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Allenby lay on her cot, tapping her feet on the wall. She was--well she wasn't exactly happy to be in here, but she wasn't mad about it either. She'd cooled off, and for the past however-long had been picking apart how badly thought through her idea was. Mainly because it hadn't been thought through at all.

She'd done something dumb and so she supposed this was only fair, though she was still pretty pissed that Command seemed to think she was completely in the wrong for getting upset after a whole lot of silence from them about the away team. Thirty damn people were down there; did they think nobody would want to do something?!

And she was even more pissed that they'd gone and mothballed her Gundam until she kissed up to Trudy, promising to be a good girl, sit up straight, and never question her again... or whatever would satisfy her, which was the main problem occupying her thoughts right now.

Well, at least Alan Turing was being taken care of.

[ooc: This is a general log for anyone in the brig who wants to interact with each other--prisoners, staff, or visitors. You don't necessarily have to talk to Allenby; feel free to set up your own stuff. o/ ]

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"It would have been a good idea," Kaya chuckled, then looked a bit serious. "Besides, the powers that be are doing their best to keep a kind of peace and obedience on the ship. That doesn't mean I agree with everything they do, but believe me: Leon isn't the type to abandon people on their own. I know he and the leaders would do anything in their power to get them back."

Kaya looked a little conflicted. "I know the Yeerks have gotten better, but I didn't know that, nor that there were even any good ones. Even now, I'm still not sure what I think of them. The only thing I did that I think was wrong was that we would have unseated something the crew decided on themselves. The hardest thing on this ship is to stop people from fighting: its the easiest thing to do with so many people."

Well, that was true. After all, she'd been on a rescue team herself when things had gone bad on Orya. She really... really hadn't been thinking. She sat up and kicked her heel against the leg of the cot. "I'll just have to trust in them now, then. And the people on Galilee. They'd better get back safe."

She sighed. "I guess that's a good point. There are so many of us from different places, it's kinda surprising that there isn't more trouble around. I mean, it's bad enough when you just put humans and humans together."

"The thing to remember is that on this ship, just about everyone has a resource they either can access or have you to learn, but its there. I've always thought the reason that Stacy brought as all here is because we have the potential to become great, maybe even stronger than what we were. I'm sure they'll be ok."

Kaya sighed. "Oh there has been trust me. It's only recently that we were able to draft a Council and really outline the duties of everyone on the ship. Your heart was in the right place, I believe that. But the problem is if they let you blatantly disregard their orders and do what you want, it'll send a message that anyone else could do that. It's important to maintain the order on this ship: otherwise, everything just goes crazy."

Allenby raised her eyebrows at that. She had figured that Stacy had grabbed them for the skills that they already possessed, and anything new they learned on board would be a bonus. Still... those existing skills were quite significant in the away team. Sure, it was thirty people versus a whole planet, but if Allenby had learned anything it was that bad odds just didn't matter to a certain kind of person.

"I guess I can see the sense in that. But I still think they oughta told us that they were doing something about this situation. I would've started listening a lot sooner if they'd said that there were already people down there instead of just saying no, no, no." Not immediately, but it probably wouldn't have ended in the Brig.

"There are definitely some things they should have done: too often with them, they think we won't be compelled to try and save our friends. But I alos know by now not to get involved. I have actually two reasons for that. For one, several of the people on the team are council members anyway. Leon wouldn't allow anything to happen to them. That doesn't mean I think he'd leave people not on council to fend for themselves, but that he would do whatever was necessary to get them out safely, just like when our members were ransomed before."

She'd seen Leon in action too: as commander of the ship, he knew by now he was doubly responsible for the actions of others.

"The other reason is simpler: the people on the planet can defintely take care of themselves. Lash, Overlord Zetta, Kang, Ruffnut, Hit Girl: a lot of those guys are the toughest on the ship. No way they'd let themselves be defenseless for long."

Allenby nodded glumly. Given that she'd been on the rescue team to Orya, she ought to have assumed better of him... she'd just been going nuts with anxiety and outrage over what was being done to the crew and her friends, and the fact that Stacy had just sent that many people off onto this planet where they were going to be mistreated and tricked.

