tlb wrote:tlb wrote:However, since there actually is a good alignment (now the Engagement) on Mesa; why would a truly good alignment need to hide?ThinksMarkedly wrote:That's the million credit question. Audrey is smart, so she may ask that. But she's also got a major blind spot.phillies wrote:Because people are plotting to destroy it, or would be, if they knew about it.
Please explain. The good alignment on Mesa (called the Engagement now, I believe) has always been in a position were it could be destroyed, but instead has been tolerated as an opposition group. To a certain extent this is because the Onion was using it as a cover and a place to recruit. So why would anyone care about a "good" (meaning non-violent) group that cut itself off from all but the smallest contact in order to hide? That may protect themselves from infiltration, but it also cuts them off from information and influence (except at a clandestine level).
I expect that partly because the "leopard doesn't change their spots" the GA and friends know that the Detwiller conspiracy (Mesan Alignment) has hidden it's plans and activities within other organisations for centuries with none of their internal/external security agencies getting a hint of its presence. So, any thing that looks remotely like part of the MA is going to be of interest.
Also, one could assume that Phobes interaction with Audrey was under the heading of "damage control". The MA is going to have do a lot of reassuring of its deep cover agents, as to why they need to stay in place with the Engagements emergence.
As this new organisation does fundamentally and openly achieve the Detwiller goal (just without the "genetic class structure" the MA want's to embrace), whilst simulations reflecting the history of the MA.