ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Personal Digital Recorder PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Unidentified 1 [ID: UNK1], Unidentified 2 [ID: UNK2], Unidentified 3 [ID: UNK3], Unidentified 4 [ID: UNK4], Unidentified 5 [ID: UNK5] TOPIC: The Creation of an Insurrectionists' Manifesto SUMMARY: A group of unidentified colonists discuss furthering the completion and release of a document tied to MIDA resurrectionist ideals. =================================================================== [UNK1]: Look. [UNK1]: Hey. Listen… Listen. [indistinct voices] [UNK1]: Everyone was careful, yeah? [UNK1]: We were all safe? We all know to be safe? Comms secured. Travel routed and triple checked— [UNK2]: Joy. [UNK2]: […] [UNK2]: Joy? Are you listening? [UNK1]: There's no sys-tech online in this region. Joy can't hear us. We're clear to speak freely. [indistinct voices] [UNK1]: This manifesto. These words… If we wanna get right into it, we agree this is our starting point, yeah? [UNK3]: Yeah. Yeah. I think so. [UNK4]: We still don't know where it came from. Who wrote it? [UNK1]: Who wrote it? The early drafts, no idea. All we know, could've been one of us. Not likely, but possible. [UNK3]: Could be a plant? Reed or someone else in Security could've dropped a half-written revolutionary screed into some deep-rooted patch notes, waiting for someone like us to take the bait. [UNK2]: Wouldn't put it past him. Reed's smart enough to expect some level of discontent, but— [UNK5]: These files. This writing. We found it buried so deep in a sub-root drive, there's just—No one planted it. It was hidden. Maybe for someone to find. But I'd say even that's unlikely. It's an incomplete work. [UNK4]: So maybe not Sec-Force. Maybe not Reed. But whoever cooked it up—if not bait, why go to the trouble just to leave it undone? Why— [UNK1]: I'm not sure I care. We're here because something's not right. Maybe a few things. Maybe many. We know colony leadership is keeping things from us. They built us up. Built the foundation of our entire society on open communications and trust. Then—Then the Marathon… [UNK1]: […] [UNK1]: Solar flares. Electrical storms. Whatever they're selling about what happened up there isn't the full story. We all know. A lot of people know it. The aftermath wasn't just orbital. So, I don't know. Here we are, almost a year to the day, and I feel more in the dark than ever before. Feels like we've gotta push back. Someone's gotta push back. [UNK1]: This doc? It's dangerous. Just having it is probably dangerous. But we can't stop here. We just can't. [UNK2]: Things need to change. [UNK1]: And we need answers. I think this is how we get them. A new MIDA for a new world. [UNK5]: People won't like it. [UNK4]: Maybe that's fine. Maybe it's what they need. [UNK1]: We make the words our own, and we make a statement. Take a stand. [UNK5]: We do this… It's gonna light a fire. [UNK1]: Better than sitting in the dark. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]