Hello Asgardia,

A letter went out last night to all persons who signed up to participate in the leadership elections. This is the text that was sent out to them:

Dear (Member Name),

Nominating Yourself
Please remember that anyone can submit his or her candidacy, but you must only submit for one level at a time. If you have applied for more than one level of leadership, please go back and pick only one. Candidates are given a week to select one level, and if no selection is made, all of the candidate’s applications will be deleted.
Your candidacy will appear on the website once you have completed all of the required fields in your profile, uploaded your personal photo, and the text of your platform has been verified. In addition, if you’re submitting for the level of Trendsetter, you must send you CV/resume, and for the level of Ambassador, you must send your CV/resume plus two references to elections@asgardia.space.

Debutant Rights
Debutants (10 votes) have the right to elect leaders at the higher levels; be selected as a leader for a higher level, submit petitions to higher leaders; support the petitions of their group; apply for grants and scholarships, and submit proposals to higher levels; set the price for licenses to the businesses or products of third-party members of their group; determine the level of openness of the group and the prices for accreditation of third-party groups or members of his/her group.

Strategist Rights
Strategists (100 votes) have the right to elect Trendsetters and Ambassadors; be elected as such; submit petitions directly to Trendsetter or Ambassador-level leaders; support the petitions of their own group; apply for grants and scholarships, and submit proposals to Trendsetters or higher levels; support grants and scholarships sent to Trendsetters or above, set the price for licenses to the businesses or products of third-party members of their group; determine the level of openness of the group and the prices for accreditation of third-party groups or members of his/her group.

Questions?
Please email any questions or concerns to elections@asgardia.space.

Sincerely,
The Asgardia Team

October 12th came again in Kuala Lumpur! Last year four followers had managed to gather together to celebrate and this year, it suddenly was eight of us getting together to celebrate Asgardia’s second Birthday!! Yes, already two years!

It was in Paris that on October 12th 2016, that the scientist, businessman and philanthropist Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli announced the founding of Asgardia the Space Nation. Well, two years down the road , Asgardia not only has a Constitution, a democratically elected Head of Nation, a flag, a national anthem and a coat of arms, Asgardia now has a satellite  Asgardia1 representing its first territory in space, a fully functioning elected Parliament of currently 127 Members that has already held two sessions, one physical and one virtual , has voted on several laws and has finalised its 12 permanent parliamentary committees ; a Prime Minister who is currently forming her first Cabinet of Ministers to be announced by the end of this year 2018 ; a Supreme Justice appointed during the First Parliamentary session of Parliament that was held in Vienna in June 2018, and in a few hours, Asgardian Mayors from various cities all around the globe establishing Asgardia's official presence in 44 earthly cities around the globe!

Remembering all of these achievements, eight courageous Asgardian followers came from different parts of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, to mark this second anniversary with a cheerful get together in KLCC, the beating heart of Malaysia, at the feet of the Twin Towers. Among us were a PhD candidate in space studies, a student of economics, a student of electrical engineering, a university lecturer, a high school student, a chiropractic doctor, a team manager for a Malaysian nation wide company and a software engineer. It is the Urbean Café that welcomed us and allowed us to celebrate this event.

We discussed on some of the achievements of our Nation, its current affairs and its short and long term future developments. While some of us have been long time Asgardians, others had just signed up on http://asgardia.space a few days before and still others had just heard about the First Space Nation a few hours before the meeting! All were cheerful and happy to finally meet in real life other Asgardian followers!

From the Inauguration of our Head of Nation at the Hofburg palace in Vienna on June 25th , I had kept the copy of the National Anthem that was then given to me as a guest and I shared some copies of the document with all of us and so, with the help of the recording available online, we rehearsed the anthem once and then went to sing it together outside of the café , in front of the emblematic Petronas Towers. It is there that we had a short session of pictures together, enjoying an evening out without monsoon and with a few stars. But then came the time to say our goodbyes promising to meet again very soon!

It was a beautiful moment of unity. Sharing about our lives and backgrounds, we realised that we had in our little group not less than 5 earthly nationalities from 3 continents and that yet, we were all united with the same vision! “One Humanity, One Unity”!

As Dr. Ashurbeyli concluded in his Head of Nation inaugural speech, we might not be the best but "we are the future.”
I believe he is right, we are the future!

