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video | post murderworld thoughts
So um... I've been thinking about this for a while. Ever since we left Harrub, actually...
[ He grimaced a bit, pausing for a couple of seconds. Glancing off to the side, before taking a breath, and addressing the camera again. ]
But um, after the whole Murderworld thing... it's kind of become clear that some of us aren't... handling things that well... [ He was thinking about Videl specifically, but the anon meme has also made it clear Videl wasn't the only one. ] I know we all took the oath for various reasons, and we probably all expected different things out of becoming a superhero. But um, some of us probably didn't expect this... so...
... With the whole "Legionnaire Legacies" thing coming around the corner, I think we should... [ Another pause, as he tries to figure out how to phrase this. ] ... um... I guess, share our lives with each other? To make sure we're prepared, in case... in case the news digs up stuff about us, and tries to drag us through the mud with it.
[ This is so weird and strange and against everything Gohan knows. He's usually the most secretive person in the world, but... he's kind of had to cope with having an open identity, so might as well go all in. ]
I guess um, I should go first? My name's Gohan, and... if you have any personal questions for me, I'll be happy to answer them...
[ He grimaced a bit, pausing for a couple of seconds. Glancing off to the side, before taking a breath, and addressing the camera again. ]
But um, after the whole Murderworld thing... it's kind of become clear that some of us aren't... handling things that well... [ He was thinking about Videl specifically, but the anon meme has also made it clear Videl wasn't the only one. ] I know we all took the oath for various reasons, and we probably all expected different things out of becoming a superhero. But um, some of us probably didn't expect this... so...
... With the whole "Legionnaire Legacies" thing coming around the corner, I think we should... [ Another pause, as he tries to figure out how to phrase this. ] ... um... I guess, share our lives with each other? To make sure we're prepared, in case... in case the news digs up stuff about us, and tries to drag us through the mud with it.
[ This is so weird and strange and against everything Gohan knows. He's usually the most secretive person in the world, but... he's kind of had to cope with having an open identity, so might as well go all in. ]
I guess um, I should go first? My name's Gohan, and... if you have any personal questions for me, I'll be happy to answer them...
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I'll be there soon.
[Action y/n?]
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[Parker is sitting at a table in the Mess Hall, eating a bowl of dry cereal with every sign of enjoyment. Crunch crunch crunch.]
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[He takes the time to get himself a snack - a banana and a cup of coffee, because why not - and slides into the seat across from Parker. Just two teammates having a meal together. Nothing suspicious about that.]
Is this seat taken?
[He is absolutely going to eat that banana through his helmet. He absolutely does not care.]
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[Parker understands that Wash knows how to "work a banana" from York's comments on the anonmeme. Looks like she might find out what that actually means today.]
The security surveillance here is visual only, and we're far enough away from the kitchen staff that they shouldn't be able to hear us without coming close enough for us to see them. None of them are of species with superior-to-human hearing, I checked.
[She takes another bite of cereal and covers her mouth with her hand while she chews. When she lowers it, she is no longer speaking in English, though that's only really noticeable if someone's watching her lips since the two of them are mostly communicating through the telepathic earplugs.]
The Legion has encountered twenty-first century English speakers before, but there's no record of them meeting speakers of twenty-first century Spanish, so they'd need a historical linguist who can also read lips. You have a faceplate, so you don't need to worry about that. If you have any other concerns though, we can have this conversation in my pub on the Hab Deck.
[What all of this ultimately means is "Parker is not kidding around when she says that she's a criminal mastermind".]
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Sounds like you did your homework.
[Understatement. So much understatement.]
Where I'm from, time travel isn't physically possible. How do you plan on stealing the past?
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[She twirls her spoon around in her fingers, propping her chin on the back of her other hand.]
It's not possible where I'm from either. But I also don't intend on literally stealing the past. What we're going to steal is the equipment through which these people intend to view our pasts; for preference while implicating them in the original theft of the Everywhere Machine, or at least finding out who they got it from so we can trace it back and find the thieves.
[She stabs her cereal idly with her spoon.]
I'm going to need to recruit people to help, but I'm fairly certain that the talent pool within the Legion should be sufficient without needing to, ah, 'compromise' any of the Legionnaires from this universe.
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[Evidently understatement is the order of the day.]
[He's quiet while she explains her idea, idly eating his banana through his helmet. (That is somehow physically possible. Some days, it's best not to ask.) It's a vague idea of a plan at this point; while he can see dozens of obstacles in the way, he's also seen just how incredibly competent Parker is, and he's starting to believe that they might actually be able to do this.]
[First things first, though.]
Okay, you realize we're Legion, right? We're supposed to be upholding the law. Just because someone stole something doesn't mean stealing it back is the right thing to do.
[It's an argument for the sake of covering that base and literally nothing else. It has to be said, so he says it. Done. Moving on:]
It's going to be hard to do this without Brainy's help, as he has the most information on the machine. That said, we can probably get someone who works in or around his lab to ask questions him questions without being suspicious. We can also start with the Time Institute on Talus - he lent it to them, so they should have a record of it.
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It's not the legal thing to do. 'Legal' and 'right' are two completely different concepts.
[She is dating a nerd, she has seen alignment charts, Wash.]
I doubt we'll be able to fool Brainy, but he's told me that I'm allowed to take my flight ring home with me so I can use it for work. He said he'd be proud if I did, actually. He'll require very little prompting to 'accidentally' leave information where we can make copies. Again, plausible deniability.
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[He quirks an eyebrow at her distinction, not that she can see it. The sooner he accepts that her perspective is about 90 degrees off from his on a good day and somewhere around 180 on most days, the easier a time he'll have wrapping his mind around all of this.]
I think your definition of plausible deniability is a little different than mine, but okay. What's the next step?
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He's smarter than me. And he grew up with this legal system, and has already been arrested once. I trust that he knows better how to protect himself than I would.
Once we have the necessary information to plan the break-in, we plan the break-in. I'm not looking at a smash-and-grab here, I want us in and out with minimal damage so the SciCops don't show up until we want them to. Do a little digging in their records, see if they've been up to anything inappropriate or hinky, aside from threatening to display our pasts like made-for-TV movies. Which seems like it should be, but I'm not a spacefuture lawyer. What we want here is 1) to make them not do the thing, and 2) to find out where they got the stolen equipment so that they could do the thing. If we can get the latter information into the hands of the Legion's lawyers through anonymous tip format, so much the better.
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So we're looking at stealth and information - people who can go invisible, get in undetected, hack a database, stuff like that. We'd probably want someone who can make sure our anonymous tip can't be traced.
[It may be anonymous, but that doesn't mean he trusts the system. If someone's willing to poke around in their pasts without consent, there's no telling what else they might do in search of a good story.]
[Honestly, in terms of stealth and computers, he's thinking of Pidge, and he kind of hates it. It'd be her decision whether she wanted to be involved in this; that doesn't mean he wants her along with them on a heist. She's young, and she's already pretty damn stressed, and he doesn't want to make any of that worse.]
[He also thinks of Reaper and discards that thought almost immediately. Wash doesn't trust not!Ghostface as far as he can throw him (or blow him away with an industrial-sized fan. He's not picky).]
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[She spoons a bite of cereal into her mouth, chews, and swallows.]
I've got a short list of people who have appropriate skill sets and/or powers, but hackers are the most important right now because they're the ones who can get us the information. I can do some information-gathering myself, but my skills in that area are limited.