Rebuilding

Folks living on the Rim can be a stubborn , cantankerous, lot. Especially when it comes to things they've built and consider a part of who they are. It's like the folks who went back to recolonize Shadow before the radiation from the last bombing had fully cleared, or the ones who went back to try and reclaim Blackburne from the Reavers and the Wastes. The same thing's starting to happen here on Hale's with the crater that was Destiny.

Now, I'm not one to discourage someone from trying the impossible. Trying impossible things is what slides an eraser over the "im" part of that word, leaving possible behind. Folk don't try, they don't find out that sometimes "it can't be done" is a lie.

Thing is, not everything that's been called 'impossible' is worth proving wrong. There's some things that maybe can be done, but maybe shouldn't aught to be done. Like those man-powered Ornithopters they build on Colchester. Sure, they fly. But what's the point?

Same thing seemed to be happening with what had been the Destiny compound. Some of the folk who'd evacuated before the rock pasted the site have started rebuilding parts of the enclave. Never mind the ground hasn't cooled yet. Never mind there's a moon's worth of open land to work on. Never mind there's no real shortage of housing in the main colony proper. Never mind they're rebuilding under the watchful eye of the Alliance, who hasn't forgotten flippant remarks about nuclear weapons. Never mind there's no real good reason to rebuild there. They're doing it.

Stubborn.

Cantankerous.

Part of me understands wanting to rebuild, but these are some of the same folk who had to evacuate Caliban and came here to restart. They didn't rebuild there when the Alliance collapsed the dome. What made them want to stay here? Perhaps more important, given as they hadn't shown any real desire to integrate with the existing colony, what makes them want to rebuild their enclave right in our back yard? Somehow building here will put a thorn in the Alliance's paw? Don't seem especially likely. More like they're shoving their tenacity in the face of the folk who'd already proven they could survive anything this little slice of heaven threw at them.

Wasn't much inclined to stop them, of course. Not my place to tell them no. Not much need either. The deal they'd had with Blue Sun for the land was already defunct. The rock impact hadn't changed that. Seeing as they were building so close to the colony proper, they'd be under the Colony's auspices. Least that's how I saw it. And, likely, how the Alliance would see it, given my conversations with Lionheart and Silvermane.

So let them rebuild. They'd be part of the town, like it or not. At least when the Alliance gave the town back to us. Meantime, they could be as shibutoi as they wanted. Wouldn't make much difference in the long run.

Right now, I had to change focus to other issues.

They'd still be there when I had time to put a boot down.