The first motion asked for Rook’s arrest before the summit finished reading the technical appendix.
Its sponsor cited the signed diversion, the failure to warn the shelter clearly and the incomplete explanation of immediate danger. Another delegate objected that a formal review was not a finding of criminal intent. A third wanted Rook removed from operational command whether or not an arrest could yet be justified.
On the screen beside them, Aegis crews were still answering emergency calls.
Tessa had asked that the operations feed remain visible. It complicated the argument in a useful way. The people lifting a patient at a transit stop were not an abstraction named Rook’s organization. Removing his authority would still require someone to assign their next route, supply their equipment and tell local commanders which instructions to recognize.
“Individual responders can continue under local rescue command,” she said when called. “Securing evidence and maintaining rescue assignments need different arrangements. We should write both instead of assuming one cancels the other.”
An Aegis delegate said that fragmented command was precisely how vehicles arrived at the wrong entrance. His organization possessed dispatch capacity, trained teams and rated equipment the summit could not duplicate by passing a motion.
