The alarm just triggered: Kyonoke detected aboard. To probably nobody's great surprise.

It's a little hard to detect. I wonder how long it's been here.

Direct cloning maybe contraindicated: neurological symptoms. Reversibility and extent of damage unclear.

Pseudo-immortality: strained a little.

The unfortunate thing is that we are not able to vote against resolutions, excepting that we support another; essentially, it's not A or Not-A and B or Not-B, but A or B. Were it possible, the ARC coordination group did not like either act, and would have rebuffed them both. However, it may be necessary to undertake extreme measures to eliminate the Kyonoke pathogen, especially if we are unable to secure Akira Kasaras before 'Vulture' does. The unfortunate and brutal necessity of preserving the ability to act decisively compelled us to this course of action, despite our desire to ensure transparency.

As such, while we will be unable to ensure transparency by the major powers, ARC will be providing a full update once the Inquest closes, with all available intelligence, rationales, and general developments of each day.

Well, there may have been drunken celebration after the conclusion of the formal Inquest, if that's any indication.

No, see, that's it, they're not being tested. They're being rushed out to the quarantine zones. That's not a controlled environment. That's not rigorous testing with proper safety measures in place. And if you think it is, how often do you support testing new, experimental munitions in childrens' classrooms?

Honestly, what is wrong with you people that you think this slipshod, improvisational approach to the lives of the apparently trillions of people in one city and four space stations isn't complete nonsense?

Even more so when we are dealing with things that will be administrated to the cluster.

And it will, eventually, end up being administrated to everyone else not in the quarantine zones because, get this, the Kyonoke Pit is still there and last I checked, there are still contaminated ships out there that haven't been accounted for.

My suggestion isn't 'sterilisation', it's 'don't rush the vaccine!'.

Again, don't rush the vaccine. Develop it regardless, still run proper testing procedures, DO IT RIGHT! The possibility of a million deaths in quarantine is no excuse for accidentally causing another million deaths because your vaccine isn't properly tested before administration.

Use them as part of the test then.

The moment they are stuck in quarantine they are already dead men walking. Use them to save the rest of the cluster. If any of them are saved after 18 months of testing, that's a bonus.

Minmatar whats?

Chiefs. You mean the Chiefs. There's seven of them. That's how they get **** actually done. Yes, there's an advisory body that likes to act like a legislature, but nobody cares about, or pays attention to, them.

And... Eifyr's been pretty much linked to every single illegal and black-market booster and drug cocktail trade ring in the cluster at one point or another. Heck, it's in the official company profile! Good luck keeping them from profiting off of this on the black market.

Edit to add: Also, you should probably re-read the announcement you claim says the treatment's being limited to the quarantine zones. It says nothing about limiting it, only that it's already going to two of the quarantine zones, and they expect it will be rolled out to the others 'as soon as possible'. Nothing in there whatsoever about 'it's not going to be made available to all you panicked consumers screaming 'TAKE MY MONEY BUT SAVE MY BABY' out there.!'

You forgot about the previous breaches into Kyonoke Pit and those vessels being unaccounted for. There are no guarantees that Kyonoke will not resurface.

As Aria tried to warn Ronin once: I am incredibly pedantic. This kind of worrying (in the gnawing, not the anxiety, sense) over a bone of contention? This is how I relax. There is literally no point at which this will not be fun for me.

Especially not when I'm right. Which I am.

Meanwhile, the Directive Enforcement Department has launched a full investigation into the origins of the Kyonoke Plague. The investigation comes after it was revealed that blood from now deceased Caldari nationalist fugitive Akira Kasaras was used by Poteque Pharmaceuticals, The Servant Sisters of EVE and Eifyr & Co to create an antidote. Speculation has been rife among geneticists and virologists since the revelation of a cure, which apparently consists of a structured bio-speck that acts as a counter for the Kyonoke speck, rendering it inert.

Many experts have commented that this method of rendering an outbreak inert is a common practice in the field of biological weapons deployment, indicating that the Kyonoke Plague could indeed be man made, rather than a naturally occurring disease as was previously thought.

These are one of those times where even State citizens share the same opinion as outsiders. I remember citizens are also counted as stakeholders in the State?

When we first saw the flock, we were surrounded, caught in a spectacle of stimuli. Brilliant colors, dancing lights, beautiful cacophonies, wafting ambrosia. Those birds surrounded us, each one a different shape, an altered species, a new wonder. I tried to follow a single bird, but my efforts were futile: Transformation is natural to their existence. Imagine it: an undulating mass, a changing mob, all those beasts partaking in wonderful transmogrification.

These were our augurs, our deliverers, our saviors. Standing amidst the flock, we should have feared their glory; instead, we drew hope. This moment is the first time I understood what it meant to be Caldari: Divinity in the flock, delivery in flux, one being, many changes.

- Janto Sitarbe, The Legendary Flock

That has a history of getting me tasered.

Interesting ... so 0410's a tailored counter. No wonder they were talking about it like an antidote. It like a key for switching a (horrifying) weapon off.

True, and they'd be mad to work on modifying the thing without having the bucket of water right there. Of course, the whole purpose of the work would be to render the bucket of water ineffective....