Working on something of a sensible resolution for this. Bad guys get arrested, the true details are kept hushed up by the Governor to protect his political career.....
Sara is probably released after it's decided she can't be charged with anything. BBI help her find a life/job in the Liberty Protection Force. Stae is taken in by the Cyber Confederacy. And somebody hands off the true details of things to a DHS agent....
How should this play out sensibly? Can't be too neat... but at the same time, can't start another wave of wave panic.
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Sara is probably released after it's decided she can't be charged with anything. BBI help her find a life/job in the Liberty Protection Force. Stae is taken in by the Cyber Confederacy. And somebody hands off the true details of things to a DHS agent....
Quote:“She’s been brainwashed alright,” Ruth said with a sigh, “They wanted us to think she was a spree killer. She’s bragging about a massacre in Frankfort, about how she wanted to use the cat to enact the laws of Darwin on the inferior unmodded humans, how she wanted to go down in history with the indisputable ‘high score’, how it was justice for the Fen.”
“... What the hell?”
“If they’d been successful.... if they’d set her loose on Frankfort, and she’d been pulled from the wreckage spouting that crap live on national TV.... I don’t have to tell you what the response would’ve been. You were worried about how we’d respond to twenty missing people, what about two hundred dead, or two thousand? You know how we responded the last time some crazies killed two thousand people”
“What scares me is how close they came to winning. If they hadn’t gotten cocky and started robbing those banks, we’d never have caught them. We had no idea what they were really doing until after we stopped them. We’dve had no idea it was coming until Frankfort was a burning ruin. And when we pulled that poor unfortunate from the wreck, we’d be too filled with righteous vengeance and furious anger to stop and turn and think about things. She’d be tried as a terrorist and likely executed for a crime she wasn’t responsible for, before anyone could figure out what she really was. We might even have mistaken her for a biomodded Stae Nor when we traced the cat back to his place. And I guess, the Fen would’ve become our enemy.”
“So what happens now?”
“Governor’s gonna keep the truth quiet, that’s for sure. It’d kill him politically for one thing. And the last thing we need’s a full blown terrorism panic, especially one involving Fenspace. Most of them are probably going to be on state charges, looking at life without parole if they’re lucky, and probably the death penalty if there's justice. But that’ll be a few years and a lot of lawyering from now.
How should this play out sensibly? Can't be too neat... but at the same time, can't start another wave of wave panic.
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