Intergalactic Summit

What if the Society always had access to the particular cloning technology and the SSoE just wanted a means to ensure its dissemination without Society/CONCORD interference by playing to signatory self-interest?

I am not assigning any nobility to the actions of the SSoE as regards their proliferation of clone technology. In fact, what they did could be considered positively underhanded. The Jove Empire and now its successor, the Society, are the only CONCORD member not obligated to share their technology with others, so if this new cloning tech has Jovian roots then what the Sisters did was the best way to prevent the Society from blocking its potential widespread use.

There is always that thing about mixng conspiracy and discretion. Still I am personally more concerned with motives.

SOE is a uh... humanitarian organisation among other things, so with all due respect to the fellow researchers from other organisations, what possible reason can outweight the potential misery these new pilots with immortality complex will inflict on the cluster?

The question "why?" is probably more important than "how?" since we have enough data even on the open and leaked sources to connect some of the dots.

SOCT, SOE and ARC are probably if not the most knowledgeable then the most active entities regarding Drifters. I say we are doing our part to ensure that the resarch we produce is useful to the cluster and is open for interested parties. It's high time we actually light the spotlight and stop wandering in the darkness.

The money my parents invested in me and my determination not to die during the process among other things. Jason, you are well aware of the things we do during the training process.

How many capsuleers are basically acting as pirates right now? I was reminded of it during the Origin defence. How many of them will behave like complete lunatics drugged with their new power with the introduction of this new tech?

Kybernetes;

Noone is obligated to answer these questions, absolutely. Still, when a humanitarian organization distributes a technology that is easily militarized to the four empires, bypassing a joint treaty organization and possibly the only other organization with as much knowledge of cloning and infomorph technology as they do, I feel obligated to at least ask the questions.

It might be shouting at the wind, for all we know. It might just result in my being embarrassed. I can deal with that.

Now, whether or not using AG-12 to ensure Society access to the technology is an aggressive step, it is a potential response to the very short list of reasons why the Sisters might not have been forthcoming toward CONCORD and the Society; after all, they either did it for spite (which just doesn't make sense for any large organization), did it to ensure that Empire support was too strong before CONCORD could attempt to put the brakes to it, or did it to reduce Society analysis before the technology was widespread and couldn't be pulled back safely. In the last case, after all, how would you get any one Empire to unilaterally disarm, when you have enemies that may not?

We can't very well compel the Sisters to answer all those nagging questions about the Sanctuary's efforts on the side of wormholes and FTL technology, nor can we necessarily compel them to share the objective of their crowdsourced Drifter tissue analysis project, but perhaps we can at least have a competent, non-military organization analyze this new technology to ensure the Sisters haven't handed us Pandora's Box with a bow on it.

Matar Ronin; uh. Huh? I'm not asking anyone to give ARC or IKAME access to the technology, nor do I honestly think we're big or important. Certainly, we punch above our weight on scientific endeavors, but-- we're tiny. IKAME itself is only barely larger than your alliance. I don't expect anyone to listen to us, or even care, but does that mean I should just let apathy reign and do nothing?

In this instance, Ms. Durandal, I'll happily be mistaken. My assumption at present is that the Society had basic knowledge of what was happening, but may not have full access to the specifications of the new cloning architecture.

Tell me, Mr. Ronin.

If, for instance, the Sisters had shared this technology with the Society, the Federation, the State, and the Empire, bypassing CONCORD and the Republic, would you not also assume there was some motivation, and want to rectify it or at least know why such a thing occurred?

Very simply, the Sisters made a very specific effort here to cut out of the loop several organizations. It might be for the silliest and most minor of reasons, but I'd prefer to know than to not know, or to see it rectified rather than to let it go unaddressed.

Pilot Priano I do not put the SOCT on the same level as the big four, if you do I hope you are happy with that. The big four each have trillions of citizens living under their control and influence, can the same be said of SOCT?

Your accusations of what the motives of the SOE are might all be correct, and they might all be wrong.

You simply rang the alarm bell without sufficient evidence pilot, in my humble less informed opinion

What can I say, Kyber? All of those casual flybys of the Sisters flotillas in Drifter systems have left me wondering.

@MatarRonin
Did you make that comment seriously?