| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Eurowars (Long) |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 14:18:07 -0400 |
<snip Quote from Timeline Explorer>
That's also to be found in the BBB's "How it came to pass section."
>Notice some things about that paragraph? Going backwards, the first point
>is the Matrix attack. This is the easiest to discount, because it could
>have literally been anybody. All it would take would be a small group of
>programmers to create the virus and send it out. The Matrix is only 2 tears
>old then, so there's not much security out there. Almost anybody with good
>resources could pull it off.
Problem is, 2 years after the birth of the Matrix, the technology wasn't
highly widespread enough for "almost anybody."
>Two, those pesky commandos. In sounds like what they did was a general bump
>off the brass operation. If they were unidentified, that means that they
>weren't killed or captured, and therefore very good. Again, someone with
>good resources, either a country, small evil group of individuals, or very
>powerful individual could recruit/hire/blackmail/etc into doing this.
At this point in SR, it would still very likely be a government. Make it
ten years later, it's corps guaranteed.
>Of course, another scenario is: what if the planes never existed? People
>said that the planes stayed in the UK that night. Only the Swedes detected
>them. No one shot them down, any of them, in the middle of the war. Then
>they disappeared again. Seems almost impossible. Sherlock Holmes, eliminate
>the impossible, and the improbable is the answer.
Never thought of that before. And it actually makes a great deal of sense.
I think FASA want's those planes to actually exist, but your idea makes a
great deal of sense Mr. Sherlock.
>So who did it? Saeder Krupp is formed in 2037, but Lowfyr had money and BMW
>before that was announced. Dunkelzahn had been around since 2012, and has
>been shown to be the big manipulator. Tir na Nog? They form 2 years later,
>but they do have good personnell and a capacity to think long term. The
>UCAS? They wouldn't want to get sucked into another war over in Europe, and
>pulled all of the troops out. Tir Tairngere? Maybe they wanted to end the
>war so that the Irish didnt have cover to form Tir na Nog. Kill the war
>quick and Britain isn't distracted, that sort of thing.
Lofwyr? I don't think he has the resources yet; the money yes, the
resources no.
The Big D? Very possible, but it seems out of character for him. Unless
he saw that war as something that could engulf the entire world and turn
back the clock, as it were, but 50 to 100 years.
Either Tir? No. na nOg hadn't been formed yet, all those resources were
going into it's creation. Ol' Tir Tanglewood? Too far away for the
resources they likely have. I also don't see a strong motivation for them.
UCAS? They clearly have all the resources, especially Matrix at this time.
Question is motivation. I'm not sure they have, especially since they
have problems on the home front
Britain? Possible, but again, where's the motivation?
>So am I too paranoid or not enough?
Seems about right to me.
Frag, for all we know for sure, it could have been aliens or time
travellers from the future or something equally ridiculous.
Erik J.
"Oh my God, they killed Dunkelzahn! You bastards!!!"
