To: mamabear(a)stellvia.fen
From: ford.sierra(a)heavyarms.fen
subject: Crystal Millennium woes
encrypt: SQUID_Halcyon
Hi Yayoi,
Thanks for the offer, we really appreciate it.
It's not really red tape that's the issue anymore. We managed to get our petition in on time. Really what we need more than anything else is cooler heads and a few kind words in the right ears on Venus. A few of the people who moved out here were the 'misfits' of the Millenium, and there's more than a few who think some of the people who live here don't really 'fit-in' either. Public opinion on Venus isn't really on our side.
It doesn't help that we don't have any experience with politics. Marsbase Sara's council never got this cuthtroat. We got caught on the hop by Kayabuki's stunt - With hindsight it was obvious. but nobody expected it. And then Mal Fnord's post comes along talking about sending Sammies in to do things the Hard Way and it really spooked a lot of people here. It kicked a lot of people into making the vote happen now but a lot of people were worried that, if we didn't get it across the line, things could've moved towards a very dangerous brink where all it would take would be someone being stupid for something nobody wants to happen to happen...
But that's not a problem now. Thankfully. We just have to wait and see.
We've been talking with Beverley Hayakawa who has the ear of the Queen (It's so hard not to call her Anika... ). She think's Serenity's sympathetic. We're hoping this can get deferred over into the new year until we're out from under the Catch 22, rather than an immediate decision. Otherwise, we're stuck for a short while with whoever she picks and we really have no control over who that'll be.
Gunsmith and Bounty Hunter
-Ford Sierra
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Comment: I think the biggest mistake they're making is not offering Kayabuki a politically expedient way to climb down or make face-saving compromise. While Kayabuki's trapped between common-sense, policy and partybase and not being seen to 'flip flop' on a situation when the government's looking shaky.
Fears of high-heeled jackboots were probably never justified, but it'd still spook an already spooked group of people.
And it was a marriage of mutual convenience rather than ideology, so there's bound to be some graunching.
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From: ford.sierra(a)heavyarms.fen
subject: Crystal Millennium woes
encrypt: SQUID_Halcyon
Hi Yayoi,
Thanks for the offer, we really appreciate it.
It's not really red tape that's the issue anymore. We managed to get our petition in on time. Really what we need more than anything else is cooler heads and a few kind words in the right ears on Venus. A few of the people who moved out here were the 'misfits' of the Millenium, and there's more than a few who think some of the people who live here don't really 'fit-in' either. Public opinion on Venus isn't really on our side.
It doesn't help that we don't have any experience with politics. Marsbase Sara's council never got this cuthtroat. We got caught on the hop by Kayabuki's stunt - With hindsight it was obvious. but nobody expected it. And then Mal Fnord's post comes along talking about sending Sammies in to do things the Hard Way and it really spooked a lot of people here. It kicked a lot of people into making the vote happen now but a lot of people were worried that, if we didn't get it across the line, things could've moved towards a very dangerous brink where all it would take would be someone being stupid for something nobody wants to happen to happen...
But that's not a problem now. Thankfully. We just have to wait and see.
We've been talking with Beverley Hayakawa who has the ear of the Queen (It's so hard not to call her Anika... ). She think's Serenity's sympathetic. We're hoping this can get deferred over into the new year until we're out from under the Catch 22, rather than an immediate decision. Otherwise, we're stuck for a short while with whoever she picks and we really have no control over who that'll be.
Gunsmith and Bounty Hunter
-Ford Sierra
---
Comment: I think the biggest mistake they're making is not offering Kayabuki a politically expedient way to climb down or make face-saving compromise. While Kayabuki's trapped between common-sense, policy and partybase and not being seen to 'flip flop' on a situation when the government's looking shaky.
Fears of high-heeled jackboots were probably never justified, but it'd still spook an already spooked group of people.
And it was a marriage of mutual convenience rather than ideology, so there's bound to be some graunching.
________________________________
--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?