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[nastygram]

[The video, when it begins, is on a loop: three minute segments of anonymous space, with a steady stream of white noise.

The white noise continues until, eventually, it is broken by a voice thick with electronic distortion.]

Hello, imPorts.

The natives here are more than happy to believe that their government is looking out for their best interest. The same cannot be said for us, the imPorts: we who were dragged here from our homes, assigned houses, powers, jobs. Categorized, classified, tracked, yes, and monitored, paid off within a meager system of incentivization and reward, motivated by our own complacency to both sit down and shut up. From the dawn of imPort history it has been left up to us, the imPorts, to figure out this whole new life beneath these new and foreign stars. And does the government care? No. Not as long as you follow their rules. Do they care about our best interests? No. They only care that we abide by their rules.

We are the Constellation, and we are here to tell you that we do not believe in these rules. We have been hard at work figuring out our new lives, for you. And we have found that while we were busy not trusting the government--they have been just as busy not trusting us.

We, the imPorts, are not favored children. We, the imPorts, are not cherished heroes. We are the ones who are watched, always, by the most fixed and sleepless and critical of eyes.

We have a list, imPorts, a list that we are leaking to you now, live, for your perusal and your understanding.

Fuu Hououji. Commander Shepherd. Lucifer. Jacob Taylor. L'Arachel. Daisy Johnson. Count Dooku. The Doctor.

This, fellow imPorts, is a watch list. A list of your brothers and sisters who the government deemed watchworthy. People of interest. Some of them are still with us. Some of them are gone. And whether or not any of these people are worthily deemed dangerous, we want you, the people, to know: this is what happens when you go against the grain. Labeled as agents opposed. Granted their freedom under secret scrutiny. Catch, and tag, and release.

To those who will, inevitably, dismiss this list as inconsequential: stay tuned. This is not the only list.
And this will not be our one and only release to you, our public.

Remember: the only power that we have, imPorts, is the power that we give to ourselves. The only limits to that power are the limits that we allow. Do not forget this. Consider yourselves warned.

[The video of space continues for another minute after the voice ends. The volume of the white noise increases until it is, abruptly, cut off with a burst of static.]



[as per last year's watch list.]

Comments

voice

[gravedangers]

Being an imPort makes us brothers and sisters? Are you ready to claim the sins as well as the good deeds of others?

text; anoymous

[nastygram]

more than willing.

text;

[infomodder]

This is very convincing.

text;

[slightlyoffchilt]

You're not on the watch list?

video;

[helpline]

Oh, I'm on a watch list? [ The Doctor is just SO PLEASED. ] That's the best news I've heard all day!

text; anoymous

[nastygram]

congratulations
is your name a worthy inclusion?

video;

[wizzardly]

L'Arachel?

What list was this, exactly? ...A list of the world's most dangerously naive naggers?

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

a list of people the DII considered noteworthy
as with all government institutions their information was perhaps
misguided, outdated, otherwise flawed

the intention is of interest
if the watch list is half innocuous we are being monitored by forces partially inept
the list becomes a key to a door of opportunity


for more details, please write to your congressman

text

[morethan084]

Good to know.

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

[wink @ across the room]

act wisely, Daisy Johnson

Voice

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

[Squinting on the other end of the line.]

That's a pretty dramatic accusation. Especially to make behind a mask.

Got any details to back it up? Like why these names were put on the list?

[Jacob knows he's caused enough trouble to qualify for inclusion, but seeing Shepard on there makes him bristle reflexively.]

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

do not think of masks, shields, blinds
but a single convenient identity by which we can commonly colloquially easily be called


the DII found reasons to worry. the CIA seconded. or maybe it was the other way around.

but you tell us: how have your nanites been treating you, Jacob?

text;

[380s]

[He knows a few hackers now, but he's not going to make any assumptions. Dramatics aside, Frank finds the information unsettling. Paranoia alone, however, doesn't fully convince him.]

