The CRC hires Sensei Twii to write out new guidelines to help protect everyone at stations, since Twii so succinctly pointed out the flaws in the current plans. Twii works with them in tandem to make it easier for people to defend themselves, and offers to help the security staff by having them join the dojos, as some of his former students now, themselves, become teachers.
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Footage played across several screens. It was not the footage of Master Twii's students. Instead of that, it was footage of other, unpoliced incidents. Deathworlders menacing Havenworlders for whatever they could get. Larger cogniscents looming over smaller ones to get their way. Victims following the Five Step Plan and getting their asses handed to them.
None of the footage looped around to where it started.
"One Standard Year[1]," said Master Twii. "Forty-eight stations. Countless injuries and near-death incidents by cogniscents who followed the currently-accepted Five Step Plan. Equally countless aggressors who escape consequences by being transient populations. This Alliance needs better."
The objections were almost instantaneous, "But what about--" The whataboutism varied. From security budgets to individual freedoms to -somehow- false claims of violence to get an upstanding citizen into legal trouble.
Twii gestured at the video. "Please show me the fine upstanding citizens who do not deserve the legal trouble they are owed."
Some of them were officers of the local station law, and knew exactly what they could get away with. Those had already been excised from their respective force.
Nobody volunteered. Some showed signs of shame.
"You are security forces," said Twii. "You are meant to provide security. If you do not see trouble when you are out on patrol, do more patrols. Confer with other stations and ships. If someone breaks the local laws, make certain they face the consequences. Even if it means shipping them back to meet those consequences. Make them bear the brunt of the cost if they run." Now the image changed to a cartoony poster featuring a pirate running from a huge Human in an enormous livesuit. It had the words, LOCAL LAWS RE-ENFORCED BY PAX HUMANIS in large, threatening letters. "Stations with this poster all over their ports have noticed a ninety-eight percent decrease in violent, personal crime. Stations with regular Security patrols have noted a similar decrease. There is no permanent stop to crime other than removing the cause. In this case, the cause is that they can get away with it."
"What about the two percent?" asked one member of the audience.
"Investigations are continuing," said Twii, "but the leading percentage so far are my students defending themselves against would-be attackers."
[1] The Galactic Standard calendar consists of ten-day weeks, four-week months, and a ten-month year. This results in a four-hundred-day calendar and very confused Humans.
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