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[Oh look, a new post on the imPort communicator! Although this time, there seems to be no ID attached to the post, it's entirely anonymous. It's pretty late at night on the 25th, surely some people will be up.]

Heroes.

How safe do you really think you are?

Do you think your secrets are really your own?

The truth will always be found out.

You don't belong here, and you know it.

The people here deserve better than what you, and the Government can give them. They deserve the truth about their saviors...

[As this text appears on the screen, the screen automatically refreshes to next show a series of "profiles" of various imPorts.]

NAME: Barnaby Brooks Jr.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Hundred Power
HISTORY:
• Suffers from trauma-induced mental health issues, including PTSD, depression, and panic disorder.
• On his home world, worked for a television show that intentionally staged crimes for publicity.

NAME: Eridan Ampora
ALIAS: Prince of Hope
POWERS/ABILITIES: Troll body, Hope Powers, Psychic resistance
HISTORY:
• Openly admits to multiple murders, openly threatens to kill or maim others.
• Has attempted genocide on his own planet multiple times.
• Likely has multiple personality disorders, and several mental health conditions.

NAME: Flame Princess
POWERS/ABILITIES: Fire elemental, pyrokinesis, fire giant shifting
HISTORY:
• A known Arsonist.
• Actively threatens to burn people alive.
• Has burned down multiple cities in her home world.

NAME: Kanaya Maryam
ALIAS: Sylph of Space, Hobgoblin
POWERS/ABILITIES: Troll Vampire Transformation, Chainsaw, and Portal Creation
HISTORY:
• Has been known for her temper, tendency towards violent crimes, and multiple murders.
• Has admit to and been jailed for the crimes commit by the Hobgoblin, which included kidnapping of several people, and then biological experimentation and surgical torture on the victims.
• Despite this, she has spent only a month in jail, and is already released on probation to another imPort.

NAME: Marceline Abadeer
ALIAS: The Vampire Queen
POWERS/ABILITIES: Vampire-demon, self-amplifying bass guitar
HISTORY:
• Openly admits vampirism.
• Has killed multiple people in her home world.
• Has been put in charge of a girl scout troop, despite the above.

NAME: Melkor
POWERS/ABILITIES: Pyrokinesis, Ainur characteristics, Destruction
HISTORY:
• Imprisoned for three thousand years on his home world for causing chaos.
• Feigned repentance to escape prison.

NAME: Rose Lalonde
ALIAS: Seer of Light, formerly The Green Goblin
POWERS/ABILITIES: Godtier, Quills of Echidna, Luck Influence
HISTORY:
• Responsible for Green Goblin-based activity in Heropa dating back to January 2014.
• Known for underage drinking and has a history of alcohol abuse
• Her significant other has been arrested and jailed for crimes commit against civilians.

NAME: Ruka
POWERS/ABILITIES: Communication with monsters; ability to see ghosts; touch-based psychometric empathy; psychic shields.
HISTORY:
• Has had multiple violent altercations with other Imports.
• Has orchestrated the death of another Import, and compelled the suicide of another.
• Has a history of associating with and abetting violent criminals.

NAME: Hope Summers
POWERS/ABILITIES: Mutant power mimic
HISTORY:
• Has the potential to Host a destructive force known as the Phoenix, which has been known to destroy planets.

NAME: Kay Faraday
ALIAS: Great Thief Yatagarasu
POWERS/ABILITIES: Crow manipulation
HISTORY:
• Part of a vigilante group in her own world known for "stealing the truth."
• Accused of the murder of an embassy secretary.
• Accused of robbing a courthouse in Heropa on June 3rd.

NAME: Moses Sandor
POWERS/ABILITIES: Eres, Locator
HISTORY:
• Has a history of theft and kidnapping on his home world.
• Second degree assault on innocents by attacking them with dogs.

NAME: Ken Kaneki
ALIAS: One Eyed Ghoul
POWERS/ABILITIES: Half-ghoul
HISTORY:
• Exclusively a cannibal, supported by the government.
• Easily susceptible to mental instability.

NAME: Annie Leonhart
ALIAS: N/A
POWERS/ABILITIES: Titan shifting, Psychic shielding, Mental shielding
HISTORY:
• Self confessed spy, traitor, and murderer.
• Apparent mission objective of obliterating humanity.

NAME: Maedhros
POWERS/ABILITIES: Magic, minor telepathy/empathy, minor foresight
CHARACTER HISTORY:
• Has commit numerous war crimes in his own world.
• Murder of innocents among them.

Within the next 12 hours, this information and more will be shared with the public. For a group of "heroes," there is quite a lot of blood spilled under your name, isn't there?

Do you know how much damage you've done?

The actual toll you've taken on this world?

Half a billion is taken out of the pocket of the civilians you've "saved" to cover damages, freebies, and those Swear-In ceremonies. Money that could be put towards so many other things; poverty, food shortages, housing for those people who really need it. Like parasites, you take from the host and give nothing back.

And all for what? So that the Government can hope to convince you to be their personal weapons of warfare. After all, you're the only kind of weapon they have that they can simply bring back to life should you die. Those nanites in every single imPort body ensure that.

So Heroes.

Do you think you can really make this world a better place, with all of the baggage you have tying you down? Maybe there is a chance you can do some good… But you need to first remove the threads that hold you to the deception being administered.

