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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/phys/Douglas/003.html">Launch: phys-side: Douglas</a> - Douglas answers May’s questions - 3489</li>
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<li class="done2"> Part II - Progression<ul>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/sys/Ioan/003.html">Launch: sys-side: Ioan</a> - Ioan(s) and May start to parcel out work, but get off topic onto feelings. - 2644</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/003.html">Secession: phys-side: Yared</a> - first change from Yosef, talking with True Name and Jonas - 2791</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/sys/True-Name/001.html">Secession: sys-side: True Name</a> - brings news of the bill to Council of Eight, discuss speciation - 1833</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/001.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux</a> - Codrin#Pollux interviews Dear about why it actually uploaded - 1767</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-castor/002.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor</a> - Codrin#Castor writes eir thoughts on why Dear may have uploaded (showing divergences). - 3488</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/phys/Douglas/004.html">Launch: phys-side: Douglas</a> - May had responded immediately, ofc, but asked about life on earth (hinting she uploaded ~time of Michelle), reminisces about childhood - 4738</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/sys/Ioan/004.html">Launch: sys-side: Ioan</a> - Ioan interviews May about why she stayed behind, date of upload, thoughts on not telling Douglas re: herself as Michelle - 2725</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/004.html">Secession: phys-side: Yared</a> - another change from Yosef, Yared starts to actually kind of believe that this is a good idea, considers L5 option - 2196</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/002.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux</a> - Makes up with Dear, who gives suggestions on some names to interview and how to go about them - 1373</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/sys/True-Name/002.html">Secession: sys-side: True Name</a> - Meets with Jonas to discuss latest post from Yared, picking up on secession undertones, Jonas admits to own clade standing in for him (explain that reputation doesn’t exactly go down, but is spread among instances (changed later)). - 2587</li>
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<li class="done3"> Part II - Progression<ul>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/sys/Ioan/003.html">Launch: sys-side: Ioan</a> - Ioan(s) and May start to parcel out work, but get off topic onto feelings. - 2644</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/003.html">Secession: phys-side: Yared</a> - first change from Yosef, talking with True Name and Jonas - 2791</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="secession/sys/True-Name/001.html">Secession: sys-side: True Name</a> - brings news of the bill to Council of Eight, discuss speciation - 1833</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/001.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux</a> - Codrin#Pollux interviews Dear about why it actually uploaded - 1767</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-castor/002.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor</a> - Codrin#Castor writes eir thoughts on why Dear may have uploaded (showing divergences). - 3488</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/phys/Douglas/004.html">Launch: phys-side: Douglas</a> - May had responded immediately, ofc, but asked about life on earth (hinting she uploaded ~time of Michelle), reminisces about childhood - 4738</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/sys/Ioan/004.html">Launch: sys-side: Ioan</a> - Ioan interviews May about why she stayed behind, date of upload, thoughts on not telling Douglas re: herself as Michelle - 2725</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/004.html">Secession: phys-side: Yared</a> - another change from Yosef, Yared starts to actually kind of believe that this is a good idea, considers L5 option - 2196</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/002.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux</a> - Makes up with Dear, who gives suggestions on some names to interview and how to go about them - 1373</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="secession/sys/True-Name/002.html">Secession: sys-side: True Name</a> - Meets with Jonas to discuss latest post from Yared, picking up on secession undertones, Jonas admits to own clade standing in for him (explain that reputation doesn’t exactly go down, but is spread among instances (changed later)). - 2587</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/phys/Douglas/005.html">Launch: phys-side: Douglas</a> - Douglas walks the station, processing news of Michelle’s death, then talks with May - 3969</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-castor/003.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor</a> - Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending back to editor sys-side, who is compiling them; mentions as postscript for Ioan only that given what ey learned about early clade, should maybe pass on communications between LVs encrypted - 2963</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/sys/Michelle/003.html">Secession: sys-side: Michelle</a> - Debarre meets with Michelle to talk about AwDae, Ode Clade, losing control of herself, why keep the name secret (AwDae wasn’t supposed to defect to S-R Bloc, even if ey helped form the System - total lie, though), reiterates promise that her new clade won’t overtake the Council of Eight - 1754 - Expand?</li>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-10-12</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-10-13</p>
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<h1 id="true-name-2124">True Name — 2124</h1>
