yeah

hope the vote turns out well

probably will if they're not letting senators run around senating

they are all in our very cushy jails

I hope not too cushy, they suck

the idea is that everyone deserves to be comfortable no matter how much they suck

i think that's true for people in, like, my world

where if they did something horrible they got caught immediately and the person they did it to knew they'd get caught immediately and they were raised with this idea so it doesn't feel like we're saying it's not very serious by having cushy jails

i think it sort of breaks down for a place where they did horrible things for a long time and most of the people they hurt had no recourse 

and you have the death penalty for serious crimes so this doesn't feel serious

well it would be really weird for a few hundred senators to all get the axe but yeah

on my planet 'get the axe' means being fired from your job

the death penalty is fucked up

meh

i mean like if something had gone wrong with the mugging and the gun had gone off you'd still be you 

yeah but like at that point I wouldn't be doing anybody any good being alive

i'm really glad everything worked out

me too

Vanda Nossëo releases a statement emphasizing that it's typically unwise to have coups because of the risk of a partial success and protracted violence, but acknowledging the new Calador government and announcing the immediate deployment of observers to supervise Calado's membership election and commending the parties for a peaceful transition of power. 

They resurrect the handful of soldiers killed in the brief fighting. 

Calado senators, scattered across moons and planets in five dozen star systems, can play ping-pong and Super Mario Kart with their fellow inmates.

Calado senators are very mad.

"I can imagine!" says a prison social worker. "It must have been a really scary situation."

...the senator with this social worker looks incredulously at her.

"I'd be very upset if our military overthrew our government."

Sigh.

          "You guys have a military? We don't have a military."

"They maintain the trails in the national parks and rescue dumb boaters and parachute down onto kickball fields at the start of the national matches."

          " - how would they even -"

" - well, I don't really know. But if they managed it'd be upsetting. It'd be upsetting if, say, Loki overthrew Vanda Nossëo, and that could happen."

"...maintain the trails in parks?"

" - it's like, you know, some places keep a ceremonial monarch even after they have delegated all the non-ceremonial duties to an elected legislature, we did that but with our military. We have very well-maintained trails. Do you care for hiking? I can recommend some and get us an excursion permit."

"I'm more of a sailing person," says the senator.

"I can get an excursion permit for that too!"

"Sure, why not."

        "Loki wouldn't do that."

"Of course not. But she could, which is the only comparison I was making."

        "I just don't think you should say things like that, you'll freak people out."

"I will put together a list of good sailing locations so Noran can pick one, how about that."

        "Yeah."