Intervention Day is an Earth-specific holiday celebrating the intervention of the Galactic Community to prevent the termination of Earth's life support systems by its own leaders' short-sighted policies.

Decades of denial about the extent of man's damage to the Earth had ravaged the planet's ecosystems, but the GC's non-intervention policy is specific about interfering with an indigenous civilization: "Intervention is allowable only to prevent a Global Life Termination."

When the planetary pressures of flooded coastal cities, diminishing harvests, failing oceans and radically reduced livable regions finally spawned a nuclear war, intervention was decreed. The planet was saved, the ecosystem repaired, the defective leaders were replaced with people capable of keeping the planet's best interests in mind and Earth was slowly welcomed into the Galactic Community.

The annual Intervention Day broadcasts commemorate this Earth-saving event. We've telescoped one year's festivities from our original Earth affiliate station, KBCO in Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way. The players below let you listen to the 45-minute synopsis of the original 14 hour broadcast, broken into two parts.

We chose this particular annual edition because it happened to coincide with a near catastrophe that made news all over the galaxy, The Great Dondo Debacle. Please note: Repairing the Dondo incident resulted in the recalibration of the time-track for Earth. The 1999 date mentioned in the broadcast recalibrated to 2027, and you'll notice that the history will be... well... odd. Bullets dodged. The synopsis makes it clearer how this happened. Listeners in time zones prior to Earth·2027 take note. . o O ("read between the lines")

Listen and enjoy.

©1987 Jeremy McCaleb with KBCO-FM, Boulder, CO
 

Part One

Part Two