Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts BDM|LV-BIFROST, Dublin System
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VIPER
RE: Meeting Inquiry
It would seem that rumors of your sudden and unexplained disappearance and subsequent reappearance has raised some concerns with the Military. They are requesting a debrief. Your recovery and re-establishment within the Buro is our first priority, all else - especially the prying eyes of outsiders - being a distant second. When you are able, let me know of your availability and we can arrange for a meeting to reassure the Military that you are not whatever they are afraid that you might be.
When you are able, and not one moment sooner.
Kai Siegfried, Director Büro des Marinenachrichtendienstes
Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts BDM|LV-BIFROST, Dublin System
ADDRESSED TO:
VIPER
RE: Meeting Inquiry
Recent events have forced a shift in our priorities. We have urgent need to reverse engineer and develop countermeasures for what we expect will be a massive disruption in established naval and security doctrine spurred by the proliferation of this 'jump drive' technology.
I would have preferred you had more time to recuperate, but it seems that time is fast becoming a luxury that we can ill afford.
Kai Siegfried, Director Büro des Marinenachrichtendienstes
I'll answer any questions they have, but to be clear I will not be re-stating my full name to anyone other than the Buro's Inspektorat division and so on as you already well know why.
The simplest solution for entities jumping in and out would be to establish laws prohibiting unregistered use and begin there. Violators being subject to the devices' seizure upon entry.
However, for monitoring the entry altogether, we'll have to get a bit more creative. We've historically been experts in weapons & ship experimentation but radar detection has always been the LSF's forte.
I've contacts within the Lane Hacker Syndicate that may be able to either lease us the technology we need or help us to construct our own at some other expense. If the Lane Hackers were to lease us their own technology I'd imagine they'd want to have access to the data reception as well. Giving them the same insight we have through their technology. It wouldn't necessarily compromise our own national security unless they began to monitor other things like commercial/military traffic and so on - but it wouldn't sit so well with me either way.
I can either contact the Lane Hackers again, and offer up some bargain to help us develop and utilize our own unique radar capabilities or we can attempt to go about this another way. I'll leave the decision up to you.
I look forward to our meeting with the Rheinland Military officials, I'd like to talk about the GARMR project I've been designing for some time. I know now it has potential. We'll need to convince either the Bundestag, Rheinland Military, or Daumann's upper managementindependently to allow us access to Elbe schematics and funding to construct our own. I can sell the idea much easier to you than I can to them, if you're willing to hear me out.
Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts BDM|LV-BIFROST, Dublin System
ADDRESSED TO:
VIPER
RE: Meeting Inquiry
I will allocate any and all resources that you require to make full use of your contacts with the Lane Hackers to obtain anything that may assist us in developing our own Jump Drive program - they have been willing in the past to furnish a number of our ships with their SPYGLASS scanners, I am sure there is something that we have that they may want enough to assist us further.
With regards to the ELBE - the problem lies not in schematics access or facilities. During the war, the Schatten Drydocks hosted full operational capacity to construct and service the ELBE class. Under the Holstein Treaty, we agreed to a categorical arms limitation to the TIRPITZ class tonnage - the Imperials remain quite wary of our fleet capacity. We may be able to bring about some sequence of events to convince them to loosen this restriction. If they can be persuaded to fund construction, all the sweeter.
One of the Military Admiralty, Großadmiral Erich von Richter, is particuarly keen on adaptation of your NEUROTOXIN project to a more scalable production model. It is he that also requests a meeting with us to discuss both this and the matter of the Jump Drive. Let me know of your availability and we can facilitate a face-to-face meeting.
Kai Siegfried, Director Büro des Marinenachrichtendienstes
NEUROTOXIN should be kept on a need-to-know basis, the weapon's lethal potential can be exemplified tenfold (as we've seen with Valhalla).
Down-scaling and mass-producing the weapon as well poses serious risks to Rheinland and the surrounding houses. Weapons of this scale are kept more for deterrence than anything else, if the colonies were to uncover that we were creating weapons of mass destruction on a scale unlike any seen - we'd face economic & political consequences at the bare minimum.
NEUROTOXIN's practical usage differs heavily from what we saw during Operation "Gift" a while back, that iteration of the NEUROTOXIN was supercharged by the "Dragon's Egg" an alien power source discovered on Weimar several years earlier. I knew utilizing it would likely cause system wide consequences. But in using it we have contained the Alien infestation to the Suhl Anomaly and gained a more practical means of entering Earhart for study. The cost was high, but fortunately no one can get their hands on that iteration of the weapon now.
I was willing to trust the Imperials with this operation, the weapon's usage, and knowledge of the Alien relic. If we truly desire a failsafe and means of monitoring other high risk areas in Sirius - regarding the nomads - we need a means of travel and deterrence that can operate nearly endless underway. We do not currently have those capabilities.
NEUROTOXIN will only reach it's full "practical" potential aboard a large scale capital ship, it was designed for either station-defense or larger warships. The power-supply of a Tirpitz would overload after a few shots.
Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts BDM|LV-BIFROST, Dublin System
ADDRESSED TO:
VIPER
RE: Meeting Inquiry
I trust that you know what you are doing with NEUROTOXIN - you need only to tell me what you will need and I will provide.
