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Good morning, Exsilium. Your resident legal experts — Sonya Karimov and myself — are curious about those of you who have leadership experience. In the interest of looking toward a brighter future in which we Transports have a self-governing body, we're asking anyone who formerly held a position of command to answer the following questions.

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i'm good at imagining disasters, so of course.
though writing errors aside, what exactly are our resident legal experts up to that needs a self-governing body of total weirdos?

I'm almost afraid to tell you, because you're going to be slapping yourself for not figuring this out independently. We're up to governance.

and not just feeling incredibly unemployed without a gaggle of politicians to advise?

It can be motivated by more than one thing.

yeah, and it's typically the mysterious unknown motives that get everyone in the end.
so what, are you going to review all these chumps and make yourself a little council?

It's possible. Does that make you nervous, Mr. Silverberg?

not really. if i had to pick a word, wary would be a better fit, though even that requires something to come of this first.

Well, you know that there's only one way to make sure we're on the up-and-up.

if the answer is 'fill out the form and join in the fun', no thanks. i'm much prefer being an independent contractor.

Then you don't have any right to bitch. Man up or shut up.

you're looking into making a government that may effect me whether i like it or not. i'll 'bitch' about it as much as i want, thanks.

Okay, maybe I should make this clearer. No one's gonna hear your bitching if you're some lazy dingleberry who stays at home.

and? if i did show up, would i even be heard over all these kings, queens, commanders, and generals trying to talk over one another?

In a word: yes. In multiple words: yes, you asshole, I'm not organizing a shouting match.

you have experienced government before, right?

[ Not a shouting match. Really? ]

I work for it

and yours isn't a shouting match half the time? because i don't think i'd buy that.

I don't think a lot of shouting would escape my notice

how long has your nation had the government you work for?

Coming up on 300 years, if you're talking system. Six years, if you're talking Governor.

then maybe there's less yelling the older a system is. the republic i'm from isn't even 20 yet.

Exciting. So much potential.

it might go somewhere once all the old farts who preferred an empire die off.
any plans for this group to have open meetings if it gets off the ground?

Yes. With snacks.

with snacks? you know, you should have just mentioned snacks from the start.

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