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[Update] The Path of Least Time - 08 Sept 06 - Axiom
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 		[Update] The Path of Least Time - 08 Sept 06 - Axiom
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Kurt wrote:
Axiom: a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

The codename for 487 is innocuous enough, but its definition hints at a profound purpose.

'Special Project 487' may not have any presence on the Academy network, or indeed any network that I can access, but 'axiom' is a different matter. Since it's, well, a real word, a search returns literally millions of results. Even filtering those results to solely interesting 'things' within the Academy returns thousands (and believe me, figuring out a search protocol based on my particular definition of 'interesting' in this circumstance was not easy...).

There are:

7 cryptosystems using 'axiom' as the name of a specialised module or component
6 security-related companies whose names include 'Axiom' or 'Axiomatic'
814 mentions of 'axiom' in papers within the last month
14 extant groups, clubs or societies whose names include 'Axiom' (this is Perplex City Academy, after all)
2 bona-fide cabals that, unfortunately, are not only extinct but also far too obvious to be relevant. None of them involved anyone within the Crypto dept.
8 books in a moderately popular romance series called 'Love is the Axiom' (it has a picture of a dashing scientist sweeping an overwhelmed buxom young lady wearing a revealing (and definitely non-standard) white lab coat off her feet)
12 lectures in an exceptionally boring 267 symposium called 'Axiomatic Systems', which I was unaccountably told to attend the first lecture of. Luckily no-one noticed when I didn't bother turning up to the others...
1 drug treating neurological disease called 'Axiom'
29 defence or surveillance systems whose names contain 'Axiom'. None of them have any significant connection to the Academy, or seem to be particularly unusual.

Plus many, many more results.

I'm going through these by hand as fast as I can, which is to say, not all that fast. Garnet is finishing up his audit of the security of the PXC-Earth data link, and he's not happy. Rather than get the Academy Security Centre to fix things, he's asked me to lead the project. I've been going through his findings, and he's right in that there are a few genuine issues - but most of the problems he's found are minor.

All of this is unprecedented - the ASC is supposed to be responsible for all security concerns in the Academy, so Henrik Tanner will be extremely displeased about being sidelined. Maybe Garnet managed to convince the Academy and his political superiors that the data link falls outside of the ASC's remit due to special circumstances and the fact that it primarily concerns the Cube, but however he did it, he's successfully assumed control over the link and made it my responsibility.

Technically, I'm qualified to do that, although I wouldn't say I was the best person in the Academy for the job - there are people at the ASC and Cube Research Labs who would be better. But I am the only choice within the CRT, which is his domain. A side-effect of all of this is that Garnet will be keeping a closer eye on me in the future...


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 		So Garnet is worried about Tanner and doesn't trust him. Or Garnet suspects Kurt's been up to naughties and is smoking him out?
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Anyone think it is time to mention to Kurt about the "libraryofbabel" directory which he is bound to find if he hasn't already? I think they are waiting for us to tell them about it - otherwise how would they know that we know?

Also, I think the use of "axiom" with the neural disease thing could be a fruitful place of exploration given the prevelance of neural drugs and diseases in PPC.

I don't suppose the numbers are a clue to anything?

As for Garnet not trusting Henrik - I found one of the leaked emails telling in that regard. In one of them Henrik tells Garnet that he is forgetting his place. That seemed to clarify that Henrik is Garnet's superior in one way - which surprised me because I thought Garnet, with his dual position with Defense and the Academy could overrule Henrik.
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 		I definitely think the neurological disease drugs are the most interesting of Kurt's finds... Ceretin trials, Isaac's death, neurological zapping devices (forget what they're called!)... they're all linked somehow I'm sure.

I need a flipchart, some coloured pens and a set square, stat...!
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8 books in a moderately popular romance series called 'Love is the Axiom' (it has a picture of a dashing scientist sweeping an overwhelmed buxom young lady wearing a revealing (and definitely non-standard) white lab coat off her feet)


I think Kurt needs to get out more if he is worried that the coat is "non-standard"
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neurological zapping devices (forget what they're called!)


...they're called Silvers Cool
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