The first headline I have addressed, as for DERAIL’s presence, they have not, yet made another intrusion attempt to the orbital yard, or pushed on remaining UNF held research and archaeological facilities on Planet V - Moon 1, though smaller raids continue on outlying settlements on planet VI,
Whatever collaboration may be occurring, if any, remains to be seen.
I must confess I do not share your calm on this matter, but I appreciate your continued work on this matter. It is not enough to destroy or save the materials, we must understand what exactly is going on here, why DERAIL are involved, what are the aims the LPDS involving this illegal AI and artifacts?
I know you do not have these answers, but someone does and they must be held to task.
Goodness, valuable relics on a moon? There aren’t too many locals there I hope.
@wordpuzzle2 It is, largely, an airless low mass moon unable to retain more than a trace atmosphere naturally. Some of the archaeological and research sites maintained by UNF utilize atmosphere retaining forcefields or pressure domes, but aside from that the only inhabitants are small independent prospecting crews, most that UNF had encountered thus far, have been paid to relocate and pursue mineral claims in other parts of the system.
And of course members of the LDPS 203rd
Rather hostile reactions from the other people here, I feel like the artifacts might be more valuable than ones from a standard relic site.
I don’t really know what Lai Dai have encountered there and how much valuable these things are. I am not used for Megacorporations explaining us why should we do something, more to the orders what shall we do. I mean, it’s their business and we’re just guards. If they will release the information - well, that will be interesting. If they won’t, we still have a job to do and protect their operations.
However, something tells me all the hatred in here is not really about the price of the findings, but about personal “sharp disdain” to the State - and more particular, to LDPS, besides, since it was already expressed quite openly in the same exact discussion and I don’t expect it having an alternative reading.
And it resulted in this awkward, “I’m just gonna drill you from the orbit and destroy the findings instead of doing business with you, oh also Im going to hire shady and hostile individuals to annoy you even more, and whoops, if we destroyed relics we pointed our drill at, it was totally unintentional, we’re all for peace, etc”
I could just repeat Col. Yuminoro words: “Capsuleer terrorism is rarely rational.”
Strike Commander, with respect, due to your rank, and status as an honorable citizen, I ask you reconsider this course that you are now pursuing. It would be untoward to intervene on behalf of the Honorable Colonel Yuminoro without request, would it not?
I would also, like to posit that this be largely considered, as of now, an intercorporate dispute, and not an international incident, as a complaint in the CBT is in the process of being lodged, as has been previously stated by Ms. Brezia. I am currently heading the write up of the dispute, and many of the archaeological workers that are currently on the surface have a background in NOH or Wiyrkomi and under legitimate contract to a person in good standing of, and maintaining provisional citizenship under, Nugoeihuvi.
Perhaps, opening a more appropriate dialogue is in order, than an open forum back and forth honorable Strike Commander?
Additionally, to reiterate, reparations have been offered to LDPS for the loss of their Research Site, incurred incidentally, due to lack of knowledge of its proximity to the outer damage zone of the drill firing. If an LDPS representative, such as the honorable Colonel Yuminoro, or another, would reach out to myself or Ms. Brezia it would be appreciated so that appropriate negotiations for such can commence.
At this time, a sum of 125 million isk has been prepared to be set aside for escrow at such time that negotiations may occur, prior to adjudication of damages and claims therein, and the value remaining after adjudications complete will be donated to the State Workers Union Orphans Apprenticeship Fund.
This is acceptable, Ms. Yokomes.
However, please keep in mind that I do not represent either Lai Dai or LDPS and can neither speak on their behalf nor promise anything from them.
I am sorry that that the extraction did not go as planned. I must admit at first I too was shocked about using a moon drill instead of an artifact chip brush, but given that it is a sprawling underground structure I can see the logic of your technique. Nevertheless, that it was even possible once constitutes a technological and engineering breakthrough.
I have a couple of questions - from the previous excavations, what kind of artefacts could be expected? What culture built the structure, and are they related to the Intaki or a common precursor civilization?
My second question is, what prompted the need to transport the ruin off-moon? Why was it not possible to investigate it in-situ?
My apologies if these questions were already answered elsewhere and I read over it.
Indeed Strike Commander, to presume such would be foolish. The intent is, largely, clarification of the events and specifics at hand.
Mr. Savnar, I appreciate your inquiry and will answer the questions as thoroughly as I am able.
From previous excavations, including the initial one in late YC119, we had hoped to recover partially intact data matrices and storage systems, perhaps even old forcefield technologies, power systeme, and cultural relics.
