The Warring States of NPF - Eclipse Phase: Frosted Glass Discussion

By the way...

You're all rather capable people. About several magnitudes more capable than you know, considering Ellen's considering murder over something as trivial as being asked to look up something in an encyclopedia. (Granted, she is a psychopath.)

Some of you already have some leads; They are as follows. I did some secret rolling and took into account your backgrounds and skills.

Tyrfing; a native Fenrian and an infomorph at that: Station mesh use has spiked 5% in the last week, even after accounting the local 'visitors'. That's unprecendented, and probably not something coordinated by multiple people. It's not enough to effect transmission speed at any noticable level... Yet. You're sort of exceptional at feeling these things, though.

Lind; The scum barge that dropped off with you earlier is home to at least as many people as the station, and they'll be staying for at least a few weeks, if not longer. You've got a lot of familiar faces who could help with locating basically anything suspicious, both on and off the barge. Since the market has arrived, it might coincide with the 'event' you're looking for. Better check those transactions.

Ellen; Once she calms down, might be interested to note there've been three news stories on disappearances in the last two weeks, on the station. That's extremely high, even for out-system habitats like these. More disturbing, the victims were all biomorphs. One story was never published, though you know the person who wrote it, he simply neglected to distribute it. Says he's afraid he might be next, but he's always been paranoid.

Daniel; One of your immortal friends is out here working on extreme morph conversion. It's pretty bleeding edge stuff, but he doesn't touch the mental augmentations because they're very difficult and tend to fail catastrophically due to how the human brain tends to react to implants. Mentioned to you awhile back that somebody was quite adamant in inquiring about those, and he had to blacklist him to finally get him to stop. Heh, amateurs.

Henric; One of your associate's nanofabricators went missing recently. Probably nothing major, but worth looking into. He wrote it off as a lab accident and has since ordered another one, unwilling to persue the issue for fear of endangering himself or worse, losing research time.

Anyone else; Nothing major right now, or so it seems.