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<li class="done4"> <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="done4"> <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="done4"> <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="done4"> <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"> <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="done3"> <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="done3"> <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>“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 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>The booth in the corner is where the sim diverged from the one she had known so well back on the net. Where those at the Crown had been high-walled, 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>“So.” She bit the cherry off the stem and chewed thoughtfully, the fruit sweet enough to make her sinuses burn. “Have you read Yared’s recent post?”</p>
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<p>He nodded.</p>
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<p>“Thoughts?”</p>
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<p>“It’s well enough written. He’s good at picking three points and tackling them. He’s been focusing more on questions of government.”</p>
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<p>“It’s written well enough. He’s good at picking three points and tackling them. He’s been focusing more on questions of government.”</p>
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<p>“And have you read between the lines?”</p>
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<p>His face split into a grin. “I believe so.”</p>
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<p>“And?”</p>
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<p>“I most definitely do.” He sipped at his drink and leaned back against the back of the booth. “Secession isn’t something that I’d considered with any seriousness before. Then again, it didn’t really feel like it’d be necessary until all of this talk about rights, and even then, it didn’t even feel worth considering from a feasibility standpoint until the L<sub>5</sub> team offered to bring the System with.”</p>
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<p>“Agreed, yes. I am happy to see that our friend has some subtlety.”</p>
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<p>“It wasn’t <em>that</em> subtle.”</p>
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<p>“Well, no, but he at least refrained from mentioning secession nor making any direct suggestions as to our independence from the S-R Bloc or dual citizenship. That must count for something.”</p>
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<p>“Well, no, but he at least refrained from mentioning secession or making any direct suggestions as to our independence from the S-R Bloc or dual citizenship. That must count for something.”</p>
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<p>“Of course. Though it does have me wondering. Do you think he’s acting on his own volition?”</p>
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<p>True Name tilted her head. “Are you suggesting that he is a front for some larger player?”</p>
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<p>Jonas shrugged, finishing off his drink in one smooth swallow before setting the glass back down on the table. “Nothing so grand. I’m just wondering if he’s being influenced by someone.”</p>
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<p>“What makes you say that?”</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 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>“No, no,” he laughed, holding up his hands. “Just that, taking this new info into account, when I look back at the recent 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 certainly from the standpoint 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>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>“I do too, since you brought it up. Do you have any hunches on who it might be?”</p>
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<p>“He’s NEAC, right? Probably one of his own council-members. No one too high up, but someone high enough that they can read the situation better. Likely someone from the ruling coalition, but not the head of the council. Probably a more senior position, too. The grandfatherly type, or at least avuncular.”</p>
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<p>True Name laughed. “Really?”</p>
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<p>“Really. They’re always the sly types you need to watch out for. Nothing they say is not a coldly calculated maneuver to get you to agree with them, and to love you for it.” He shook his head. “Even their wives — and they’re almost always men — are probably married to them only because they told them that they loved them in <em>just</em> the right tone of voice to get them to say yes.”</p>
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<p>“Really. They’re always the sly types you need to watch out for. Nothing they say is not a coldly calculated maneuver to get you to agree with them.” He shook his head. “Even their wives — and they’re almost always men — are probably married to them only because they told them that they loved them in <em>just</em> the right tone of voice to get them to say yes.”</p>
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<p>“Manipulative shitheads.”</p>
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<p>Jonas laughed. “Very. Probably Demma, or maybe Bahrey. Both fit the bill. They’ll have all the plausible deniability in the world, too. Some underling did the actual work, while they sit back and get whatever it is that they want.”</p>
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<p>“So, tell me, o great political teacher, how do we find out which without asking?”</p>
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<p>“So, tell me, O great political teacher, how do we find out which without asking?”</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>“Right. I was thinking we would ask him what government types are thinking about the launch, if anyone has 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,” Jonas said. “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 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>Ar Jonas disappeared from beside her and, with a blink, reappeared. “Merged with Prime,” he explained. “I’ll leave you two to talk.”</p>
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<p>He and the other Jonas left to go pick up where the work had been left off in the office, leaving Jonas Prime to guide her to the sofa.</p>
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<p>“How often do you show up at council as Prime?” she asked, once they were seated.</p>
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<p>“Used to be every time,” he said. “Then one day, I nearly missed it and was in the middle of a…discussion, so I sent Ar. I was nervous that someone would see through it, but no one did. I tried to keep going myself for a while, but after there were no repercussions, I gave up on it, and alternate between the other six.”</p>
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<p>“Used to be every time,” he said. “Then one day, I nearly missed it as I was in the middle of a…discussion, so I sent Ar. I was nervous that someone would see through it, but no one did. I tried to keep going myself for a while, but after there were no repercussions, I gave up on it, and alternate between the other six.”</p>
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<p>“Six?”</p>
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<p>“Of course. Ar, Ku, and Re, as I mentioned, and now Ir, who forked from Ar and looks nothing like me, so he’s got more latitude.”</p>
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<p>“And the other two?”</p>
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<p>“Why would I tell you everything?” He laughed. “They’re my instances, doing the things that I do, which should be enough.”</p>
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<p>“Fair enough. You have already told me more than you probably should have.”</p>
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<p>“As the must. You have already told me more than you probably should have.”</p>
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<p>“I trust you’ll keep quiet about it.”</p>
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<p>True Name grinned, putting her finger to her snout in the universal hush sign. “It is a neat enough trick. I think that the Ode clade already differs too much to send one of them in my place, so perhaps not for me.”</p>
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<p>“It’s up to you, yeah.” Jonas sat back against the couch, one arm draped casually along the back. “I honestly was surprised when no one noticed my reputation drop, but then I figured out that most people just look at the clade’s reputation, rather than the instances. I have a feeling that’ll change eventually, but for now, no one seems to pay all that much attention.”</p>
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<p>The skunk frowned, and browsed the markets — something that felt more akin to remembering what the stats were, rather than looking anything up — and saw that, while she had less reputation than Michelle had before she forked, the clade had a good bit more, likely from what each of them were doing to build reputation. Jonas naming his clade after himself was a fairly savvy move, in the end. ‘Ode’ having no direct ties to Michelle it seem like something unrelated.</p>
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<p>The skunk frowned, browsed the markets — something that felt more akin to remembering what the stats were, rather than looking anything up — and saw that, while she had less reputation than Michelle had before she forked, the clade had a good bit more, likely from what each of them were doing to build reputation. Jonas naming his clade after himself was a fairly savvy move, in the end. ‘Ode’ having no direct ties to Michelle it seem like something unrelated.</p>
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<p><em>Ah well. I am still happy to have done it,</em> she thought. <em>And perhaps we will find our own way to build reputation that does not involve a constant game of make believe.</em></p>
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<p>“Thank you again for your trust, Jonas,” she said, standing. Neither the booth nor the couch had been all that kind on her tail. “I am going to go do some digging in the recent news from the NEAC and wait for our dear Yared to get in touch with us again.”</p>
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<p>He nodded up to her. “Alright. I’ll be in touch, I’m sure.”</p>
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<p>He laughed and waved her away.</p>
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