Mantel digs up some skeletons from Silver Night’s closet because the woman that Mantel is in love with turns out to be engaged with Silver Night. (that’s the important part of this thread. There is a second, but irrelevant discussion going on as well)
Oooooohhh. 
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Hm. That would go a long way to explain the presumption of hostility at the outset, and also the innate suspicion.
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Oh dang.
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Edward. This is a little embarrassing, to put it mildly.
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Capsuleer fan tabloids are having a field day today, I guess.
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I was going to say it but I’m polite so I just implied it privately instead.
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This whole thread has been full of illogical arguments and non-sequiturs. Please provide some proof of your allegations or kindly stop slandering this Citizen.
I have proof you’re really a rogue drone!
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I suppose ‘chanced’ is a term that can be interpreted as me just stumbling across the installation itself in question randomly. When I say ‘chanced’, there were a series of strange phenomena in and around the planet detected by my starships sensors. At first I thought it was merely anomalies, but it seemed too consistent and artificial to be just random spatial events. It took some time to track down the source of said phenomena, but I was successful: the station was discovered purely by chance of stumbling across data bursts emitted by it.
Now, my intelligence division have performed some research into the station itself. It appears to be a surveillance station of the Wekla family, and whilst they do have capabilities to accommodate support staff they are also able to operate autonomously of any human input. I theorise that the reason the station self destructed was because Lt. Phonage ventured too close to the station in question and tripped a proximity safeguard. Unless a capsuleer in question did activate the self destruct to cover their tracks, especially one that may have a nefarious purpose with the planet, I’m confident that the station was crewless due to the lack of escape pods being launched.
Moving on, the station itself from the photographed my camera drones took presents the station with NHB corporate livery. Now this isn’t compelling evidence on its own, my agent who shall not be named for security reasons, discovered that a subsidiary involved with Naqam procured several of these installations in May YC119, and if the records are to be believed several of them were transferred to the ownership of the NHB when delivered to the Sinq Laison border region, including it would seem this one.
Furthermore, the data bursts that were intercepted utilised a combination of cyphers and encryption associated with NHB as well as some new protocols which has made deciphering the content extremely difficult. From what we have got so far, mainly statistical data and imagery of the governmental and security infrastructure of the planet in question, as well as the residencies of certain figures on the planet. We’d be able to ascertain more information if we had access to a station on the network, but as this one in question self destructed this option is not currently open to us. Several data bursts were emitted prior to the stations destruction, we managed traced one of these to a position in the neighboring system, but a conclusive destination could not be determined. However, a satellite in orbit above the third planet reported a flashpoint in the upper atmosphere consistent with an explosion of some kind. If this explosion was indeed another surveillance station receiving a command to self destruct, it is possible that there are still others active in the constellation if they haven’t also received the contingency signal.
Whilst your veneration of Wayist customs should be admired, Captain Night, I cannot find myself showing anything but disgust due to the memory of you violating one of its most sacred beliefs concerning the body by offering to sell corpses of your enemies to Covenant-aligned entities. And again, it’s all well and good saying that ‘anyone might be at risk’ from nanite infestation, because that is true. Maybe you are telling the truth and you’re completely innocent in this affair. However, I cannot trust the word of someone speaking in their own defence when they could certainly be compromised by Nation tech or brainwashing techniques. You’d be saying what you’d want us to believe for the sole purpose of deception and ensuring that whatever plans for this planet stay in motion. That’s how these implants work after all, they’ll force anyone to do anything to ensure their cover is intact until the time is right.
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Triangles are certainly the favour of the month. First a mysterious faction with afinity for triangles and now a rivalrous love triangle.
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In The Sentinel , the Newsletter for the Neo-Takmahl Church, there are Adverts from Several Human Biomass suppliers, including Naqam, suggesting they are still Active in that Trade.
