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I've done a storyline about placing limits on reproduction before, of course, but I think this is coming at it from a different enough angle. Nicole, unlike Max, Ellen or Jamie, actually plans to have biological children some day, and therefore has a personal interest in that whole scene.

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(Saturday afternoon, INT: EB and JH's living room)

LH: Alright, you're all in Triteia, a domed city on partially-terraformed Mars. There've been reports of theft recently - food shipments being redirected, oxygen supplies being siphoned... obsolete robots performing increasingly brazen acts of robbery and sabotage, frying out if and when they get apprehended.
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LH: Local law enforcement suspects a splinter group of Right To Motherhood is operating somewhere outside of town, and has posted a bounty of-
NP: Wait a second, wait a second. "Right To Motherhood" is a terrorist group?
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LH: Well, they don't use terror as a political tool, so they're not a terrorist group. More like a rogue anarchist collective. Still quite illegal, though.
EB: Florenovia is all about how awesome Florenovia is, so most of the antagonists are strawman opponents of some aspect of their society. Three Score And Ten, The Pygmalion Collective, Ares Reborn, The Pauper Queens...
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LH: RTM groups tend to live off the grid, not paying taxes, having offspring in unlicensed wombs. They oppose population controls and feel that every human being has a natural right to reproduce as much as they want.
NP: So is the object of the game to join them? Because I think I want to join them.