Happy second Birthday ASGARDIA !!!

Asgardia da olmamın sebebi geleceği yakalamak ve yaşamak. Hükümette aday olmamın sebebi ise asgardialılara bir katkı sağlamak kabiliyetlerimi asgardia için kullanmak. Beni seçerseniz hem iletişim alanında hem organizasyonlar hakkında asgardia için çalışmalar yürüteceğim. Hem kültürel olarak hem de alt yapı itibariyle ne kadar güzel bir mozaik temsil ettiğimizi birlikte hareket ederek ve çalışmalarımızı paylaşarak ne kadar çok şey başarabileceğimizi göstermek ve anlatmak için çalışacağım. Asgardia zaten genç dinamik bilinçli ve atak. Ben vatandaşlarımızla beraber bizler için tüm çalışmalarımı fikir alışverişleri içerisinde yürütmek istiyorum. Ulusumuza iletişim, koordinasyon organizasyon, marka çalışmaları, ürün geliştirme, piyasa analizleri ve reklam turizm sektörünü ilgilendiren birçok konuda faydam olabilir. Bunlar şu ana kadar sahip olduklarımla getirdiklerim. Bilgim olan konular tabii ki bunlarla sınırlı değil ilgilendiğim alanlarla ilgili de çalışmalar yürütülmesini sağlayacağım. Aynı zamanda asgardia için yürütülecek çalışmalar içerisinde çalışkan çabuk öğrenen analitik düşünme yeteneği gelişmiş biri olarak birçok konuda çok faydalı olabileceğime inanıyorum. Beni seçerseniz çocukluk hayalime kavuştuğum bu dünya içerisinde elimden geleni sonuna kadar yapacağıma inanabilirsiniz.  Yapılacaklar listesi çıkarmama gerek varsa eğer : Asgardia.space mağzasının ayağa kaldırılması

Asgardia.space mağzasının ürün çeşitliliğinin 100 adet i geçmesi .

Ek gelirlerle ilgili çalışmalar içerisinde öncelikle vatandaşlarımızın kabiliyetlerinin tespiti ve birlikte yürütülebilecek çalışmalarla ilgili proje üretilmesi Var olan alt yapıya hakim olmak ve bu alt yapının eksiklerini tamamlamak, sonrasında bir yol haritası çizmek ve detaylı planla ilerlemek ilk söyleyebileceklerim .

Sizlerle çalışmak için sabırsızlanıyorum. Oylarınızı bekliyorum asgardialılar.

The reason I am in Asgardia is to catch the future and live. The reason why I am a Candidate in the Supreme Court is to use my skills to make a contribution to the minimum. If you choose me, I will work on asgardia in both communication and organizations. I will try to show and demonstrate how much we can accomplish by acting together and representing ourselves in a beautiful mosaic, both culturally and infrastructurally. Asgardia is already young dynamic conscious and aggressive. I want to carry out all our work for us, with our citizens, in exchange for ideas. Our nation can benefit from many issues that concern the communication, coordination organization, brand studies, product development, market analysis and the advertising tourism industry. These are what I have brought with me until now. The subjects with knowledge are not limited to these, of course, but I will ensure that studies are carried out on the areas that I am interested in. At the same time, I believe that I can be very useful in many subjects as an advanced analytical thinking skill who is able to learn hard in the works to be done for asgardia. If you choose me, you can believe that you will have all of your childhood dreams in this world until the end of the day. If you need to make a list of to do :

Removing Asgardia.space TO the foot Asgardia.space has over 100 product varieties.

In the studies related to supplementary income, first of all, the determination of the capabilities of our citizens and the production of projects related to the works that can be carried out together. I will be able to say the first to dominate the existing infrastructure and to complete the shortcomings of this infrastructure, to draw a road map and proceed with the detailed plan. I can not wait to work with you guys. I am expecting you to be a minor.

This Saturday 26th of October, from 1pm to 9pm, the first non-official meet-up in Kochi, Kerala, India, will be taking place at the Hill Palace near Tripunithura. Come and join us to this unique first get-together in the History of Asgardia in India! Program: – get together, chatting, brainstorming, networking between Asgardians; – help your friends and family to get to know the First Space Nation; – get some news from what's happening in Asgardia! DATE OF THE EVENT: Saturday 26th October 2019 from 3pm to 9pm LINK to the EVENT: https://asgardia.space/en/social/events/92194

October 21, 2017 Asgardia Answers Live Stream Rundown

By Ross Cheeseright | October 21, 2017

As has become tradition, Lena De Winne hosted another live stream on Facebook that addresses questions brought up by the community. This month’s livestream was utterly packed with discussion and useful information as we continue our Journey to becoming an independent nation. This is our rundown of the highlights.

