Only the internal leader of the council would be a vastly ceremonial role. I don't think the Council itself should be one at all as we're now about the size of a village back on Arkea.

As to what we can do? I don't know yet. We haven't really had a chance to figure that out, though, I can tell you it won't be anything like Tony Stark's brand of 'democracy'.

[An exhales as she gathers herself.] I agree with you on the being able to talk without rigidity and I want that. What I also want - what we need - is a group of leaders we can look to when things go wrong on the train. The void storm being a good example, or times when we're told we're going to be boarded by Inspectors.

Which if it ever happens again, I will be telling people to do what they want because that way we get them off the train faster.

However, quite frankly from my view as a Councilperson, we the Council haven't had time to sit down and discuss any of what's come up here, and then present what we, the Council, feel is the best workable solution -at least in terms of non-mission things- to what everyone's saying at this meeting and then go from there working with the community to make sure everyone feels as though they got an equal say.

We can give you all the proposed progress we'd like to see, yes, but if we're out of touch, then we need to be told so.