While I suspect it'll be an educational experience, I believe that I may not be of much use should anything go poorly.
My key concern is this: is this really the only hub to broadcast information? If I'm there or not, we need to know this if we're going to get the people to turn against their government.
I mean, I'm not going to tell you what to do. If you want to go, I'll go with you, is what I was going to say. But if you think we can afford for you not to be there then I think it would be good for us to keep our numbers down.
And since you're not going, I was going to ask if there was anything you wanted me to look for, on top of what I'd already intended to hunt down. Since last time you came up with a lot of good ideas.
First off, I need you to get in touch with C. Chun (that's her magitek handle). She had a plan with a wifi transmitter to ensure we wouldn't have one-time access to that place. If you can offer backup, it'd help.
Secondly, get your hands on any information you can find and get away with.
And third: don't get caught. From the sounds of it, some of our own are already fugitives. I'd like to keep the numbers down.
I saw that she's got some ideas. I'll ask her what her plans are and if she needs me for anything. I've got a few of my own, but honestly, we're operating on so little information that everything helps.
I think we could do it, but accomplishing that would require, one, that we prioritize solving the issue without bloody coup or public executions, and everyone has to be on the same page with that; and two, everyone actually plans and coordinates with each other on a team-wide scale instead of just throwing out ideas and then chasing them willy-nilly. Right now we're still gathering information, and so I have been less worried about coordination while we poke about. That might come back to bite us already. But pretty soon we'll have to start making moves with Rost. They need to be smart, maximally effective moves.
We should be thinking about what we'll do if we have to wage a hearts-and-minds campaign within the team as well as among the citizens.
And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
We don't have the right to tell them how to do anything.
But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
I think if they do we'll just feel responsible for failing to stop them. They're our team. We're not leaders here, but we're still a part of what happens. We'll be complicit in some way.
We're a team. What happens to the team reflects on the people within the team. Even if no one's fully responsible for the ultimate actions of the team while in the field.
Champions is six, including me. The team of X-Men I'm working with is 7 people plus two people keeping it running/funded and two people serving as teachers/back-up. But there are dozens of X-Men total, we just don't all work all together all the time.
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My key concern is this: is this really the only hub to broadcast information? If I'm there or not, we need to know this if we're going to get the people to turn against their government.
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I mean, I'm not going to tell you what to do. If you want to go, I'll go with you, is what I was going to say. But if you think we can afford for you not to be there then I think it would be good for us to keep our numbers down.
And since you're not going, I was going to ask if there was anything you wanted me to look for, on top of what I'd already intended to hunt down. Since last time you came up with a lot of good ideas.
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Secondly, get your hands on any information you can find and get away with.
And third: don't get caught. From the sounds of it, some of our own are already fugitives. I'd like to keep the numbers down.
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Do you think we'll get through this mission without necessary casualties?
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I think we could do it, but accomplishing that would require, one, that we prioritize solving the issue without bloody coup or public executions, and everyone has to be on the same page with that; and two, everyone actually plans and coordinates with each other on a team-wide scale instead of just throwing out ideas and then chasing them willy-nilly. Right now we're still gathering information, and so I have been less worried about coordination while we poke about. That might come back to bite us already. But pretty soon we'll have to start making moves with Rost. They need to be smart, maximally effective moves.
We should be thinking about what we'll do if we have to wage a hearts-and-minds campaign within the team as well as among the citizens.
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And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
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But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
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I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
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Don't give people the satisfaction of seeing anyone murdered.
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[ Even if Scott isn't so certain it can be done. ]
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I may be here to stop my father. I am here to stop my father. But my father's actions aren't mine.
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How many people?
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That's my point, and you knew it was my point all along.
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