I'd say the big thing we can offer the locals at the moment is security, returning some degree of law and order, even if it's our law and order, instead of the rule of the gangs. Once we actually have some money coming in, then we can do more on the community outreach front.
There's still well over a thousand gangers out there - taking them on without extra personnel is going to restrict our options to the very bloody, and that's before they start deploying their own heavy hitters against our enhanciles and spec-ops.
That would be a thought actually - set up a weapon deal with the gangs then hit them hard when they turn up for it, to make them extra paranoid and slow down any efforts to rearm.
Our time table is only two months, you know.
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[X] Sarpedon
Yeeaaaah the, uh, build a community center option isn't exactly setting my loins on fire and I'm broadly more in favor of pressing our advantage while we still have this window.
I'm not unsympathetic but there's a large number of people embroiled in some really nasty shit. Look at what we pulled from the illegal bio-lab.
It's a fairly complex situation and romanticizing the competition as poor stray dogs in need of a good home isn't exactly doing anybody any favors. Sure, yeah, some of them are like what you said; just people trying to support their families and guard their little slice of the world, protect whatever it is they have left. The reports indicate as much. But there's enough out there who think that wiring weaponry for ripping and mauling into their foot-soldiers, who think that making raw, violent, augs tweaked out on combat stims and with integrated arsenals, is a just dandy idea.
So...y'know.