tushanshu | [Console/Video] An open invitation

[Pepper appears a bit nervous when the feed comes on. She's standing in the new police force headquarters, dressed neatly and smiling.]

Hi everyone. I'm here to talk to all of Keeliai, so I hope everyone is watching; and if you know anyone who isn't watching, find them and sit them down in front of a console after this. Tell your neighbors, tell your friends, please.

Most of you have probably noticed that there's been a lot of changes lately - the new police force especially. I know there's been some bumps, and there's probably going to be a lot more, but that's what happens when you try to build something new and big and great. We work best when we work together, all of us. When we work as a team. We can get a lot more done and we're a lot stronger when we're all willing to work together, even if we don't all agree on everything. This is our home, even if it's only temporary for some of us.

The point of a police force is to protect people and to protect laws, and we're doing what we can, but right now it's an incomplete picture. It needs a government of Keeliai - really of Keeliai, with real citizenship - to guide it. There's a phrase for it back home: of the people, by the people, for the people.

So I'm proposing a way to get started: a council made up of two kedan representatives from each sector and one Foreigner to start laying the groundwork for a new government, and to enforce the existing laws that Valdis collected and distributed in the meantime. They'd also be responsible for oversight of the police and any other similar groups - making sure rules are followed, and that things like trials are conducted by a separate, neutral group.

The hope is that the council members won't have any super significant ties to any one family or group so they can represent all the kedan in their sector as a whole. I'm asking for volunteers. Same goes for the Foreigners - one of us either needs to volunteer or be elected to the spot.

Everyone is invited to the Courtyard of Public Opinion on the 6th to discuss all of this - I know it's a lot and getting more input is important - and to pick who the reps will be if this is a direction we want to go in. If there's a lot of kedan interested, we can do a short election.

This is big. This is really big. And big changes don't happen overnight. We're gonna make mistakes, and that's totally okay as long as we learn from them. I may not have grown up here and I know I won't be here forever, but Keeliai is my home now. I want what's best for it, now and a hundred years from now. We all need each other's help to do that.

So. [She grins broadly.] Yeah. Thanks, and I'll see you all on the 6th.