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Time for a jail break.

For those taken, you have some advantages. Numbers being one with a total of seven people taken to this point. Even if they're all still a little drugged up. Help is on its way, but you might need to get yourselves all unbound and moving.

Rescue mission? Well hopefully between a lead on a vehicle and hey maybe someone's looked into that video and mined some data in it, you've all managed to narrow down a potential location. An abandoned warehouse in Mesiac, a few stories tall and despite ActNow! talking big, they thankfully don't have the numbers to back it up. Might be a bit of a fight to get inside and run into your escaping comrades, but with only about twenty people trying to pull this hostage situation off, there's not a whole lot of resistance.

AFTERMATH

Despite being held hostage most of the taken are in okayish shape. A bit dehydrated, a bit underfed, maybe a bit loopy with the drugs. Some cuts and bruises but their captors weren't being needlessly unkind to them. The rescue/escape itself might bring up a few more injuries amongst everyone though. Anyone got a bandaid?

The main culprits behind of all this will escape for now, but hopefully between everyone they manage to hold onto a few members of ActNow! for further questioning.

NOTES

There will be an ooc tread comment posted to discuss or hammer out details if wanted. Feel free to use this post to do any threads or action posts regarding the three options above as well. Backdating things to before this post is perfectly fine at this point still too! For time reference the escape/rescue happens the afternoon of January 28th.

As well this plot will have some political and personal consequences going forward. How do our characters react to knowing there are people willing to to go this extreme?

[ A masked face appears in front of a black backdrop. The voice when they speak is female sounding but distorted. Eyes are visible, blue in colour and a small amount of light brown hair showing despite the hood. A website address is shown on the bottom of the screen. ]

Citizens of the Galaxy, we are ActNow! We are responsible for the disappearances of the people known as the Arrived.

Be assured that no harm has come to our hostages.

We will continue to gather more until our demands are met. It is long overdue that the general population be made aware of just who is now among their ranks. We are demanding the names of every person who has come into the Galaxy from another world. We are demanding that the government be held accountable for their lack of transparency. It is our right to know who we are dealing with. We are no longer willing to be left in the dark.

We have set up a registry on our website. We encourage the Arrived to identify themselves if our government refuses to do so. If you know of someone who is an Arrived we implore you to help our mission of transparency and identify them.

Until the strangers who walk amongst us are identified we will continue to find them ourselves and hold them indefinitely.

[ The video cuts out, with the website address taking up the screen for a few moments before fading to black. ]

Within the hour statements are made by NavCor, the UPCS, and several governments including Andromeda's - all condemning the actions and declaring ActNow! a terrorist organization. The ISK release a statement that is picked up by some new outlets and sites sympathetic to ActNow! In their statement they encourage people to take up the cause ActNow! laid out.

Statement by Caroline Forbes on NavCor's behalf at a press conference shortly after the video's release:

NavaTor Corporation wholly condemns the recent actions of the group known as ActNow!. NavCor believes in the actions of the UPCS in extending the designation of Living Kind to all Arrived and in turn believes that asking them to be identified and catalogued goes against this designation and the rights associated with it. We are asking if anyone has any information about ActNow! to come forward so that those taken may be found and released.

On a more personal note, as an Arrived person myself, I extend my thoughts and worry to the others like me out there. If you are worried about your safety in light of the current situation please use the contact number that will be given at the end of this statement to set up security at your current location or transport to a safe house. Your anonymity is guaranteed.

A statement from the UPCS followed shortly after, which was delivered by an impassioned Noctis Lucis Caelum:

I’m a senator. I’m an Arrived. I’m a survivor of kidnapping. And I will not negotiate with terrorists.

On behalf of the United Planetary Coalition Senate, rest assured that I’m doing everything in my power to bring these innocent people home. Because this is our home. We deserve the same respect afforded to our neighbors, our coworkers, our friends, and even our family—all relationships that we’ve found and cultivated here as we continue to put down roots. I ask that you help us now, when we need your help the most. If you have any information regarding this terrorist organization or the whereabouts of the missing Arrived, please come forward.

We can’t allow fear to divide us. The enemy isn’t standing beside you—the enemy is the suspicion this group and others want you to feel, but you’re smarter than that. We’re smarter than that, and stronger when we stand beside each other.

I believe in what we can achieve if we work together. I invite you to start now.