I don't see any receipts here

[morethan084]

I can't believe you just used that reference here.

[darwinatrix]

[Dryly.]

Ominous.

[bindsthedead]

It might be interesting if they had any proof, but it seems like an odd assortment of imPorts to monitor.

text;

[shifting]

Damn, can't imagine why they wouldn't trust us.

text;

[slightlyoffchilt]

Have you something to get off your chest?

text;

[lempereur]

Sorry, I just arrived here, but whether or not those people are dangerous seems like an important detail...

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

definitions of dangerous will vary

the DII and the CIA have cataloged and categorized these imPorts as worthy of particular monitoring and attention
separate to whatever list or interest they have in imPorts as a whole

the watch list is unconnected to crime

[slightlyoffchilt]

And what if there are government spies among our ranks, right now? Responding to this post?

[He's teasing, and anonymous might be able to tell from Chilton's dialogue with Will.]

anon text forever obvs

[nastygram]

to spies, moles, leaks in our most shipshape of ships, sowers of misinformation, disinformation, lie weavers, accusers and naysayers:

we, the Constellation, would like to wish them luck


we are here to stay

Voice;

[heckblazer]

Government's hardly anyone's friend no matter the world. I'm supposed to believe you lot are?

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

we are your friends
we are imPorts
we are concerned citizens
we are vigilant, suspicious, unhappy, displeased

the government deals in stipends and accolades and incentives

our actions speak louder than any words we could offer

Private; video

[faderbroderson]

[Absolutely none of this is surprising, and Godric looks rather serenely curious.]

Labeled as agents opposed. You know this to be the express meaning of this particular list? And do you know how those names came to be on it?

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

the government had cause to develop interest in certain imPorts given their feelings, actions, protest, big fucking mouths, their unwillingness to take lumps with the medals and the rewards

we are not favored, trusted, cared for beyond what decency and complacency would ask for, a distortion of privilege that we are meant to embrace and enjoy

there was a massacre at Debrecen

[text - anonymous]

[candor1]

[too many times in as many days Cassian's wanted to throw his comm into the wall.

don't. no

Increasingly, all that's stopping him is knowing that that option never goes away.

But try others first.

Mon Mothma's face in his mind. The example he hadn't always followed in first life. But maybe this one.

Try.

…and perhaps on their own chosen playing field.

Jyn had offered to slice his comm to enable anonymous transmission. He'd taken her up on it not thinking it would be useful.

He uses it now. He also changes his usual typing style. Bothers with capitalization and punctuation. Makes it formal.

A kind of mirroring. Which could sometimes have the same psychological impact in media as in body language or speech. Perhaps not. Sometimes media had its own laws. At the least, this put more than one viewpoint in the same place for anyone's eyes. Can't allow monoliths.]

You credit this government with being able to control the porters—despite the demonstrable disparity in tech levels supporting their claim otherwise?

[text - anonymous]

[nastygram]

no, imPort.

the government has no control over the porter
the porter is possessed: Lachesis

make no mistake, as in so many of our worlds, there is a level of ineptitude incapacitating whole branches and systems
there is a limitation the capability of exorcising a porter, freeing a porter from the claws-deep hold of a possessing entity

we credit this government with the creation of this watch list
with the monitoring of imPorts they consider to be outspoken and difficult to work with

there was a massacre in Debrecen

video;

[dejerate]

Eh? Dooku and Jacob?

[It's the names that stand out and pique Yuu's interest, or worry, more than anything. Part of him possibly almost surprised his isn't on it given his reaction to Mika being ported out earlier.]

Consider us warned about what? [He doesn't trust the government back home and he's not sure he trusts in this one either but even so.]

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

be warned that you are monitored
lack of compliance will be noted
dissension will be remarked upon

if you are asked to do something that you do not want to do, be warned that there is a price to refusal

the penalty to opposition, peaceful or violent, quiet or outspoken, troubled or calm, will in the end be the same

video

[notgneiss]

It's always funny the lengths pitiful beings will go to feel like theymatter.