You can watch the full video here on Facebook or here on YouTube . The full transcript will be available in a few days and linked on this post

Introduction:

1. Acknowledgement of Founding Day of Asgardia – Many people discussed that it was a great day and some people got together to celebrate
2. There was an event in Moscow – It was Translated into English. Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli addressed the achievements and outlined the future. The conference had a lot of attention in Russia, no special attentions have been made there before but they decided to go to Russia for the Founding Day celebration and they had a lot of good coverage. Read our summary here .

Government

There were a lot of very important points that were brought up as a result of citizens questions regarding the process of forming a Parliament.

1. Constitution has been accepted and Elections were announced on the 12 ^th The elections will give people around 6 months to elect their parliament. Voting has begun already so get voting!
2. Leaderships elections are happening right now and are a precursor to the Elections.
3. It will be possible to convert your current votes (for Debutant, Strategist or Trendsetter) into Parliamentary Election Votes. It will be explained in detail how to do this in the coming days via Asgardia.space.
4. The government will only be appointed after the parliament is formed.
5. There are only 6 months to vote.
6. Application process will be on the website.
7. Parliamentary electorates will not be expected to relocate. Work will be done remotely.
8. These will be paid positions.
9. Elected parliament and ministers are different bodies. Parliament will be elected, ministers will be appointed.
10. Age limit is proposing to be dropped down below 40.
11. Ministers, deputy ministers etc. will be appointed from a pool of people that are truly qualified for the job. They’re serious jobs, paid positions and require you to submit a CV and are intended for people that would be eligible to apply for those sorts of jobs in any other established country.

Languages

The function of ‘Language Groups’ plays quite an interesting role in Asgardia and directly represent how people are being organised.

1. The distribution of the languages (by people who voted) shows a list of 12 unique ‘first languages’ (e.g English, Spanish, Russian)
2. Elections will be broken down by ‘language group’.
3. You can run for elections in the language group you select. You can also vote for people in your language group.
4. You define your language in your profile – you can change it there, too. So please check it’s set right.
5. Most Scandinavians have selected ‘English’ as their electoral-region language.
6. It’s likely that over time, a single language will emerge. Asgardia is open to the prospect of a single language.

Post Office

Asgardia announced in the Moscow conference that we would be setting up a post office. Here are the initial details on that project.

1. Working now to produce stamps by the end of the year.
2. The reality is that until the currency is in circulation, the stamps can’t be used to pay something.
3. To begin with, in ‘stamp world’ it’s a collectors edition.
4. Stamps will help build up legacy and legitimacy.
5. Eventually, we are working towards being recognised as someone who can pay postal services.
6. This will take time, same as our admission to the UN. We’re signifying that we’re setting up a postal office and a postal service which is normal for any established nation.

Business

Asgardia is open to investment, but closed to business until Parliament forms and handles the business of legislating business.

1. Constitution lays out the framework for business.
2. Parliament needs to be in place before we can do business.
3. It is Necessary to have regulations and laws in place to govern business.
4. Asgardia has a ‘business entity’ and is open to proposals for new business. They’re positioned to invest in startups and are working in conjunction with Seraphim a space-investment specialist.
5. eMail Projects@Asgardia.space if you have an idea for a business. It must be a serious idea for business and be accompanied by a business plan.

Currency

The latest news on SOLAR (SOL)

1. Still working on it. Looking at the Second quarter of the next year.
2. No more details at this point.

Space Exploration

Reaffirmation that our immediate goals are getting established here on earth. The idea of space flight or Arks is still way off in the future.

