Intergalactic Summit

The Federation took your basket.

And I believe that Repentance Tyrathlion bought yours. We all managed to find new ones, so what of it?

This is seriously not the time or place for Caldari / Gallente squabbling.

Agreeing with the gentlemen from Moira. About the only thing we can agree on without serious thought and thumbscrews is that Heth needs to be brought either to justice or an expedient end.

Without commenting on the remainder, a closed, controlled environment is significantly harder to contaminate. Nanites are often extremely delicate on the individual level, not unlike a virus. Deviation from the viable environmental range of the virus -- or nanite -- will cause rapid failure. Often, nanite laboratories use containment procedures not unlike biohazard containment facilities; negative air pressure, heat and EM treatment of air are all methods of maintaining containment. Naturally, researchers are in sealed gear with an internal air supply to ensure that they aren't exposed while within the lab.

Aboard a warship, we can expect air treatment or containment of a comparable level; air flow can be regulated, and air treated or countermeasures deployed to limit exposure to nanites. My suspicion is that these nanites aren't self-reproducing, otherwise any planet attacked would need to be quarantined indefinitely after a Sansha attack.

In any case, I suspect that this saga will need more time to unfold.

Too verbose for my own good, to be honest.

As noted by Soter and his Moira colleague, Aivonen is currently a HQ system for the incursion that is progressing in Ishaga constellation. Prior to a fit of overzealous censorship by ISD Ezwal an earlier post of mine had noted that the Caldari Navy have already salvaged the wreckage of the Provist fleet and that no biomass related to it was able to found either.

There are three HQ facilities within the system and two Nation research facilities, along with roaming battlecruiser patrols around the gates. To my knowledge scans of the facilities Nation have established are yet to be carried out.

The system's small and repeated scans of it either by other individual capsuleers or as a co-ordinated effort may reveal something my own scans have not. At present there is minimal pirate or militia activity within the system opening the possibility for a joint action between concerned parties to raid the Nation facilities if a sizeable enough force could be organised.

I wouldn't say DETAILED. Especially not after months of being out of power.

Heth's information will, as several people have pointed out, be months out of date. Passcodes, identification manifests, file access priviledges, contact details, troop deployments, specific personnel assignments, the organisation of subordinates and superiors in various institutions within the State - these will all have changed significantly since Heth was deposed by the CEP.

What will not have changed - cannot have changed - in such a small time span is the organisation of the State's military, the strategies and tactics by which it operates, the methods its intelligence agencies use to gather information. This information is just as valuable - perhaps even more valuable - than access codes or identity manifests. Think of it like this: for a living, I research, design and build starships for the capsuleer market. I can't tell you the root password to each individual ship's mainframe because that automatically changes whenever a new capsuleer enters it. But I can tell you where to shoot it and what to shoot it with, how its engines perform, how fast it turns, what sort of equipment it's likely to be carrying and - with a little bit of information on the current pilot and the variables of the engagement - I can give you an educated guess on how effective it's going to be in a fight.

If he felt inclined (or compelled) to share what he knows with a hostile power, Heth might not be able to ruin the State (he was doing a much better job of that himself when he was in power, anyway) but by all the gods and spirits he could give someone the tools to do some very, very serious damage to it. He was in charge of the State for five whole years - experience like that doesn't magically become irrelevant because he's been out of the loop a few months.

He knows the personnel, he knows their private records, their family connections. There's far more to intel than a few passwords and safety protocols.


There's a lot of information in Heth's possession for anyone looking to bribe, blackmail or essentially ransom the higher ups.