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Sasha forwards the report to Sulen and Xiulan. She also sends it to Alaric, with an added question: "can u figure out mechanism? need defense vs. undying ghost. lmk if u want to task Remi/Shess/Cantata to help w/ details." Alaric reflects that this strategy is "obviously inferior to ripping out your heart and placing it in the care of a reputable institution, but fascinating." He promises to work on the problem, adding, "when you say defense do you mean 'prevent hijacking slash infiltration' of individuals or 'best defense is a good offense' where you want to kill the ghost. more than the ghost is already killed." Sasha replies, "def. A. possibly also B, depends on assigned mission + ongoing threat level assessment + difficulty of implementation."
  
 
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Revision as of 19:18, 27 March 2020

Jedao's report: messages involving Alaric, Reshad, Sasha, Sulen, and Xiulan

Jedao sends a report on the known abilities of Heptarch Nirai Kujen to Reshad and Sasha, early in the morning:

Known abilities:

  • Immortality by jumping into and possessing other people, range unknown; ability usually drives the host mad in short order unless they are specially chosen to fit an unknown psych profile
  • Notably, can survive the death of the initial host body. Unknown whether he can persist in ghost form without a host.

Known skills:

  • administration (R&D divisions)
  • psych surgery, including drastic personality modification
  • calendrical mathematics
  • stardrive R&D, specifically as relates to mothdrives
  • gate-space mathematics and mechanics
  • warmoth weapons R&D, including threshold winnowers (experimental)

Notes:

  • I have seen tests and demonstrations of his weapons research and can attest his effectiveness. I am unfortunately unable to assess the extent of his knowledge in mathematics and physics as I lack expertise in those subjects.
  • I have strong reason to believe that Heptarch Kujen is responsible for the prevalance of torture in the high calendar ca. 850 (my timeline).
  • Kujen is highly risk-averse, and terrible at small-unit tactics even in simulation.

Sasha forwards the report to Sulen and Xiulan. She also sends it to Alaric, with an added question: "can u figure out mechanism? need defense vs. undying ghost. lmk if u want to task Remi/Shess/Cantata to help w/ details." Alaric reflects that this strategy is "obviously inferior to ripping out your heart and placing it in the care of a reputable institution, but fascinating." He promises to work on the problem, adding, "when you say defense do you mean 'prevent hijacking slash infiltration' of individuals or 'best defense is a good offense' where you want to kill the ghost. more than the ghost is already killed." Sasha replies, "def. A. possibly also B, depends on assigned mission + ongoing threat level assessment + difficulty of implementation."