Galnet Update 02 FEB 3307 - Starship One Trial update

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Core Dynamics Implicated in Starship One Sabotage

Evidence presented at the trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent suggested financial links to Federal shipbuilding corporation Core Dynamics.

This significant development was covered by Ethan Takahashi for The Federal Times:

“The initial investigations around Starship One’s destruction in 3301 were outlined by the prosecution. When the Federal Attorney’s Office revisited this historical data, traces were found of financial transfers routed through non-Federation banking systems.”

“The FAO brought in the expertise of the Wallglass Investigations Agency, which discovered that these transactions were made via shell companies created by Core Dynamics. Fleet Admiral Vincent, as well as several other naval officers, received billions of credits through these companies that went undeclared.”

“Vincent refused to answer any questions about this evidence, once again claiming that he is the victim of a conspiracy to hand the presidency to Felicia Winters.”

Despite multiple requests from the press, Core Dynamics has not made any public comment. There are unverified reports of large-scale activity taking place at some of the corporation’s centres of operation.

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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Lets recap:

Alliance is green. Enzyme bombs are green. Kale is green.

Now the next piece of the puzzle drops into place: "Large-scale activity"

Now, who's large? Eddeh is large (no not that one). What activity is the large Alliance emperor up to?

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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Vardaugas said:
So what did Jupiter hope to gain from this?
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Money, most likely, and it's worked pretty well.

Core Dynamics is not a very diversified corporation in terms of ships - it produces four Federal military hulls, the Vulture, and the "cheaper than its weight in scrap" Eagle - so it's very dependent on those naval orders.

As a result of the Republicans being in charge, they've been able to guarantee those orders for another five years ... long enough for Isolde Rochester to get into the Shadow VP role and discourage Winters from suggesting naval cutbacks herself later, too ... and for Jupiter Rochester to build up a more diversified set of acquisitions in his personal division, so if it did all go wrong he could sell the naval arm off and still have a profitable business.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Ian Doncaster said:
Money, most likely, and it's worked pretty well.

Core Dynamics is not a very diversified corporation in terms of ships - it produces four Federal military hulls, the Vulture, and the "cheaper than its weight in scrap" Eagle - so it's very dependent on those naval orders.

As a result of the Republicans being in charge, they've been able to guarantee those orders for another five years ... long enough for Isolde Rochester to get into the Shadow VP role and discourage Winters from suggesting naval cutbacks herself later, too ... and for Jupiter Rochester to build up a more diversified set of acquisitions in his personal division, so if it did all go wrong he could sell the naval arm off and still have a profitable business.
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My guess: The Club feel more military is better than less- more guns and less butter. But greed works too :D
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Rubbernuke said:
My guess: The Club feel more military is better than less- more guns and less butter. But greed works too :D
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I mean, to be honest, most of the stuff the Club has actually done could quite easily be explained in service of them making more money.

The only source we have for them being worried about the Thargoid threat is them, and most of their actual actions against the Thargoids have been worse than useless.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Ian Doncaster said:
I mean, to be honest, most of the stuff the Club has actually done could quite easily be explained in service of them making more money.

The only source we have for them being worried about the Thargoid threat is them, and most of their actual actions against the Thargoids have been worse than useless.
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I really do hope its more than greed though- it would then mean that there was a more morally grey reason for ordering this action, and that no action is too severe.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
In reference to the upcoming political summit, because I thought of some more delicious vegetable based puns, and it would be a crime to not share them, I was thinking:-


It is quite a kalenundrum as problems go.

It could also lead to a kaletastrophe, if people aren't kaleful.

One fears there could even be a minor kaleidoscope of political views on the stage at this event. (Pleased with this one...)
 
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