AMARR - The Scope has learned that Lady Hamideh Kador has arrived in the Imperial capital of Dam-Torsad a little over an hour ago for an audience with Empress Catiz I. The audience - which is not listed on the public roster of engagements for the Empress - appears to have been arranged at short notice, and sources within the Empire indicate that it relates to security concerns surrounding a substantial increase in foreign traffic passing through the Fua constellation of Domain, which borders the [...]
YULAI - CONCORD has issued a status report on the ongoing "Rogue Swarm Alert" noting the destruction of over a million rogue swarm nests so far and commending the high response from capsuleers in the campaign to remove the widespread infestation from New Eden. In a press briefing at Directive Enforcement Department HQ, Brigadier General Odo Korachi highlighted the "heroic efforts" of many capsuleers, noting that a significant number of capsuleers had individually taken part in the destruction of [...]
RENYN - The Scope has learned that a meeting between the senior leadership of the Federal Intelligence Office's Special Department of Internal Investigations and Federal Security, colloquially known as the "Black Eagles", and Astral Mining's Regional Security Director for Solitude, was held at FIO Headquarters late last night. While no details have been released regarding the meeting, it is believed that Commander Audere Esmoreures of Astral Mining visited the FIO for a short notice gathering to [...]
YULAI - CONCORD has declared a cluster-wide "Rogue Swarm Alert", as reports continue to come in from across New Eden of multiple major infestations of rogue drones. CONCORD's Directive Enforcement Department has emphasized the danger of allowing the outbreak locations designated "Rogue Swarm Nests" to spread unchecked, and has called on all combat capable pilots to assist in exterminating the infestation. The DED's Brigadier General Odo Korachi has provided additional tactical details: "The DED [...]
YULAI - Hostile rogue drone swarms have forced the recall of search and rescue teams from the "Drone Regions", according to sources within CONCORD. The search teams were sent to the Etherium Reach, Malpais and Oasa regions following the loss of contact with CONCORD's Taskforce Pegasus five days ago. CONCORD and Directive Enforcement Department officials are refusing to comment on these reports but Caldari Financial News has been able to confirm the recall order was issued this morning with multiple [...]
YULAI - CONCORD's Directive Enforcement Department has confirmed the loss of a specialist taskforce deployed to investigate rogue drone activity across the Oasa, Malpais and Etherium Reach regions. The DED's Special Projects Office has offically listed Taskforce Pegasus as lost following cessation of all communications three days ago. "Regrettably Taskforce Pegasus is now overdue on its third daily communication checkpoint and we must therefore declare the fleet led by the flagship Pegasus as lost [...]
MAURASI - The Caldari Business Tribunal has confirmed the rescindment of charges against Caldari Customs by the Quafe company this afternoon, after a pre-tribunal settlement was reached between the two organizations that will prevent further legal action against the State Armed Forces. Speaking to the interstellar press, Justice Kai Etashanko, the administrator for the high-profile case that has gripped both the State and Federation since March confirmed that "The Quafe Company has cancelled all [...]
E-DOF2, Period Basis - The Blood Raider Covenant's Omir Sarikusa has issued a defiant response to the destruction of his organization's Sotiyo-class shipyard by capsuleers of the Imperium coalition on YC119.05.19. Speaking exclusively to Ret Gloriaxx of the Scope's Galactic Hour, Sarikusa declared the loss of the shipyard "a necessary and holy sacrifice on the path of the Great Truth". Going further, the Blood Raider leader asserted that "our legions sanctified in blood will renew this work, and once [...]
E-DOF2, Period Basis - The Blood Raider Covenant has deployed an advanced shipyard based on the Upwell Consortium's 'Sotiyo' platform, according to verified reports from capsuleers operating in the Period Basis nullsec region. Since being sighted on YC119.05.12, reportedly by Theyrin Maricadie of the capsuleer corporation House Aratus, the Blood Raiders' heavily adapted Sotiyo has come under repeated attack by various capsuleer groups. So far, the Blood Raiders have repelled all assaults with powerful [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Scope has learned that the Federal Intelligence Office has seized a wide range of equipment from the former Astral Mining RP4 facility as part of their ongoing investigation into February's outbreak of Kyonoke plague on board the now decommissioned mining and ore processing platform. Sources within Astral Mining have confirmed that hardware ranging from datacores used for the storage of security holo-footage to fluid routers, maintenance records and emergency broadcasting equipment [...]
YULAI - The Secure Commerce Commission has issued its final notice that trading in quantum-entangled 4-Helium (QE 4-He) will be relaxed when trading resumes later today. The Kimotoro Stock Exchange is preparing for a brisk trade in the newly-authorized QE 4-He chips centered on the capsuleer market in the Jita system. Sold under the prestigious PLEX standard for almost a decade, QE 4-He chips have undergone several waves of improvement and enhancement of the underlying containment technology. In [...]
