Intergalactic Summit

It's not too difficult to get in and operate so long as you're careful and use the proper equipment. I've already helped several get in and am happy to help more for the sake of this humanitarian effort. Sadly I don't see a whole lot possible being done besides perhaps bringing medical supplies and food and water in. I'm happy to help provide a second set of eyes though.

-Eran

Storming stations, sending in marines, interrogating SOE personnel, bringing large combat fleets in and even talk of building capitals if it were possible.

And you people seriously wonder why the Sisters kept this system a secret?

We are everyone, Mr Kraid.

We, along with baseliners, populate this universe sir. From a farmer on a planet, to a capsuleer's corporation, to the governments of Empire itself. They may not have told you, or I, or even all or any of the governments, not that we'd know this anyway if they had but really it's none of our business.

Who made you, made anyone in fact, the judge in such matters in non-sovriegn regions? If SOE wants to conduct private research endeavours it's their business. Sure, the failure of such research potentially risked the lives of many but we're still here and all official calls have been for search and rescue, not invasion and persecution.

Lot's of things happen in my hole that I keep secret too, Mr Kraid. Things that risk and cost lives. Are you going to come invade me also? Tie me to some desk and interrogate me, torture me perhaps while marines riffle through my underwear drawers?

I merely wished to point out that IGS comments regarding SOEs secrecy are only outnumbered by comments proposing violent means of extracting answers. Go figure, sir.

Mister Rundle...

Search and Recovery/Rescue is a fundamental requirement following a catastrophe of this nature. Without collection of remains or witnesses of the event, it will be impossible to verify the situation that took place here.

So, while I understand your analysis, and agree with it in principle, the priority to discover any clue, however minute, is extremely critical.

I would agree with this. If we could have gotten into Thera immediately after the initial event, its possible that survivors could have been rescued from the station ruins, but given the amount of time that has passed, its unlikely anyone is still alive there.

During my routine surveys, I stumbled upon another wormhole system that seems to have suffered a similar fate.

J001670. Has 6 planets orbiting a blue supergiant. All planets are shattered and there is a grouping of unstable wormholes and talocan and sleeper structures near the corona of the star that is extremely similar to the one in Thera. Whatever happened, may not actually be localized to Thera.

Whether or not the Sisters were the ones that triggered the cataclysm, it seems to have been able to spread between systems.
Since there are wormholes at both sites (albeit not traversable by ships), it is possible whatever cataclysm happened propagated through those wormholes.

At this time, though I have no data that would hint as to where the origin point may be, how many more (if any) systems may be involved, or if the wormholes were already there before the event or were created by the event (in fact, I have almost no details about the event at all). I do suspect that one of the systems involved may be in UUA-F4 since Caroline's Star was indicated to have coincided with the SoE losing contact with Thera.

Those are the nebulas visible through the wormhole in Thera.

So here's my take on the situation.

Sisters of EVE owes us a hell of a lot of answers. If Sisters of EVE asks for help, I'll provide it, regardless of whether they give us those answers, because as a Federal citizen it's my duty to assist people in need - but if I do help them, I'm damn well going to feel entitled to a little bit of illumination, whether or not it's forthcoming.

That goes for the rest of you, incidentally; help Sisters of EVE for whatever reason you feel provides you the neccessary motivation - national pride, duty to God, desire for fame, whatever - but remember that after all of this, the least the Sisters of EVE can give you in return is a little bit of clarity to ease the many mysteries we've had to endure over the past five years. You are sure as hell entitled to it.

I'm looking at the positioning if these wormhole-special rift clusters and the old saying "X Marks the spot" comes to mind.