Intergalactic Summit

The Republic naval forces and the Parliament in general I don't think are very happy about it. I bet Prime Minister Shakor is contemplating using his Khumaak on some skulls. Interesting that the Angels would be doing a raid for tech though. I'd think having managed to supposedly have access to old Jove databases and centers in their areas then they wouldn't need to do a raid.

I wonder if some of that ancient Jovian tech led them to believe a raid on a Matari Installation was needed?

They were using open comms to keep in touch with their own Capsuleer forces in the system. They clearly stated that they were jamming local communications. The most secure communications systems in the cluster are CONCORD capsuleer fluid routers, and even when local communications are jammed, fluid routers still (brilliantly, I might add) work.

If I were in charge of the Op, I wouldn't have had unencoded messages broadcasting for every capsuleer in-system to hear.

I remember once that a... friend... called the badges and ribbons he had received from military service "salad", and another friend called his "fruit salad" because of all the different colors.

So, it's quite likely that they were indeed successful. I could simply be reading more into the operation than there really is. CONCORD asking for help in figuring out any hidden messages in communications between two pirate leaders is indicative of a potential pattern, non?

I get what you're saying, and it's definitely a possibility. They were expecting to go to the hydroponics sections of the facility, and coordinated entry into these areas indicates they were a primary target of the raid.

There was also a joke I heard once. "Never drink the water at an Amarrian work retreat." It might not be the plants, but something the plants grow in. Soil, water, anything. More than one way to leverage a star system from a fearful populace, or one "numbed" into submission.

Come to think of it, you could be seeing things the other way around; what if the facility itself had been compromised prior to the attack? Perhaps a chemical agent meant to pacify the "gardeners and researchers"?

See, lots of possibilities and a tragic lack of information to validate any single one.

Let's hope that people learn to keep vitally important Ark sites separate from their biotech research facilities in future, hmm?

I have news vital to our shared concern. There has been an errata of the news post covering the assault - Bogelek II has the largest remaining Genesis Vault. Damn journalists, they are leading the Angels to our door!

Journalists, leading them... what about the Cartel inteligence network.

So many delightfully flawed assumptions in this thread.

Angel Cartel Launch Ground Assault on Civilian Agriculture Facility

September 28th, YC114 Originally published on Tech 4 News.

In a tragic turn of events, the intercepted communication recently published by Tech4 News was revealed to be a chilling forewarning of a ground assault by Angel Cartel forces on civilian facilities owned by Native Freshfood. Reports from capsuleer networks are still being gathered, but the number of casualties at the Tialdshad Genesis Vaults on Oddelulf III in Molden Heath is said to exceed 1000. Had capsuleers not responded to intercept Angel Cartel orbital support, the death toll may have been much higher.

Local emergency aid networks are mobilising to offer assistance, but the Matar Society for Natural Preservation – the organisation overseeing the Genesis Vault project – are said to be guarded about allowing aid workers onto the site. The purpose of the attack is unclear and evidence gleaned from sophisticated capsuleer comms equipment suggests that the assailing forces may not even have known their objective.

On the GALNET Intergalactic Summit communications service favoured by capsuleers, Akrasjel Lanate shared this intercepted conversation between the Angel Cartel operative responsible for the previously leaked information.



This clearly suggests that the operatives were operating under orders from the Dominations, the command level upper heirarchy of the Angel Cartel. It also suggests that the attack either failed to secure their objective, or there is more occurring of which even these individuals were unaware.

Speculation is abound and fears are mounting that further attacks could occur at other sites. Gunger Anra, foreman of the Matar Society for Natural Preservation has declined to comment on any potential threat to their largest remaining Vault site on Bogelek II.

Tech4 has also received further communications from a number of anonymous and capsuleer sources.

The following questions were transmitted direct to the Tech4 GALNET site:



And the following sequence of communications were obtained by a capsuleer passing through the Placid region:


To further add to the mounting tensions, renowned capsuleer freedom fighting organisation, Ushra’Khan, are thought to be mobilising in response to the Oddelulf attacks which is causing increasingly aggressive sabre-rattling from opposing factions.

Clearly events are picking up pace and Tech4 only hopes that innocent civilians will not be caught in the crossfire.

There is a rather obvious common theme. Ancient Jove tech, ancient Minmatar plants... ancient. In an era where our highest technology comes from exterminating ancient people, it tends to lead the mind down a specific path.