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How convenient, a secret station producing all of these trackable phenomena. I notice it still doesn’t answer any of the questions about how you ‘knew’ it was an NHB facility if the station was primed to explode on approach and the evidence was an etching on the hull. I also notice that mention of how hard it was to find wasn’t made until it was pointed out that a secret station would be hard to find.
Had I actually purchased it, I would be asking for a refund.
While I am pleased to hear that this farce wasn’t also a tragedy, it seems strange that you are taking the time to emphasize that no one died. Unless you were responsible, and are looking to preemptively establish you are innocent of that particular stain on your honor.
Of course, if there was crew, from Mr Phonaga’s description it sounded as though they may well not have had time to escape to pods. That being said, I’m confident there weren’t crew if you say there weren’t, as I believe you would be in a position to know that.
I think what you meant here was that since your ‘evidence’ proved weak on its own you have moved on to fabricating more. I’m sure that if I was motivated to, I could produce similar documentation showing that you purchased the platform.
While I was born on a station myself, Mr Adams, I have heard a saying that apparently seems to arise in some form on almost any planet where humans have been found: When you’re digging yourself deeper into a hole, the first thing to do is put down the shovel.
Sansha’s Nation, playing the long game. Waiting until I’m semi-retired and no longer close to the leadership of a major Matari podder corporation or even very actively involved in anti-Drifter activities to make me… surveil a low sec Gallente member state? I’m in one of the corporations at the forefront of gathering information about the new Triglavian technologies, so I’m sure that were I a Sansha plant, they would risk blowing my cover after what? 10 years? To find out what the latest happenings are in local politics in a city in a backwater.
I would urge you, Mr Adams, to put an end to this. I understand that you have gotten yourself into this situation and it can be difficult to see a way out. But this place has a short memory. I expect if you stop now, this will be forgotten in a month’s time.
Put down the shovel.
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To be fair, Silver, I expect if he danced naked on a table reciting a filthy and improbable limerick about Heth and Empress Catiz it would be forgotten in a week’s time.
This is a very silly place.
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I don’t know, certain individuals love to go on and on and on and on and on about something or another that happened years ago at every damned opportunity, Mr Tuulinen.
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I think “selective” rather than short. As noted by Utari, there are grudges and slights made on these boards that are remembered and savoured for years.
If Mr. Adams is lucky, he won’t have offended anyone too badly just yet.
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Do I need to make another foreboding “We do not forget” post or not? I thought the first one was really good.
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So, ah, I guess what I’d have to say is kind of a more friendly echo of what Lord Consort Newelle said, but …
If you just say, “Silver Night is a former Sansha’s Nation loyalist. That can imply some potentially really dangerous stuff, and we have no way of knowing whether some horrible purpose has been planted in his mind, perhaps even without his knoweldge; you trust him at your peril,” I’d say, okay, sure, that’s just … true.
(And I kind of like him anyway.)
If you say, “There are THINGS! Sinister THINGS that we can’t prove but that are going on not-too-far from him and acting really strange and kind of look like they might be related to him-- they have his eyes! (We can’t prove they even exist, but they do!) Plainly this weirdness is Silver Night’s illegitimate offspring!”
… I kinda go …
???
…
… and go have a sandwich.
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A vile proselytizer of Nation finally sees the error of his ways and seeks to redeem himself? How quaint.
No, my friends. Evidence of conversion is irrelevant. Evidence of continued service is irrelevant.
His crimes have not yet been paid for in full.
Silver Night must die.
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How could you possibly prove ‘conversion’ anyway? At best, and with dubious accuracy, you could potentially determine whether or not he’s freakin’ brainjacked or something but the guy demonstrably chose to willingly go Sansha at some point and that guy is still there no matter what else. This isn’t a choice that just… goes away. It’s not a line you can just trippity hop back and forth over.
It is damned hard to find worse factions in New Eden than the Empire when it comes to their actions and intent, and Nation still somehow manage to launch themselves into orbit while clearing that bar.
It will never cease to amaze me how choices made never seem to actually matter if you just kiss the right arses.
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