[META][RFC] Updating the current "now" to 2022

[robkelk]

Eventually, though, an incident will occur that leaves Ben and the Roughriders stuck holding the bag. Cries for the Roughriders and BAT to be nationalized go out, and Ben decides that it is high time to cut his losses and enact what he calls the Exodus Contingency. People that do not wish to go along with them are made part of a Roughriders or BAT that are 'sold' to Jet Jaguar, and then the entirety of 36 Atalante begins to haul ass for The Limit, thanks to the effing-huge reactionless drives Ben had 'secretly' built into the southern polar region of the asteroid.

Not exactly a quick and quiet disappearance, but I don't think there's any faction that would be able to stop that kind of mass when it has an appropriately proportionate drive system. That, and people would have friends there. Not many people willing to hit them with a rock-buster.

This would actually get Noah to want to reconcile with the Roughriders (not that they fractured too badly, for Mayonaka and Helen's sake). Once it becomes obvious this is what's happening, Noah would send Ben a bug-out checklist with the words "Stellvia" and "Wonderland" hastily crossed out and replaced with "Atalantae" in (almost) every occurrence, with a sticky-note "In case you overlooked something" on page 1.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012