Intergalactic Summit

Be that as it may, isn't the fact the information could be corrupted so easily be more of a threat to the State than the actual group who did it? Best offense is a good defense and such? You can't prevent people from having bad intentions but you can prevent bad intentions from being put into actual practice. I would think the best course of action for the state would be to attempt to make this a one time thing as opposed to wasting resources (time specifically) swatting flies.

I guess this is what it means to be more trusting of authority..

Ms. Arrendis, our comms don't come with our ships; they come as a privilege of our status as capsuleers, and it's apparently a kind of expensive privilege. Also kind of a necessity, given the nature of our work. Ever wonder why agents never want to discuss mission specs over ftl comms? Well, aside from it being expensive, perhaps it's not really secure enough for their purposes? Could be intercepted by bugs on the ftl comms array, maybe? Not that dangerous for us, maybe really dangerous for them and their employers?

And then there's this: what's the difference between a deadspace facility we can see, and one we can't? Maybe it's whether it's broken comms silence lately, long enough for CONCORD to flag the site as an anomaly or signature?

And when CONCORD-friendly facilities break silence, who might be listening instead? Maybe Miz's Serpentis associates? Maybe someone even scarier?

And how easy are those signals, operating way beneath capsuleer levels, to hijack?

It seems likely to me that the best method for keeping a deadspace, or similar, facility safe is to keep it hidden. Not yelling data to the stars seems like a start.

This is just me speculating, of course; really my point's just this: we don't know. There's a lot of this world and our place in it that seems strange to me, starting with the absurd degree of freedom we're allowed. Comms protocol at a conventional facility is the very least of it.

I choose to trust that there's more to it all than I'm being told, more than any of us are. If that means I'm being lied to a lot, well, that only makes sense. Among the people it's obviously undesirable to give more power, we're right up at the top of the list.

The Inquest opens tomorrow. Hopefully things will be clearer from there.

May all our gods, or God, and all our ancestors and guarding spirits walk with us.

I wish I understood correctly what the Scope is telling us.

Am I totaly misinterpreting it when I understand this :

- someone took/corrupted datas (historical data from RP4 mining platform) that were "stored" in Kyonoke Inquest Citadel.
- Data corrupted were the one recovered the day before on the first expedition there.
- they're speaking about a "targeted digital attack" that most probably be done "localy" (on SoCT Citadel) in fact to "avoid trace" (meaning to avoid any digital tracking, direct corruption of the storage/data ?).
- precedent point can be linked to the possibility of missing staff guarding the datacenter IN the Citadel (something we can link to another precedent, the fact they have been able to avoid security at Kyonoke Pit).

So, any digital tracking is useless if I understand correctly as the corruption occured directly on the storage support. Staff missing on site, new staff arriving, and manhunt in the Citadel. Hope there was some video surveillance there also...

I would only recommend to any attendees there to be careful to whom they meet and speak with there and be aware of their security as a "possible threat" is around there.

Just as a reminder, the group responsible of this has already gone through State security (something that seems to not bother the State, or just seen as second hand investigation, delayed... why ?) and this same group has been able to hit the big 4 at nearly the same time.
Could it be just a group of ultra-nationalist (there you have again to check correctly the huge suspicions that Kasaras family was in a way or another linked to former Nationalist terrorists under Tibus Heth - Jaron worked under him at R&D weapons - Ohmon found dead on site) or a coordination of multiple nationalist groups to be able to hit simultaneously 4 different states ? Or maybe is it another group trying to mislead us toward any nationalist group. We need to investigate all this, in fact states should do it and not close doors first.

I don't think that any of our state did this, striking with something that sounds like a "bioweapon", has it would be very dangerous even for the user. Concord is very silent there.

Could it be a coproration or a group ? Any pirates group ? We know that they can be very powerful and destructive at some points.

I just hope that researchers will be favored in this inquest above any militaristic views and postures and I'm confident that you will find a solution there, for the safety of us all.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

I'm sorry, Aria, but this isn't a question of being lied to, or keeping secrets from us. The most important thing in dealing with a crisis is getting information in a timely manner. And they... sit around for a couple of weeks? And then when they do get the information out, and it gets over to the crisis response center they've set up... it gets lost?

And that doesn't reek of gross incompetence to you?

I'm sorry, Aria, I am. But no. Those with power, whether we're talking about you, me, corp or alliance directors and CEOs, or those in charge of government agencies and leaders of great empires, religious leaders... they have to be held accountable. And there is no excuse for sitting around for weeks as people die without even making an attempt to recover the data in those computers.

There's no excuse to wasting that time, wasting those lives, that would ever be 'acceptable'. There's no security concern that could possibly have not been addressed by moving a small task force of Navy ships into the area to oversee the operation. There's no threat of 'but the Serpentis might learn something that they'd otherwise have to wait 2 weeks to bribe someone to get' that excuses that kind of depraved indifference to suffering and needless loss of life.

Trusting authority, when you come down to it, is as much an offense to any community as sociopathic individualism. It enables the corruption already inherent in the exercise of power. It breeds arrogance and a sense of being untouchable, of being above repercussion, of not being answerable to the collective good. No-one, no matter what they have achieved or where they stand in the power structure, should ever be unaccountable. No excuses, no rationalizations, no justifications, should ever be 'acceptable'.

Demand better. Always. And if those who claim power refuse to do better... remove them. Remove them, and put them in the ground, because they are a cancer, and if left to spread their nonsense, they will only metastasize as their words seep into the background awareness, as their poison spreads.

Trusting authority, rather than demanding they prove themselves, again and again, at every turn, to be worthy of the power they hold... it should be a crime.

Because that's worked so well, right?

As you say, the Inquest starts tomorrow... and is already rife with incompetence.

Kind of wish I had Serpentis associates. It'd make the process of getting their bio-engineering data so much easier than it is. The ridiculous amount of roadblocks to navigate in order to get full access is incredible. It's like getting access to RSS datastores as an independent capsuleer.

The booster research? Easiest thing in the world, standardized capsuleer industry tech for the most part. The actual bio-engineering research their baseliner organization has, owing to their admittedly impressive drug research, development and sales? More jealously guarded than the Kyonoke data, it would seem given recent events.

They're a pain in the arse more than associates.

Either way, you're being far too naive here, Aria. So blindly accepting of malicious acts simply because it happens further up the ladder of authority. If they're not held accountable for both their screw ups and their crimes, they will screw you over. This has been the case in every society mankind has ever devised, and you know it.

You and I both know that Capsuleer organisations have, at best, five years before they get ripped down by competitors.

Haven't we been since the beginning? I mean, sombody programmed the neutral scanners that bring us back....

PIE endures!