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ATTENTION TRANSPORT COMMUNITY:

Hullo there from your neighborhood detainee! I realize a number of you may have forgotten about us in the past week, but we remain cheerfully under lock up in the West Wing where we've sat for going on eleven days awaiting you lot to get your shit together so we can get this nonsense sorted. Now some of you may be unaware under what terms we agreed entered holding. In the interest of full disclosure, I shall outline those here:

1. We were to be granted protection from the general transport population until justice could be served.

2. We were to receive a fair trial and face whatever sentencing the transport population deemed fit despite the overwhelming lack of civil structures to support fair sentencing.

Despite CI Small and the Transport Police Force's valiant efforts, these terms have not been met over the past eleven days. Members of our group, supposedly under the protection of the police force, have been assaulted. There has been very little communication to us about any forthcoming trial; we have been assigned a lawyer and promised that we won't rot, but all evidence (network postings and otherwise) points to the contrary.

Very few of you know me personally, but I can tell you right now that I'm not the most patient sort you'll ever meet. As of this moment, we are being held here entirely under good faith. But allow me to make this infinitely clear:

You have no code of conduct or system of law.
You have nothing to charge us with.
You have no jurisdiction to hold us now, much less indefinitely.

And as of right now, I'm feeling a lot more vulnerable in a small room than I am protected. The personal benefits of me waiting here while you sort out a system of rules that we can be grandfathered in to breaking are beginning to look very bare indeed.

So as of now you have one week from today to figure out how you plan to deliver us a fair trial (as I think none of us would be content to see this brushed under the rug). If December 6th comes and goes, I'll be petitioning CI Small to release any of us who agree to absolve her and the transport police force of any responsibility for bodily harm rendered to our persons that might occur when released into the general population (given that many of you are apparently eager for our blood, though none but our own was spilled over the course of the base's lock down). If you'd like to do something about this, I'd recommend putting your heads together and getting it sorted sooner rather than later. Holding us here like animals when we've technically broken no laws and done nothing to set back the war effort - made infinitely clear by the AI's latest transmissions - while you run round going on about betrayal and what-if's is irresponsible at worst and unethical at best.

Warmest Regards,
C.C.

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[ In a subdued, slightly tired voice: ]

Hey, I think we'd all like to get this sorted fairly and soon. Everybody might deserve a fair trial, but -- word of advice -- you still don't wanna piss off the jury. Well... any more. Especially if everyone's got a vote on whatever code of conduct.

[ He's taking notes for at least a draft of a draft for one in his own post, but. ]

Well, just a suggestion.

I'm tired of suggestions. I'd much rather see someone do something one way or the other

Well, I don't blame you. If I was in your position I'd be impatient as hell -- I just got here and this place's enough of a cage without bein' stuck in an even smaller one -- but part of the problem isn't just getting the thing written. Got to make sure it's fair, got to make sure people agree with it and that they're not written just to crucify a single person.

Takes time to do it right is what I mean, so don't be in any hurry to hang yourself. [ He pauses. ] ... Not literally.

And I'm not asking to do anything overnight or get the whole bloody thing hammered out in a week. Consider it asking for a show of good faith. At the moment I don't see any indication that these conversations about 'we need laws' is anything near on the track of actually enacting shit

You say you just got here, so maybe you're not aware of it but we have a habit of talking a lot and then doing nothing valuable with discussion. All labor, no fruit

Hm. All these people around, I'm not surprised. It's almost impossible to get anyone's attention long enough to even start getting organized -- seems like. I'd say I'm on it! but I'm just one guy. Not in a great position to make promises.

What would you want, someone coming down to your cell with status updates? Outlines? Names?

[ A sincere enough question, exhaustion aside. ]

Transparency. Don't tell me, tell everyone. Half the problem we've been having here is people not sharing their information and people working in secret. No one is aware of what anyone else is doing so whether or not there are people working to fix things, the general community clearly isn't aware of it enough to feel like anything's being done. The Exile diaries, the insistence that the UE Rover was taken care of - no one knew any of that shit until it was too late. Until the information was just a bargaining chip instead of anything of real value

For fuck's sake, we're in a bloody war. But we're not generals and soldiers, we're all the same rank here. If we're not sharing intelligence with one another, then what's the point of any of it?

[ It's so hard to keep the level of agreement out of his voice, but by god an effort is made. ]

That's right. Right. [ He pauses, pulling it back a little. ] Same rank and same side, supposedly, never mind all this mutiny shit. It's just shooting wild or at ourselves if everyone refuses to work together, that's--

Transparency's a conversation starter. I'll do that.

Glad to hear it. Best luck, mate

[Which may come off as sardonic through text, but he means it genuinely: Christ knows he can't sort this shit from the inside.]

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