The architectural styling of the original and other ruins, including the unfortunately now collapsed one in the current extraction, generally, are congruous with that of the Yan Jung, and considering how widespread the ruins are, but how limited in scope most seem to be, I’d infer, but not stake any specific amount of isk on, the moon having been the site some sort of storage, resource processing, or observatory setup, or a combination thereof.
Which begs the question of why, and if other ruins are scattered across the system on other moons or planets. Unfortunately due to limits of time and resources, a commitment has not been made to sweep the whole system for more ruins, though I do keep an ear open for any reports of strange things of course.
As for why we chose such aggressive extraction methods as our mainline, as I’ve answered before… due to the nature of lowsec resource claims, particularly over moons, and the location of many of the ruins on the moon Umai being almost exclusively connected to areas rich in specific ores like Otavite, Sylvite, and Titanite, frankly it was only a matter of time before a less inquisitive group would come through and callously reduce the various ruins to rubble in pursuit of resources.
It has transpired that, largely, only the capsuleer cadre of UNF has shown any real extended interest in Eugales as far as capsuleers go, in terms of long term usage of local resources so the initial projection of potential outcome was wrong, but the policy of extracting ruins alongside resource deposits where possible remains.
Yan Jung ? Awwh. As I understand things, the Yan Jung weren’t quite so much into the whole AI shebang as other ancient cultures, so maybe the risk of the whole Robot Rampage thing has been grossly overstated. Oh well, better luck next year.
Makes me wonder why CONCORD are poking at things though.
The moon chunk referenced in previous postings made it to orbit early yesterday, and as is standard procedure, a four kilometer segment of rock containing what is left of the sadly collapsed archaeological site was separated with controlled explosives, ahead of the main chunk detonation, following days of prep with fusion cutting beams during the continued pull(Exceptional assistance noted from @Captain_Hashat_Septima and her cohorts from her warclone clan ‘The Freed Legion’ in supporting roles alongside UNF aligned warclones in precise application of equipment in extreme non-combat environments), before the exhumed chunk fragment began being towed to an anchor point to be properly enclosed ahead of orbital transfer.
A follow up firing of the drill was made(on a site pre-swept with visual and sensor observation out to 50 kilometers to ensure no LDPS or other affiliated bases or units would be harmed in the blast zone) and a follow up extraction of a much smaller, less significant archaeological site is now under way alongside a smaller deposite of ores.
At this time, neither I nor my associate Ms. Yokomes have received any communications from LDPS about reparations for their unfortunately lost base. We will be leaving this open should one wish to reach out.
Similarly to what has occurred with the Security Corridor astrahus, the Harvester V3 athanor has since been reinforced to hull by pirate forces belonging to Snuffed Out. Prior to this and the inevitable emergency shutdown of services, including the tractor beam system tied to the drill, an accelerated detachment of the section of the moon chunk housing the small ruin was initiated with the assistance of warclones from UNF aligned clans and the Freed Legion of @Captain_Hashat_Septima . Though unorthodox and rushed, separation was able to be achieved with minimal strain to the ruin in question, though lifting the separated chunk to safe position for enclosure has been delayed as priorities currently must that final evacuation of materials from the Harvester be concluded, as well as evacuation if research sites near the initial extraction point. A controlled detonation of the moon chunk is in progress with traditional fusion and graviton explosives being planted across the falling chunk’s surface, but should this fail, a minimum safe distance of sixty kilometers around the expected impact site is planned to be enforced.
@Aina_Yuminoro , as a courtesy this information is also being forwarded to you along with expected timeline of impact. With luck, you will be able to use this information to get your own people and assets clear once again, and point out that this inconvenience and situation, unpleasant as it is, can be directly tracked to a subset of dreadnought pilots belonging to the Snuffed Out pirate group.
Another update, more than two weeks on, and things are, mostly, returning to normal. The detonation of the falling chunk was successful, turning a good proportion of the rock into atomized dust, and reducing the final kinetic impact significantly, though extensive seismic events were still registered for many kilometers around the initial extraction and re-impact site.
For the time being, archaeological work on the surface will resume in more traditional fashion, and all currently extracted ruins and artifacts will be opened to interested parties to examine in the coming weeks at the Orbital Yard.
It seems that, during my extended stint planetside helping raise my little ones after the loss of the Harvester athanor, another group has moved an athanor into place and has been continuously firing the drill to the surface without much a care.
The corporation in question is Space Oddity Bowie Builders, and seems to be an external subsidiary group of ISK Enterprises, a small nuisance of an organization in the local area for a short while.
Current damage estimates to both UNF and LDPS material assets, not to mention the damage to irreplaceable archaeological sites, is still under way… This, is quite an unfortunate turn of events.
So hire someone to deal with it. Or do so yourself. Complaining impotently does not help your cause.
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