Move 3.3 Recap

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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.