Work on reverse engineering the partially leaked design specs of the Jump Drive is ongoing - as are attempts to adapt our existing stabilizer technologies to some manner of jump inhibitor. If you can secure additional information or working prototypes from your Lanehacker contacts, it will greatly facilitate this work - and it is needed urgently.
Our mutual corvid friend has indicated the possibility of ruinous tears in space-time which may result from failed attempts. Given that the advisory board has determined the possibility of third party programs to be a near certainty, countermeasures are a top priority.
Kai Siegfried, Director Büro des Marinenachrichtendienstes
This has gotten much more complicated than I'd hoped.
I've conferred with some colleagues, specifically people who've dealt in space/time travel, radar detection, & jump systems altogether. The Lane Hackers leaking plans for personal jump systems puts the Sirius-wide economy at great risk.
The timeline in which we all live, lets call it "our reality" for the sake of simplicity, utilized interstellar travel by creating a controlled route through another timeline - let's refer to it as "the Webway".
The Webway hosts all forms of interstellar traffic from both humanity and the nomads. It seems at least within the Sirius system, it is working to a near maximum capacity. The use of the "Dragon's Egg" highlights this perfectly as its destruction created a rupture in the Thuringia system. This is one instance of of major slip space technology going "haywire" (for lack of a better term) and causing a massive dimensional rift in space.
Our reality relies on the Webway's stability for the sake of our economy and so on. But if too many passages are opened, if too many slip space systems are manufactured incorrectly, destroyed, misused, or perhaps given to a large number of people. The results of this could be catastrophic, and economic disruption is the least of those concerns if it were to occur.
I'd recommend in your next meeting with the Bundestag that you press the idea of banning all jump drive technology outside of state entities altogether. Frame it as you will, if you tell the truth, that could have consequences and vice versa if you don't.
But this also brings me to a relative solution.
All jump technology is - to a degree - based off of Alien jump system technology or believed to be so. Ageira and EFL have likely monopolized this for a long time, but in order to ensure the Webway's security we need a way of monitoring its predicament in real time.
Alien jump systems are far more sophisticated then our own, and there is only one active artifact that I know of that potentially holds at least a clue to mapping out and understanding the Webway's usage in real time.
The Deep Omega territories are mostly overrun with infected remnants of the nomad war, if able to be navigated however, they pave way to a remarkable find.
Manuel Fischer's find from the early colonization of Rheinland holds true it seems. It's a very short-lived and small class of black hole, but never the less carries the same light-trapping gravitational current that could rip nearly any object to shreds.
I say nearly since, as you can see, there is a large alien structure practically sitting on the event horizon. Inside the shielding it causes the gravitational pull of the black hole to cease completely. Any relic capable of bending space in a constant manner such as this to an extreme scale might pave way to some clue for understanding this "Webway" we very desperately need to keep tabs on. I understand this is a long shot, but we don't have many more options, I'm in contact with the Lane Hackers and am working on a few alternatives but nothing is quite as concrete as this right now. I've made their hubris clear to them as well.
I propose we lead a scientific team aboard one of our "Bustard" class carriers, accompanied by a small battlegroup directly to the structure. Once inside we will dispatch smaller ships to escort the scientists close enough to analyze the object in as much detail as possible. Fighters and gunships will be necessary to provide cover against the automated defenses that lurk nearby it. I am personally willing to oversee the operation, but we will need some detachments from the Marinekommando as well to ensure the safety of all personnel selected for this mission. If needed I will provide specific route analysis uncovered during RICIN & I's recon of the area to verify the safest route.
Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts BDM|LV-BIFROST, Dublin System
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VIPER
Expedition
We have just concluded closed sessions with the legislation - a policy declaration on the prohibition of jump tech outside of authorized bodies is soon to follow.
Understanding and development of countermeasures to this emergent technology is paramount. I will allocate one of our long-range Bustard class Carriers to your expedition - and whatever other personnel and ships you need to ensure a successful excursion.
We have also a considerable stockpile of prototype components from our jump stabilizer and advanced weapons projects to cannibalize - do with those as you will to best expedite development of jump countermeasures.
Kai Siegfried, Director Büro des Marinenachrichtendienstes
I'll see it done once we get those scans, if the Military Admirals want to meet, it will likely have to be after this operation and not before to maintain its security.
Before I vanished I had re-opened negotiations and cooperation between the Buro, Order, and Military High commands respectively. This includes the Order's "Section 8" division as well as the "Overwatch". The main topic of discussion was how to go about dealing with the reappearance of Omega-58.
I think our current priorities might intertwine with a way to go about removing this infestation from our backyard, or perhaps reducing it's capabilities at a bare minimum. I'll re-open the channel and shift permissions for you to have access, Admiral Solandros of the Order and Section 8 have already agreed to discussion in regards to this topic. I will refrain from re-adding Military elements until we can be sure they're on the same page in regards to Omega-58, if you choose to do so though, that is your decision to make.
The Order are much easier to negotiate with on this topic as well as draw support from, the Core's desire for profiting off of alien and AI technology will our house and others to ruin if we allow to continue. My policy in regards to R&D has been and will continue to be greatly limiting the adaptation of alien technology whenever possible.
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