Chapter Three: The Devoted Ranks of Taxonomy

During those times where the Anti-Plagiarists are still cooperative with the Scientific Council and the Tower of Taxonomy, the corresponding Code in force and in effect has identified five distinct ranks of Taxonomy practice, each part of the hierarchy are entitled to use the title "Taxonomist" to refer to their professional occupation. These ranks have been made, codified, and instituted by the first President of the Security Council, to classify the Taxonomy service for organizational soundness and to help in the ease of communication, and the streamlining of the flow of command within the predetermined hierarchy.

Those original five ranks that have been identified by the Code of Taxonomy include the Physics Police, Chemistry Police, Biology Police, Medic Police, and the Laboratory Scientists. Although the ranks have been made as a matter of distinction, the classifications have been deemed to be "equal in character and in all material respects" as implied in the original document that contains the proclamation, which was interpreted to mean that the ranks have been prescribed with no intent to prescribe an order of precedence.

The practice of the ranks have differed in substance through the years, with historical accounts providing conflicting roles and indefinite set of precedent, so much to the dismay of the Juridical Science Courts, although there has been many jurisprudence penned by the members of the court quoting patterns and logical reasoning of the past, as provided by the history books contained within the Archives of the Council of Science.

The most of those inconsistencies with conflicting issues are between the Physics Police and Biology Police, both of whom are mainly concerned with matters involving the "crimes of humankind" as referring to motion, space, and time, and the life form being claimed by the authority of the Biology Police. Although for a time the lines between both ranks have been vaguely defined, a later opinion from the Juridical department has reclassified the Biology Police's intrinsic interest for wildlife and ecology, while the Physics Police holds the inherent duty to protect society, primarily for their mastery of guns and ammunitions to competently assert this solemn duty.

Since then, no other issues resurfaced pertaining to the efficiency and goals of the actual instrument of the Code of Taxonomy, until such a time that the Literary Committee has asked their own Noble Chanceries about the conflicting role and jurisdiction of the Physics Police, as it relates to the same jurisdiction being asserted by the Anti-Plagiarist. The issue involves the introduction of the Illustrators, and their special relationship with the mystical rings, and the mines that magically create them.

Of course, there was an initial opposition regarding the introduction and eventual recognition of the Illustrators and the more skilled Proctors as part of The Renaissance Society, and this issue has been bitterly fought by the Literary Committee. The circumstances surrounding the environment of the negotiations, with due consideration with the important optomization models and the art of the State and related political thought, have been quietly brewing for quite a patient period, enough to burst into a full grown civil war.

The Chairman of the Literary Committee has been very adamant to yield to the many requests to drop the efforts for the ratification of the Illustrators' participation in the Sovereign See of Dunster, and he has a clear intention to pursue this administrative matter and support such a daunting task. The Anti-Plagiarists have been quickly being outnumbered by the aggressive recruitment ploy of the Tower of Taxonomy, and the Literary Government invokes its rights to expand the Society by granting "the expressed right of the Literary sovereign to assemble its own forces for the protection of its citizens."

Discussions have pursued in all assembly halls and legislative chambers, and a timely compromise has conclusively been reached. In exchange for the acceptance of the Illustrators (and the Proctor masters), a separate See of Colors will be established from the mines and all "extraordinary sources of power by the Literary Committee" and to establish the separate Boondocks Scientific Trust as part of the said newly erected sovereign See.

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