Intergalactic Summit

My Master has requested I relay this message:

"It is obvious that Mr. Tukoss has gained access to a communications medium that he is not authorized to access. The messages being sent are text based; the coding is most likely machine code from the terminal he is accessing, untranslated. This is similar to coding used by certain operatives accessing clone implants in order to bypass CONCORD/Empire communication restrictions. It could also suggest a location outside of normal communications networks, such as within a Sleeper star system.

The items that Mr. Tukoss requests are interesting. It is believed by some researchers that the Sleepers are ancestors of the Jove. Seeking the only known (and widely accessible) sources of Jove DNA suggests an attempt to understand how Sleeper technology interacts with Jove physiology.

The potential applications for this are fascinating. Given the Mirror sites located in Sleeper territory and their information regarding neural degeneration, it is likely Mr. Tukoss is seeking to gain access to their network in a more direct manner. Bluntly, using a cloned Jove body to interact with the Sleeper network. It is likely that this will fail without substantial infomorph modification.

Likely results of misuse of this technology are... unpleasant at best, and a threat to the Cluster at worst.

I cannot fault the potential gains, however. It is what I would do if I had the opportunity and resources."

-Lord Amann Karris

Now this is interesting. Sadly I have no interest in procuring body parts and no idea how to procure them even if I wanted to, so I will continue to observe this development from the outside.

As far as I understand, the biomaterials under question should be of Jovian origin, and are rather hard to obtain. As I know, Dr. Tukoss doesn't accept just regular frozen corpses.

Taking into account your corporation, alliance and the nature of the materials under discussion, I believe you made a mistake appearing here, as someone could already wait for you behind the door with a prepared knife for material... extraction.

I have dedicated much time to studying the Sleepers and Jovians ... and all I will say is that they are linked in ways many wouldn't ever imagine

I think any organized resistance to it died with the Antiquarian dumping his stock, Anslo.

I would hold off untill we know if what comes out of that lab is going to be a boon, or our bane.....

A stranger plagued by obvious madness comes begging for charity, and you're simply ready to hand over whatever is asked for? Surely something must have gotten into the latest batch of pod goo to have elicited such simultaneous mania among so many of us.

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No. Some of us just like pissing people like you off.

That's cute.

Your analogy isn't quite accurate.

In the first place, Hilen Tukoss isn't a stranger to some of these pilots; he's known, even if he's acting very oddly now, and his status as a human is in question. Further, 'bits of a presumably long-dead Jove' aren't necessarily 'whatever he asks for.' They're valuable trinkets, sure, but ultimately it's just biomass.

In the second place, as an agent of the Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive, my duty is straightforward. The formal position of the Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive is that Hilen Tukoss is a criminal and a traitor, whose defection from Zainou included destruction of Ishukone Corporation vessels. It is therefore that the Enforcement Directive will not treat with him.

As a citizen, however, and one with ties to Ishukone Corporation, I feel that sometimes progress requires that we deal with devils. This deal naturally shouldn't bring risk to ourselves or to the State. It shouldn't empower those forces hostile to us. Still, if there is technology to develop, resources to acquire, or markets to penetrate, it is our duty to ourselves and to the State to do all we can.