Brooks Messages 2: True Sons

## True Sons

### Description

In her second Dead Drop, Brooks argues that despite their flaws, the structure and stability the True Sons offer can help bring back control of America more than the Division can.

### Speaker(s)

Skyler Brooks

**Brooks:** Well, if you're listening to this, I guess you followed the directions. Are you ready to listen? If you are, then good.

**Brooks:** So, the True Sons. Why did I join them, you ask? Why did I become their leader? Why not just run? Why not just disappear? You have questions and I have answers.

**Brooks:** The True Sons are not perfect. All but the most zealous amongst us can admit that, to some degree or another. We've...made mistakes, and sometimes, we need to be cruel. But sometimes, just sometimes, actions you'd consider immoral are necessary.

**Brooks:** That's the problem with seeing things in black and white, like the Division do. Like ISAC does. You have a strong moral compass, more than most people these days. That's not a bad thing. But the problem is when you only see the world in two colors, you miss so much of what's in front of you. If Amherst did anything for humanity, he showed us for who we really are.

**Brooks:** I know you think the Division is the only the country has. Without you, the world would fall into darkness, right? Because without a firm hand, without law and order, the raiders, the psychopaths, and the murderous lunatics would prey on the weak. Isn't that what you're fighting for? The innocent? The vulnerable?

**Brooks:** What do you think I'm doing? What do you think the True Sons are doing? Despite what you believe, if you think about it, our causes, our methods, they're not that different. The difference is, we're willing to make the hard choices, do what has to be done. Killing only gets you so far. Wars don't save countries. It doesn't build back ruins. It doesn't put food in children's bellies, it doesn't keep the lights on.

**Brooks:** The True Sons have something the Division and the JTF don't: Structure. Systems. You should see what we've built up north. We've gotten the dams powered up; our engineers stabilized the grid. We have clean, running water, farmlands, fishing industries, even goddamn stores. Our people live under rules, sure, but they're fair ones. Our people are happy, we've brought back at least...some element of normalcy. Imagine what we could do across the country, in just a few years. The internet is backed up, we can get it back up and running. Once the rail networks are repaired, we can ship people and supplies to stranded communities.

**Brooks:** If you think all True Sons are just fanatic monsters and I'm just a traitor and a tyrant, if you really, truly believe that, then go ahead. But you're lying to yourself. We're not monsters. We're building a future here. A better America. A New America. One of peace and prosperity, free of the corruption and greed of career politicians and petty in-fighting. And the Division's methods...maybe they worked at first.... but they just don't work anymore. Someone needs to do something more than killing if we're going to get back to any sort of normal.

**Brooks:** I'd love for you to join me. For you to see the truth through all the propaganda and lies of the Division. But if you don't.... if you choose to stand against me.... then I promise you one thing. Nothing and no one is going to stop me. I won't let you destroy what I created. I won't let you stand in my path. If you stand with the True Sons, you will thrive. But those who try to stand against us.... we will wipe you from history.