To: My fellow Congressmen.

[Tyria Regalia]

Silence? Is that truly what this Congress has become? Some of you have talked to me in private, and so far there has been nothing but positive feedback from those conversations. Admittedly, those members of this Congress are not as outspoken as some of us, and while they have every intention to make this Congress better, they don’t feel it is their place to offer direction.

I, however, am no shrinking violet. I have motivations and I have plans. To my credit, I do not believe that I am conceited enough to think they are the best motivations, or the most well-conceived plans. Well, perhaps I am. I want this Congress to stand and fight against our enemies. But that fight should be on our terms, not theirs. It should be fought with the weapons of our choosing, not theirs. If we succeed on those two points, it’ll be their blood that is spilled. Not ours.

This is not a call for new leadership, no. This is a plea for action from the rest of you. If you don’t like the path the Arbiter and his deputies have laid before us, discuss it. Do not follow it blindly, or turn a blind eye to it. If you disagree, voice it. If you think you have an idea worth its weight in scrap, it should be heard, echoing within this chamber. For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

We are Junkers. No one knows the history of this galaxy more than us, because every piece of scrap we collect reveals just a little bit more of what happened in the past. We are Junkers. We have endured, and we will continue to endure the test of time. We are Junkers. Dealing as we do in waste and salvage, we know not to judge a ship by its appearance the same way we don’t judge others by their habits. We understand everything in this universe has its place in it, even if we may not like it.


With no opposition, I plan on moving forward with my storage center. Puerta de Tierra, will stand high above Bosque, visible from all corners of Puerto Rico, because nothing kills an idea faster than, out of sight, out of mind.