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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]

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.