Intergalactic Summit

Summit;

We're releasing this archival clip to both get out the Akira Kasaras logs in a cohesive form at earliest availability, and also to test out our new archive system.

The Discourse will be reporting on these developments in the coming days. In the meantime, ARC staff will be available to discuss this material. If you have any feedback on the archive system, we'd also be happy to hear that.

Thank you for your time.

Good job, Jaret.

What? No, I'm being completely serious.

Make sure to read the dir.comms text from the logs. The mention of a 'council' is an interesting one.

Without a doubt, the plot lead by Ohmon and Jaron Kasaras confirms that lax oversight in Kaalakiota allowed for a long-running conspiracy that could have been thwarted by, of all things, proper accounting and audit procedure. This is to say nothing of the pervasive issue of tolerating Provist extremism, which I suspect we agree on.

Addressing this laxity and burning out the rot of Provist extremism would be beneficial to both the megacorporation and the State.

However, the presence of signals intelligence logs and an organized intelligence operation to subvert the conspiracy by using Akira Kasaras as an agent indicates that an intelligence organization was aware of the plot as early as 2nd January. This organization allowed the conspiracy to proceed to allow the intelligence organization the opportunity to secure a sample of the Kyonoke pathogen.

The responsible thing to do would have been to scuttle the Kasaras-Pakera plot earlier.

Instead, that intelligence organization's operations cost tens of millions of lives, and could have cost millions or billions more.

Myxx, I am not in the slightest shocked that intelligence agencies exist, or that they in fact do exactly what they're tasked to do.

I would contend that, however, failing to act on a clear and present danger is in fact not ideal. After all, scuttling the plot doesn't mean slapping these people on the wrist. It means, if possible, killing or capturing the conspirators, while gathering enough intelligence to publicly shame Kaalakiota and force systematic reforms.

Unless what you're saying is that the intelligence agency's decision to let the plot proceed was exactly the right decision? Even though indications are the intelligence agency used the RP4 orbital as a testbed for a bioweapons attack, and are directly, personally responsible for seven million deaths, in addition to being malfeasant and thus culpable for millions more deaths?

Hm. Let me see if I understand properly.

Essentially, you'd contend that merely uncovering such a plot and thwarting it would not be enough to cause the reforms necessary to prevent such an attack in the future, and that the casualties involved were necessary to provoke the backlash that would lead to a proper purge?

While I don't disagree that the result will be more conclusive now, I am still troubled by the fact that the weaponization study we uncovered indicates simulation of an attack on Arcurio, and so the non-zero chance that the intelligence organization's intentions weren't quite as, uh, purely defensive as might be ideal.

We'll have to see how this plays out, I suppose.

Fair enough.

If Hope Act releases indicate that anyone above Ohmon Kasaras knew what he was doing, it'd certainly serve to validate your view.

At the same time, while I understand the logic, I do hope you'll understand that I disagree with it, especially considering that the intelligence organization in question may have been directly responsible for RP4.

My hope is that the sanitization of that facility is closely overseen.

So, most of what we can reconstruct comes from the very logs you can read and listen to above. There was a little bit more at the Inquest, but not much on this front.

1) Ohmon's radicalization source is not yet known.

2) The Templis Dragonaur link is currently not proven, but is suspected given the mention of the 'Pakera family,' and the presence of several known Templis Dragonaur capsuleers with the surname Pakera.

3) Again, unknown. It may be that the Pakeras were known to Ohmon Kasaras from his flight time during Heth's rule. Given that Home Guard and Provist forces often cooperated, this may have been extremism established during Heth's rule.

4) Jaron Kasaras was the principle financer of the attack, via embezzlement. At the very least, his supervisors and the auditors who should have been reviewing his accounting work may have been at least nonfeasant in failing to respond to this, and may have been actively malfeasant if they were aware of his having an off-the-books project. We'll see what the Hope Act turns up.

Of course, there is the question of how long this conspiracy had been underway. While the records here indicate knowledge since at least January, records indicate that Jaron Kasaras may have been embezzling since as early as YC110.

I suspect, however, the conspiracy is not as long-lived as that.

Please note that there is, at this stage, significant conjecture that will need to be born out by investigations.