Jonesboro Posse

Type: Narrative — Political Dissent & Departure Central Figure: Perold Jones Era: 1927–1932

⚠️ ChatGPT export source — flagged for accuracy review. The creator has noted that ChatGPT began generating errors, hallucinations, and inaccuracies in nearly every export conversation. Treat facts on this page as provisional, not settled canon, until reviewed. See ChatGPT Source Reliability — Review Tracker.

Background

Perold Jones, a member of the Jones family and a Fellow Associate of LMT, grew disillusioned after witnessing the inner circle's manipulations firsthand. Two ideological factions had already emerged among the Ark Royal's original colonists: the Integrators and the Builders, maintaining separate traditions and customs. A further, deeper split ran through LMT itself — a secret society known as the "Insiders" controlled access to the ship's onboard computer/AI and the profits it generated, opposed by a "dissenter" faction (not anti-technology, but opposed to that access being concentrated in a small inner circle). Perold became the movement's most significant internal defector.

⚠️ Major Secret

The Jones family aboard the Ark Royal (100+ members, including Perold's own line) were cloned in Vee's labs before departure from Earth — a secret that remains unrevealed even in present-day (2020) Maf, and possibly unknown to the Jones family itself.

1927–1930: Public Demonstrations

Perold Jones and his followers — the "Jonesboro Posse," a 300-person group — publicly demonstrated against LMT/Jones family leadership in Jonesboro: protests, handing out flyers, posting broadsides on buildings.

1930: The Truce

As Posse members began dying under mysterious circumstances (deaths, fires), Perold met with his family and the Fellow Associates and negotiated a truce: the Posse would halt public demonstrations in exchange for an end to the mysterious deaths and fires. Perold used the truce period to sell enough of his LMT shares to finance an expedition, acquiring equipment and supplies for departure. His family and the Fellow Associates agreed.

Not yet developed: The full scene-level narrative of 1930–1932 — specific incidents, who was responsible for the deaths/fires, key confrontations — has not been written. The creator has indicated this is intentionally left open for future development. See "For Development".

1932: Departure

Perold Jones departed Jonesboro with the 300-person Posse, aboard seaplanes eventually built in what is now Refagio, beginning the overland expedition that would ultimately lead to Janast in 1939 and his renaming to Perold Jonas.

Additional Confirmed Detail: Ages and Scale

Source: conversations-001.json, conversation #92, "Maf Game Overview" — see RAW SOURCE. Perold was introduced to the Fellow Associates at age 18 as an unpaid observer, became a full voting member at 21, and resigned at 27 upon witnessing the Seeding Program's actual goals. His public activism eventually grew to over 1,000 supporters, of which the 300-person Jonesboro Posse documented above was the core group. See also LMT: Scale, Doctrine & Corporate Governance for the formal structure he broke from.

⚠️ Fog of History: A Second, Conflicting Departure Account

The same source conversation gives a different version of this departure: at age 37, with 347 followers (not 300) who renounce the Jones name, on an overland crossing in which 27 die in accidents, reaching a western coastline roughly 2,500 miles north of Kila Vas — never realizing Kila Vas already existed. No mention of seaplanes, Refagio, or Janast in that telling. Both accounts are preserved per the archive's fog-of-history standard; not reconciled here.