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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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Okay, I have a question.

If there's no organized anything, why'd you have to go and take it over? Because it sounds to me like you want the organized everything to have a very specific set of leaders.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's stupid to think anyone has any power over anyone else without a system in place. You should be let go. But the things you said here are just going to worsen it, while some people are discussing and trying to figure this out. Governments aren't built overnight, nor are systems that we can all agree to. That's something I've been made to understand since my own little ill-advised rant.

At no point have I or any other "mutineer" expressed interest in running this train wreck so I haven't the slightest clue as to who it is that you think that I want leading people. But please give me a short list and I'll be happy to see if I can work that in to make me sound even more villainous

The lockdown was meant to galvanize the transport community into action to take leadership roles - to make people realize that cooling our heels on the moon while millions of people were turned to ash was as much ours and the Initiative's responsibility as it was anything the UE chose to do. To underline the lack of a consistent set of community goals and how bloody ineffective we are as individuals trying to shout into the abyss. At no point were our demands 'Put me personally in charge', they were simply 'allow us to sit at the table so we can be sure this never happens again'

No. Governments aren't built in a day; but they clearly ought to be built or we are all going to die in this war. The number of people telling me that locking a few doors over the weekend was tantamount to terrorism because it left us in a "vulnerable" position should probably consider what wasting time with inaction means

I'm extrapolating from intent, because if you really cared about everyone here, you could've just gone and made an actually rousing speech instead of threatening our livelihood. I don't like this much, but you're the ones who thought you were self-important enough to change it for everyone.

And you know, underlining all of that stuff is important, but the way you did it? Not great. I don't disagree with any of that, but complaining about being locked up because you maybe did it a very poorly planned way is kind of a bad move. Unless this is just you trying to galvanize us again into action. It's not working. Trust me, I know bad plans. I'm sometimes the king of bad plans.

I've really got one question. Did you guys try anything else? Any other kind of movements? I know some people have gotten hurt and people keep getting hurt, but this isn't exactly the type of thing that those logs would keep. Has anyone tried to change things before you decided to act like this was the worst move possible? Because I'm with you. Leaving a bunch of people to die was a bad move, especially when you toss in time travel as your own haphazard solution for things. (Hint: they should've tried elsewhere, but the UE's efforts don't make much sense to me, either.) I'm with all of that, but what I don't get is why shutting down a precarious, unsafe base was a good idea. Because that's something your people were aware of. I'm just not connecting a lot of dots in any arena, you know?

How long have you been here?

A month, and before you say it, yes, I do have a problem with kind of throwing myself into the fray without thinking.

Then I recommend reading through the network database if you haven't already. I'm not saying you haven't. You're clearly not stupid. But I've been here for over a year and I've been to more community meetings and gone on more missions than I have fingers and toes, alright? Inspiring speeches and calls to action don't do shit and any time we transports can shirk responsibility for terrible things on anyone but ourselves, we do it. It's the UE's fault. It's the Initiative's fault. It's the bloody Exiles' fault

I'm well tired of being a pawn and that means taking some responsibility for something, do you understand me? As far as I know, it's been well over two years since the first Transports came here. Yet here we are with no social infrastructure to support us either from within or without. That's a failing army right there, mate

Where do I start?

[Because as far as he can see, there's a lot. And he's willing to read all of it, but given the open communication and the fact that these discussions get heated, he figures he'd be here for a while.]

[It's a damn good thing he's got some time on his hands, because digging through a year of network archives to find anything of relevance isn't exactly easy - and maybe that's more damning than anything else.]

Try here and here for starters. I can't find the records, but you may want to ask Small about the last time Jesse Pinkman was tried for murder and how flawlessly that went. Keep in mind that was when the police force and court proceedings were still operating as a subsidiary of Exsilium law and that we have, if anything, regressed from there

You might notice that these are the same conversations we've been having these last two weeks, except now we don't have the Initiative to lean on to tell us what to do

What the hell, let's throw this one in here as well - just for a succinct record in how transports that threaten the safety of the community tend to be dealt with

[Peter opens them up to look at them, but he decides he should probably say something back first.]

All right, I'll have a look at them.

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