Originally by: Kaianna Sela

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I'm sure this will have the exact effect effect you're looking for, both impressing people and striking fear into the hearts of your enemies.

Honestly. It will.

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Originally by: IzzyChan

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Oh man I am so scared I'm totally going to do everything you said there. Oh wait, no I'm not. Who made you the boss of us?

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Originally by: IzzyChan

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Oh man I am so scared I'm totally going to do everything you said there. Oh wait, no I'm not. Who made you the boss of us?

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Exactly the sentiment I expected, so not a terrible setback. However, should you do the sensible thing and reconsider, the offer to vacate Federation territory will remain open, expiring at 17:00 hours, Thursday 17th, at which point the war will have been active for its mandatory 24-hour cooldown period. If proof is given at Naqam operations in the Federation have ceased, the war will be terminated without prejudice.

As for who made me the boss of you, I'm the CEO of a liscenced Federal paramilitary, operating in Federal space, telling you to get the hell out of it. There's no real official power behind my words, but basically, I'm going to shoot your ships if I see you in Federation space. If you don't like that, get out of Federation space! It's really simple.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Originally by: IzzyChan

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Oh man I am so scared I'm totally going to do everything you said there. Oh wait, no I'm not. Who made you the boss of us?

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Exactly the sentiment I expected, so not a terrible setback. However, should you do the sensible thing and reconsider, the offer to vacate Federation territory will remain open, expiring at 17:00 hours, Thursday 17th, at which point the war will have been active for its mandatory 24-hour cooldown period. If proof is given at Naqam operations in the Federation have ceased, the war will be terminated without prejudice.

As for who made me the boss of you, I'm the CEO of a liscenced Federal paramilitary, operating in Federal space, telling you to get the hell out of it. There's no real official power behind my words, but basically, I'm going to shoot your ships if I see you in Federation space. If you don't like that, get out of Federation space! It's really simple.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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I'm the CEO of a liscenced Federal paramilitary, operating in Federal space, telling you to get the hell out of it. There's no real official power behind my words

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Originally by: Heartstone

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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I'm the CEO of a liscenced Federal paramilitary, operating in Federal space, telling you to get the hell out of it. There's no real official power behind my words

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Phew I'm glad we got that sorted for a moment there I was under the impression that it was President Ixiris talking there. Wouldn't that be something to see.

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Iz in ur base, implanting ur dudes

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Originally by: Vlak Nera

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*Vlak chuckles quietly while reading the press*
So.. it begins.. the cycle of war comes to the Nation's doorstep..

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Exactly the sentiment I expected, so not a terrible setback. However, should you do the sensible thing and reconsider, the offer to vacate Federation territory will remain open, expiring at 17:00 hours, Thursday 17th, at which point the war will have been active for its mandatory 24-hour cooldown period. If proof is given at Naqam operations in the Federation have ceased, the war will be terminated without prejudice.

As for who made me the boss of you, I'm the CEO of a liscenced Federal paramilitary, operating in Federal space, telling you to get the hell out of it. There's no real official power behind my words, but basically, I'm going to shoot your ships if I see you in Federation space. If you don't like that, get out of Federation space! It's really simple.

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Originally by: Sakura Nihil

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While you might insult their intelligence, I've learned that Naqam is one of those corporations you shouldn't take lightly.

Do so might result in a good number of Andreus corpses floating in space.

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Originally by: Vikarion

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And no, we don't trust our citizens with decisions about what implants they'd like to have...that would be too close to actual freedom of choice.

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Originally by: Vikarion

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Welcome to the Federation, home of freedom, open-mindedness, and democracy...

Unless Andreus doesn't like you, in which case, we'll let him murder you until you get the hell out.

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Originally by: Vikarion

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And no, we don't trust our citizens with decisions about what implants they'd like to have...that would be too close to actual freedom of choice.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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The SCC has no record of the NHB Ultra Happy Chip on their product database, which means that it's being produced and marketed without SCC liscencing, which is in itself a grievous violation of CONCORD laws. Secondly, there is no Federation Customs record on the UHC, which suggests that they are either mass-producing it in Gallente space (again, without an SCC liscence or SCC-registered blueprint, which is illegal) or smuggling it in (which is of course a violation of Federal Customs and Import laws).

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Originally by: Odre Echee

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Just to nitpick, neither is modified modules used by various other factions, including various Navies and pirate groups, or even finer-tuned modules enjoyed by many pirate officers, but I get this feeling that people trading such wares are not violating any CONCORD policies in particular, unless I am having some comprehension problems with SCC policies. Which I very may well may, but nonetheless.

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Originally by: Odre Echee

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Their evasive approach towards purpose of the chip is, funnily enough, main reason why I wish to try it out. It is a mysterious entity that is begging to be investigated and studied.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Correction - officer- or faction-modified modules, implants, etc. cannot be sold on local markets, but they do have SCC database entries with corresponding information and there are schematics for some of these items that, while not neccessarily being liscenced by the SCC, conform to standardised regulations, allowing them to be manufactured at any compliant station. This is what enables them to be transferred through the SCC's contract system. The NHB Ultra Happy Chip has no such database entry, and it is quite likely that a ship's computer, if one were to loot a shipment of them, would not recognise what they were.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Brother, I would advise in the strongest possible terms against installing any Sansha wetware. I don't even trust SCC-cleared Slave implants, to be perfectly frank.

