Perfect. We do both and then scrub our hands down with disinfectant, because I bet you could pretty much get smallpox from shaking hands with him. (Also, I'm just imagining having sex...do you think he's cold? EW EW EW I am grossing myself out SO BAD RIGHT NOW.)
And we are +100s; dicks explode with longing when we walk by.
So I Completely Understand The Virtues Of Censorship And The Relatively Short Duration Of Our Acquaintanceship May Not Have Led You To Consider Me A Trustworthy Individual Which Is Absolutely Fine And Maybe Im Asking This For No Reason Because It Is My Understanding That As A Consultant For The Department You Know Saul Goodman And He Has Assured Me He Does Not Know Anybody With A Plan To Get Off The Moon Or Even Run Non-Supply-Oriented Missions If You Are However Actually Aware Of Any Missions That Are Going To Emancipate Us Or End The War Or Anything With A Significant Desirable Effect I Am Begging You To Tell Me Because In The Complete Absence Of Anything Else Productive To Do I Have Been Mobilizing My Peers To End United Earth Chemical Weapon Use Which Hurt Exiles Before And Would Hurt The Other Side To Lose But Isnt Even What Got Us Up Here I Wanted To Reveal The Endeavor To The General Public When It Was Successful Until The Mutiny And Scouting Mission Set Back The Timetable Significantly Should A Bribe Be Necessary To Loosen Your Tongue I Have Some Japanese Money
[just to get that out of the way, she isn't sure if she trusts Kanaya entirely, but right now she's not on any shitlist, so it's a start. And even if it was necessary, it wouldn't have have worked.
anyway:]
there were missions run to improve the power supply up here, but aside from that saul was right, mostly. i've been discussing options with the AI, as have a few other people i know of, but right now we're really all still in the planning/recon stages and don't have anything definite.
someone else and i have been talking about getting together a group of people we trust to run missions with us
Steph, I've tried the "time travel to fix great evil" thing before. And at the end of the day, nothing we did, any sort of meddling with time, overlapping timelines, messages from the future- none of it helped. It just made everything worse, in the end.
[It made him have to shoot Adam in the face.]
We'd be better off trying to stop everything in the here and now.
[STAY CALM MARYAM THIS IS NOT THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LUNAR LIFE OR ANYTHING
NO EXCITED VIBRATING GOING ON OVER HERE NO MA'AM]
Are You Talking About The Series Caesar Silverberg Ran Because I Went To Him For Advice Since It Was The Only Successful Coordination I Had Ever Even Heard About So I Would Be Very Interested In A Group Like That Here Are Some Of The Missions All Of Which I Got From The AI Myself One Hundred Percent Success So Far But We Arent Sure How To Move Forward And Secure A Decisive Result
[She has attached information on thesefour missions]
[Steph he is making shit up as he goes along at this point.]
What kind of raw materials we could get our hands on. Who's been in combat before or knows a damn thing about engineering. What can be cannibalized off whatever we can find in this time period, because I don't feel even remotely comfortable meddling too much with the das't timeline like we might need to. What we can rip off the UE and reverse engineer. Finding out where they're keeping any more nukes. Guerilla warfare, been there, done that, last resort but these are ugly times. Whether or not there are any old allies hiding out there somewhere and whether or not I could talk them into honoring debts and ties from another universe.
[He will not think about coaxing the Cosmic Cube back into use.]
that's the one, i was part of the final stages in making that work
[Not that it was very hard; it took a few hours and then she fucked off to get a burger and the next part of her tattoo done, but you know.]
what we'd be looking at is reconnaisance and gathering information at key points during the development of the united earth, to find the right time/place to make changes. personally i'm going to look into the development of cloning, but that's still in the planning stages.
your own missions look like they were well done. to get a decisive result i think you'd need something dramatic to ensure public opinion remains completely against chemical weaponry, or to offer a viable alternative to it.
i wouldn't count on finding allies from your own universe.
but there's gotta be a resistance force in the UE, right? someone helps get the exiles into the city, maybe we could try to make contact with them?
and i think whether we do it in the past or the present, focusing on the masked or the AI are our best bet. just as somewhere to start with that guerilla warfare.
[Doing other shit after the mission is done: A moonbase tradition]
Oh Congratulations In Your Service For That Purpose Then
An Alternative To Chemical Weapons Would Still Be A Weapon And Require Technical Expertise I Havent Been Able To Secure Personally Or By Proxy So The Option Of A Dramatic Public Event Would Probably Be The Superior One I Think With That In Mind I Will Start Scouring The Records For An Appropriate Opportunity
On Cloning I Take It You Have Been Working With The Blue Beetle Then He Seems To Have A Good Professional Approach So Far I Look Forward To His Missions Taking Shape
I Feel Like It Is Necessary To Acknowledge Our Successes When They Do Occur Lest We Let Dissidents Pretend That No Progress Is Being Made At All And The Rumors Of Idleness Become Reality
that right there is the only reason i think we need to be public about this stuff, but we can make people aware of our successes without divulging too much information
While Issues Like The Cloning And AI Seem Sufficiently Sensitive To Merit A Degree Of Secrecy I Do See The Merit In Making Public Low-Priority Non-Supply Missions Because Otherwise Transports Get Hung Up On Supplies As The Definition Of Mission Very Easily And Do Not Know How To Find Alternatives The Fraction Of Active Mission-goers Is Smaller Than It Has To Be
no matter what we find down in exsilium, i think it's pretty clear that fucking around in the past has even bigger consequences than we realized. if we're encouraging people to go on missions i'd want to make sure we're encouraging the right people
I DON'T KNOW. I don't know whether it was just an I'm-in-love-from-a-distance situation or a lip-lock situation, but the possibility of the latter has been HAUNTING ME.
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