◘ video ◘ 05

[technophantom]

[the camera feed cuts in on a room half in shadow, lit by a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. On the wall behind Ghost are newspaper clippings, a lost dog poster, several missing kids posters, and numerous sticky notes on papers, penned with brief messages like "WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?" and "GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTABILITY" and "1.2 MILLIGRAMS PER

Comments

[shotyoudeadbang]

Unless we start shootin' 'em.

[technophantom]

Punishing the poor for being poor has often resulted in bloody uprisings.

[shotyoudeadbang]

I've worked for this government. It could use a bloody uprising.

[technophantom]

You have?

What happened?

[shotyoudeadbang]

Not THIS weird planet's government. I mean the American government.

[technophantom]

As a Blackwater-style mercenary?

[shotyoudeadbang]

Not exactly. Conscripted prisoner.

[technophantom]

Ah. Yes.

Governments are disappointingly similar in many worlds, I'm discovering.

[shotyoudeadbang]

Yeah. People always fightin' for scraps to lord over anyone else.