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[UPDATE] The Path of Least Time - 22 Aug 06 - Revelations
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 		[UPDATE] The Path of Least Time - 22 Aug 06 - Revelations
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Kurt wrote:
Last week, someone thoughtfully emailed to ask me whether I've been sleeping at all. I have - about two or three hours a day. When the Academy experiences an emergency, there are certain procedures that come into effect, one of which is the mandatory use of cognitive enhancers. Normally their use is restricted, but when something extraordinary happens - like the data link to Earth being severed and the Third Power opening a portal - the Academy likes to have all of its key personnel alert and awake, by chemical means if necessary. It can be brutally pragmatic sometimes.

I don't know what's more worrying, that the Third Power managed to create and open a portal to Earth (something that was thought to be almost physically impossible), or that none of us in Perplex City saw it coming. I admit that some of the more farsighted readers here suggested that a wormhole was a possibility given the parts stolen from the Crypto department, but I dismissed it out of hand. Look at it this way - if someone told you that France was going to launch an interstellar spacecraft tomorrow, would you believe them? Probably not.

Clearly a wormhole is physically possible - the Third Power have handily demonstrated that. However, no-one is commenting on how they did it. In fact, there is a deafening silence from the physics experts here in the Academy. Either they're too embarrassed by what's happened to say anything, or they know more about what's going on than they're letting on. And no, I haven't interrogated them yet - Sente is having us run constant high-level security checks on the data link. The fact that Garnet is now the ranking member on the CRT, and that he clearly has some political orders or agenda on his mind, isn't helping matters.

Similar things are happening all over the Academy. I haven't been able to get two words out of Karen recently; someone smart figured out what sort of parts might be required to make a portal, matched them up with the Crypto department, and an uproar ensued. I don't think it's public knowledge yet, although it implies worrying things about the Academy's involvement in these events.

Despite the fact that we're dropping a crisis level today, and so cognitive enhancers are not mandatory, I still won't get a proper sleep tonight. Instead, I'm taking the opportunity to reply to Helena Frye's message that she sent me this morning. It seems she's visited the site of the portal in Perplex City. I don't know what she's found out, but I imagine it's not good.


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 		You know, I was in two minds about emailing the Sentinel regarding the protest to get the Academy to open up, but reading this kinda made me more convinced they are hiding things. A lot of our friends are in the Academy.... but there are a lot of other dodgy dudes there too! I still don't know if it will cause more harm than good (as responding to most tabloid newspapers can just stir up jingoistic tendencies), but we need to get more information somehow as this is as good an opportunity as anything to move things along.

Still slightly worried about getting the City Council involved, but hey: what's the worst that can happen??? Confused

See you on the flip side...

Mico

Edit: on second thoughts I've emailed Kurt first to let him know, and if he doesn't object then protest here we come

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 		kloos! I wonder what Ms Frye has found for us at the site of the portal....
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 		So wait.... In Sente's absence, now Garnet is the eeeevil one? Razz

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 		I thought there was a reason all his cards were the rare ones (except for that one red from Wave 4.) It's so we don't get too familiar with him, and it's easier to cast him as a jerk because he never threw us an easy buncha points.

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Merus wrote:
I thought there was a reason all his cards were the rare ones (except for that one red from Wave 4.)

And that orange one from Wave 4 (058). And that yellow one from Wave 3 (070). And that yellow one from Wave 2 (086). And that blue one from Wave 2 (150). And that purple one from Wave 3 (163), unless you're counting purples as rare.

Though I do admit, this is almost the first we've seen of him in the actual story, barring Shuffled and the leaked emails.

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