That is among the options I am considering. But I am afraid it may be an empty gesture. They have power over us, no matter what our tattoos read. The decision may become meaningless, if they decide to coerce the Unsettled into fighting their wars. As long as they control our nanites, the Porter, and nullifier weapons, there is little we could do to stop them.

What I would like to do is to change these circumstances. To make certain the choices of imPorts in this world have meaning.

[He will not be conscripted or controlled again. The Soviets made sure of that.]