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Direct Action my ass, and same goes for the Barsoomians. I got a couple friends with them, you know, and I asked them about it. Fuck, they have nothing to do with the whole issue, you know. I tell you, the key is that one weird guys that hasn't been identified.

He (got a friend in a hacker ring who checked out the recordings and it is a male morph) seems to be a Gorgon agent. Probably the whole fucking bomb was a way for Direct Action to take on their enemies, you know. Afterall, they care a shit about our lives, and probably view killing a couple morphs as something "good for the business".

Jing Hou Fai - member of the Future Today social club, known Anarchist

Heh, a nice neat piece of propaganda from your animal-lover near home. Come on, give me a break, humans don't enslave each other anymore, we are way beyond that. We are transhuman. Besides, in any case, even if that were true, they should be thankful to us for giving them reason and intelligence, and be willing to work to repay us for our efforts. What would they be without us? Nothing, just another ape, or maybe an octopus in a zoo. We are their Gods, they should revere us as such.

Weena Lorris - Ultimate ego hunter from the zone around Venus.

You! Who do you think you are with all your high opinion of yourself? We are all the same, sentient beings, you know? We deserve to be treated as such! We didn't ask you to uplift us, nor did we ask you to destroy our homeworld. We are reduced to what we are because of you, human! So don't act all high and mighty because you "gave us" reason, for you have all proven to be quite far from it yourselves.

You created AI, AGIs and seeds to be your slaves. You created us to be your slaves. We may not have the power of the Seeds, but we will make you rethink your society non the less. I call for a march on the nearest representative of the Jovian Republic to your houses tomorrow at 12:00 to show our support for our brothers. All unite to the rallying call!

Soook-hoo-ham - aerospacial engineer for the Fa Jing corporation, and a neo avian uplift.

The cause was *obviously* not the core. Fusion cores do not explode (despite what preservationists claim). In a worst case scenario they merely vent a plasma jet, and usually breakdowns just light up the cooling baffles. However, Ecstatic Metamorphosis was a lightly modified Doncaster 4300 model, and they keep their D/He3 pellets in a group of cryocyls 20 meters forward of the core. That is quite close to the apparent center of the detonation in the footage.

What could make the pellets detonate? Again, no matter what dirthuggers say, no amount of normal violence could have ignited them. Break the cryocyls and they evaporate. However, a detonation strong enough to produce fusion reactions might do it: a thermonuclear warhead or an antimatter charge. In theory even a fission warhead might work, but there are obvious alignment problems - getting a radiation implosion for even one cryocyl would take massive effort and luck.

So, what was it? All footage I have found is in the optic spectrum and whites out almost directly. However, I downloaded [this] file from the Quentin Daniels Observatory and you can see a very weak neutrino peak. I interpret this as antimatter: the typical gamma signature got entirely absorbed by the surroundings. Had it been a thermonuke there would have been a sharper initial pulse from the warhead followed by a softer pulse from the pellets.

Even with a big warhead one has to put it in the right place to get some of the pellets to detonate. I would guess, based on the size of the detonation and the pulse, that the pellets at most did 75% of the total energy output, perhaps less than 50%. That is still pretty good going: whoever put the warhead in place knew what it would do, and did not trust the warhead itself to wipe out the barge. Given that we are talking about multimegaton charges that assumes more than just terrorism: this was either art for art's sake or an attempt to *really* get rid of something or someone.

Too bad about the inhabitants, but as an inverse problem deducing the attack is quite intriguing. I have run a few back-of-the-envelope simulations of the detonation, trying to match it with the observations. Does anybody have recent deckplans or scans of the barge?

Icosa Watkins, Plasmawatcher, Protium Station

If someone were trying to stop that, they would have to blow up half of the solar system.

I expect it was just the usual crappy maintenance and/or gangster infighting we have come to expect from the scum. Remember what happened to New Qingdao and Phenomenal Deee-Lite.

Stewart Xiang-Lorenzo, rep trader, AboveBeyond Station

Thought on form... The original poster mentioned trouble with the news voice. I had some issues with this, too. I usually get around it by just providing world news, but in an omniscient third person voice. Heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_ is an example of this method being used to good effect.

