The discussion continued for a long time, but among other things, the Rada did eventually come to an affirmative conclusion on sending out diplomatic feelers to both the Republikansky Gorod and the members of the Kultury Confederation. Now, let's move on to the electricity issue." "Alright, so I'm writing down Vasyl's expansion program and the diplomatic initiatives on the list of things we'll vote on. "That's the idea, yeah," Iryna agreed, pulling out a notebook and a pen. Let's stay friendly with everyone we can and figure out who our true enemies are later." "Exactly," Igor nodded vehemently, "but let's just not commit to either side right now. If the Kultury to the north turn out to be nasty, we could rely on them as a counterweight." They seem alright, although you never know. "Yeah," Iryna added, "we could check out those anarchists too, to the southwest. "We had nothing to do with them so far, we don't even know anything about their goals beyond speculation. "I'm not sure that's wise, my friends," Igor shook his head. "Well, if you can't beat them, join them, I say," one council member, thus far silent, chimed in. Several of them are ex-military formations and they may be trying to split the metro up between ourselves." They're not as far from us as the Nazis, and they don't seem as crazy, but that doesn't make them less of a threat. "There's apparently this 'Kultury Confederation' that has formed between several stations on the Circle. "That's not all, Nina," Vasyl continued after a few affirmative chuckles and nods died down. "As long as those two nutcases are busy with each other, I don't see why we should give a hoot about them," another woman, more gruff than Iryna, spoke now. There's apparently another man who's playing Hitler, though fortunately they're rather far north." "We receive more and more reports about all kinds of different factions. "Good thing you mention them too," Vasyl interjected. Besides, plenty of humans live down in the Metro still without being seriously threatened by the mutants." Most of them don't seem to be very intelligent at all, from what I've heard. "I think you're giving them too much credit. Chairwoman Iryna seemed rather skeptical and raised an eyebrow. "Because you shot some of them back in your 'glory days'?" a female voice interjected. They crawl all around the tunnels and have left us alone for the most part, only because we too kept to ourselves. "Who knows if the Metro won't strike back? I'm talking about the mutants, of course. "We're striking out at the Metro, Igor," the man who was addressed replied. We already have enough soldiers to defend ourselves." ".no Vasyl, I don't see why that would be necessary. Nobody could hear them in there, although they didn't talk about anything particularly secret - they just didn't like to be overheard. The Rada held its meetings in one of the more remote, more hidden rooms of the station, refurbished and decorated but still rather modest.
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