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Tranquility - the last transmission on the network was not a hoax. We have been boarded.

All non-combat personnel should keep to their quarters at the present moment. Further instructions will follow.

Note please that the boarders are able to hack all transmissions, including those which are highly encrypted. Do not discuss tactical information over the network. Do not discuss extraneous things. We do not know what will be of use to these brigands, and we need to deny them as much information as possible. Keep silent; keep vigilant; updates to come.

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If I were given to guess, I's say you brought this down on you when you suggested you would drag people off for their own safety.

To be fair I agree with him. It was either a poor idea or poor choice of words, Miles.

[ He's watching this like a hawk. ]

[Tautly:] It was neither.

Then maybe it was both?

Sir, neither. I don't see what's difficult to understand.

Then explain it to me. What are you gonna do when people want to stay put? Like me, for example?

I am going to explain to you why that is astonishingly stupid, and explain to you that heroics have never done anything save get people killed. And that heroics over equipment are phenomenally stupid.

Without this equipment, Miles, the lives you're saving are worth nothing.

Right, because we're all worthless without the ability to transmit things? Come on, Petrelli. That's absurd.

No, because our history is contained here, and because if we don't keep it because some pirates want a few spare parts, none who come after will know what happened here.

Four thousand years of history burned at Alexandria. I knew knowledge was worthless to Tyke, but I thought you knew better.

Our history? What, a full one year of it? I think we can reconstruct that nonsense.

And our ability to send out an SOS? That's taken a year--you want to start from scratch on that too?

I swore to get my people home.

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Pretty sure it falls directly under the abuse of authority, which more than a few people around here should know the definition of.

At least I had the decency to do it in secret. If I hadn't the country would have rioted. They'd have wanted my head.

But you're doing it for their safety.

[ He's actually not mocking you this time. Go Figure. ]

He's young, Peter.

[ excuse him while he clears his throat for a moment -- this should be touching. ]

'But that's not how it'll come at you in a game, Pete. You gotta be ready for anything.' [ ahem. ] So we get to go easy on him?

[ He twitches, but. ]

A game is a bit different to trying to prevent all out war against space pirates, when what you've got is a rabble, half of which want order and the other blood.

That's not baseball, Pete. We weren't having it easy at twenty, but I'm pretty sure we weren't doing this.

[ .......... and now he's pissed. Well, more pissed. Missed your opportunity there, Nathan. ]

Glad to see you're just as good at missing my point, but i'll let you two work it out. Might try to throw a little more latin in there this time, just for fun.

[ disconnect. ]

What the hell, both of you. I am talking about ensuring that people don't walk into the line of - Yes, a grand violation of civil liberties, making sure people don't walk out there amongst murderous pirates!

You're proposing martial law, Miles.

No I am not. I'm proposing keeping people out of gunfire.

By dragging them 'kicking and screaming', if needs be. By exercising force to squash any freedom they have of getting shot if they want to.

If they don't want to go, you propose to force them.

Oh, God, am I preventing their freedom to get shot? I feel quite the monster.

They know the risks. People still walk downtown at night, you don't see cops bundling them into cars to whisk them away to safety.

Civil liberties, Miles. You agreed to uphold those first, before any promises you made here.

People need to live. I - for the love of God, Petrelli, it's a pirate invasion. This isn't goddamned martial law; this is organizing a response to people who are coming to kill us. You pick some fine goddamn times to get squeamish!