Can we see what shape former CEO Zhetilli Ankhrian is in when the Pax Huanis members turn them over to the CRC? And what becomes of the former CEO after?
@internutter/challenge-03854-j202-run-rabbit-run -- Anon Guest
[AN: Also with reference to: @internutter/challenge-03876-j224-alive-and-unharmed thanks so much for reading]
Sometimes, Zhetilli swore, the only thing stopping them going further was her Havenworlder status. Even a Level One Havenworlder could perish under the wrong circumstances. Humanity were technically Level Five Deathworlders, and could make anyone's life nasty, brutish, and short.
As far as the crew of Pax Humanis Enforcers were concerned, two out of three was a reasonable substitute to pass the time.
It was difficult to sleep while a pack of pathological killers were obeying the very letter of the Decree of Prisoner Rights. Prisoners were entitled to a minimum habitat of private space, shared space, and air recycling system. Check. Technically.
The private space was a hygiene booth including a low-grav toilet and waterless personal cleansing unit. The 'shared space' was a padded chamber with self-reassembling cellulose cushions. The air recycling system was a sabotage-proof network of algae tubes. Both the shared space and the air recycling system was open to guardian inspection thanks to the one clear wall that stood between Zhetilli and everyone else.
Prisoners were entitled to full and adequate nutrition and exercise according to their personal ability to do so. Check. Again, technically.
There were mandatory exercise periods and one resistance cable that was too short for Zhetilli to use for self-harm. Just for training various muscles, and it stowed itself outside of exercise hours.
Prisoners were entitled to access to educational material. Check. There was no avoiding it.
Zhetilli's educational material was non-stop, wall-to-wall children's entertainments and documentaries about how profit at the expense of other's wellbeing was actually bad. There was no other choice of that. Including documentaries about how brutal capitalism had ruined every civilisation that let it run the place.
Prisoners were entitled to protection from torture and torment. Including psychological torture. That was a very wobbly check. Because Prisoners had to be guarded at all times.
Pax Humanis were the only beings there to assure Zhetilli's safety and wellbeing. Which meant a member of Pax Humanis was watching her at all times.
It was the prisoner rights' equivalent of "I'm not touching you."
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