[OOC: Aaaand Inumuta is currently infected with the Hornet's Mind Clone of Miguel Rodriguez right now! So he's not exactly himself at the moment. Right now, Inumuta's doing the whole anonymous schtick, but if any hackers/people capable of tracking him down do any digging whatsoever, they'll find him. He's intentionally not covering his tracks as well as he could have because as a Hornet, he isn't shying away from any jabs he can get at Imports.

So, action is possible, but please try to coordinate with other players in this! Feel free to threadjack, whatever!

Side note: Please forgive my typos, and I'm sorry for the poor choice in pictures for some characters, if I used a picture you don't like and want a new one, send me a link. Also also, I will update this post with a few more characters once I hear back from a few people to get their final approval from my plotting post.]

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Isn't that true for most of American history, though? I mean, I'm no native to this soil, even in my hometown, but this country seems to have been founded on the the slaughter and the enslavement of others. Isn't that true? I know, most countries have a great deal of blood on their hands—I won't deny that. But, if this population is already so used to making heroes out of the morally questionable, you can't fault us for their bad taste in role models. Even if they know our past crimes, I'm not certain how much things will change.

It sounds like this government is more an enemy to you than we are.

Perhaps...

You would not be wrong.

What is it you want from us, then? For us to do.

Admit guilt to crimes committed, don't depend on the government for it's handouts, and accept nullification of your abilities until the Porter has been fixed to send you people to your own worlds.

That's what I want. So far, you seem to have complied to the first two. But I doubt convincing the rest of the imPort population to follow your example will be like herding cats.

Then, here is my question for you. We have no home countries here. No families, no friends among the native populace, and no community outside ourselves. Unnatural citizens of the world, we are not afforded much protection by any law.

What would protect us, in this circumstance, from abuse, or enslavement, or slaughter? Is there any such thing?

[No, there isn't. imPorts aren't even considered citizens. There was much debate, in which Inumuta was also involved in, about how they essentially aren't legally "people" by the US Govt. They had to fight for even the Import Ambassador positions they have.

But logic isn't going into Inumuta's thought process right now. He only has emotions, and the emotions aren't even his own.]

Nothing.

[ If there was one thing Lachesis did to prepare ImPorts for this exile, it was their temporary imprisonment in that world of New Vesuvius.

The one Ruka convinced her boyfriend to kill her and himself both to escape. ]

Then why not simply kill us on arrival?

It would certainly save money.

...

[Because he doesn't want death. He doesn't want people to be killed- imPorts, regular humans- anyone.

But the Hornets probably would like that kind of solution, wouldn't they?]

Indentured servitude, there's another option.

I mean, we arrive without any resources at all. Wouldn't you agree? Awfully hard to gain employment or a place to reside, when whatever currency we might have is meaningless here. And some, they arrive from different countries, and cultures, and histories entirely.

Even if not executed straight out, enough would likely starve to death in the streets of Cape Canaveral. Who's going to kick up a fuss about that? Perhaps it would be better to simply assign work to everyone on arrival, so long as they're able, and discard the rest.

It's what we deserve.

["We."]

Edited 2015-02-27 18:39 (UTC)

[ "We," huh? ]

Is that what justice looks like, to you?

The dangerous should be made less so, by whatever means.

Then why worry about tax expenditures or "handouts" at all?

Having a place to sleep at night doesn't make a man more dangerous.

Do you think the public knows just how much of their money is going towards the imPorts? It's not highly publicized info in the least. Don't you think they have the right to know that this is where their money is going?

And if they approve of it...

Then that is their prerogative.

But this certainly isn't something they've voted for.

It's not a number we've been given, either. At least, as far as I know.

How did you find it?

How else?

The same way I retrieved some of this information.

Which is what, exactly? Telepathy?

Do you really expect me to tell you?

It was worth asking.

But, I suppose the real question is, where did that money come from, in the first place? I can't say I'd be broken-hearted, if that came out of their budget for national defense.

Airplanes and ammunition don't tend to forward that money back to natural citizens, do they?

It likely didn't come out of the national defense budget, because the price of housing imPorts/cleaning up imPort related property damage has been increasing over time (given that there is an increase with imPorts every month) and I haven't noticed any huge decrease in money spent on military supply.

Alright, then where is the decrease?

[Well, he doesn't know exactly... ~~Also I didn't ask the mods whoops~~ So guessing is what he's doing, yep.]

Likely split between "Housing & Community", and "Social Security, Unemployment & Labor" divisions, as well as maybe some of the "Military" department.

[ ~~whoops dammit ruka stop asking hard questions~~ ]

Well, when we first arrived, most of those houses in Heropa were already complete. There's no way they could have built those, let alone financed them, in the time they had. Building additional ones might have eaten a few million, maybe, but those could be transferred to low-income families once we're gone. At least, I would think so.

Though, I wonder. How much of that amount is from attacks on ImPorts from non-ImPort forces? I mean, there was that bombing of the monorail, last year, and that wasn't any of us. Repair of that alone must have been very costly.

I don't have a cost estimate on that.

[Convenient.]

Maybe you should.

And, maybe, figure out who's actually in charge of finances for us. They're obviously doing a terrible job of it.

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