Intergalactic Summit

@Makoto Priano

However much I'd love to go back and turn his freighter into so much space debris, it'd be dishonest to say Tukoss was directly responsible for the destruction of Ishukone vessels. Ishukone vessels intercepted and attempted to blockade a vastly superior force, after repeated and clear warnings that aggression would be responded to in kind. They were given (repeatedly) the option of leaving peacefully.

In an act of what can only be described as either suicide or incredible stupidity, they fired upon the freighter while countless weapons were locked on and ready to end them within seconds. What followed should not require any in-detail explanation.

The Ishukone vessels that went down that day were commanded by what I can only assume is either Diana Kim levels of suicidal zealots or monumentally stupid people with no grasp on tactical situations. The destruction could have been avoided entirely and Hilen Tukoss, to his credit, never even mentioned destroying those vessels in his communication with the escort fleet.

As I was the one responding to his calls for escort assistance in the Electus Matari comms channel and subsequently arranged for aid from Altaen, the finest fleet commander in EM (at the time, obviously) and various other pilots, I'll take responsibility for the unfortunately successful escort of Tukoss and the destruction of the hostiles along the way.

The approval of certain Republic entities at the time made this seem like a worthy cause to pursue, but it quickly became apparent that I had made the second greatest mistake of my capsuleer career. Nonetheless, I did what I considered to be right knowing what I did at the time and the responsibility remains, regrets or not.

I'll kill him on sight and Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive won't find me standing in the way should they decide to do something similar, but it should be for the crimes he did commit, not for those simply laid at his feet.

A far more personal matter, even if it is quite literally written in stone.

I've recently been digging through the SDE looking at celestial data. So when I saw the second part of the celestial ID sequence, I knew what to look for.

Briefly, numbers beginning in 1 are region IDs, 2s are constellation IDs, 3s are system IDs, and 4s are individual celestial IDs, such as stars, moons, planets, etc.

40216465 is the celestial ID code for the Eram system's star, a class K6 main sequence star.

Why he would want people to drop the stuff off at the star itself is a mystery to me. But at this point, it seems moot. Parts have been delivered.

So who here is still keen on cooperating?

Good to have you back. I hope this time, you can finish what you are started.

The spark you started is now a big fire.

Nevertheless, good to see you again.

This is indeed deeply worrying... And would explain why the DED don't want us to assist, as the Jove most likely see this as an interference in their work, assuming this is trying to do what I believe it's trying to do. However horrible, it may be the way forward.

As for cooperating... Most people know what I'm going to say.

I agree with this, there's some kind of correlation between Caroline's Anomaly, and the strange messages, as listed in the thread.

But what that correlation is, has yet to be uncovered, although everything's being monitored closely by my team and I.