Wardens, inmates who are considering staying on for deals later, inmates who are being given deals by others - depending on the complexity of your deal and what you intend to accomplish with it, you should consider how customizable the execution of the deal might be when it comes to obtaining what you want.

Some of you know that I am relocating my ethnic group to a new planet. When the idea was suggested to me, I realized it was most ideal for what I wanted to accomplish, that being preventing the world from eradicating my people and simultaneously preventing my people from perpetrating a global genocide themselves. Of course this is a huge undertaking and as I mulled it over further more complications presented themselves, principle among them my fear that we might starve out soon after the transition was made, or that we'd lose vital resources that we put a lot of time into making, such as harbors, railways, and so on.

Here are some of the measures I took: rather than taking my people to an entirely new planet, the Admiral will be moving us to a planet identical to our current one, but depopulated. I specifically asked that infrastructure be transferred over, with something like a direct land swap in mind - the land that we built on will swap with the land on the new planet. Where our towns and edifices were, wild undeveloped country will be left.

Instead of all my people being dumped out at once, the Admiral agreed to take us all at the same time, but to gradate our arrival on the new planet through time. The king, her support staff, trusted military personnel, essential workers and their families will arrive earliest.

Six years after arriving in the new world, a choice will be posed to each person whether they wish to stay or return. I suggested to the Admiral - but don't understand the particulars - a 'safety' tether so to speak, that degrades over the six years, allowing that moment of choice at the end of the term. I asked that the choice be inviolate and no person can force another to make either choice. They may attempt to convince each other of what the best path forward is, but the final word at least belongs to each speaker.

These specifications were woven into one deal. The Admiral would not include moving the institution of the deal backwards in time, to pick up in my world before I arrived on the barge; relocation of the deal in time must be a separate deal. Per the Admiral, this is because the specifications I did make are components of moving my people to a new planet - they are not in and of themselves separate deals. Moving the deal in time constitutes multiple separate revivals of lost lives, and undoing the past, so it cannot be folded into the work my first deal has done.

A deal is a powerful decision. When making it, we have some leeway in modifying it to spec. Admiral deals are slow and unreliable to get. I suggest thinking through your framing carefully.

If you have further questions about my framing of my deal, I'm potentially open to discussing them.

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After being more or less MIA for a good while, except for the duties she took on in the art room and the kitchen, Hange emerges a bit back into barge life and becomes part of the background again: reading textbooks on a scatter of subjects in the cafeteria over breakfast, making her way into the Enclosure with a fishing rod or wheeling a mountain back or wearing the tactical gear, in which case she'll probably shoo away anyone who seems interested in entering with her.

In the evening she's on deck, knitting, drinking from a hip flask, or stargazing.

The art room hours are erratic, but it's not hard to find a time when it's open. Hange does her clay work, molding masks and whirling bowls and cups into being, squishes down the majority of them and recycles the clay. If an inmate wants to take art supplies away she'll usually just let them, as long as they're nontoxic and not harmful and not in dwindling supply.