Rebuild Capital Wasteland.

Chapter 5: The followers of the law

So this is called Brandy?" he asked Lyons as he sipped the brown liquid from a glass.

"Yes, not so many bottles left of it, but once in a while a scavenger sells it to a trader that understands it value and sells it to me. But enough of the brown delight, how does Vernon Hotel stands?"

"Suprisingly well. I was to Tennpenny Tower a year ago, and if you take away the carpets and gold, this is the same if not better standard."

"Good, good, to have a place like that too show its possible to rebuild is important. But unfortunatly it demanded lots of resources.

"You mean the windows, wood, furniture, wires and so on.?" TLW asked.

"Yes, we scavenged at least 6 buildings to get all the materials, we can not improve much more. A whole window itself is a rare sight, and we need hundreds of them shall we fix up everything inside the Perimeter."

"Yes, is this the main issue of this weeks meeting?"

"No, not at all. I hope to solve this problem soon by having the scribes at Arlington understand the secrets to produce windows and learn the machines. For the other things i hear things from my scouts that opening trade routes will solve many of the other problems. No, the problem we need to solve is more complex one. We need to create a law that applies to everyone that is under our protection." Lyons poured another drink.

" I cant see if thats a big problem. We have little crime inside the fortification of the mall."

" No, the bigger things like rape, murder does not need to be specified. If caught they are being expelled and we drop them off near slave routes. But what about the smaller crimes. Like stealing, fighting and so on. What is legal and what is not, and what should the punishment be. We need to create a standard that applies for all of the people that wants to live in The Mall."

" So what do you need from me" TLW asked.

" First of all. I will gather representative from all the settlements to a seminar so we can agree upon a common law in the area, but i need you to find a suitable locations for a prison.

" What about a courtroom? This is heavy stuff, if we are going to have rules, we also need to have rights."

" You are talking about the bill of rights that the former nation of these lands had?" Lyons asked.

" Yes, i was schooled inside a vault, and i read about how a country should be founded. History showed that if people is not giving some essential rights, a nation could not survive."

" Yes, i will take that into consideration too, but you have to remember that the wasteland is not over its survival fase, not yet."

" I will start look for both areas, just to be sure. By the way, have the new soldiers from Reilly be mobilized?"

"Yes, we have 50 new soldiers that are battletrained. Reilly promised 100 new within two months. With this we can now also starts perimeter patrols outside the fortification. Within half a year we have enough to actually start challenge the Slavers in the area."

TLW walked through the bridge back the The mall. Three steels greeted him at the way. Even though he did not like it, he admitted that people still needed to give before they could claim. With the Exception for food and water, the Mall was still depending on scavenging, they were not producing anything. He bought a water bottle from one of the Vendors at the Mall and took a sip while he thought about the assignment. The first thing that came to mind was Rivet City. Now that the mall was starting to be habitable they could move the residents, but then he remembered that Rivet City was the only place that produced fresh vegetables and that had a somehow reasonable laboratory that provided with the research needed for agriculture growth.