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<p>The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream met with Jonas at a sim of her choosing. They had tacitly agreed that they would switch sims every time they met, if possible, and alternate who chose which. It followed the general outline of how the council met, but, being just the two of them and learning where they would meet only minutes prior meant even less of a chance of being found out.</p>
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<p>Found out from what, True Name had not yet divined. Perhaps it was just a good habit.</p>
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<p>She felt constantly aware of who was around her. It was not in the sense that she was being watched, though she certainly entertained that idea. It wasn’t that she and Jonas might be discovered as members of the council and accosted. Nor was it that they were doing anything untoward. They were just getting together to do their jobs and do them to their full abilities.</p>
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<p>Found out from what or by whom, True Name had not yet divined. Perhaps it was just a good habit.</p>
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<p>She felt constantly aware of who was around her. Not in the sense that she was being watched, though she certainly entertained that idea. It wasn’t that she and Jonas might be discovered as members of the council and accosted. Nor was it that they were doing anything untoward. They were just getting together to do their jobs and do them to their full abilities.</p>
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<p>Perhaps it had something to do with lingering anxiety left over from Michelle. Perhaps it was due to the tenuousness of her position on the council — not that they doubted her as a fork of Michelle, but she did sense some hesitancy surrounding allowing forked instances to sit while the root instance did not.</p>
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<p><em>Maybe I have drifted too far,</em> she often found herself thinking. <em>Maybe I am no longer Michelle enough to see things in the same way.</em></p>
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<p>So, she remained vigilant, regardless of whether or not she knew why, and kept as much as she could above-board with the council. Always at the forefront of her mind, she held her goal of ensuring the continuity of existence and continuity of growth of the system.</p>
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<p>So, she remained vigilant, regardless of whether or not she knew why, and kept as much as she could above-board with the council. Always at the forefront of her mind, she held her goal of ensuring the continuity of existence and continuity of growth of the system. That’s what this all boiled down to, right?</p>
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<p>Today, they met at a place of her choosing, and she had chosen the closest thing that she could find to the Crown Pub of old: a well-aged, British-style pub, complete with a few high-topped tables and the types of small beer that she had never quite grown to love, yet drank all the same.</p>
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<p>Jonas blinked into the sim outside, so she was first alerted to his presence by a quiet ding from the bell above the door. She watched him step inside and look around with an appraising glance before spotting her and joining her at the two-top.</p>
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<p>“Nice place. How’s the beer?”</p>
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<p>“Better than clams frozen in ice cubes?”</p>
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<p>She laughed. “Much. Want to get a drink and find a booth?”</p>
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<p>“Sure. You find the booth, I’ll get the drink, then we can talk.”</p>
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<p>The booth in the corner is where the sim diverged from the one she knew so well back on the net. Where those had been high-walled, with wood dividers reaching up to the ceiling even after the cushioned backs ended, these were low-backed and reminded her more of the types of padded benches one might find on the bus or train.</p>
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<p>The booth in the corner is where the sim diverged from the one she had known so well back on the net. Where those had been high-walled, with wood dividers reaching up to the ceiling even after the cushioned backs ended, these were low-backed and reminded her more of the types of padded benches one might find on the bus or train.</p>
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<p><em>Ah well, they cannot all be perfect.</em></p>
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<p>She waited until Jonas sat and she ribbed him good-naturedly about this choice of a fruity vodka drink before setting up the cone of silence.</p>
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<p>“So,” he said, offering her the neon-pink cherry out of his drink.</p>
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<p>“The way the topics of his posts are drifting. It’s not that one doesn’t follow another, so much as there seems to be a trajectory in mind, with each getting closer to a specific goal.”</p>
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<p>She frowned. “Are you saying you have seen this coming?”</p>
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<p>“No, no,” he laughed, holding up his hands. “Just that, taking this new info into account, when I look back at the last few posts, I’m seeing a small pattern.”</p>
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<p>She drank in silence as she digested this. Yared seemed like an honest and earnest supporter, though perhaps something of a DDR junkie. He also seemed like a nobody. A nobody who was a reasonably good writer and loud on the ‘net.</p>
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<p>She drank in silence as she digested this. Yared seemed like an honest and earnest supporter, though certainly a DDR junkie. He also seemed like a nobody. A nobody who was a reasonably good writer and loud on the ‘net.</p>
