"Listening to others, considering well what they say" (Part 3: Maingate Hotel)

[cityship]

The Maingate Hotel was pretty extravagant, and an entire section of it had been eked out for the crew's use during their stay. They had several suites, three communal areas, a conference room, their own kitchen with a chef on call if they required her.

They were all teleported from the main teleport pad of the hotel into the conference room, which was a large enough room to be able to hold a group their size and had plenty of chairs arranged in a circular pattern so they could mostly all face each other or whoever was in the middle of the room.

Everyone had to settle down so they were all able to talk, and the meeting itself would have to be carefully controlled so they wouldn't all talk over each other. But they were up for the task, right?

[ooc: Guardian Setup, General Mingling, Clone Checkup, Newbie Briefing, General Briefing, More Mingling, Back to the Meeting, and The Idea Guy sections are open. Backup characters introduced to the plot can join in the mingling subthreads if they want. The opening of new subthreads will be announced here and the ooc. Please read the linked OOC post for a plot timeline.]

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[governorkang]

"If another nation on Krynn had dared to do anything like this to citizens of mine, there would be war," Kang said bluntly. Draconians didn't play around.

And apparently, neither did Rory. He noticed the body language, particularly the reaching for a sword that wasn't there, and quirked an eyebrow ridge, "That's the one. I almost did get him, but I missed. He won't be so lucky next time." He liked this human.

"I'd bet good steel on it myself. I don't think it'd be too difficult for the clones to win, if given the proper technology and information. There's far more of them than there are non-cloned; if enough of them rise up..." The same thing had happened in Neraka, when the draconians had gotten sick of how the humans had been treating them.

[theboywhowaits]

"I don't know what Earth would have done, or even Britain. Attacking diplomatic envoys is frowned on, in all situations. I'm not sure how they managed to convince themselves that we would be alright with it."

He nodded, obviously marking the man in his head. Kanner might have had a chance to escape with his life if he hadn't touched Rory's son. He'd let Kang have the kill, regardless, if the situation presented itself.

"See that he isn't." The words were clipped, quiet. "That's the impression I get as well, it might be that they wanted an outside force because their army is made up of clones as well. A little help and I'm certian they could. Is this the typical nature of GIA alliances?"

[governorkang]

"That bastard seemed shocked that we fought back, like he hadn't expected it. I think he assumed we'd be good little clones and go along with it like we were supposed to." That last sentence was said in a very sarcastic tone.

Kang nodded, a dangerous grin crossing his face briefly. "We haven't gotten to deal much with the GIA yet. They haven't yet proven to me that we're not just tools for them to use against the Ohm instead of allies. A number of them consider us to be stupid, primitive 'pre-bleeds' who will just get in the way."

[theboywhowaits]

"Well, yeah. He probably expected you to be passive and willing, just like any of their clones. I'm sure they bred out disobedience years ago." He looked down at the notes, lips quirking in an unreadable expression. "But it seems they didn't manage entirely. Loyalty isn't entirely programmable, or so it appears."

He nodded, taking in the new information. "Wouldn't be the first super advanced race to look at those that weren't and decide it must be inferior to its own species, I've encountered one or two that rather thought humans made good lunch, or at the very least, good materials to make something else." He frowned faintly. "Perhaps in the future we should snoop more before charging in to what they tell us is a safe situation, this could have been prevented if they'd warned us what the Galilleans thought of members of our crew."