[voice]

[matchmyreach]

[No intro today, no small talk. Garrus sounds much more worn than usual, maybe a little frustrated - he sighs, low and long, and then addresses the comm.I'm...curious. About what the people of the City think about the legal system we have in place here. I came from a time where it was perfectly legal and totally acceptable to lock away criminals in

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[Voice]

[soultospare]

...but they'd need to leave the space station to do the labor, right?

Couldn't they just escape then? Doesn't seem like it'd be that hard. Unless they had a parole officer following them around or an exploding collar on their neck or something.

[Voice]

[matchmyreach]

They were sold off - if you bought a Purgatory prisoner, they would be delivered to you. And you could do whatever you wanted with them, depending on whether or not you were within space guarded under slavery laws.

They could. They weren't Purgatory's problem anymore. Depends on whether the owner put any physical or mental restraints into effect, or at least kept an eye on their purchase. Some people paid thousands just to torture these criminals to death for what they'd done to loved ones.

Another reason why ending up on the Purgatory wasn't the best thing to have happen to you.

[Voice]

[soultospare]

Oh god...

You don't think that's actually better than what we have now, do you?

[Voice]

[matchmyreach]

I never said I wanted to put that into action here. The last thing I want to do is recreate something as sleazy and under the table as how anything in the Terminus system operated. We need a system that's...newer, better. Not Purgatory.

[Voice]

[soultospare]

Oh, okay. Good. Somehow I didn't think that was going to help.

Have you ever been to a system or anything that had a way of handling criminals that was effective without being, you know... really cruel? I haven't. But then again I've only been to a handful of places.

[Voice]

[matchmyreach]

That's the thing. No one system is perfect, and I know we're never going to make a perfect system - too many variables, too many areas where things can and will go wrong. But I want to make a better one, and we can - there are dozens of different universes all represented here, in this City. That's unprecedented. If we put effort into it, real effort - maybe we can make something better.

[Voice]

[soultospare]

...I like that!