To: Viper; BDM

[Mr.Ling]

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Evening.

Been a while since our last contact. I'll be honest, I couldn't get deep enough into Alaska to figure out what they were up to. There's no off-angles to take, they've blanketed the entire system in a minefield. The patrols are insane and the weapons platforms are nasty.

However, I did get something on the same subject, but significantly more urgent. I'm sure, as an intelligence specialist, you've heard about the leaps and bounds Kusari has made in the jump-tech field. We Lane Hackers got our hands on a sample. It's damaged, badly, Liberty wasn't happy with us snatching their prize, but we got it, and I've been running diagnostics on it for a little over a year now. Outer Circle is set on releasing the information on it publicly, because frankly the situation is critical, but I've got extra details now and I'll be able to get more the longer I can work on these terminals.

Point of the matter is that Kusari can force a stable Einstein-Rosen bridge. If the numbers I have are correct, they can force the bridge from one end, and stabilize the bridge from the other, completely eliminating jump-network and positional warfare from existence. They can take their full fleet straight from New Tokyo to New Berlin's orbit entirely unimpeded, and leave the same way they came before reinforcements could even get off the ground.

I'll get what information I have to you, but I need something from you. I need researchers and funding. Liberty is currently antagonizing Kusari on the border, but I'm old enough to have read about the Saigon war. They're going to come for Rheinland after they're done with Liberty, and you know it. Frankly, I love a Chrysanthemum party, but I've had to infiltrate Keiretsu meetings and that was monotonous hell. I don't feel like having a Kusari governor, I'm pretty sure you don't either. So, I can pull data from the terminals, I can even make sense of it and theorize, but I need actual scientists and materials to get anything done, and we don't have long before Kusari moves. I did try to point out that releasing the information would probably goad them into action, but hey, what can you do? Everyone wants to be a hero.

Either way, we're on a clock here. Help me help you.

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