OIJANEN - The Myrskaa Metropolitan Corporation has confirmed this evening that the reconstruction contract for the city of Myrskaa has been awarded to the Sukuuvestaa Corporation, after an intense round of bidding and contract negotiations between the two corporations concluded this afternoon. The agreement comes after the city, once home to more than thirty six million, was destroyed by a series of twelve successive hydrogen antimatter detonations yesterday, bringing the quarantine cordon that has [...]
OIJANEN - The Chief Executive Panel has confirmed the total number of deaths caused by the outbreak of Kyonoke Plague in the City of Myrskaa, which saw the entire metropolis quarantined indefinitely in February, after several other outbreaks across the cluster. In a statement to the interstellar press that was delivered by Odo Hakaalen, the Chief Executive Panel's Corporate Relations Director, it was confirmed that the number of deaths in the city has been calculated at a total of 14,716,509. The [...]
ALENTENE - Astral Mining have released a statement this afternoon, confirming rumors that the RP4 Hemorphite Processing Facility which became the site of a massive Kyonoke Plague Outbreak in February will not return to service. In a rare appearance by Dr. Carrelle Orsere, the corporation's usually reclusive Chief Executive, it was confirmed that the platform, which is located in the Federal system of Postouvin, has now been cleared of all survivors of the Kyonoke outbreak, and that clean-up and second [...]
OIJANEN - The State Peacekeepers have confirmed the status of the ongoing cleanup in the city of Myrskaa this afternoon, in a statement that sheds light on the process and gives further details on the massive logistical effort currently taking place on Oijanen II. During a press conference hosted at 13:00 NEST Today, Brigadier General Varanori Ruukin, Executive Officer of the State Peacekeepers, confirmed that "more than three quarters of the survivors of the Kyonoke outbreak within the Myrskaa [...]
EFU - Genolution have confirmed that a seven day clean-up operation has concluded this afternoon, with all labs on board their biotech production facility in orbit of the system's fifth planet now confirmed to be clear of the Kyonoke Plague. The operation began with a 48 hour purge of the three affected decks, which was initiated on April 14th before decontamination teams moved in to complete a five day long clear out of more than 370,000 bodies of those lost to the plague since the area was [...]
MAURASI - The Caldari Business Tribunal has confirmed that the Quafe Convoy destroyed on March 25th was "illegally destroyed whilst in the care of Caldari Customs forces" in a hearing that took place this afternoon at CBT headquarters in The Forge. Destroyed while in the process of leaving the State via the Caldari Border Zone, the convoy of seven Obelisk class freighters was lost after being diverted to an off-grid customs holding facility several AU away from the Stargate that connects the Caldari [...]
OIJANEN - In a progress report delivered to the Chief Executive Panel this afternoon, the Home Guard have confirmed that a joint effort between the Ishukone Corporation and Zainou has been successful in saturating the Quarantined city of Myrskaa with an airborne treatment of Agent 0410 - the controversial antidote to the Kyonoke Plague. Speaking before the CEP this afternoon, Asiaineras Isuki, a Lonetrek based Security Director and tactical advisor for the Home Guard, confirmed that "a sustained 48 [...]
EFU - In the last hour Genolution has confirmed that the Kyonoke exposed decks on board their biotech production facility in Aridia have been vented to space, after the successful treatment, screening and relocation of more than 359,000 survivors of the outbreak that struck two of the facility's largest labs and its main medical center in mid February. Working in conjunction with Poteque Pharmaceuticals, Genolution was able to stabilize and treat almost half of those trapped in the quarantine zone [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Kyonoke Inquest Center remains a hive of activity this evening as massive quantities of Agent 0410, the antidote to the Kyonoke Plague, continue to ship from the Keepstar to quarantine locations across the cluster. In Efu, Genolution have already confirmed that the clean-up operation of their labs on board the affected Biotech facility will begin on Friday. The corporation stated that while more than 370,000 people within the cordon have already been killed by the pathogen, doctors are [...]
YULAI - A protocol for transferring the Project Discovery citizen science network to CONCORD oversight has been agreed, according to a joint statement issued by the CONCORD Inner Circle and the Sisters of EVE today. The Project Discovery research program was launched in March YC118, aiming at a comprehensive categorization and analysis of tissue samples acquired from the Drifters since their emergence in early YC117. Guided to great acclaim by Professor Emma Lundberg, Chief Scientist for the SOE [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Scope Galactic News Network can confirm that a massive cluster-wide effort is now underway to synthesize hundreds of millions of doses of the Kyonoke Plague Antidote, known by the name A116-0410-1. A joint effort by a Gallente-Matari science team from Poteque Pharmaceuticals and Eifyr & Co, which was heavily contributed to and influenced by a large group of independent capsuleer scientists, has resulted in the development of the antidote agent. The agent, known more commonly as "0410" [...]
