@yalena.yardeen

[motivation]

here's what i don't get

someone leaked the names and locations of those agents. that i get, people are corruptible. might be a problem for us at some point, if it's still a thing, but it's not weird.

what is weird is that the soldiers didn't knock on gaby's door and didn't plan for us at all. seems like a pretty big tactical fuck-up to me, unless they didn't know about our existence, but again. leak.

so, anyone got an explanation for that? hells, i'd take guesses, too.

( ooc » feel free to use this as a discussion post for the event wrap up, if so inclined! )

Comments

@keith.kogane

[secondnature]

What if they didn't care?

I've seen soldiers like that before. Not exactly like that. But when they're confident, they don't care about the obstacles that can get in their way.

[motivation]

then they're stupid
they didn't strike me as stupid, but hells, who knows

[secondnature]

I don't think we'll know if it was stupid until we come up against them again.

They'll plan for us next time.

[motivation]

and we can plan for them

@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

There's no explanation, not as of currently. Not until the leak is pinpointed.
As off as it may sound.

[motivation]

and how's that coming along?

[selfimage]

I meant to ask you the same thing.

[motivation]

i asked first

@margaret.carter

[revlon]

I've been wondering the same since that day. There's a chance that list of agents was outdated and incomplete. Morningstar does disseminate information so whatever section was compromised might not have had information on us to begin with.

That said, I doubt our omission is an oversight. Especially given that Gaby suspects her involvement with us is the reason she was spared.

[motivation]

yeah, that's what i'm thinking
still leaves a big fat "what the hells" though

[revlon]

An apt summary, yes.

In even more unsurprising news, no one is talking about it outside of our little circle. The press, local government, and public are keeping mum which leaves me to assume the UN and its soldiers are used to having the final say.

[motivation]

wouldn't be the first time big corporations or the army control shit

[ the company, the nine —that's what they've been doing for decades, isn't it? ]

honestly, i'm surprised there's press at all

@vanessa.ives

[possidetur]

Is Gaby's existence known to them?

[motivation]

gaby seems to think so, doesn't she?

[possidetur]

But does that make it true? Would they have a reason to ignore her?

[motivation]

apparently, we're the reason
which makes no bloody sense unless the una wants us alive for some reason
but if that's the case
why did the soldiers attack us when we attacked?

none of this works out

@giovanni.rammsteiner

[ofobedience]

Perhaps they simply didn't consider us a threat.

[motivation]

yeah, that's real cute
stupid, but cute

[ofobedience]

Entirely possible, though.

[motivation]

yeah, obviously
but somehow, i don't think so

people as well trained as that don't usually go around being that stupid

@ignis.scientia

[cheffeur]

They also didn't know the locations of the safehouses that we reside at, nor where we were bringing the survivors.

From what I understand, it seems that different sections of Morningstar operate relatively independently. While one could have been compromised, many others would still be in relative safety. It's entirely possible that none of their information detailed us.

After all, I doubt we're very high on Morningstar's list of priorities. They existed long before we entered the world, and their goals lie outside of us. Given that, I would think that the UNA would be far more interested in Morningstar's attempt on a weapons cache and informants than of a group of fifty-some-odd strangers who don't even know how they arrived here.

[motivation]

so the intel was outdated and we're not important enough, that's your take?

[ fair enough ]

but the weapons cache was definitely a trap

[cheffeur]

No to the first, yes to the second. There's no reason to believe that their intel was outdated, simply that what they had access to was a higher priority to Morningstar. Why would Morningstar have bothered to keep any information regarding us in the same place as their plans to acquire the UNA's weaponry?

It was, yes. Morningstar is a rebellious faction, and the government in this world seeks to shut it down. So of course they laid a trap given the information they had.

@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

A note, if you please.
Among those 50-some-odd strangers, some have joined the ranks of Morningstar who were not targeted. While it certainly makes sense if we consider ourselves completely independent, it's a tad more complicated than that.

[cheffeur]

Is that so?

You're correct in that it certainly does complicate things. Another option- though this is merely throwing darts, admittedly- is that the leak was obtained by a third party, and was pruned down before being presented to the UNA. Perhaps a third party who would benefit from our existence not being known as of yet.

It would be easy to point at whatever party saw to our arrival here, but perhaps that would fit together too neatly. Without actual evidence, we're all merely conjecturing.