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<p>That combination probably made him a fairly attractive target to influence.</p>
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<p>“Had you known this was coming,” she began, lifting Jonas out of his own reverie. “What would you have thought? What would you have done?”</p>
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<p>He raised his empty glass to her. “An astute question! I’ll make a politician out of you yet.”</p>
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<p>“Bring up something about the bill and pretend to be disheartened by it or like we don’t understand it, ask him who would be the one to address it, now that it’s reached their ears.”</p>
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<p>“Right. I was thinking we’d ask him what government types are thinking about the launch, if anyone’s been pushing against it or for it, who seems neutral, and then ask for names under the guise of doing research, see who he names first.”</p>
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<p>“There you go. You’ll run the risk of maybe getting more names than you were hoping for, but chances are, the first one that’ll come to his mind is whoever’s driving him.”</p>
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<p>True Name smiled, sipping at the last of her warm, flat beer. She was pleased at just how much trust she was building with Jonas. Ask the questions you already know the answers to, look like you’re thinking, then suggest something that’s almost but not quite right.</p>
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<p>True Name smiled, sipping the last of her warm, flat beer. She was pleased at just how much trust she was building with Jonas. Ask the questions you already know the answers to, look like you’re thinking, then suggest something that’s almost but not quite right.</p>
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<p>She was nothing if not an actor.</p>
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<p>“This secession angle, though. Do you think that would be worth pushing towards?” she asked.</p>
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<p>“I’d like to steer a little closer to it, first, just to see what that’d look like. It’ll require the launch amendment to pass, as I don’t think System hardware can remain on Earth without someone getting upset at whoever’s land it sits on. Once that’s sorted out, though, and we have a better idea of what a seceded System will look like, I say we push hard.”</p>
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<p>True Name nodded. “There is no reason not to. If the System is to remain beholden to existing government influences, it will always be at risk of reinterpretation of those laws. We are uniquely positioned to be almost entirely impossible to invade as a sovereign kingdom, and we have enough support that there is low risk that we will be simply turned off. Too many people want to join. Too many still see utility for us. Too many dreamers.”</p>
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<p>“I’d like to steer a little closer to it, first, just to see what that’d look like. It’ll require the launch amendment to pass, as I don’t think System hardware can remain on Earth without someone getting upset at whoever’s land it sits on. Once that’s sorted out, though, and we have a better idea of what an independent System will look like, I say we push hard.”</p>
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<p>True Name nodded. “It sounds like there is no reason not to. If the System is to remain beholden to existing government influences, it will always be at risk of reinterpretation of those laws. We are uniquely positioned to be almost entirely impossible to invade as a sovereign kingdom, and we have enough support that there is low risk that we will be simply turned off. Too many people want to join. Too many still see utility for us. Too many dreamers.”</p>
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<p>“Listen to you, my dear!” Jonas laughed. “You sound like a dreamer, yourself.”</p>
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<p>“Perhaps.” She grinned. “But also someone willing to devote myself — several of me — to getting what I want.”</p>
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<p>“Speaking of, what are the rest of you doing?”</p>
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<p>“You and your names. What sorts of things are you making?”</p>
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<p>“Writing. Performances. Friends.”</p>
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<p>“Hobbies?”</p>
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<p>She nodded, tapping absentmindedly at the rim of her glass with a claw. “Minus the friends part, yes. I was a theater teacher, phys-side. Need to have fun somehow.” She could feel the conversation drifting into small-talk territory, and she wasn’t yet ready to lose Jonas’s attention. “You have your forks already, do you not? What are they working on?”</p>
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<p>She nodded, tapping absentmindedly at the rim of her glass with a claw. “Minus the friends part, yes. I was a theatre teacher, phys-side. Need to have fun somehow.” She could feel the conversation drifting into small-talk territory, and she wasn’t yet ready to lose Jonas’s attention. “You have your forks already, do you not? What are they working on?”</p>
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<p>Jonas sat up, then slid out of the booth. “Come on, I’ll show you.”</p>
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<p>True Name set her empty glass aside and slid out to follow him.</p>
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<p>The next sim they traveled to was an apartment. Something high up, somewhere over a city she didn’t recognize. It was well furnished and quite spacious, but could hardly be called upscale.</p>
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<p>He laughed and waved her away.</p>
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