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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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[And, adding on:]

Also, stop fucking acting like we're not on your side. Okay? I'm obligated to look out for you, and Small is just a good fucking person who's been working her fingers to the bone to protect the lot of you - a task which you all make very difficult.

[Which...actually seems like a decent tack for getting Cutter to calm the hell down, now that Sonya thinks about it. So she takes a step forward and indicates Ros' face with a wave of her hand.]

You see this? You see how wrecked she looks, Cutter? You see how tired she is? And you seriously want to go about making things worse for her?

That's not -

[ That's not the point, but if Sonya wants to make it the point she can. She sighs, glances away. ]

It's my job.

[Wrong tack. If anything it puts his hackles up farther.]

Where in that post did I say jack shit about Small or her people not pulling their weight? I know she's -- I know you're a good person and don't think I'm not sorry for collateral damage. [That much is sincere enough. He likes Roslyn actually and god knows he's kept her running for the past week and a half.]

--But don't pretend like you two are the only ones in the firing line either because that's all of us. This whole bloody base is!

[Her look is sharp and contemptuous.]

Was there anything in what I said that indicated I was saying that we were the only two exposed? I am just asking you to stop being a massive shitlord for one fucking day so that she can get a full night's sleep.

Maybe you ought to do her the same courtesy then! I'm not the one who started shit about Pinkman on the network. I told you about Chloe!

[And if they don't understand what that means, then fuck the pair of them.]

[Harshly:]

Fuck you. I started shit about him so that the girls could get their gifts back.

[And she does relent slightly - ]

And you did help with that, yeah. But this? This is just making everything many times worse.

Oh, so you starting shit for what's supposed to be a good cause is justifiable but no one else doing as much is? Stop acting as if you're the only person in the room with a brain between their ears.

What's done is done, all right? I am here to ask that you not continue to make it worse. You're getting your results, you're getting your discussions elsewhere, keeping on pushing is only going to distract people from the actual progress they were starting to make.

[Charlie opens his mouth - then closes it, clearly not because he's thought better of whatever's on the tip of his tongue so much as he doesn't feel it's worth the effort to say much to either of them.

His tone, when he does speak, is steely and stiff:]

Fine.

[A sour raise of her eyebrows.]

Now, which "fine" is that? Is it the "yes, I agree fine" or is it the "I'm going to pretend to agree and then go behind your back and undermine you fine"?

Oh piss off would you, Karimov?

[Children please.]

Stop fucking me over, would you, Cutter?

[Guess who's not even going to bother with wording a reply to that? THIS GUY! So you're welcome for the world's stoniest glare, Sonya.]

[ Roslyn shakes her head. ]

If you do make things obviously worse or actively threaten anyone, I will revoke tablet privileges.

[ There. Consequences on the table. She's done now, thanks. ]

[Consequences he'll take, if the tip of his head is any indication.]

Fair enough.

[A scowl, and then she shakes her head:]

I agree wholeheartedly.

[She's glad it doesn't look like Charlie is going to ask her to fight that possible punishment; she doesn't want to.]

Then I'm done here. I'll be watching that post closely, Charlie.

[ and with a parting warning look. ] Civility in here, please.

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