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[arkproject]

Hi, everyone. I'm Catherine!

I've been talking to a few people about our mission, and I've been thinking... Do we have any ideas for how to restructure the government that don't require full-scale fighting? Like, if we could gather evidence of the corruption and expose it to the public, through, say... cyber espionage? It would at least give us more information, even if we don't go that route.

Reconnaissance is a good first step!

I'm not an expert in this, but I figure one of you is. So I want your thoughts! Or if you have experience hacking and want to teach me. It sounds like it would be easier to sneak in and put a physical receiver into one of their central systems, but in the spirit of keeping our options open, I might as well learn.

Even if doing it the manual way is going to be very slow.

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text; un: urahara

[predomination]

Funny you should mention that! I actually have something I'm working on...

[arkproject]

Are you trying to tease me? Cough it up.

[predomination]

I'm just building suspense~

I noticed the Roombas and Tidy-Bots are all the same everywhere, so I thought we could use them to do a little spying for us.

un: YUNA

[gunning]

Hacking isn't exactly my thing, but if you need somewhere broken into, I'm pretty good at that. I think I'll let the more technologically gifted take point this time.

[arkproject]

Ohh, really? That would be great! I wouldn't have to figure out hacking if we had an in and a security cypher or passcode... Thanks, Yuna. I might take you up on that depending on what everyone else thinks.

[gunning]

Um.. you lost me there. Just tell me what to do, and I'll try to keep up as best as I can, okay? I'm a quick learner.

You seem like you know what you're talking about. I'm a little surprised you don't already know how to hack!

text | @lodge

[refashioned]

I'm not against information dissemination. That's important.

But I have to ask: do you really think people are unaware that their government is totally messed up? What is releasing information going to do?

[arkproject]

We won't know what they're hiding until we find it, so how would we know what effect it would have on releasing it?

That's the point of finding out. Also, corrupt governments don't control information for no reason. They're aware it's dangerous if it gets out, or they wouldn't put so much effort into it.

[refashioned]

Part of their information control is to ensure that people remain silent and don't act up, isn't it? They want to instill fear in their people so that they don't act up.

We'd have to be certain that this information would actually damage the parliament and Prime Minister. That it would absolutely bring about a change.

If people are too afraid to act on the information that's found, it could be a problem.

text; un: simonprime

[theseuschip]

It won’t be hard evidence, but if the Data Reader can pick anything up, I might be able to narrow down what we should look at. Or who.

[arkproject]

You can still do that? Have you done it already?

@shouto; text.

[somelikeitcold]

I don't know how much it would help to give them more information, when they can't voice dissent without getting taken away by the Vakdir already. They'll need some power behind them.

[arkproject]

We don't need to give Rost information. We can distribute it ourselves. We're leaving after this mission is over, so it's not like it matters if it implicates one of us.

voice, @ZARYA

[flexing]

Full-scale fighting, I think this we can avert. But the corruption has this city in an iron grip, and so our grip must be stronger. That cannot be avoided.

voice forever!

[arkproject]

[ Catherine is fine with voice, so she flips that on, although she's sounding a little tired and a little disgruntled. Still, she's unruffled enough for a reasonable discussion. ]

Honestly, at this point, I'll take what I can get. I know how quickly something like this can turn... horrific. I'm afraid that if we support an indiscriminate rebellion, we'll fail, and it'll lead to martial law.

overloads your inbox... un: 2b

[undeserved]

Keith mentioned trying to locate the missing citizens. If any of them are still alive, they could be useful in infiltrating the higher levels.

[arkproject]

I see your point. That's exactly the kind of thing we could try to look for. It seems like there should be at least a few that would be kept under arrest rather than executed.

TEXT. UN: BELL

[dominance]

You're going to have to break it down for me: What the hell is cyber espionage?

[ sorry, space boy is dumb. ]

[arkproject]

[ Catherine is surprisingly patient with dumb questions as long as they're factual and not personal. This one is fine. ]

It's spying on people and finding out their secrets through the internet! Or their internal network, most likely, in this case.

text; un: kyouken

[justbeingknife]

Whattaya mean, the 'manual way'?

[arkproject]

Well...

I'm actually a scan of the original Catherine's brain downloaded into an android body. The second part of that is new.

un. LISSA

[healstaffs]

[ catherine...catherine............oh! ]

are you simon's friend?

[ yeah, that's her helpful contribution to this discussion ]

[arkproject]

I know him, if that's what you mean. Are you a friend of his?

text; un: finn

[militarized]

Hi Catherine! I'm Finn.

Avoiding full-scale fighting is what we're all going for, I think. You're right, though, even if we manage to take down the big guy at the top of all this corruption, someone will just take their place unless we do more.

Exposing them seems like a good place to start to me. I'm no hacker, though. Sorry.

[arkproject]

Hi, Finn! Nice to meet you.

It seems worth doing, at least. I appreciate the vote of confidence. It's okay if you aren't a hacker! If we got a wireless signal receiver installed in the right computer on their internal systems, we wouldn't have to hack anything. So, that's another option.