[shale might also be a little bit jelly that she isn't on the list. she's cool! come on!!]

Whenever it deems fit to start an uprising, do try not to make too much noise, and don't die in the streets. It's unsightly.

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

do not worry: most of our dead find themselves summarily resurrected
unpleasant punishment would be a correction of this benefit should the government find it within their means to alter these resurrections
though we must ask ourselves, who is to say that they already haven't found these means?

in the grander scheme of history of this country, we, the imPorts, have come to matter quite a lot

[Voice]

[pale_blue_arrow]

This is all above my pay grade right now, but if you actually wanted to help you'd do more to give context for that list o' yours. All you're doing right now is stirring up the beginnings of war in a way that'll keep you from facing backlash should it all go south.

I'm considerin' myself warned, just not only the way you intended. [Never trust a rebel rouser - he's been one, he knows there's an agenda here he's not seeing.] Thanks for the list.

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

make no mistake, new imPort: if there is a backlash to face, we will all be up shit creek

the context: we are monitored.
the government sees fit to jail the criminal, brand the criminal, punish the criminal, but only by the smallest degree. the government is more concerned with dissent than with punishment or paltry reform. the government watches those who they deem watch worthy.

if you speak up, sit down.

there was a massacre in Debrecen. it was a year ago. the involvement of the imPorts and our government left a blood trail not easily sponged away.
this is fine. this is normal. coerce the unwilling. kill the enemy. we are rabid weapons turned against those who would oppose the government, and in our very blood there is, right now, singing, the agents to our control.


colloquially, new imPort: we think that is shit.
you should too.

[ text ]

[ghoulking]

I imagine they do that to all of us, not just those imPorts.

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

we are all monitored
the point is: some more than others. some more closely than others. some with vested interest.

text;

[itssacrifice]

Is any of this really supposed to surprise us? Of course they don't trust us, of course they want us to play by their rules. They're a government and those don't tend to play well with others. I'd be more shocked if they weren't surveying us.

The list is interesting though. Any idea what those listed did to get their names written down?

test; anonymous

[nastygram]

if your eyes are so opened, encourage others to open their eyes, too.
there are those who believe in benign peace. that to be left alone is approval. that we can find some favor by playing by these rules. that we are not marked suspect upon our first signs of disagreement.

the crimes of the watch listed are varied

3 were protesters to the massacre in Debrecen

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[Kotetsu isn't always this government's biggest fan, but he's learned over the past three years to take things like this with a grain of salt. There've been leaks before, especially related to imPorts and imPort-related information--sometimes accurate, other times not.]

Where did you get this information? Do you have any proof?

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

we gleaned this information right from the horse's hackable file storage

for proof, please consult the domainkey that is included in the source file
untampered, intact

sort of here.

[trouvaille]

( right click save video. )

anonymous text;

[pillz]

drmatic gasp
nice work baby girl

anonymous text;

[nastygram]

[ 😒😒😒 who dis ]

compliments and approval are unnecessary

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[clobbers]

( This reminds her way too much of CADMUS' little video 'warnings.' Pardon Supergirl while she laughs—

—and then pulls a serious face, eyes narrowed. )

Fear mongering might be the new 'in' thing, but it's not cool. Let me take a stab in the dark and assume you're trying to sow seeds of dissent.

Which could land innocent people in trouble trying to 'help' you, while you sit pretty wherever you are. Knock it off.

If innocent people land themselves in hot water because of this, I'll get angry.

( That's just not good for anyone, brosis. )

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

in the eyes of this government we are none of us innocent

you should be angry.
be careful with the target: we are not the enemy of the imPorts.

we are imPorts. we are friends.

text;

[sassguard]

Is it weird to say I'm surprised I made the cut? Not really sure what the government is getting out of watching me.

text; anonymous

[nastygram]

either ignorance is bliss

or

you are more interesting and suspect than you know