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Originally by: Odre Echee

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Brother, I would advise in the strongest possible terms against installing any Sansha wetware. I don't even trust SCC-cleared Slave implants, to be perfectly frank.

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I do not either, but this is something I wish to be documented. Dangers, effects, benefits they claim, and other various influences this implant can produce, I wish to be documented. If something is truly dangerous and is a threat, I believe that it should be studied and understood better, so countermeasures can be made against if need be, and its vile mechanics and science contribute to humankind for better. That is, after all, is why we scientists exist. I have contacted my former lecturer to aid me in this endeavor. I do thank you for the concern. I shall endeavor to return from this more or less untouched.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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The SCC has no record of the NHB Ultra Happy Chip on their product database, which means that it's being produced and marketed without SCC liscencing, which is in itself a grievous violation of CONCORD laws. Secondly, there is no Federation Customs record on the UHC, which suggests that they are either mass-producing it in Gallente space (again, without an SCC liscence or SCC-registered blueprint, which is illegal) or smuggling it in (which is of course a violation of Federal Customs and Import laws).

Lastly, my request to see certain sections of the chip's schematics and transceiver software were summarily denied by Silver Night. Given that the schematic in question was the primary neural interface, a section which is virtually identical on almost all similar chips and indeed quite a large amount of the schematic would be intimately familiar to any pilot who has the Cybernetics skillbook downloaded into his brain, and also that the sections of code I wanted to see (which dictate the information the chip sends and recieves) would not be particularly useful to anyone trying to create a duplicate version given that they are simply a complex value table that would be easily duplicable independently by any relatively adept programmer, and I was interested in the data the chip sends and recieves, rather than the structure of the code - ah, well, this sentence runs on a little bit.

Basically, I asked for access to proprietary data that would not in any way be useful to me were I to want to create a competing product (which I don't, as MXD is a paramilitary, whereas Naqam claims to focus mainly on R&D and industry). This would, incidentally, have been less data than they would have been required to submit to the SCC in order to obtain registration and liscencing for its sale. My aim in obtaining this data was to analyse whether the chip could be used in ways other than its advertised purpose - for instance, as a backdoor override to a subject's higher brain functions, as Sansha are fond of doing.

At every turn Naqam have been evasive on the true capabilities and purpose of the chip, and have almost certainly violated SCC and Federation Customs restrictions on the manufacture, transport and sale of sensitive neuroelectronic equipment.

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Originally by: Carcosa Hali

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Firstly Ixirus; you didn't ask for 'certain parts' of our proprietary schematics, you demanded a copy of the whole thing, a request that only a fool would ask for in the first place.

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Originally by: Carcosa Hali

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Second, every single one of the governmental and regulatory agencies you listed has records of our involvement with them.. Everything has been above the board since day one.

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Originally by: Carcosa Hali

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Would we have started a clusterwide advertising blitz if we were trying to be all 'nefarious'?

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Originally by: Carcosa Hali

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It's a matter of public record; anyone can find them with just a little work. But not you apparently...

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Originally by: Carcosa Hali

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You were high again, weren't you? Less than six weeks ago, you showed up on this very network blasted out of your skull on Mindflood. So much so that your friends ended up asking us for help because they were afraid you were going to pilot your ship into a star.. You have bragged, bragged about your drug use while piloting machines capable of killing thousands with one twitch of your hallucinogen soaked nerves! And now you come on here spewing inane accusations as to our business practices.

Just stop bothering people and go back to rehab, you stupid drophead.

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Originally by: Yoshitaka Moromuo

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Mr. Ixiris, I do believe that Silver-haan has gone over - at the very least - a rough description of the chip's functions in another discussion, which I believe to be archived here on the IGS. I cannot recall which one, but it can indeed be found.

I have read over that description myself, and I do believe the only stated function of the chip was along the lines of simple mood alteration. At least, that is what I could glean from it.

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Originally by: Andreus Ixiris

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Edited by: Andreus Ixiris on 15/07/2008 22:33:13
I object to the term "crochety" nutjob. Rodj Blake is a crochety nutjob. Gaven Lok'ri is a crochety nutjob. Darth Sage is a crochety nutjob. I'm only 25. You can't be crochety until you're at least forty. I'd say I'm closer to a "narcissistic" nutjob.

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Originally by: Silver Night

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They may increase now, as a pilot or two might move to the Federation just to help illustrate how useless this is.

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Originally by: Aria Jenneth

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Edited by: Aria Jenneth on 16/07/2008 10:15:09
Gods and spirits....

You know you're notorious when you can go to war against Sansha's Nation assets and the weight of public opinion is against you.

That, or Silver Night's propaganda campaign is actually working. This seems marginally unlikely considering the persistent, unsettling undertones, though I've certainly seen people defending Super Happy Chips (as a note, no, I don't think they contain some hidden mind-control device; Silver Night's specialty is public relations, and that sort of holovid-villain plot is the diametric opposite of his approach. What people should be looking at isn't whether the PR devices are dangerous; it's what they're public relations for).

In any event, I, at least, will wish you good hunting. The Nation's capsuleer roster can't be destroyed by the means you intend, but perhaps you can deal it a setback or three.

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Originally by: Arial Rakon

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Mixed Metaphor are going to war dec you?! Run away, run away.

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