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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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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.

[flexing]

Yes, our team is large, but not so large as the entire Vakdir force. And we cannot stay here forever. [ as much as she LOATHES TO ADMIT IT, maybe brute strength isn't 100% fully the answer :\ ] Do you have any ideas you want to see?

[arkproject]

Well... I have a few ideas.

[ Catherine has a sort of humming suppressed energy behind her words. She's always at her best when given a large goal and set loose on it. ]

Some people have had some great suggestions. First, we should try to find out if there's been any prior revolts, and what happened that they failed. Second, we should be looking for the missing people, and see if any of them were detained rather than executed. Third, we could try to establish a secure closed communication system for the Rost to use outside of their hideout.

... Oh yeah, and whatever else dirty secrets we could dig up on the government, in the interests of transparency once we do take them down.

[flexing]

[ the first and third points, good and useful (not that she'll be of any help), but for the second: ] If they were detained, then what? You think they will have information we do not know already?

[arkproject]

Oh... maybe. Mostly I just think we should rescue them if we can.

[flexing]

Yes, of course. But things we should do, they come second to things we must do, for the good of the mission.

[arkproject]

Well, we're definitely not going to save them if we don't know where they are! It's worth looking into!