The heat is still cooling off from that quick move in the Independent Worlds, and it's likely only going to get worse. A good chance this'll get more dangerous with each day.
Though I needn't remind any of you of that.
I wanted to touch base, and see where things are. How much your efforts have found out, and extend a helping hand in uncovering every detail about your little recovery that we can. I've included my counterpart in this transmission, so that we can all stay on the same page here. Our support is offered, and what expertise in the technological world we have is available.
Few roadblocks. I've started with pulling data from the onboard systems I could resuscitate, but I'm getting a ton of 403 errors. Especially annoying with the lifter's onboard system, given that I was able to pull a Liberty Navy First Fleet access token that was used by the [LN]-LNS-Constellation while we were fighting for it. Which means that this was an LSF operation, and I need to somehow get LSF login credentials that are valid for this project. I suppose I should have guessed as much when the lifter denied a self-destruct command from the ship's officers, but it's still annoying.
The actual thing they had is worse. The wreck of the IKN-Niyodo. I'm finding roughly nothing in terms of publicly available information, and wherever they were stranded has done absolutely monstrous things in terms of dating the bodies onboard. The one I could get an ID on, a Captain Isamu Kojima, had a CBR dating of forty-one million years, and a biodegrading dating of literal hours. The only other thing I could pull was an output record from the powercore's maintenance terminal. If you want to make heads or tales of this math, I invite you to give it a shot.
Fascinating... A coordinate algorithm. Hyperspatial reasoning. Wormhole theory.
That certainly explains the sheer scale of the forces in pursuit.
The only LSF access information I've got is fairly dated, belonging to a Norman O'Brian. You could use that as a baseline, reference the Constellation's token makeup and try to spoof something, but I don't see it getting you any farther than into the Lifter's already-degraded systems. If it is the Niyodo, then odds are more likely that we'll need keys from up North of the border. Those may be a bit more difficult to source.
Most of what you're going to need is going to be difficult to source, what am I saying?
I'll shake some trees, talk to some contacts. See what I can turn up. Though if worst comes to worst, you may need to brute force your way in.
Regarding your request on a certain topic, I have some of the package now. For security reasons, I will have to physically drop it off in order to counter potential communication compromise. If you're around on Friday -- Tomorrow, I'll be able to drop it off there.(//it's also possible i might lose power from a storm and flooding btw)
I'll do a little prodding and poking around up in Kusari, see what we can find in regards to your key. I imagine you have done a thorough physical examination of the specimen? If you need assistance from me and my Gammu companion, we can easily look through it for you and share what we find.
Naturally, I find myself very interested in seeing what Kusari has done in order to achieve hyperspatial breaching in lieu of my own studies. Funny how things tend to overlap in the end.
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.
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.
Now I ain't no big city mathematician, but I do have some contacts, buncha eggheads we picked up through the Hagworks' ops. I can start sliding them formulae their way and see what they say, best shot I have I figure short of, I dunno, kidnapping a Kishiro project lead.
The gang's been sniffing around for comms from our unfriendly neighbourhood watchdogs and lemme tell ya, shit is HOT right now. High volume, highest level access, many a different signature. No idea what they're plotting, but they are plotting. Which, no shit, but gotta keep an eye out anyway.
Speaking of no-brainers, the Xenos are pissed at all the heat this is bringing into Ontario, just in case the sitch needed a bit of extra spice thrown in.
Anywho~ We'll keep our feelers out, don't wanna get caught with our pants down now, right?
Interrogative efforts were launched per the request of the Navarch, utilizing a small number of captives from an attempted incursion into Inverness some months ago. Field operatives proved far more forthcoming and susceptible to employed interrogative methods. Efforts will continue in this regard until a tangible and usable access token is acquired, or remaining resources for interrogation are exhausted.
Attached below are the extracted access codes of five operatives currently in custody and in the care of our collective.
Those did help. It took a bit, but I've got a lead finally. The Argonaut has a few valid keys I could reconstruct. The problem right now is doing it is about 7 years of brute forcing, or knowing an agent specific data deconstruction hash. The bad news is that 7 years is optimistic. The good news is that data deconstruction hashes aren't exactly hard to come by. Any ship that carries sensitive data will output one when it scrambles information to keep it falling into enemy hands. Snagging those and running scrambled data through an inverted version was one of the many tricks I was taught to bypass the Alaska Gate security. The best news is that one of the codes pulled an actual set of ships on file for a data hash: LSF-Whitehawk, [LSF-J.Burnsie, and John.Pickford. Shoot one of them down and record their ship's output, and I have an unrestricted key into the Argonaut's systems. Normally I'd ask Wolfe or one of the Assassins to go after this, but I haven't heard from them in a bit, and I don't want to be the guy looking for people who don't want to be found.
There might be some other hashes that work, I suggest keeping an eye out for them, too. And the deal with the Niyodo itself has been even slower. I want to try tackling it from the other end, but that'd require cracking open the Argonaut. The other option is literally powering the thing up and spamming thousands of probes through its drive to see where they end up, and that seems like a horribly long and horribly expensive process.
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