[RJD] have informed the Scope that their investigation has uncovered evidence that in addition to their theft of valuable items, they broke into a sealed containment area within the facility. According to legitimate Thukker Mix employees, no one working in the station was even aware that this containment area existed.
So, I am curious to know… since Thukker Mix did not know of the compartment and thus (I assume) neither authorized it or supervised its establishment… And presumably, if the Hrada-Oki had to break into it, they also were not the legitimate owner…
Who (which tribe, clan, circle?) has jurisdiction over that part of the station, and also, who did have it at the time of the sealing of the area?
And have those people come forward to offer an explanation and/or protest the breaking in to their facility?
Well, the station is owned by Thukker Mix. As such, unless Thukker Mix transfers ownership of any portion of the station to another entity, they retain sole possession of all real estate aboard. Take leg space, for example. I can go and build a small habitation dome in there and squat there, but I do not own my dome. I’m simply squatting on real estate owned by whoever owns that station. Similar thing here. Someone tunneled in and built a secret compartment, but they are squatters not owners. Thukker Mix still legally possesses that ground.
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Yea, but it is actually quite rare in Minmatar space that there is a sole owner like that in charge of a particular location, and it is typical for the original “owner” to relinquish control of some part or another to some associated party. To quote a known quidebook, “it is entirely possible to have a planet owned by the Sebiestor, with an orbital station owned by the Vherokior tribe, but rented by a Krusual clan, who then employ a circle from the Brutor tribe to run security and a Sebiestor circle to administer it”, and all those involved retain authority over their own part of the arrangement. This is a simplification, too: it is entirely normal to have the planet and the station divided between multiple parties.
And it is not just any secret compartment, it is a sealed containment area, which is a little more than a clanless vagabond making a nest in a crawl space.
The individual writing this is a member of a Sebiestor business clan with a legal department of some local renown, but is not authorized to give legal advice without prior agreement with the clan.
Yea, but it is actually quite rare in Minmatar space that there is a sole owner like that in charge of a particular location, and it is typical for the original “owner” to relinquish control of some part or another to some associated party. To quote a known quidebook , “it is entirely possible to have a planet owned by the Sebiestor, with an orbital station owned by the Vherokior tribe, but rented by a Krusual clan, who then employ a circle from the Brutor tribe to run security and a Sebiestor circle to administer it”, and all those involved retain authority over their own part of the arrangement. This is a simplification, too: it is entirely normal to have the planet and the station divided between multiple parties.
Yes, jurisdiction over the station may be divided among parties, but without a formal agreement transferring jurisdiction from the original owner, I suppose that jurisdiction will remain with the owner. In this case, as Thukker Mix had no knowledge of this compartment, there could not have been a transferring of jurisdiction UNLESS the compartment was within a section that had been transferred. In which case, jurisdiction would reside with whomever Thukker Mix delegated the section to.
Although you do bring up an interesting point. Are orbital stations considered to be rented, or owned? Does Thukker Mix retain sole jurisdiction over the orbital infrastructure they own, or was that jurisdiction relinquished to them by a planetary authority without the resources or knowledge to erect and administrate such sophisticated orbitals?
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That’s my point. Thukker Mix was not aware of the sealed area, which suggests either that they did not oversee the area when it was first made (or, obviously, that they did it poorly). Hrada-Oki broke into it, suggesting it also wasn’t theirs. So whose was it, at the time?
Maybe it wasn’t built by a corporation or a tribe but by the republic itself, it’s no secret that the four empires are interested in Jovian and Triglavian technology so it doesn’t seem out of touch to me to think that they found these objects and stored them here in secret so that they wouldn’t fall into the hands of the Amarrians or the Angels.
Exactly. It was a secret Minmatar weapons program. Probably the treacherous Krusual Tribe was involved in some way, but certainly the Sebbies are capable of such a thing too.
This Sealed Compartment, how Large is it ?
The Scope says it was not Present when the Station was built, according to Blueprints. This suggests a substantial Compartment, to easily show up on Blueprints.
The Scope also says there were “anomalous gravity stress fractures” on the Walls of the Compartment, which Suggests to Me that Objects of considerable Mass were stored there.
It says there are Gaps in the security records for the Maintenance Corridor used to access this Compartment.
However, Access is not the only Issue. It would be relatively Trivial to insert Security Camera footage to obscure the movements of People.
Consider:
A largeish Compartment containing substantial Mass, would affect the following Station technical services:
Electrical Power, Air Management, Heating/Cooling, Artificial Gravity, Station Alignment Thrusters.
There will surely Also be Anomalies in the Station’s technical records for these, would there Not ?
All those who have come into contact with the Atavums (I have access to 4 of them stored in two distant locations) claim this more or less: “it subtly warps the surrounding fabric of spacetime”
It’s not an ordinary piece of junk.
And we have all the certainty there were Atavums, 250-300 of them, stored in that hidden compartment at Thukker Mix factory. Based on cargo scan and kill reports.
It would require ~25-30 cubic meters to house them.
And more of them had been recovered from various relic sites lately. And I’ve heard the Deathless Circle is interested in any more quantity they could have.