[jaunt] [mid-to late week 1] A deepening mystery

[seestheworld]

So about Dara...

I wanted to see if I could find out what she was doing before her disappearance on the off chance that could point towards her current whereabouts, so I did a Sift on all the relevant data I could find. Which probably means I'm on a list somewhere now, but... anyway.

We already know she was working on the Phileon project - specifically, she was working on advanced biology and S. Tech research and development, in particular S. Tech containment and countermeasures. It looks like she left voluntarily and very suddenly, and went to great lengths to hide from AEGISCorp when she did so, even calling in a bunch of favors from friends working for AEGISCORP's biggest rival, Munghungwa Dynamics - who, incidentally, still have offices on Mars.

AEGISCorp is unsurprisingly looking for her, as are the ESDF, who were also pretty surprised to see her go. There's a phrase the ESDF using in reference to that operation: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

This is a field Dara has loved since high school. In theory, this should have been her dream job. And she didn't just walk away: she ran.

Comments

[awitchdidit]

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a gimmick phrase in English. An example of a sentence that's syntactically valid, but nonsense. That one is from Chomsky, I believe, but most of Lewis Carroll's poetry is also that with a large side helping of made-up words.

What it could have to do with Dara, I have no idea.

[seestheworld]

They might be using it as a form of code in this case - maybe it's something in the specific nature of the phrase.

[awitchdidit]

Dara probably knows something that the Earth government, or possibly her former employers, don't want anyone else knowing. This level of scrutiny and security around the manhunt would indicate that, I think.

[seestheworld]

Probably, yeah. So the trick is going to be finding her without also bringing AEGISCorps and the ESDF down on her head, while also finding out what exactly made her run.