registration plot idea: document one

In the post-Tower Attack turmoil Cambridge approaches the Magistrate with a proposition: to create a list - tentatively called the Potential Harm List but codenamed Document One whilst in development stages to dissuade any suspicion and prevent leaks.There is obviously a potential to divide the city (echoing Marvel's Civil War arc) in game and plenty of plot opportunities for interesting shenanigans! Cambridge will put himself forward to head the project - and take any negative press away from the rest of the government/the Magistrate. He'll suggest that the Magistrate call it an 'unfortunate but necessary evil' and allow him to take the slack for it - but in return he will ask for a large degree of autonomous control over the list.

The development of the plot could take the form of a 'leaked' scrap of the registration plan: just a small section of the document with a few worrying key phrases to get people talking. There's a possible example of both below.

BASICALLY Cambridge is so keen to propose/be in charge of this project for a very good reason: to keep himself off it. He's still trying to keep his technopathy under wraps and ironically enough he'll be using his (quite formidable) power to keep the registration list so very well protected just in order to make sure he (and his colleagues, if their applications are submitted/accepted) is never put on it. As a side note: if this plot happens then I'd really like Cambridge's power to eventually be exposed as part of some kind of twist? Because obviously it makes him a dirty hypocrite! What fun! At the moment there are three - potentially four - people in the city who know that he's a technopath so he'd have to find some way to blackmail them in to keeping his secret!

I imagine there'd be lots of turmoil and uproar and even though the document is not meant to be used for employers to discriminate against hiring nonhumans this could still totally happen. Perhaps some people in the Registration Office could be open to bribes? Yay, corruption.

" THE REGISTRATION OFFICE " c/o: The Magistrate's Office DEVELOPMENT OF DOCUMENT ONE DRAFT #01: RESTRICTED CIRCULATION

AIM: To provide a detailed list of all non-human persons that may pose a potential threat of considerable severity to the safety of the citizens of Bete Noire; the well-being of the Magistrate; the effective running of the government of Bete Noire; or themselves. FUNCTION: The POTENTIAL HARM LIST (codenamed DOCUMENT ONE whilst in development stages) will be made available to all government departments with the Sheriff's Office given priority access. All other access to the document will be monitored by a newly-commissioned department named the REGISTRATION OFFICE. PRACTICE: Document One will be compiled and managed by the Registration Office under the direction of a HEAD OF REGISTRATION who will report directly to the Magistrate. Information from all judicial departments including the Sheriff's Department must be made available to be included on Document One. Any potential threats discovered over the network via the Office of Communications must be reported to both the Sheriff's Department and the Registration Office. RESTRICTIONS: In order to reassure the wider public that this document will not be used to encourage pro-human discrimination in city employers the Registration Office will ensure that Document One is not be made available for public consultation unless written permission has been obtrained from either the Magistrate or the Head of Registration.

Potential leaked snippet of the registration proposal







Leaked on to the network by a government employee NPC?