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[lyingheart]

[ Annie manages to sound fairly calm through all of this, only allowing her irritation and amalgamation of unhappy emotions show through in the words she chooses to emphasize, smattered throughout her report-like announcement. ]

Loki, you can considering this a love letter for the information age, following up on when you were asking people here to deal in sharing and caring. United States Military, you're welcome to listen in, but all this information is on file with you already, so you may find it lackluster.

Any helpful technologically capable people out there might help me out and work on encrypting conversations below here for the sake of freedom of discussion.

I don't like talking on these, and I'm not good at it, so pay attention. I've included two attachments to this broadcast, and none of the dramatic bullshit we've seen on national television lately. This is all information I've been given by Lieutenant Ananke. Any questions in specific to those contents within should be directed to her, through her contact line programmed onto your device. Or stop by in person. I don't care.

The first is a list of imPorts and native heroes who went missing following events in 2008. Some are reported dead, others only as missing. These names should be familiar to anyone who attended the swearing in last month, where we were witnessing the opening of the memorial graveyard. Not all of these names are there. Not all families wanted a memorial. Not everyone thinks these people are truly gone, or truly dead.

The second is a series of video recordings of a handful of these people. I'm hoping that you can help me identify everyone in attendance - some recordings are labeled with names. They match up to descriptions on file. It also means we have a few more faces to put with names. I've guessed that the young blond man we see in the last two videos is Liam Lawson, a younger native hero. I believe the woman he isn't with, the one sitting down, may be Eleni Wang, who hasn't been heard from since going underground in 2008. I'm not positive, so here's the floor, open for discussion.

Further, myself and several others have been pursuing investigations into the Hornets, localized to the city of Nonah. It's not all swift moving, but I hope that each person will be sharing information on what they learn as they learn anything. I'm presently investigating one of the former students at Phillip North's gym, but if that provides information, I won't know for a while yet. Liam Lawson is also being investigated by another of those who expressed interest, and I'd recommend he share that information, even if it's a dead end, with the imPorts when he has a chance.

[ If there's anything to report, Wally. ]

I don't care how much or little you trust the government. I don't care how often you want to piss into the wind. There's too much shit going on for me to care about bickering over those details, between Russia sitting on ships staring down Alaska up North, to puzzles pointing toward concerns further South and outside this nation, to the fact that Lunatic, one of our own, has been murdering people, and tried to incinerate a seventeen year old civilian earlier today for having been involved in a drunk driving incident that ended another's life.

Cut to the chase. What else is happening that we should know about? Enlighten me.

[ Attachment A: HFILE1.PDF ]
[ Attachment B: Video Files ]

[ OOC Note: Any references within this post to Kara Strydottir should read as Kara Lindholm instead, as that is how her name appears on network. My apologies for any confusion! Please use Kara Lindholm for any references in this post and related comment threads. ]

Comments

[runningstart]

Yeah.

But look- I'm cool with sharing this info with other people, but Robin's a little unsure about it. And we should definitely never use the comms to tell anybody.

[lyingheart]

I'm fine setting up an information exchange network in more traditional ways for me - but who's acting as a hub for that?

[ You work a network in an old way, you have a central point or group to relay back to so that information comes in and goes out, keeping people as tied in as possible. ]

I'd prefer to avoid the comms as well. What options are you thinking of outside of them? Other than the different phones?

[runningstart]

Well, internet. Robin would know more about that, but I know there's like false proxy generators and stuff you can use to mask your IP address of where you're logging in. We might be able to set something like that up.

[lyingheart]

If we can get something like that functional, and get non-government related devices to connect to the internet so we can get on that sort of site... that seems worthwhile. As long as it's honest within all attempts at hiding. Might be the taller order there.

[runningstart]

Yeah, I dunno how that would work. Odds are, whatever gets shared is gonna end up on the comms anyway because someone's gonna leak it somewhere.

[lyingheart]

Welcome to gossip. It never does seem to get any better - someone always talks. We still need that over the extreme secrecy. There's no way to safely hold information hostage without risking it being lost because the holder exPorts without notice.

[runningstart]

Hey, I'm not the one who has to be convinced. That's Robin. [And he's kind of the team leader right now, so...] But I'll try to sell it to him. Plus, I mean, if just a handful of people have info and then they get grabbed or ported out, everyone's back to being in the dark.

[lyingheart]

It's too easy for that to happen. The kind of life lived constantly in the darkness, in that ignorance... it's not a pretty one.

[runningstart]

Yeah. [Wally might not get told everything by his mentor, but he's definitely not kept in the dark very often. Which...might be the result of his control issues. Maybe. It's a common ailment among teen heroes.] I'll talk to him, see if he can at least get something like that live. We can at least try to keep things on the DL, just in case there's someone in the military listening in that we don't want knowing anything.

[lyingheart]

... Thank you.

[ Since those are her concerns. Please keep censorship capabilities out of the hands of those who will use it.

The kinder arm of the military here has them now. If that changes... if things go poorly...

Well. She'd rather believe they won't. ]