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CONCORDIA DAY :008 - :013
CURRENT EVENTS
CONCORDIA, DAY :008 - :013
Concordian life has continued much like it has. The rally was the largest gathering of anti-AI and anti-enhancement sentiment in the past weeks, but there's been a typically steady stream of smaller, less focused aggressions. A city maintenance android was beaten by a group of drunken men until rendered non-functional. A local chapter of Mindlife in the Gamma Block had a makeshift firebomb thrown at its front door, resulting in minimal damage to the exterior. All things considered, it's standard fare. But on :010 something bigger happens.
Around 11:30pm, the largest manufacturing plant for VEN DIAGRAMS, one of Opia's leading developers and manufacturers of personal implants and mental augmentation, is bombed. The bomb goes off far enough into the building to do serious structural damage. Futher, the bomb sends out a pulse of electrical feedback that fries all the cores of the chips being manufactured and stored within the factory. The explosion is the largest the city has seen in fifteen years; it shakes nearby structures, bringing down a large section of a neighboring warehouse in the process. Over fifty androids are destroyed or rendered scrappable and three men passing by on their way from a local club sustain minor injuries.
No one claims responsibility, but it’s hard to imagine that it could be anyone but Humans + Humans 1st. The bomb was planted deep in the factory which ran 24 hours a day, no one had heard a single rumor on the net about an attack, and not a single ‘person’ died. Not that the answer satisfies everyone of course. There's already conspiracies on extraspace saying that synthetics somehow overstepped their programming and planted the bomb to drop suspicion on H+H1; or maybe it was one of Ven's many competitors using the political unease as cover to finally chip into Ven's significant profit margins. Ahtaliah Ven himself is determined to find the culprit, going as far as to offer a reward for any information on a public extraspace channel not ten hours after the attack. Extraspace is buzzing with chatter, the realspace around the factory is being actively patrolled by bio-officers and synthetic security drones alike. Ven has a lot of rivals, a lot of competitors - people with means and motivation. Could it be as simple as a shady anti-synth organization, or are there other powers at play here?
In the days that follow, anti-synth sentiment spikes. Derogatory graffiti litters bullet train platforms, local small business operated primarily by bios force synthetics on errands to wait on the street for their goods, a minor string of AI scrambling occurs which primarily targeting private transit driver androids, and there's some spririted (read: vicious) debate on political affiliate extraspace channels. A speech by the REPRESENTATIVE GORAM SAFFIT OF LARANN goes live on extraspace 24 hours after the attack, which promptly spurs harsh criticism by local chapters of Mindlife and numerous anonymous viral videos and transcripts attributed to the group known as EXTRAAA threatening Larann and swearing to track down and dissolve H+H1. In response to all of this, police security makes raids into Subspace in hopes that cracking down on minor attacks might dredge up some additional information on who may have been behind the factory bombing.IN OTHER NEWS... All three men who sustained minor injuries in the factory explosion spend at least a day in local hospitals. After 24 hours, two of the three go home; one man remains under observation for a three day period thanks to some shrapnel from the blast. Theoretically speaking, it wouldn't be difficult to track any of these men down. Despite the bombing, a sporting event is scheduled for :013 and parts of Concordia are All About It. Why bother talking about political bombings when you could be talking about Zero-Ball? The sport is seemingly an unholy combination of rugby and basketball and hitting the game might be a good place to unwind after a long, keyed up series of days. Speaking of sports and popular figures, Kun Adetokunbo - the fan favorite for the upcoming BOUT IT OUT championships - makes a vague but difficult to misunderstand pro-synthetic statement during a press conference in the days that follow the bombing. While his popularity in the betting pools don't dip, there's some definite gossip flying around on extraspace and in public broadcasts. A series of comments on an online video clip of his statement range from thoughtful to 'ROBOT F**KR'. Some minor crimes have been automatically pinged to certain IDs carried by individuals of the Nest; luckily, no one's pressing charges on either Steve Rogers or James Barnes (you can get away with a lot in Subspace), but it might be a good idea to not punch anyone else in the throat. Or do. Whatever. The important thing to know is that these tags are pretty much automated and aren't a huge deal unless you get caught doing something else... or find yourself in the subspace security sweeps going on. There will be no mod-account posted logs for these events; if you wish to use any of these events, please feel free to post your own logs! If you have any questions or would like to request modded NPC involvement, feel free to do so in the QUESTIONS thread in the comments below.
OOC UPDATES
Hey all! So you may have noticed we've decided to overhaul the calendar idea a little bit; we found that a traditional month-to-month calendar system felt a) kind of useless, given the only solid date we have for OOC things is activity check and that's pretty easy to find, a b) antithetical to what we want to focus on for in character game events, which is a focus on player character action influencing the world. To this end, we've decided instead to give weekly to bi-weekly world updates reflecting player character involvement and the effects on the world/plot/etc as opposed to a long term calendar. While we tentatively plan to make these posts once a week or so, in-game events may make them more or less frequent depending on need. If you have any thoughts, questions or concerns about this format please don't hesitate to give us feedback either here or on the mod contact page! That said, we're hoping this gives us all a little more flexibility/freedom to explore.
Otherwise, while we have a small backlog of questions that need answering on the first mission post that we still need to address, if you have any questions about investigating or exploring information detailed in this current events post go ahead and put it here. If you have questions with broader implications, head on over either to the FAQ or the MOD CONTACT posts!
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Security sweeps occur, on average, every eight hours or so in different sections of subspace. Subspace is, really, a sprawling series of boroughs, neighborhoods and undergrounds and most of these security sweeps hit up only a few blocks at a time. With a little cleverness, it would be pretty easy to move from place to place and stay relatively ahead of the patrols. For what it's worth, there's a lot of petty crime in Subspace. Despite the fact that Bucky and Steve are both tagged as potentially violent, they're only two out of many people with similar tags on their IDs.
Alternatively... it would also be fairly easy to walk straight into a security sweep on purpose. If for some reason someone wanted to do that.
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(p.s. i may ping you guys in the future for a security sweep, would that be cool?)
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