' Wrote:Samura is currently in the process of trying to steal that technology, but laws and trade regulations are making it a long, difficult, and expensive process.
Gallia is not bound by those laws, plus the gate/lane system development was a necessity for Gallia to grow without Sirius knowing of its existance, and received substantial government funding.
You do not receive full documentation in one package. Like, Technology Stolen = False/True.
You do not even need to get yourself a piece of that technology.
Laws and trade regulations aren't that important either, anyway we're talking about the top secret tech etc. It's being done through third, fourth, fifth, sixth etc parties.
If we take modern ICBM analogue, few hundred factories/production facilities are participating in the creation of that thing (starting from special alloys etc, not talking about ore refining/screwdrives/bolts), with about 50 of them being "key ones". That means, that tens or hundred of thousands people are directly or undirectly participating in the creation of the product. All sorts of various people, with own lives, hobbies, problems, dreams, et cetera.
To succesfully "steal" tech, you do not need to steal it as a whole. You need information, hints, even the "general direction of thinking" that will help your scientists to fill the gaps they're currently struggling to overcome. Little bit here, little bit there, seemingly unimportant and unconnected pieces of information turns into pearls when you combine all of them with what you already know, theories your scientists have etc.
This is also why you have multiple teams working on same technology, because some of them might/will go the wrong way, either by own mistakes or by intentional disinformation by enemy's counter-intelligence agencies; but still sharing information on what they managed to find out. It'd be, probably, better for them not to know about the existence of each other.
Also you analyse all traffic, everything that is being carried, ordered etc by Ageira on open market, even simple alloys, the amount of them being shipped into the facility, etc. It's like, some important bit of information can be found anywhere. Often even in a bar. :)
Of course such active intelligence measures will attract attention of counter-intelligence structures, and will require significant amount of resources dedicated to it. But when we're talking about smth as important as TL's or JGs...
