»: Chloe/Lovelace, Mr. Ling CC: Revenant

[Mr.Ling]

...hack.initiated...connecting.to.Spyglass.Network...decryption.in.progress...
...Deceiver.Mr.Ling.recognized...encoding.transmission...
...uploading.data...

So I ran the solving system as a coordinate displacement instead of as a singular coordinate, and got the old Reimann Zeta function.



Which has some weird implications, I think? I'm not sure there's such a thing as "imaginary location" or "imaginary space", but if this is some kind of wormhole generator like the Jumphole Generators that were kicking around a decade ago, most of it's targeted destinations would be in √-1 space. Almost all of it's destinations, actually. Untargeted jumping would be a death sentence by paradoxical deletion. Which lines up with the calculations extracted so far, I guess. Singular coordinate is a point at origin, and coordinate displacement is a continuous function. It's a wormhole to non-realspace, except along the intersections with the X-axis.

More importantly, if it's operating on wormhole theory, then it's something entirely different from a Jump Hole or Jump Gate. It'd be some kind of antithesis to slipspace. Forced space, I guess. And it'd take a ridiculous amount of energy to pull off. The actual reactor is shot to hell, so I have no way to measure theoretical outputs, and the maintenance logs want higher authorization too. Which would make sense why Liberty wanted their hands on it, yeah, to defend Ageira's monopoly on travel. How would they overcome the energy requirements, though? The drydock scans clearly indicated that it wasn't sacrificing any of the onboard systems to run the thing generating these equations. If it's outputting an actual wormhole, you'd need four or five Star-City class powercores to use it even once.

And speaking of Liberty, I was prodding around with the Constellation's token and pulled this little gem.

Argonaut-3 Terminal: Data Save

if (command = setaccess : ≤1)

group_info = access_LN;

return { "Access Denied"

mod group_info = *First Fleet , *1st , [LN]
return { "Access Denied, loser. Go get your clearance up, not your interference up."
}

}
return unit: group_info , open_page;

So I'm probably going to need an actual LSF access key. Navy clearance won't cut it, and I haven't messed with enough LSF recently to have an up-to-date recognition hash for them. I'll check and see if I can pull some tags on any LSF ships that were present at the fight. Might just need to track them down, bust their ships, and pull a token off of their system logins. There were 19 unreadable tokens, if I can get a full version of one, I should be able to restore it on the Argonaut's systems.

Oh, right, Friday, yeah. I also need to head out to the Taus for a moment, I can swing by. Friday works.

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