmans day and continued until ten that night. All had a say and the speaking was regulated by Sir Martin J. Taylor. Only around three hours of the meeting was taken up with deciding what to do. The remaining seven hours where spent working out how to do it. It was decided that, because of the current crisis and large scale nuclear destruction it was highly unlikely that the United Kingdom had suvived. Futhermore many great institutions of learning and knowledge worldwide were likely to be destroyed or looted for fuel. So the meet came up with two key ideas.

1. Due to the Current state of affairs the City of Oxford must reluctantly conclude that the United Kingdom is no more. To prevent utter chaos therefore it is desirable to create a new state.
2.  Futhermore it is of the utmost importance that humanity does not fall back into the dark ages and lose all knowledge gathered over the centuries. To this end the new state shall be devoted to the collection, discovery and  presevation of knowledge. Scientiam omnibus supereminet. Knowledge above all else.

2nd January and Onwards...

Long Term Plans

Project Donum

One very long term plan (mid 2020s-early 2030s) is the beaming of all of human knowledge into space via methods similar to that used in the Arecibo message.