[Jaunt][Late Week 2] Thanks a lot, Katsuragi

[carbonatedscientist]

This is Sento, I've been brought back to myself.

[There is a deep psychic sigh.]

In the future, save us all some trouble--if I am fully infiltrated and my name is Takumi Katsuragi, please do us all a favor and have someone come de-infiltrate me immediately. There are certain patterns of behavior that seem to be repeated across universes, and none of them are good.

At any rate, let me know if there's anything Katsuragi's information would assist with--I've started decrypting all of his files, including the remarkably incriminating ones, and they should dump on Dr. Durante's computer very soon, if they haven't already. Thorne, you're welcome.

I've already had a meeting with the Admiral in which I claimed to have given myself a sort of Jekyll and Hyde complex via an odd strand of X-Pression, and I confessed to some of Katsuragi's more heinous crimes, but there's still much to be done.

We need to extract the Aurigan Consort from the Philia Core--did you all figure that out yet, I'm still going through everything--but in such a way that doesn't involve tipping AEGIS off or doing something that would upset the Aurigans further. I'm also working on some form of cure for the X-Pression virus--if we can cure the afflicted Aurigans, that would hopefully give everyone a reason to call the war off.

...and all of this is being done under guard, because, well, Katsuragi's now confessed to a remarkable array of crimes, ethical and otherwise.

Comments

[awitchdidit]

Welcome back. Yes, we largely determined where the princess was, but I'm still unclear on the physical mechanics of the situation, or how to safely extricate her.

Also, if you need an extra whistleblower, I've been myself this entire time and I'm perfectly happy to relay any other information that burns AEGISCorp to the ground to the authorities here. I'm also specialized in distractions, if we need one for rescuing the princess.

[carbonatedscientist]

I can show you the specifications. I'd rather not widely broadcast the digital files, but livestreaming them will be no issue, so long as we protect it from unwanted psychic interference.

I may take you up on that--I can provide you with some files Katsuragi wouldn't have thought much of, but they'll further implicate AEGIS in the event my list of cover-ups they've assisted Katsuragi with isn't enough.

[awitchdidit]

The more evidence we can pile on from the same source the better. Less because it's more believable and more because we don't want to risk people noting there's a conspiracy behind exposing the conspiracy.

[carbonatedscientist]

That's very true--I absolutely don't want to risk Katsuragi somehow managing to escape justice after we're gone.

[awitchdidit]

Frankly I'd be tempted to off him before we leave, with your permission, but he's probably going to catch a bullet from AEGISCorp anyway.

[carbonatedscientist]

Seeing as how I'm still in his body, I'd rather not for the time being.

...and even then, I'm holding out hope that he'll be tried in a court of law. I'm...not comfortable with killing. Even in this case.

[awitchdidit]

I suppose this is a civilized world and not the domain of some all-powerful patriarch who needs to be eliminated for healing to happen. He's your overlay, so I'll trust your judgement, even if I don't trust a court of law farther than I could throw the building it convenes in.

[carbonatedscientist]

At this rate, I'm imagining it'll be a military court with most everything kept hush-hush from the general public if AEGIS has its way, but that's something. I'd like to get him turned over to the Aurigans, but obviously I can't show any suspicious favoritism one way or another regarding his fate.