***Breaking news:***

Today at aproximately 14:00 by local time, a Factor ship has been sighted approaching Jupiter. It isn't clear which of the moons or habitats it is planning to visit, but it seems likely that it will head to Experia's "2001" space station, orbiting Europa, as their directions seem to collide. More information will follow as we confirm or not wether the Factors are organizing a visit to Experia's base.

Ok, I opened a new topic, just to organize this one a bit. This should still be the one to use to post stuff, while the otherone simply gathers each news article with the comments regarding it. That way it is easier to copy/paste them, or print them for using them in game, or anything else like it.

Link: http://www.eclipsephase.com/news-items-campaigns#comment-5643

I'm posting this here as I did in the "clean" post, just so it remains as it should always be.

It was offensive! It was like she didn't care for all those dying underneath her nice station. Well, down here we work and try our best to keep your sorry assess up there well fed and provided! You could at least respect the propper etiquette and not go around flashing in a dress that costs more than my whole year's favors and work! Someone should teach you respect....

Alvin Noyrene - mining facility manager, Venus.

root@Needing a little help with an experiment

You should shift this into the In Character section of the forum and rename it something like: Experia System News: the clearest voice in politics and reporting. The original poster can do all of that from the Edit tab.

This can be a fantastic resource for players, gamemasters, and writers to try out their voices. We will come to a sort of "standard" voice by the magic and science of crowd sourcing.

Raicheck f-rep++;

Sorry, connection problems, and triple post. Please delete this one. :/

Unless of course somebody does manage to knock off Dr South, in which case everybody gets a chance to join hands and denounce the Fall Justice Foundation.

There is more to this than politics, though. The Foundation only puts bounties on people the information market assigns a great deal of confidence to. We know people have been trying to bias the predictions before (and their money has been happily eaten by the markets), but there is no sign of increased liquidity in the South information betting pool. It has rushed up in confidence, though: it seems that new information has arrived, but nobody seems to know what it is. That is very strange. Guanxi manipulation through sock puppets? Some intelligence trading firm that has nosed up something and plans to make a killing?

I don't think anybody is manipulating the Foundation directly. But someone put in all that money for the bounty too, and it was hardly the Martian Railroad Workers Retirement Fund. There are hidden interests here that go beyond diplomacy and justice. I just wonder who profits from more snarls with the jovians.

-- Nimah Janseen, charity analyst, Progress

"No way it was the RAIi guy, it was the the Eye! They are always meddling in the affairs of the synthetic rights movement on Mars! I have documentation, proof! I have thousands of hours of video coverages of every aspect of their operation! You've got to watch out! The Eye sees you! You don't even know that you are being controlled and manipulated! 23!"

-Paranoia Vending Machine #1723, Mars Spaceport arcade

Reports indicate a new Exsurgent virus was sited on a qbit network maintained by the Ozymandias Rez Co. Spokes persons for the hypercorp claim that the threat was contained, and assures its customers that no backups were compromised during the attack. Officials from the Jovian Republic have promised a full investigation, as the corrupted archive was present on Europa, inside of Jovian jurisdiction. The infomorph in charge of that archive is not available for comment.

--X-threat interest group automated muse report

Kerimov@Experian News Network

"One of the oligarchs from the Kerimov Family just placed a bounty package on a public mesh feed! There are something like fifty contracts, but only one of them has been decrypted. The first target is some Jovian bartender last seen on Europa, and the payout is 75,000 credits! For a fucking nobody bartender? What the hell is going on? Did the gerontocracy finally let slip the reigns of sanity, or is there some deeper game going on? Have any of you heard any rumors about who the rest of the targets are?"

-Bran Ortega, Planetary Consortium registered Ego Hunter

News from the Conmara news affiliate is busy blaring its usual propaganda against Gorgon Security. Apparently some independent bounty hunters were a little heavy handed in apprehending a mark, and the Junta is pitching a bitch and refusing to allow cortical stacks to be returned to resleeving interests outside of Jovian space. The mark escaped, and Conmara has added to the bounty another 20,000 credits, but requires the mark delivered alive.

--Gorgon ego-hunter blogger Krix Xross