Intergalactic Summit

Mr. Nauplius has a ... very particular ... view of this world, Ms. Sung. It's literally magical, to him.

His god talks to him. He has summoned bhaalgorns and bound them to his will. (Sadly, his demon-summoning temple was destroyed, so there are now invisible bhaalgorns rampaging all around the Khanid Kingdom causing all sorts of mischief. It hasn't made the news, but demons are clever, you see.)

Where other people use words like "confirmation bias raised to an art form," Mr. Nauplius just sees his destiny.

Another long-running dispute (and not just with Miz). It's possible that Mr. Nauplius does actually really like being paid attention to, but ignoring him tends to result in him upping his game until it's impossible to ignore him anymore. He's ... a little dedicated to pursuing and publicizing his beliefs.

I think I have to lean towards Miz's opinion. I've met both really stupid and properly insane people, and they're just not like this. Schizophrenics and other people who suffer from other forms of psychosis have messy, unfocused, and distinctly unamusing delusions and obsessions that they often even struggle to express with consistency. And even then they still know what the word "okay" means. He's far too perfectly ridiculous.

I'd guess he's just a run of the mill sociopath enjoying testing the limits of your credence. It doesn't work to deprive people like that of attention unless you keep it up even while they're doing bad things.

Edit: Better yet - Still foil him, but just do it without saying anything about it.

Alas we do seem to have that affect on people.

I ... stand corrected?

I may be Gallente but i need some whiskey too

Yeah. Well ...

It seems pretty clear that the decision's been made to treat those under quarantine as already lost. Just because there's kind of a tradition of doing such things doesn't make it easy, and it's been a few hundred years since kicking Grandfather out into the snow was actually a thing they've had to do.

And back then I don't think there were often videos of Gandfather and Grandmother stumbling around in the woods slowly freezing to death.

Hmm, a quick scribble calculation, and the infection rate is... oh.

Well, I think we can see why they weren't letting any supplies into the nanoshield dome. 25% fatalities thus far. At that rate, there won't be anyone left within a week or two.

Still, there is no excuse for no orders or contact from the authorities for a month. Isolation in this kind of situation creates paranoia, and paranoia results in people doing stupid things.

Privation can lead to some unpleasant consequences, Lord Newelle.

Honestly, the best thing the Peacekeepers in Myrskaa can do is keep themselves safe, and ideally uninfected.

Another of those 'updates' that barely merits the term. Unsurprisingly, Federation officials continue to use Myrskaa to distract from the situation on the Postouvin orbital, and ignore the massively increased difficulty in managing a quarantine in a planetary environment, compared to managing a quarantine for a population a quarter the size aboard a platform in hard vacuum.

Simply said, any properly-designed and -deployed orbital structure, as a matter of course, is easily cordoned into individual pockets of atmosphere that allow for isolation, observation, and continued provision of supplies without risk of exposure from one cordon to another.

A city on a world with a breathable and indeed temperate atmosphere is, by definition, not going to be as easily managed.

Needless to say, we of course will value any information that can be shared that might assist in this crisis.

However, I would advise Federal authorities to not create a diplomatic crisis to distract from their own quarantine, or to make light of the challenge State authorities face.