Intergalactic Summit

An update from Arek'Jaalan: Site One, Past, Present and Future.

Recently, the Minmatar Republic assisted Arek'jaalan and its members in constructing a library in the Eram system. The truth is that this was not something that happened overnight. The materials contained within what is being referred to as Antiquus -- after pilot Antiquarian -- took large amounts of time and effort to compile and make ready for large scale dissemination. Recently, members of The Arekj'jaalan Media Relations &Information Dissemination group took time to get the opinions of various divisional leaders on their past work that went into the site, and what they're looking forward to now.

The first question we gave them was, Since the project began, what has your team accomplished ?

Pilot Gehen Sealbreaker, of Sealbreaker Labs on Project Astrosurvey had this to say at press time:

The general outline of our work was published in our document, titled Research Abstract: Project Astrosurvey, but to further summarize, over the last 3 months, Sealbreaker Labs and a few allies have collected samples from a lot of Anoikis's asteroids, especially those which were exposed to unusual spatial phenomenon. We did this under Talocan United's benevolent protection.

Pilots Roga Dracor and Myyona, who are divisional leads of the Ancient Races group:

The Ancient Races department of Arek'Jaalan has laid a firm foundation for the collection and dissemination of information on the ancient races that once plied the spacelanes of the New Eden cluster. Further, several expeditions sponsored by the department and it's staff have opened a wealth of information on these races that will, hopefully, grant us a fuller understanding of these cultures and their motivating principles in the near future.

Besides establishing the division portal with a bit of discussion on the Takmahl and Yan Yung societies we have worked on four projects (Algintal, Common Ground, Enigma and Theseus) and finalized at least one paper in each.

On behalf of the Multi Disciplinary division, pilot Rhavas had this for us:

Tesseract has made huge strides. At the start of the Arek'Jaalan Initiative, there were at best a wide array of unrelated documents. Today, it is a clearly documented and researched set of proposals and evidence statements that have been added to the New Eden database. This consists primarily of three sources, all of which have numerous links to key sources:
- The Project Tesseract page
- The Shattered Planets page
- Current state of Isogen-bearing mineral gathering
The Multidisciplinary Division in general has been highly active, including Mark726's Project Compass and Julianus Soter's Project Trinity, as well as Helen Ohmiras' upcoming Project Slipstream.

Our second question for them was related to what is possibly to come.

What's next for your team ?


Gehen Sealbreaker: Now we must study these samples a bit further, and try to find what kind of exotic variants of the ores are hidden amongst the plain ones. Comparision must be done on a molecular level, with plain ores from different systems, with their common variants (like Silvery or Golden Omber, for example) and most importantly, with their uncommon variants, like Banidine, Green Aristite or Polygypsum.

Myyona: We will continue to produce material for some of the existing projects (Algintal and Enigma at least) and also have ideas for new projects to pursue.

Rhavas: The Tesseract team is very nearly ready to wrap main operations. My next goal is to convince Hilen Tukoss to increase priority and pressure on Eifyr to do the analysis of the large volume of data that we have provided. As far as AJ:MD as a whole, I hope to see Mark726 get assistance as needed on Compass and for Julianus' work on Project Trinity to get the necessary evaluation.

Roga Dracor: I would hope that we can further the idea that though we are divided by bloodlines and cultural background, we are all human, and that our strength, weakness, and physical differences only solidify our need to work as one inter-related mechanism of human advance.

Our third question related to how each feels about current progress in their work.

–- What project are you most excited over and why?


Gehen Sealbreaker: Of course, I'm all after Astrosurvey. It's my creation, and was the one that "started it all", just after Dutch Gun. However, I reckon it may lack grandeur. I deliberately chose to tackle a lesser research topic because I did not suspect that AJ would never grow as big as it is today. I am very curious about the results of some other projects. As an astrophysicist and specialist of wormholes, projects Catapult and Compass have all my attention. I keep an eye on Project Slipstream aswell.

Rhavas: Tesseract of course! Although I do think there are many amazing lines of research in progress - I would be happy to see concrete results in any of them.

Myyona: That is really hard to say as a lot of projects are showing interesting results from the efforts of the people involved. Projects like Theseus and Trinity have had solid goals and a research approach that made it easy to follow their progress and conclusions. Project Rho has also done a quite remarkable work in establishing a Rogue Drone Database.

Roga Dracor: Enigma, it has been my life's work uncovering the secrets of the Jove and their interactions with our early cultures.

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