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8:31 AM
There's been a lot of talk happening over the last few days, not all of it public, so I wanted to go for full transparency about my status after Friday's visit. I'm including some recent history and context here - you can read more about it online if you haven't already, but people turning up from other worlds aren't usually going to know to look for the information so I'm laying out a brief summary to start you off.
A couple of years ago there was a proposal for an international treaty called the Sokovia Accords that would regulate how people like the Avengers or the various unaffiliated superhumans would be allowed to use their powers. In theory it was a reasonable idea and we might have been able to figure out something that everyone could agree on, except that during talks there was a terrorist attack on a UN debate and James Barnes was framed for it. Steve and I had been searching for him after he escaped from being held prisoner and we were able to find him during the aftermath, but through him we learned that the group that had held him, HYDRA, had created other super soldiers as well and the person who was really behind the UN bombing was on his way to take control of them. We were under extreme time pressure and when several other team members attempted to arrest us for not bringing Barnes in I made a sacrifice play to give them time to get to the location. A few others and I were held in an off-shore facility until Steve got us out and since then he and I had been running ops trying to locate and destroy alien technology that had been left behind during the Chitauri invasion while remaining in hiding. When the portals started opening we came back to the US knowing that we still had open warrants. Those are both decisions that I would absolutely make again if I was in the same position today.
It's good to have the chance to get our legal status settled, though. I sat down with the government's representatives today to discuss a few alternative scenarios and we have mutually agreed that the best thing for everyone is if I remain here full time. I've offered to be on hand to fly rescue missions when I can - the wings I have now are a lot better than the government's design and there's basically no one else left who can operate them anymore - but I'm not the only pararescue in the world. I'm needed here and this is going to remain my priority. I won't let the military's interests compromise my work with all of you and luckily when they listened to my arguments on the subject the government realised I was right.
On another note I'm going to put Inside Out on tonight, but for tomorrow I've managed to dig up an old sci fi 80s classic, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It should be fun.
A couple of years ago there was a proposal for an international treaty called the Sokovia Accords that would regulate how people like the Avengers or the various unaffiliated superhumans would be allowed to use their powers. In theory it was a reasonable idea and we might have been able to figure out something that everyone could agree on, except that during talks there was a terrorist attack on a UN debate and James Barnes was framed for it. Steve and I had been searching for him after he escaped from being held prisoner and we were able to find him during the aftermath, but through him we learned that the group that had held him, HYDRA, had created other super soldiers as well and the person who was really behind the UN bombing was on his way to take control of them. We were under extreme time pressure and when several other team members attempted to arrest us for not bringing Barnes in I made a sacrifice play to give them time to get to the location. A few others and I were held in an off-shore facility until Steve got us out and since then he and I had been running ops trying to locate and destroy alien technology that had been left behind during the Chitauri invasion while remaining in hiding. When the portals started opening we came back to the US knowing that we still had open warrants. Those are both decisions that I would absolutely make again if I was in the same position today.
It's good to have the chance to get our legal status settled, though. I sat down with the government's representatives today to discuss a few alternative scenarios and we have mutually agreed that the best thing for everyone is if I remain here full time. I've offered to be on hand to fly rescue missions when I can - the wings I have now are a lot better than the government's design and there's basically no one else left who can operate them anymore - but I'm not the only pararescue in the world. I'm needed here and this is going to remain my priority. I won't let the military's interests compromise my work with all of you and luckily when they listened to my arguments on the subject the government realised I was right.
On another note I'm going to put Inside Out on tonight, but for tomorrow I've managed to dig up an old sci fi 80s classic, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It should be fun.