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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...

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.

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]

Are you trying to tease me? Cough it up.

[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.

[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.

@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'll find out when we find out. You don't have to be so pessimistic about it. Or do you just really want to have a violent rebellion?

[arkproject]

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

[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.

[somelikeitcold]

That's not what I mean. The people who would benefit most from that information can't really use it. They're too afraid.

[refashioned]

Quite the opposite. I assume you weren't present in Hanabira?

The Rost, however, are a hacker group. You may want to begin by interfacing with them to see if they already have information on hand.

[refashioned]

Thank you! This is what I meant. That's all.

[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.

[arkproject]

Oh, that's smart! Do you need help integrating it with the circuitry? Robot modifications I can do.

[arkproject]

You think we shouldn't do something because it doesn't meet a hypothetical ideal outcome?

[arkproject]

Nope, this is my first time out.

I wouldn't mind working with them directly, but I don't know how I feel about potentially handing over information that will create assassination targets... I wanted to see if we could come up with something more peaceful, and they don't seem very peaceful.

[predomination]

I was actually going to ask you. I need some advice on the prototypes before I can make this official, you see.

[arkproject]

Aren't you a charmer. Do you feel like it's ready for me to look at, or do you want some more time?

[predomination]

I think I have the recording devices themselves figured out. It's finding the best way to slip them inside the robots that's tricky. I need it to be as simple as possible.

[theseuschip]

I haven’t had a chance to try it. This is my first mission in a world that even has technology.

It doesn’t work at Headquarters, but that could just be because everything’s magitek.

[arkproject]

Brrr... it better not work on Magitek! Don't do it to me!

I always thought it was the sympathetic WAU interference that was letting you do that, but I admit I don't really understand it. It's worth giving it a shot.

[theseuschip]

Oh yeah, you’re made of magitek.
Hey, there’s only one way to find out.

It better not just be the WAU. It’s the only useful robot thing I can actually do.