update from sparkleup

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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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t overtake the Council of Eight - 1754 - Expand?</li>
 <li class="done2"> <a href="launch/sys/Ioan/005.html">Launch: sys-side: Ioan</a> - Musician who set up transmission of music between sys/phys, gets #Castor&rsquo;s note, discusses with May - 1740 - Expand?</li>
 <li class="done2"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/003.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux</a> - interviews Zeke/Ezekiel, who has gone a bit sideways, now a prophet, having a hard time reconciling two launches/diverging futures, points Codrin towards True Name as something sinister - 2212 - Expand?</li>
-<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/005.html">Secession: phys-side; Yared</a> - discusses secession with True Name/Jonas despite the fact that he isn&rsquo;t supposed to, gets help drafting the post with suggested changes from Demma - 2813</li>
+<li class="done2"> <a href="secession/phys/Yared/005.html">Secession: phys-side; Yared</a> - discusses secession with True Name/Jonas despite the fact that he isn&rsquo;t supposed to, gets help drafting the post with suggested changes from Demma - 2852</li>
 <li class="done0"> <a href="launch/launch/Codrin-castor/004.html">Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Castor</a> - Distracted, interviews depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he&rsquo;ll ever get, but studies all the same through text, learn more about Dreamer Module (phys-side idea that got past resistance sys-side, implied Jonas/True Name)</li>
 <li class="done0"> <a href="launch/phys/Douglas/006.html">Launch: phys-side: Douglas</a> - Talks with May about launch-era political machinations from phys-side</li>
 <li class="done0"> <a href="secession/sys/True-Name/003.html">Secession: sys-side: True Name</a> - Starts to think of phys/sys dichotomy in political terms, forks on the sly (only Jonas knows), so that forks can handle both, leaving her as figurehead who appears to know all</li>

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 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> This is quite true, my dear wag. They can&rsquo;t vote. They have no say in our political affairs out here, and we technically have no say in theirs! How could we? I mean, sure, I bet some of them read DDR posts and wonder <em>what the hell is going on out there?</em> But consider what their politics must look like to us. What would <em>we</em> vote on? Whether or not they must post signage that their sims allow non-euclidean space? Is it okay for you to try and impersonate someone when you can become like them to exacting detail (except for, surprise, their individual personality)?</p>
 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> I think we&rsquo;re still split pretty evenly on speciation. Even I am. One day, I&rsquo;ll think, &ldquo;Sure, they may be fundamentally different from us, but they still <em>think</em> like us. They still reason like humans. Except for the biological differences, such as they are, they still are.&rdquo; Other days, though, I&rsquo;ll wake up and think, &ldquo;We we have no common frame of reference with these people. They&rsquo;re just too different.&rdquo;</p>
 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> This actually came up in a few conversations with my friends sys-side. It sounds like they share some of that ambivalence toward speciation. They can&rsquo;t interface with phys-side as we can, and we can&rsquo;t interface with sys-side as they can, so how could they even be considered the same species as us? And yet here they are, taking place in a political debate as filigreed and baroque as any other, and doing so with the same rational minds that we have. &ldquo;At this point,&rdquo; one of them said as we laughed over another fruitless debate. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not even sure we should be discussing individual rights with governments that have no way of knowing how we work. We might as well just secede and end the discussion full-stop.&rdquo;</p>
-<p><strong>Yared:</strong> But who knows if speciation will even wind up playing into it, in the end. I&rsquo;ve noticed that, even though we remain split on the topic, tempers have cooled on both sides. We&rsquo;re no longer at each others throats about whether or not they&rsquo;re so fundamentally different from us that it requires some strange new way to think of them as individuals.</p>
+<p><strong>Yared:</strong> But who knows if speciation will even wind up playing into it, in the end. I&rsquo;ve noticed that, even though we remain split on the topic, tempers have cooled on both sides. I&rsquo;m surprised &mdash; pleasantly so! &mdash; to see this agreement building even in Cairo; I know that many of my compatriots there bore apathy or even antipathy towards the system after previous dealings between NEAC and the S-R Bloc. We&rsquo;re no longer at each others throats about whether or not they&rsquo;re so fundamentally different from us that it requires some strange new way to think of them as individuals.</p>
 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> And honestly, that&rsquo;s my hope, right? I think that whether or not they&rsquo;re humans, whether or not they&rsquo;ve got their own customs and social structure, whether or not they&rsquo;re even a separate country, even those who are falling on the side of speciation are starting to refer to them in terms of individuals. &ldquo;Them.&rdquo; &ldquo;How many of them.&rdquo; &ldquo;Who in there even thinks X&rdquo; All of these are ways that we refer to individuals, and, you who are still arguing this belabored point that they should have no choice on what is done with their personalities once their bodies are gone, you are now thinking of them as what they are: individuals.</p>
 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> That, my friends, feels like progress to me. We are starting to come to an understanding of what the system is, whether it&rsquo;s a home for the disaffected and dying, an international forum where individuals can truly live together, or a country in its own right, is home to thousands of individuals, each with their individual lives, individual reasons, individual feelings. They&rsquo;re people. The System is their home. We cannot take that from them without violating their individual rights.</p>
 <p><strong>Yared:</strong> Vote for the granting of rights. Vote yes on <em>referendum 10b30188</em></p>