She owed Stacy a punch in the face. Another one.

Still, Kaya's point was good. "Now I'm startin' to wish I'd gone down there just to see what all those guys are going to do to the Galileeans," she said with a grin. "I just hope they're all able to get back in one piece, though."

"Like I said, I'm pretty sure they will: they're all tough, and with the Overlord and Kang and Nightwing there, how can they go wrong? Besides, I heard they were getting some hospital supplies or something. Even if they were hurt, we'll find a way to patch them up. I can tell you that for certain, I AM in the medical department."

"Yeah..." Allenby flopped back. "It really sucks that we can't just rush in there and help all the same. Even with all the reasoning in the world, I feel like I'm lettin' them down by not having their backs now."

God, she just had to find something else to think about. At least for five or ten minutes. "So--how did Leon get to be the captain anyway? I ain't studied the history of the ship as much as I probably should have."

"I know what you mean, but this is good practice. When we have to face the Ohm, whether in a group or separately, you're going to have to concentrate on what's happening to you, and let them do what they have to. That's what a fight is, half the time. Even I had to learn that th hard way."

She sighed. "Well, we had several different captains before. Before him was a Captain Kirk, and before him was...Captain Jean Luc Picard. He was one of my favorites actually: he showed me how big the universes were and everything. Anyway, once we lost the captains, we had a vote, and Leon threw his hate in. Even he didn't expect to be Captain, but he was voted in and everything. I think he resents it a little bit though: he used to be head of security, and now he's pretty much got his hands tied with looking over the ship."

Different aspects to a fight, different ways to communicate... now was one of the times Allenby really wished there was someone from the Shuffle Alliance she could talk to as well.

But this really wasn't a fight, was it. It was war. She hadn't had any idea how complicated it was, on top of being plain awful.

"Well, it's nice that you guys picked him yourself. I'd hate the thought of the GIA and Stacy decidin' that." She looked thoughtful. "If he didn't want to be captain, howcome he ran? Were the other guys who wanted it that bad?"

"There were other people, yes, but Leon was actually the one most qualified. He told the crew that while he had reservations on being the captain, if they voted him in he would do it. Well you can figure out the rest: he was voted in, and he's been captain ever since. So he sort of runs in the ways someone who was, say, chief officer would. Its why he reacts to dissension on the ship when there's a mission involved pretty quickly."

She didn't envy his job, and she was actually idealistic. She knew it would take a heck of a lot to get this crew together, to have them working alongside each other and making a stand against the Ohm without deciding they alone knew what was best.

"I didn't vote for him, mostly because I thought he made a better security chief. As a captain, well, we could do worse. He's at least keeping us together."

"I suppose that's kind of its own accomplishment." Still, Allenby wasn't quite satisfied. She definitely wouldn't have voted for Leon if she'd been around back then--then again it'd probably be a real mess if they had to vote in someone new every podpop or whatever. "But there's a whole lot of people on this ship who don't have any military background. People are gonna raise a fuss whether or not you threaten 'em with the brig."

Still, it was a hell of a lot better than Stacy herself or the GIA completely running the show, she had to admit that much.

"It is. People argue on this ship all the time, and Leon has seen enough arguments on the missions that he wants to stop them before they get worse. You don't get put into the brig because you 'raise a fuss' You get put in the brig usually for endangering the lives of others. That's probably why they put you there to begin with: they didn't want more people putting themselves in danger."

Allenby sighed. "Yeah..." She got that now, definitely. Even though she still thought she was right that they should have said so... "Actually, I was startin' to realize that I was being stupid even before I shut off my comm ring. Guess it was sort of ironic for them that 'sit down, shut up' is prob'ly the least likely thing to work on me."

"Yes, well, now you have sit down and shut up HERE, which s considerably worse," Kaya replied "And it stinks, seeing you here when you ought to be running around punching things and getting into mischief. But you'll be out soon, its stupid to keep you here too long because of what you 'attempted' to do."

She smiled "And it was brave, to try and help them despite what the captain said. Dumb, but brave."

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SO sorry I'm late, erased this by mistake! So glad for LJ mailbox!

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