Guillome Renard
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Posted - 2008.03.11 17:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Istvaan Shogaatsu
This is great. No, really. Sentient drones are eating capsuleers alive, and you're all prattling on about CONCORD paperwork. Keep it up.
Istvaan, you have a way with cutting to the heart of matter. I salute you.
I suspect, however, that Mr. North has some excellent points. This report has been met with an unmitigated torrent of pure fearmongering. Shy of reports of rogue drones actually eating capsuleers (more than just the blathering of "concerned" individuals.) I'm disinclined to believe this one, or any of the other "Rogue Drones Ate my Baby" theories floating around.
Rather, I suspect it would be beneficial to apply some analysis to the available information.
Another piece of analysis begs alternate theories, especially the course of events.
CONCORD's own analysis of the stargate logs suggests that in addition to recieving signals from Drone Space, the actual activation of the gate was conducted from something local to the gate itself! This is vitally important. The controlling signal on the gate was lost when that ship transited the gate pair.
In other words: The transit wasn't from the drone regions to open space... it was from this side of the gate to the drone regions. Whoever did this knew a LOT about gate systems, but wasn't a very subtle hacker. This suggests it wasn't a rogue drone - whose hacking proficiency is alluded to by the report...
You're looking for someone with extensive technical knowledge, but no experience with matters of subterfuge. This person also had access to CONCORD Inner Circle access codes - but as Istvaan here will no doubt happily boast: Such things can be had for the right price, or with sufficient effort and time.
The Rogue Drones seem unlikely to attempt to hack the CONCORD gates anyway. If they have the ability to build their own stargates it seems more likely that they'd create a pair to some other part of a system, using local hives to construct invasion gates on this end. Their army would hit us with no warning from an uninteresting section of space.
No. This was not rogue drones. This has human error written all over it.
I believe the most likely explanation is someone, for whatever reason, wanted to access the Drone Regions without CONCORD's permission (since they were unlikely to get it). EoM might've done it just to open the door and hope that the drones come in and wipe out humanity. One of the Orphyx's original dev team members might've (gone insane and) tried to find his lost AI and make contact or even re-establish control.
Perhaps someone just wanted to go into exile somewhere they'd never be found, and wanted it very, very badly.
The Drones also wouldnt' have left the gates open, allowing militant incursion into their space (unless they're trying to gauge our reaction to their methods, which is silly... our combat efforts against each other are FAR more intense.)
No, this is a provocateur. CONCORD is guilty of nothing more than being horribly embarassed at their own security failure and trying to cover it up as any agency would. Hence the audits. (Remember, a bureaucracy that can't keep the lid on its cookie jar doesn't get budget expansions...)
Bicker about CONCORD all you want. I'm with Mr. Shogaatsu and Mr. North. There's a real problem here worthy of our analysis. We should be discussing that. Make another forum to talk about the political theory of CONCORD's structure and so forth.
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