Reaching Out

[ghost_shield]

Who: Nicholas Reeve and all interested in his Native/Visitor Diplomacy group
Where: The Nadeisico
Summary: Nick proposes a group which can help mediate some of the tensions between the Visitors and the natives. But he may have a few side goals in mind too...
Warnings: Presumably none.

Nick's been through a lot of different things in his life, but he has to admit it's the first time he's ever been in a space battleship, let alone hosted a MEETING in one. Hell, it's the first time he's hosted a meeting, period. But something has to be done, and he knows it.

He'd seen the anger. Real or manufactured, something was threatening to explode unless they as arrivals -- voluntary or otherwise -- confronted it face on. To ignore such a thing during a period in time like this would be to invite disaster, and quite possibly this great and terrible danger the people who had disappeared had been sent to confront. Whether or not this world was truly his own, that just wouldn't cut it. After all, he's all too familiar with the notion of destroyed worlds...

He looks around at the setup. It's sort of weird, hanging out in a place with giant robots to conduct business. He hopes people don't get too distracted by that. At the same time, this is really the only place to do this. Some of Nick's ideas might be a bit, well, controversial. Still, even if people DON'T go along with his secondary objective, hopefully they'll still be amenable to the primary.

Still, his plans would work better with help.

Comments

[ghost_shield]

I don't honestly know WHAT the government thinks. They seem perfectly content to parade us around on the news and have us play security guards, but don't seem to care much about letting us know anything else. They haven't even told us what the hell happened around here, which is really frustrating because it gives the Anoli an edge we don't have.

[genkibot]

So the government hasn't really explain things to the natives at large then, either, huh?

That's kinda bad then, they're not really providing obvious justification for any policies towards us if they don't explain things. It's not hard to see why natives think we're getting preferential treatment no one tells them why we need some allowances...

[ghost_shield]

Exactly. Are they even getting a bullshit response? If they could get something like that which sounded reasonable enough, it'd be one thing, but it sounds like they feel like the ends justify the means. With the ends being us versus the Anoli, and I get the feeling that's not REALLY why we're here despite what we were told at the beginning.

[genkibot]

Can we make the government provide them with some information? Not even full disclosure of what they know, but just the some of the reasoning of the allowances we have?

I mean, there's people who complain about government programs like welfare and they don't riot about it because the government fully explains how they work, how its regulated, or that's it being overseen by someone who knows what they're doing.

I'd suggest we'd also try to explain, but since Natives are angry at us, they might not readily accept information we provide them.

[ghost_shield]

I doubt we have the authority for that. Even if we did, or could somehow strongarm them, I'm not sure they'd give an answer anybody would want to hear, or even the official one. If they can't give a good enough reason why we're getting these perceived handouts, it's about as good as no explanation at all.

...also, I think you'd be amazed how many people get pissed off about welfare even if they AREN'T rioting to show their discontent.