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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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I'm out of here the moment we're given the opportunity.

Smart lad. Do me a favor and get far, far away before this whole thing goes up like a matchstick, yeah?

I won't be trying to rub off this mutineer title, Charles, don't worry.

You DO know my name's not actually Charles, don't you James? I feel as if this might be important for when you've got to explain what to put on my headstone and/or memorial plaque

[He's not talking about how touched he is that James Bond is loyal to all this lunacy alright. Because there might be tears and that's just embarrassing for everyone involved.]

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And my name isn't Jim but some insist on calling me that. Charles is more refined. Allow it.

[Yeah, tears are just awkward for all involved. Well done in avoiding it.]

Do I really seem like the refined sort to you

[Thanks; he's cleverer than he looks tyvm.]

You could seem that way, if people started calling you Charles. And perhaps if we found you a good suit.

You know I had a good suit once. I wore it to a party in Versailles and ruined it by fighting on the lawn

Clearly you just haven't found the right material. Or the right tailor.

I've just never been anything but passing fair at the whole 'blood out of clothes' part

I can let you in on a few secrets in that department. Most of which involve buying a dark suit.

Seriously though, how many do you go through in an average year? Must be in the hundreds at least

Not many. Desk work doesn't exactly wear them out beyond the arse of the trousers.

Well that's disappointingly banal

Banal? Charlie, my dear, has Chloe been teaching you new words?

You can't seriously think her vocabulary is better than mine

[EXCUSE YOU, JAMES. ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY READS BOOKS AND IT IS NOT CHLOE.]

I don't pay much attention to a woman's vocabulary, if I'm honest.

[Too busy with tits.]

What why on earth not? Reading women are something like ten times better in bed on average you know

[Did he just make up that statistic? Possibly. But the logic is sound.]

So are acrobats.

[Point: Bond.]

Touche

I imagine Chloe's rather flexible.

Piss off, James

Come on, Charles. I'm locked in a room with attractive women and no hope of rampant sex. I need a few fantasies. Allow me that.

And the two other attractive women you're locked up with aren't enough for you? No need to be greedy, James

Seems in poor taste to fantasise about a woman laying in the bed nearby.

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