Chapter Ten

SecUnit and the team frantically complete a documentary-style presentation about corporate labor exploitation in under five hours, using interviews, archival footage, and emotional storytelling to persuade the colonists. They upload the finished 47-minute video to the colony's media directory and begin monitoring its reception anxiously as downloads and views accumulate.

SecUnit works with ART-drone, Tarik, Iris, and Ratthi in their quarters to create a persuasive multimedia presentation about indenture and labor exploitation in the Corporation Rim. The project combines fictional narrative elements based on contract laborers SecUnit met earlier, documentary footage including interviews with rescued refugees, academic research, and newsfeed segments. Ratthi contributes historical research on colony abandonment and revises the narration; Tarik, despite reluctance about discussing his past as a corporate death squad member, participates in an interview that becomes part of the final piece. Iris records the narration, which ART-drone converts to Dr. Bharadwaj's voice. With only five hours before the colonists demand they leave, the team works at high intensity, with Iris coordinating editing while managing ongoing communications with colony representative Trinh, who becomes unavailable. Unable to deliver the presentation directly, they upload it to the colony's media directory as "entertainment" and "educational" content, tagged as a gift from the university visitors. The completed video begins downloading and streaming among the colonists—362 downloads and 75 completed views within minutes of nearly 421 colonists. As the team watches their creation with cautious hope, a message arrives from Supervisor Leonide of Barish-Estranza requesting another meeting. Iris decides she and SecUnit will speak with Leonide while Tarik and Ratthi prepare the shuttle for departure.