GalNet - 3 June 3311 - Aegis Confirms Seo Jin-Ae ‘Hiatus’ From Advisory Role

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Aegis Confirms Seo Jin-ae ‘Hiatus’ from Advisory Role

‘Special advisor’ Seo Jin-ae has taken a hiatus from her duties, according to a joint statement released by Aegis.

Seo has worked with the Aegis initiative since November 3308, providing insight into Thargoid communications thanks to a prototype cortical implant. This implant, inserted while Seo was a captive test subject for the clandestine Project Seraph, allows her to ‘hear’ the Thargoid hive mind.

The Aegis statement reads as follows:
“Seo Jin-ae has served Aegis faithfully, providing vital intelligence on Thargoid tactics at considerable physical and mental cost. Following several months of recuperation since a medical emergency last October, Seo has chosen to leave the Aegis facility in Duamta. We wish her all the best and look forward to her safe return.”

Attached was a message from Seo:
“After Titan Cocijo exploded in Sol, I had my best night’s sleep in years. No sounds in my head to keep me awake. No images behind my eyes. The Thargoids have left us. Hopefully forever.”

“I did my best to translate Thargoid thoughts during the war, and people told me this data was useful. But I blame myself for the attack on Sol – the importance of Earth was pulled from my memories, against my will. Alba Tesreau helped me recognise that the implant in my brain was placed there by Salvation, also against my will.”

“During Project Seraph, 197 people died at Oaken Point in HIP 26176. I am the only survivor of those experiments that Salvation oversaw. Many will say I’m crazy, but I believe Salvation exists beyond his physical death in HIP 22460. I owe it to those 197 souls – and to every victim of his Proteus Wave failure - to find Salvation and shut him down forever.”

Aegis did not immediately comment when asked if it agrees with Seo’s claims.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Is this the first public confirmation that Seo (and Tesreau, for that matter) survived the attack on Sol, Duamta, etc. at all?

Kira Goto said:
“After Titan Cocijo exploded in Sol, I had my best night’s sleep in years. No sounds in my head to keep me awake. No images behind my eyes. The Thargoids have left us. Hopefully forever.”
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That has some very strange implications about the distinction between the Titan Thargoids and the general Pleiades/other nebula Thargoids who are still apparently around and carrying on with their usual stuff.

A plausible handwave, supported by some of the other Azimuth logs:
- the Thargoids met in the first war including the captured scout which eventually made its way to Oaken Point, and the ones on the Titans are from a particular "military" grouping of Thargoids. It is their communications channels specifically which SJA gained access to.
- the Thargoids hanging out in the nebula and generally not attacking unless provoked are from a separate "construction" grouping. SJA has no access to their communications (though heard the Thargoid Roar they sent because it was received by the first group)
- cut off from the "military" grouping, SJA is now subject to the same Thargoid Hypnosis Field projected defensively by the "construction" grouping as everyone else, so is incapable of remembering their existence
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Ian Doncaster said:
Is this the first public confirmation that Seo (and Tesreau, for that matter) survived the attack on Sol, Duamta, etc. at all?
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It is, yes. I paid close attention - not just for objective reasons - and apparently nobody at Aegis believed it was important to give us even a brief statement of "Yes, everyone [important] is fine and hasn't been killed or kidnapped [by an opportunistic Scythe from Cocijo]". *I suppose there might've been a brief mention of Tesreau in the immediate aftermath of Cocijo in Sol. Nothing about Seo until now though.

The article seems to suggest to me Titans were more just 'relay stations' of sort to guide attacking forces rather than any requirement to have a forward operating base for maintenance and whatnot (though I'm sure they partly served that purpose as well), or somewhat confirms that suspicion I held for a little while (not that long, the thought only occurred recently). Supposedly some out-of-game lore says the Thargoid hivemind link has limited range.

My other bigger question... what of that thing Cocijo did when it went off into caustic nova? Because surely Seo would have "heard" that too. Then again, perhaps nobody wants to throw the idea of more and bigger (maybe) Thargoids potentially coming our way into our faces, just yet. Regardless of that, the possibilities of this article interest me more (a lot more) than a potential squabble of larger scale between superpowers, should Frontier go that route rather than just 'More Powerplay conflict CGs'.
 
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AlSki

AlSki
Kira Goto said:
Then again, perhaps nobody wants to throw the idea of more and bigger (maybe) Thargoids potentially coming our way into our faces, just yet
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In game role play: Completely agreed.
Out of game: Gimme, gimme now!!

Realistically: we've met the short range Thargoids and scouts, and the yellow tunnels of gloop that enabled the Titan's to erm, transport them.. Surely there is no way the next Thargoid up won't come with a yellow tunnel of gloop to transport Titan's... will it?
 

Hanerib

Hanerib
Thargoids? There are no Thargoids, it's just some Galcop era myths and old spacer stories, mixed in with some insurance fraudsters and freebooters, crazy rock hermits losing their ships. It's all just to make some rich tourists visit Lave. Everything is normal.
 

Oh Seven Commander

Oh Seven Commander
“During Project Seraph, 197 people died at Oaken Point in HIP 26176. I am the only survivor of those experiments that Salvation oversaw. Many will say I’m crazy, but I believe Salvation exists beyond his physical death in HIP 22460. I owe it to those 197 souls – and to every victim of his Proteus Wave failure - to find Salvation and shut him down forever.”
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bruh
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
r09u3 said:
Ohh I could go for a Witch hunt.
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I've been waiting for the better part of (just over) two years to kick it to him, so it's about time. Although it might be a while longer before findings are made.
Kzak said:
When or if we find Salvation. Or... what if he finds us first, and is prepared?
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Well, then we won't have to look for him. And part of me still hasn't quite moved past the suspicion, the Thargoids may potentially have been looking as well. Thinking back to when they were found poking [near] Guardian ruins without blasting everything in sight, or any obvious reason for their presence. And disappearing shortly after, equally with no obvious observable motive.
 

William J Smith

William J Smith
r09u3 said:
Ohh I could go for a Witch hunt.
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We'll need my larger scales. ;)


Seriously though..... I still think the thargoids are biding their time, rebuilding their forces, and preparing to strike back.
If they can get Salvation first, its big plus to them as he has the knowledge to use a thargoid ruin against them... despite their subversion of the original project.

But then, what else lurks out in the dark...... somewhere...

Bill

<<wonders about the guardian AI :eek:
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
William J Smith said:
<<wonders about the guardian AI
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What? Nothing Salvation did has ever gone wrong and he certainly wouldn't cause any harm by tricking the AI into helping us fight off the Thargoids' [supposedly] unwarranted aggression... until they realize we're actually a horrible species that probably makes the Guardians look tame in comparison. Then we might start thinking about whether having the Thargoids on our bad side is such a good idea.
 
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