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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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[dominance]

Huh. Better watch what we say then, huh? :)

[ bellamy blake is that guy who uses smileys, who wouldn’t thought it? ]

It’s a good thing we have you. Ideas are just as important as those who can make it happen. I didn’t think about closed communication for the people who live here until you suggested it. Anyone offer you a solution that seems decent yet?

[arkproject]

[ Catherine definitely knows what emoji are-- whether she ever uses them is a toss-up. But she does have a playful streak. ]

You can-- I pretty much say what I want ;)

That's not a bad idea, although I bet they've already thought of it... It seems extremely difficult to escape government scrutiny, including online. If we could use a different type of tech altogether, one from a different universe, they wouldn't have a way of accessing it at all, though... Hmmm...

[dominance]

Too bad we don't seem to have that.

Only tech I've ever used is a radio. Had a look around, and considering it's been made here, probably under government scrutiny. I wouldn't even go as far as trusting the people who live here to give you something that's not somehow bugged.

[arkproject]

What? Sure we do. There's tons of people in Ophelia, someone has to have some knowledge. We're talking on Magitek right now. We could come up with something completely off-the-grid from Drakstaden local tech.

And even if we can't, there's a long history of spies using coded number sequences on short-wave radio frequencies to transmit messages. It's not fast or easy, but it'd work with the right cipher.

[dominance]

You sure you're not an expert at this? You know a hell of a lot.

Think if we found a book with enough information we could do at least get it started? Who knows, someone else in Ophelia may be onto it but missing a piece we might find.

[ hope springs eternal ... perhaps if he puts it out into the universe, the universe will deliver it. ]

[arkproject]

I'm an expert in intelligent systems, like programming the androids you've seen walking around in Drakstaden.

You mean, a book on an alternate kind of technology? Like someone else could be working on it already?

[dominance]

Yes. It's hard for me to believe that we're the only ones who have thought of some sort of private network for a certain group of people to communicate on.

There's always someone who is one or two steps ahead of the game. Right? You'd know better than anyone in your field.

[ assuming. ]

[ he starts off with such certainty before diving right into uncertainty. this isn't his realm of expertise, but if this is anything like what he's experienced on the ground, there's always someone who is a little wiser to the goings on than they may appear. ]

[arkproject]

[ Nah, she's pretty sure he's right, and Catherine has no problem giving credit where it's due. ]

You're probably right! That it hasn't happened before here is a testament to how thorough the government surveillance is. But, communication is such a priority, and so many members of Ophelia are savvy and experienced enough, there really might be someone who's been working on it.

At the very least, the Rost probably have a list of failed attempts...

[dominance]

Want to see if they do?

[arkproject]

Yeah! Let's do that. I don't think I ever got your name, by the way.

[dominance]

[ yay!!!! adventure buddies _へ__(‾◡◝ )> brb going to go get shirts printed. ]

Bellamy. And I'm going to apologize in advance for a lot of the ignorant questions I'm bound to ask about tech and the Internet, Catherine.

[arkproject]

[ Catherine is all about adventures. Not because they're adventures, but just because she's a go-getter who doesn't understand the concept of no. Others are always welcome to join her on her madcap self-assignments. ]

Nice to meet you, Bellamy! That's fine. I'm used to ignorant questions. Did you really not have anything like this where you're from?

[dominance]

If we did, I wasn't privileged enough to use it. My friend keeps me far away from technology ever since I threw a radio into a river.

[ let's not rehash that great life choice now, bellamy. it's great he can look back and joke(?) about it, but it's not a path anyone should go down. lesson for anyone with tech: don't let bellamy near water with it. ]

We use radios, and we've got some network systems up and running, but I doubt it's anything like the internet or what you're proposing. There really wasn't any need for private channels.

[arkproject]

Huh, that's interesting. Not a problem you'd have where I'm from! I came from a scientific installation on the bottom of the ocean. All of our tech was waterproof.

It's kind of crazy to be working on things that are meant to function in air, not water, again.