I don't know where, if anywhere, Kokuten was going with this story, but I had a thought last night...
In one variant of Fenspace, there are two organized groups of people who are very interested in learning everything they can about the planet, but their usual tactics of orbiting a cloud of inexpensive satellites won't work because there are so many people passing through LEO. But somebody came up with the idea of pretending to be one of the local myths, using that as a cover for what's really going on; adding some name plates to the satellites completes the false-front. (And that means the satellite that literally bumped into Hephaestus wasn't really lost - it was supposed to be out there, watching the Main Belt, and it ran a "misdirection" program when it was discovered.)
Which leaves one question: Did Wire Geek and V just visit the local base of Homeline's Infinity Unlimited detachment, or did he meet Centrum's Interworld Service agents-in-place?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
In one variant of Fenspace, there are two organized groups of people who are very interested in learning everything they can about the planet, but their usual tactics of orbiting a cloud of inexpensive satellites won't work because there are so many people passing through LEO. But somebody came up with the idea of pretending to be one of the local myths, using that as a cover for what's really going on; adding some name plates to the satellites completes the false-front. (And that means the satellite that literally bumped into Hephaestus wasn't really lost - it was supposed to be out there, watching the Main Belt, and it ran a "misdirection" program when it was discovered.)
Which leaves one question: Did Wire Geek and V just visit the local base of Homeline's Infinity Unlimited detachment, or did he meet Centrum's Interworld Service agents-in-place?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012