[ARC] Corrupted trinary key released, one puzzle remains

And people said I was wrong for being suspicious of Oveg Drust.

Well.

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Well, that’s not suspicious AT ALL! The DED and CONCORD better have a damn good explanation. What say you @Oveg_Drust?

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@Oveg_Drust helloooo

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Interesting.
First option, Empires know and it’s done with their consent.
Second option, It’s been done by CONCORD (and other parties) without the knowledge of the Empires.
Third option, both are wrong and someone unknown working with Oveg Drust or impersonating him.
Fourth option, captured by DED somehow.

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Could it be that this cruiser is the same one seen in the Case Red Gamma file leak? Perhaps this is the only one in the CDIA’s posession.

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Or maybe it is and it’s sitting on the docking ring for hours and hours because they’re having trouble getting it to accept docking protocols, or else because that sphere could pose a threat to the station in some way the protocols can’t stop?

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Hm. Many possibilities here.

Given the graininess of the footage from the CDIA, I tend to take the assumption it was an especially-corrupted Drifter recording, or a CONCORD camera drone or something of the sort. It seems unlikely they’d casually undock their only cruiser if it were badly damaged.

Likewise, it’s certainly possible that the ship triggers all sorts of alarms for docking control, but it seems like eventually they’d override that, or have the ship towed to a black site of some sort where it won’t risk major infrastructure.

My suspicion, though, is that the ship is recently-retrieved, and Drust happened to be part of the strike force or team that retrieved it.

The significant damage and Drust’s unresponsiveness-- well, you can guess as well as I can.

We’ll see, though. I doubt CONCORD will have any major announcements, but we’ll seek out what word we can.

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It would appear that, for once, CONCORD is being more forthright than I anticipated.

We’ll see how this plays out.

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Don’t bet on it. They will probably say everything is under control and will be fine unless you capsuleers stick your noses in, so keep out!

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The Arataka Research Consortium is, of course, entirely known for not sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong.

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But ARC’s nose belongs everywhere, because SCIENCE!

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