Hulyah Benzerga

Hulyah Benzerga, Senior Reporter

Pushing Forward

A child of a pious Islamic merchant family on Hebrin (Empty Quarter 1930), Hulyah was eager to rebel against her upbringing as vigorously as possible. While unable to gain entrance to university, her gossipy blog gained the attention of some scouts from R Publishing who put her on the payroll. Leveraging an absolutely sprawling networks of contacts, friends, acquaintances, and informers, she gets access to all sorts of juicy stories: some she publishes under her official by-lines, others in underground datafeeds, and still others ‘not ready for primetime’ are fictionalized with a thin veneer and sold in virtual and physical venues subsector-wide.

Currently, Hulyah is busy focusing on the broad range of sexual follies enjoyed by the ruling class of Hebrin (Empty Quarter 1930). These kind of lurid tales and antics have brought her a large and devoted readership, and – for their own reasons – the planetary establishment has indulged her gossip mongering. But while gutter-gossip is very profitable, Hulyah wants to rise from the porn stars and the drunkard wastrels, and get taken seriously in the high-brow chattering classes of the Six Subsectors. She remains quite hostile to authority figures, yet feels out of her depth in the bespoke-suited, big-money circles where the heart of the corruption lies – nor can she think of a way to get her massive audience interested in all those abstract zeros and money flows.

A new source, however, has started dropping off encrypted packages in her heavily guarded email inbox. While none of the revelations are all that substantial, they are all deliciously hilarious, painting all of the ‘elder statesmen’ types in the worst possible light. Hulyah has been attempting to weave these bizarre antics into a sharp point, but despite her intelligence, she just doesn’t have the way with words to really give her posts the kind of bite they need.

She definitely has the money needed to buy a good ghostwriter, though. Preferably someone who hates all sanctimonious authority, religious and secular alike- isn’t blinded by bloodlines or mystical blather or ornate traditions or official uniforms or some peer-reviewed consensus- and is able to handle himself well in a pinch. A starship isn’t needed, but you never know…

References and Contributors

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• Alvin Plummer. "Personality Profiles III." Stellar Reaches 24 (2014): 16.

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