Intergalactic Summit

Uh-- is there any reason to think that the charges are at the top of the tether, rather than the bottom? It's held taut by centrifugal force anyway, implying it'll snap upward if cut below, so it seems like all that damage would be a really good reason to cut the tether at the base and let the forces involved, plus the platform's thrusters, tow it into higher orbit.

Might make it easier to reconnect, too.

Indeed. More kindness from a Sani Sabik then Imperial traitors.

Just remember if it can kill them. Then it will kill us.

That was how I assumed this transpired. Sever the elevator's planet-side tether, use station-keeping boosters to raise the orbit of the counterweight above geostationary enough so that the far end of the tether doesn't threaten anything on the ground (ideally as high as practical to keep as much of the tether out of the atmosphere as possible), and plan for the possible recovery and reattachment of the tether once the crisis ends.

The immediate concern would be what and how many objects are in orbit which could interfere with this approach. Because the elevator would have been assumed to always be in its geostationary position there might not have been too great care about cluttering the higher orbit with satellites or other objects. Since the authorities performed the severing anyway either the upper orbit was relatively clear, the situation was too dire not to risk it, or they did not adjust the orbit.

Longer term concerns about inhabitant welfare are serious but, hopefully, not hopeless. As previously stated there are a number of ways that even a sparsely equipped elevator counterweight (that, for some reason, lacks independent power generation and limited consumable stocks and production capability for water, food, and oxygen) can be remotely supplied in a manner that ensure sufficient supplies for those on board indefinitely.

For all the oddness of the situation what has effectively happened is that the elevator has been temporarily converted into an orbital station or ship.

With all the modern screening and containment technologies and methods available, however, one wonders what in heaven could concern the authorities so much that they would risk the loss of the elevator in order to maximize containment. I mean, after all, it was an elevator with an easily controlled, centralized single area of entry and exit. Severing it was the most extreme form of containment available short of actually destroying it.

If you want a good vantage spot, let me know. I've got deep safes at 'ground zero' and will have to leave them vacant by tomorrow evening.

This is all starting to seem very suspicious. I've been doing my research but I can only get so far with the holoreels and and other sources that can be dredged up on the basic overview of the systems.

Has anyone seen anything come in or out of Muttokon? I haven't and I've been frequenting it. For all the Scope reporting of Republic vessels coming in and out I don't see a damned thing! Something seems weird to me and I don't like it.

Here's the information and my thoughts on it that I gathered after the initial Scope reporting.



Has anyone been to Oijanen II or Yveve II? What have you seen?

Another interesting similarity: There is military intervention in all three events. Could wormholes be the reason they are so far spaced? Could this have to do with Alpha-Clone technology?

We see what the firmware in our ships, heads and sensor networks lets us. Frankly, that's likely for the best.