I didn't mention this, but imagined all that going in some sort of backpack or something.
as for the gun- son, let me tell you about a little thing called the Second...
Alright.
You get a backpack and stuff everything inside it except for the gun, which you keep out, in plain view, in your hand. You proceed to march out, down the hall, into the main thoroughfare and off to the train yard. You're not really familiar with anything there so you just hop on a train that looks like it's heading downward.
How many stations you wanna ride it?
To the son
[glow=green2,300]"Okay, I must have misunderstood the situation here and your level of comfort with the authorities. Tell me more about who we would need to contact. How far up the food chain are they, and how high do your contacts presently go? Or, how high do your contacts - that I am authorized to know about - go? Do you think I would need to work with Vincent to set up a presentation for them? You may not have noticed, but he's better at that schmoozing stuff than I am.
Ah, yes, you said 'tailor it to be appealing to them.' This is why I wanted to check the political situation and whatnot. Tell me what the people you have in mind are interested in. Do we have racists we can encourage by suggesting some kind of ethnic exportation? Strict law types who want nothing better than career criminals dumped ...well, someplace like they will be dumped? Someone who wants to believe that criminal can be reformed through manual labor? Uh ... Wealthy socialites who want the unwashed masses 'out of sight, out of mind'?"
Are there places in the stacks where there is enough tension between the uppers and the criminals or the lower classes where they would be willing to round people up en masse and gift wrap them for us?
Of course, the faster the influx, the greater the need for a trained surgical team. Have we any contacts in hospitals or medical schools where we can get some discrete surgeons? Someone maybe with debts or ... perhaps someone who crossed the wrong party, and needs protection?"[/glow]
((I feel like most of my career is "ask the son a question." and maybe a little "tell them to do it." 
"Hey, I've become an officer!" 
))
"Obviously if we are posing as a legitimate company that makes things different than if we are simply a group of weapon dealers. Once we set up a deep enough cover as a new shipping company in the area, we should be able to bring forth the idea without fear, though we would still be relatively unknown civilians, so getting it approved might be a long process.
It would be better instead to appeal to those who claim to be hard on crime. Targeting individuals with specific race, age, gender or lifestyle prejudices would limit our intake; there are only so many of any kind of man available. But any man might be a criminal. We could pitch the idea of cleaning up the lower levels, exporting criminals rather than imprisoning them. Far cheaper. We can hire on legitimate doctors this way as well. Since it would be entirely above the table, so far as they know.
We should attempt to target the head of the Department of Criminal Affairs; either through legal economic and political methods or through illegal means. We may find it helpful to stir up trouble and increase the desire to export criminals and reduce crime. This would be simple enough, with the right interactions."
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