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If Insorum could cure Jovians of their disease, I highly doubt only a single Jovian would come calling.

That makes sense, didn't think of it that way yet

Even he has Vitoc addiction, he need not to buy out insorum. He can be everyone, so he can even get it for free.

Thats also possible.

Or What if he only wants to control some targets or even some fractions by Vitoc?
For those target, getting continuous supply of Vitoc may be not a problem. But if there are vaccines, they could do everything for it. Thats the reason why he needs to be the only owner of insorum

The first thing you have to do is understand and accept that there is a LOT of stuff in The Empyrean Age which does not jive with the rest of the lore, or even make sense within the novel itself.


Now, first: It's important to understand that Insorum DOES NOT clear the psychological desire to experience the incredible high Vitoc provides, nor does it nullify the immediate psychological effects of Vitoc (extreme suggestibility, talking constantly, loss of fear). By the way, don't ask me how someone became an interstellar crime lord when he was regularly loosing all fear and inhibition to talk about anything at least once every couple days - it's one of those things that doesn't make sense.

What Insorum DOES do is cleanse the body of the Vitoxin, the toxin-producing virus that the Vitoc antidote is normally taken to counteract. While Vitoc is a temporary solution to the toxin and has the numerous side effects noted above, Insorum is a largely side-effect-free immediate solution to ALL Vitoxin infestation.


The next thing you have to understand is that the Vitoxin does not normally follow someone from clone to clone; this is an exceedingly rare mutation involving an unusual retro-viral form of Vitoxin. Aside from the Broker, this variant is only known to be produced in extremely controlled experiments within Republic labs.



Typically, cloning purges the body of all Vitoxin infestation; thus, continued use of Vitoc would be unnecessary. If the Broker is indeed infected with the retro-viral form, then he MUST have been infected prior to whenever he started cloning himself around. Otherwise, a "clean" sample of DNA taken before infection by the retro-viral Vitoxin could just be used to create "clean" form - problem solved.

Maybe he wasn't just satisfied with cleansing himself. Maybe he wanted control of it too.

I read that page. It's on chapter 57.

I think it's related to Jovian disease. He may not be one of the Jovians, he may be repeating the Jovian's mistake.

Considering the Vitoc may not be a toxic compound originally, but a treatment to it with sideeffect. Jove probably got involved in "improving" the toxin and let new Eden find solutions for them.

M what broker wanna buy is the schematic, and do not want to expose his weakness

About the jovian on the Eidolon: His name is Grious. You will read more about him if you read Templar One.
In case you won't, read at the end of this post.

About the Broker being Jovian: Hardly. As you said, he have plenty of unjovian emotions. Also, he's really surprised about the disease he has contracted, and suspects that it's due to some malfunctioning of his cloning tech. This wouldn't make sense at all if he is jovian, in which case he would be very aware of the possibility of being hit by the jove disease. Also, the jove disease is of psichological nature, while the Brokers' disease seems to be only physical.

About the Vitoc: Acording to the book, The Broker uses Vitoc to slow down the advance of the disease that is killing him. He's not adicted per se, he uses it as a vaccine for the unknown disease, but aparently he has come to know that if he gets the insorum, he will be healed from both the vitoc adiction and the unknown disease.



He didn't knew that the minmatars were going to get it anyway, and he died before/didnt have time to get a sample after it being released to the public. He couldnt just keep taking vitoc because vitoc was slowing the disease, not stopping it completely.



Like I said, he actually does keep taking vitoc, but that doesn't stop the disease from killing him. Just make him last a bit longer. Like AIDS I guess. About Otro, yes, he knows, but what he doesn't know is that when he slams the Nyx into Otro's station, the Insorum is still accesible. He thinks that with Otro's death, it's lost and he will never be able to get it again (a stupid move from him to kill Otro, but understandable seeing how furious he was about it. Also he could have not known that Otro would actually die for real).

You're rigth about that he could have just waited for the minmatars to release it... But consider that he was dying really fast. In fact, he dies before being able to take action after the Elders use the Insorum. And that even when the Elders boldly started their massrescue plan as soon as they had enough Insorum. It could have been much more longer if the Elders just decided to wait. Too much for The Broker to wait for.


Now about Grious:
ATTENTION, TEMPLAR ONE SPOILERS

He is a jovian who put himself at the service of The Other, an AI construct made by the Architects (now known as the Sleepers) to test their virtual reality tech, and who now resides on Jamyl Sarum's mind. Ultimately, he tries to stop Marcus Jror from delivering the DUST tech to Jamyl Sarum, but fails to do it in time, and is killed by the loyal jovians. After that, he repents and helps (in the form of an AI projection) Marcus Jror to stop the mess he has created giving the DUST tech only to Amarr.

Esna, thank you for clearing everything up (up to spoilers). That was helpful.

Grious is not a new character: he's introduced in Theodicy before Vak'Atioth.

http://community.eveonline.com/races/theodicy/

Very good read and it should answer quite a few questions, it is by Tony Gonzales as well.