If imperioum has made a mistake a sent a man that was released back to some other level, how does that tell prisoners that all released inmates are just being sent to another prison?
The released prisoners got sent back to the prison. They had to kill everyone on a floor to try and suppress it but word got around anyway. Also the doctor literally fucking said it and directly told them did you miss that part?
Many of the prisoners are already there for inflated charges and they’ve seen how the Empire treats them as consumable pieces in the manufacturing process. They are in an isolated place that breeds paranoia, and I’m sure it wasn’t uncommon to question if people were actually being released.
Enter a prisoner getting recycled back to his level and then the Empire killing all the prisoners on the level. That looks like a coverup that admits to the crime.
You can sit back and dispassionately parse through it and come to some alternate conclusion, but the mindset of a prisoner who is rightfully paranoid and distrustful and just heard that a “free” prisoner was recycled and that his whole level got fried is going to have a very heightened response.
It took me a second watchthrough to fully grasp what was happening, but you’re spot on.
Guy was supposed to get out, they just upped his sentence and moved him.
And even if it was a one-off bureaucratic mistake unique to that one guy (I don’t think it was), it doesn’t even matter because the perception that prisoners on his level would have is that he’s proof nobody is getting out. Then those prisoners all being killed, even still assuming the original re-imprisoning is just a paperwork mistake, means that every other prisoner who hears about it only thinks it’s conspiracy.
They heard of a guy that they thought got released, but showed up in a different block immediately. Also that they killed an entire block for revolting or what ever, but I think that one was more about motivating them to go in on actually doing it.
