Your task
You need to define a plan of action to solve a challenge on your world. Use your creative thinking skills to come up with solutions. Consider what you know about your own world and other worlds. Explore where your defined ways of working will be an asset and where they might be a liability.
Draw up your plan on a flip chart ready to share with the Conference Delegates when they return.
The challenge: The new power source
Your inventors have created a powerful new energy source. It could make your world more prosperous, provide heat and light, and allow you to develop new technologies quickly.
However, it is unstable. If it is used too fast, it could damage part of your world. Other worlds are also nervous: they remember that the previous rulers of your world went to war too often, and they may suspect that this new power source could become a weapon.
You must decide what to do.
Consider:
- How will you balance innovation with safety?
- How will your leaders make and communicate the decision?
- How will you show that Fire World’s intentions are peaceful?
- Which resources will you use?
- Which world (or worlds) would you approach, and why?
- What do you know about their values and communication preferences?
- How will you approach them in a way that builds trust rather than creates suspicion?
What has happened before
In the past, your world dealt with difficult problems by acting decisively and quickly. Leaders made the plan, deputies put it into action, and useful goods were offered to those who might object.
This has sometimes produced fast results. But it also caused problems:
- Other worlds felt they had not been consulted.
- Gifts were sometimes seen as attempts to buy loyalty.
- Your world’s confidence was interpreted as aggression.
- The old regime’s actions made it difficult for others to trust your world’s intentions.
- Skilled inventors and builders.
- A clear leadership structure: leader, deputies and citizens.
- The ability to make decisions quickly.
- Materials, tools and useful goods that could be offered to others.
- A strong desire to innovate and move forward.
