ANALYZING…  FILE TYPE: Personal Digital Recorder PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Unknown [ID: UNK1], Masked [ID: MASK] TOPIC: Anti-Colony Leadership Insurrection SUMMARY: Two unidentified colonists discuss instigating old rivalries in New Cascadia. =================================================================== [UNK1]: This is what you don't understand. It often happens in places like this. What we're saying… [UNK1]: Just to be clear, if we use these words, If we out ourselves as— [MASK]: You're still worried about the optics? We've come all this way, and you're still worried if we're doing the right thing? [UNK1]: Yeah. [MASK]: Hell of a long trip for second guessing. [UNK1]: I'm—no. I'm in. I'm all in. This isn't a—I'm not—The words are powerful. The words—what we're trying to say. What we're asking people to consider—they need to hear it. Somebody needs to say it. But I'm sayin'—I'm asking—is the message stronger as our own? As a manifesto for the people of New Cascadia, by the people of New Cascadia? [MASK]: Versus the alternative? [UNK1]: Versus the—yeah, versus the current plan. Which is… to resurrect bloody rivalries in a place where… where maybe the old scars are better off forgotten in the three centuries we left behind. [MASK]: We need those scars. The point is those scars. [MASK]: The people—everyone outside, you and I—everyone settled in their lives, working like hell within the systems we've created to build a new world… They need to wake up. They need to see that we've set ourselves up to build the same traps. The same dead ends. [UNK1]: The words can do that. Alone, they can. [UNK1]: The second we add MIDA to the masthead, the instant we identify our agenda as an extension of old wars— people are going to get scared. They're going to turn against us. No matter how right or righteous we are. No matter how clear or powerful the message. [MASK]: I need you to listen. We are the weeds in the garden. We are danger. The second we rise is the second they move to cut us down. [MASK]: Reed and his security will not let us fester. They can't. [MASK]: We either make a mark immediately, or it's over. It's that simple. [MASK]: Words matter. These words are weapons. If we get them right, we change the world. Impossible on Earth and Mars. Achievable here! If we're brave enough to open old wounds and loud enough to wake the sleeping masses. You and I cannot do that alone. [UNK1]: We need old scars. [MASK]: We need to remind them of everything we ran from. All the pain. The suffering. [MASK]: MIDA. The UESC. Who's right. Who's wrong. Make them pick a side. Force their hand. It won't be simple, but it really is that easy. [MASK]: Finish the words. Spark the flame. And see what grows. Weeds, fire, or something better. Something new. [UNK1]: We are MIDA. [MASK]: It's the only way forward. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]