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[ Roslyn is behind the camera again, face stern, Vennett & Lowell seated just behind her. She’s looking as calm and professional as she can, though traces of exhaustion are seeping through regardless of her best efforts. ]

I’m going to make this as brief as possible. We do not have laws governing the actions undertaken recently by people currently in custody. While hopefully there will shortly be a fuller code of conduct, we cannot apply it retroactively. I do not have the resources to keep anyone locked up indefinitely, nor can I provide a fair trial, and it would be morally suspect to do either in the current environment.

I believe there is a solution to this, one that several others agree with, including Lowell Orwin and Vennett here with me, both of whom were held hostage by these people and have a fair amount of insight into their mindset. However, given that you will all have to live with it as well, I’m going to bring this solution to general consensus.

Under this arrangement, as a first part all current prisoners will be released into the custody of someone who will agree to monitor their actions and ensure that they are not able to plan anything further. These parole officers will either be volunteers from the general population or police officers if necessary, and all will be very carefully vetted. If it is necessary we will ask them to submit to a brief telepathic scan.

The second part of this arrangement would be undertaking a set amount of missions under the supervision of Orwin and Vennett with the goal of putting forth effort into our return to Earth. I am assured that they will be doing real work that will benefit us all.

This is the solution that I and others hope will work best for everyone involved, as well as free up resources to continue working towards getting off of this base and setting up an actual system of leadership.

While Jesse Pinkman was not a member of this, as he has given back all powers taken he would be released under the same conditions.

This is being presented to you all as, essentially, a poll. That is the first option. The second option is ‘other’, and if that is your answer I must insist you provide a fully thought through and careful plan that does not simply consist of ‘strand them somewhere’ or ‘airlock them’. Should enough support be shown for a provided 'other' plan over parole, it will be considered as an option.

Thank you all for your time. I hope this will be resolved very shortly.

[ And cut. ]

Poll #14659 solving the jail problem

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Parole as outlined above
36 (90.0%)

Other (must provide clear plan below)
4 (10.0%)

[ ooc: this is an ic poll of the population! you may vote once with each character you have in game. roslyn and others are available for question answering and so forth. ]

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Hold up, who said things about dismembering?

attachment.

Well, no wonder I overlooked it. I think reading that shit actually caused me physical pain. That sort of threat is bullshit, and nothing like that would ever, ever fly. That right there is a psycho, not someone representative of any reasonable thought. You want him to be talked to?

yeah it took me a minute and i know it's bullshit. i've had a real lynch mob after me before, he's just an asshole. but we disagreed in public, and the next thing that happened was a threat. the mutineers disagreed and now they need bodyguards.

You think these are bodyguards?

bodyguards, babysitters. both of the above.

[You're brighter than most seventeen-year-olds, Peter.]

Well, I think step one to toning down the general atmosphere of "clench-jawed crazy" is probably getting off the moon. The claustrophobia has gotten to people, I suspect.

[in fairness, he bought a clue from ros. this is not the type of kid who assumes the law is there to help anyone like him or that the public is doing anything but waiting for a reason to tear into somebody who isn't like them.]

probably. no room to back down or back out, and nobody's got anything better to do than put their nose in everyone else's business.

Yeah. I know the mutineers pretty well now, and I'm pretty certain that the mutiny never would have happened if we weren't up here with nothing to do but get angrier and angrier. And the bullshit blowback, with people screaming for blood, wouldn't have happened if people didn't feel so helpless and trapped.

hope not. it was pretty fucking stupid. bet most people will forget once we hit earth again that it's just a bigger cage.

Ever been anywhere that wasn't a cage in one way or another?

never felt trapped anywhere ever until this past year. when we wanted to go, we went. scenery got boring? something new over the next hill. door started closing? we got the fuck out.

Well, that's just enviable. Anyway. The point is just that (with the occasional exception of a few rich assholes ) we're stuck in bad situations no matter where we are, no matter what point of our lives we're at. We just have to make the best of it. Here, on the moon, we made the worst of it. But there'll be a chance to make that up.

been trying to tell people that for a long time. hope that wasn't you calling me a rich asshole. those fuckers are trapped in their money and their egos and their stuff. we travel light. but i get your point. figured out about ten minutes after i showed up here that there's nowhere to run.

Oh, no. Yeah, sorry - I see how that could be misconstrued. No. You seem like a good kid, not a rich one. Anyway. This might sound a bit too nosey, but bear with me here. What do you want more than anything else?

kinda nosy, yeah.

[although really, it's more that he doesn't know what to say. peter has never really wanted more in his life than to be peter to the fullest of his abilities.]

a world without cages. freedom. the real kind, where nobody owes anybody shit, for better or worse.

That's a dangerous dream, you know. A world of real freedom, where nobody owes anybody shit, is one where people end up starving in the woods.

i know. and you know who's always treated me like shit? people who think i owe them something because of their age or their money or their badge. the people who think they're the 'haves'.

Oh, believe you me, you're not the only one that's true for. But OK. Do you think that this should all just be an anarchy, then? What we have here?

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