1. No spaceship will be launched within the next 10 years.
   1. Space Arks will be habitable platforms that will serve as a refuge if there are disasters and they will serve as tourist locations when there aren’t.
   2. Arks will take more than 10 years to produce.
2. Asgardia is a philosophical, technical and legal entity.
3. We are following an established path of which human settlement of other planets is just one goal.
4. Asgardia’s satellite will symbolise our ‘territory’ and our ‘permanent settlement’.
5. The size of the territory or the occupation of it isn’t a specific requirement of joining the UN.
6. Satellite 2 will test data transfer, blockchain operation and have more scientific equipment.
7. When Asked about collaboration with Elon Musk: Elon musk is a great thinker and a great businessman. We’re setting up a new state. Asgardia will use whatever service we require from the free markets. Elon musk may or may not be one of the services we use for space launches. At the moment, there is nothing to talk about with Elon.

General News

Some general information given out during the live stream.

1. A lot of Information is available on the website, forums, Facebook, national pages, blogs and there isn’t any desire to send out any specific newsletter at this point.
2. 27 ^th of October – there will be an invent in Paris 18:00 Paris time. Dr. A is partnering with Director of UNESCO, he will be presenting a medal for UNESCO Science in Space Award.
3. We want to step away from using flags to symbolise language, we need some symbols that makes sense to help people recognise a language. E.G – Russian doll is a good example of Russia.
   1. No religious symbols.
   2. No Copyrighted Material.
   3. Try to captivate the language, not the nation.
   4. Civic Asgardia will be officially announcing further details on this in the coming days.
4. Asgardians encouraged to come together and create groups for their ventures (especially in the area of start up businesses)
5. Speak with civic@asgardia.space to find out the requirements to register a citizen group officially, including getting official groups set up or creating forums that might be required.
6. You don’t need authority to set up an unofficial group, but it cannot be advertised on official groups. You must speak with members of your group privately and establish a private group.
7. Private groups can be made transparent to Asgardia by giving access to Rebekah / Lena.

About the Author:
Ross Cheeseright is a devoted Asgardian Citizen, a Strategist Candidate and a member of the Civic Asgardia Volunteer team. If you’d like to see more of his work, please check out his blog .

Sizlerden gelen talepler doğrultusunda, sizlerin belirleyeceği yer ve tarihte, Antalya'da bir tanışma etkinliği yapmak istiyorum. Bu konudaki isteklerinizi, lütfen, seref@serefkaplan.com.tr adresine mail ile bildiriniz. Mailin konusu "Antalya`da Yaşayan Asgardialılar" olmalı ki karışıklık olmasın. Mail içeriğinde ise, adınız, iletişim bilgileriniz (mail, telefon, whatsapp vs.), etkinliğin yapılmasını istediğiniz yer ve tarih konularını ekleyiniz.

Teşekkür ederim,

Şeref Kaplan

Asgardia Parlamento Üyesi

I would like to organize a meeting event in Antalya in accordance with your requests, and you will determine the place and the date of the event. Please e-mail your request to seref@serefkaplan.com.tr. The subject line of mail should be "Asgardians who lives in Antalya" so that there would be no confusion. In the content of Mail should state; your name, contact information (email, phone, WhatsApp, etc.), and the place and date you would like your activity to take place.

Thank you,

Seref Kaplan

Member of Parliament of Asgardia

Não posso e não vou prometer nada pontual. O que posso é garantir que vou dar o melhor de mim mesmo para ajudar a resolver da melhor forma possível situações pertinentes ao nosso sonho, conforme elas venham surgindo.

Como nação embrionária, não é de bom alvitre prever situações que talvez nunca ocorram; assim pensando, vejo cada passo como se fosse o primeiro.

E cabe a todos nós fazer de tudo para que possamos dar, juntos, bilhões, trilhões, infinitos passos.

No meu ponto de vista esta não é uma eleição comum, onde alguém tem que ganhar e outros tem que perder. Não importa quem seja o escolhido, todos devemos ser considerados, no final, vencedores. Uma nação, com o propósito que tem a nossa, não pode começar tendo cidadãos considerados perdedores.

I can not and will not promise anything exact. What I can do is make sure that I will do my best to help resolve situations that are relevant to our dream as they arise.

As an embryonic nation, it is not a good idea to predict situations that may never occur; so thinking, I see each step as if it were the first.

And it is up to all of us to do everything we can to walk, together, billions, trillions, infinite steps.

In my view, this is not a common election, where one has to win and others have to lose. No matter who is chosen, we should all be considered, in the end, winners. This nation of ours, can not start having citizens considered losers.