POSTOUVIN - A sizeable convoy of vessels registered to Poteque Pharmaceuticals arrived at the Kyonoke Inquest Center this morning after the Inquest itself concluded yesterday. More than a hundred Obelisk class freighters rumoured to be carrying decontamination equipment, medical supplies, provisions and additional remote operated exploration equipment have docked with the Keepstar class structure over the course of the morning, with the mammoth task of unloading tens of millions of tons of equipment [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Scope Galactic News Network has learned that SoCT security and medical personnel are currently battling to control a significant outbreak of the Kyonoke plague on board the Inquest Center Keepstar. Initial reports suggest that the entire structure has been placed under security lockdown, with a complete quarantine cordon in place that has shut down docking bays, external traffic control and the vast majority of the facility's external communications services. While The Scope has not [...]
POSTOUVIN - Security has been tightened at the Kyonoke Inquest Center this morning, after a senior member of the Society of Conscious Thought's research team was found dead in one of two laboratories that appear to have been ransacked over the course of the night. The discovery of the body of the unidentified science team member comes alongside the ransacking of two key virology research labs which were thought to be holding data on the original source of the Kyonoke Plague outbreak on board the RP4 [...]
POSTOUVIN - The YC119 Kyonoke Inquest has formally commenced this afternoon, after an introductory keynote was broadcast to every holoscreen on board the Inquest Center, welcoming empire and independent delegates alike. The Inquest unites scientists from across the cluster, as specialists in genetic engineer and bio-medicine, as well as virologists and medical practitioners from all walks of life collaborate in what is being described in the interstellar press as the largest single collaborative event [...]
POSTOUVIN - Scope News has learned that traffic control in the Federal Constellation of Orvanne has seen its busiest day since records began, after independent capsuleers and scientists began to arrive this morning for the start of the YC119 Kyonoke Inquest tomorrow. The Upwell Consortium has confirmed that the Keepstar class citadel that forms the main bulk of the Kyonoke Inquest Center is now officially the most populated structure in New Eden, housing a colossal two hundred and sixty five million [...]
POSTOUVIN - Additional security forces from the Society of Conscious Thought have arrived on scene at the H4-RP4 Kyonoke Inquest Center, after technicians reported massive amounts of data corruption earlier this afternoon. Details of operations on board have remained incredibly scarce, however the Society has confirmed in a statement that a substantial amount of historical data from the R4P mining platform has been lost in what is believed to be a targeted digital attack. The Scope's SoCT contacts [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Society of Conscious Thought has confirmed the success of a simultaneous multi-region evidence gathering operation to breach the quarantine zones established around Kyonoke Plague infected sites in Postouvin, Muttokon, Efu and Oijanen. Science teams from across the cluster have moved in to begin to assist with investigative efforts, cataloguing and inspecting the sites, as well as rendering any assistance to the remaining survivors in the locations affected. Initial reports suggest [...]
POSTOUVIN - Amarr Certified News is proud to report that an additional specialized team of genetics and bio-engineering specialists have arrived on site at the H4-RP4 Kyonoke Inquest Center, after being instructed by her Holiness Empress Catiz I to leave their posts as advisors to physicians in service of the Emperor Family. In a short statement released by the Empress, she expressed her will for "limitless co-operation between gifted scholars and scientific specialists regardless of creed, in order [...]
POSTOUVIN - A steady stream of vessels arrived throughout the course of this morning, as science teams from all four corners of the cluster continue to descend the Kyonoke Inquest Center and begin to set up a base of operations. The first to arrive was a joint Matari team from Boundless Creation and Six Kin Development, who have been engaged in dealing with the Kyonoke outbreak on board the orbital platform of a space elevator in Muttokon, which marked the first known case of Kyonoke Plague ever [...]
KASSIGAINEN - Reports have reached the Scope News desk in the last half hour regarding the destruction of a flotilla of vessels owned by the Quafe Company, which were apparently traversing the Caldari-Gallente border on a routine supply run. The Federation Navy and Senate have condemned the actions of Caldari Customs forces, who appear to have engaged the unarmed convoy for violating the border closure mandate that has remained in force since Wednesday. Representatives from Ishukone and Wiyrkomi have [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Society of Conscious Thought has confirmed the official commissioning of the Kyonoke Inquest Center, which lies in close proximity to the quarantined RP4 Hemorphite processing facility in Postouvin. Speaking to a selection of interstellar press whom were invited aboard the structure for the occasion, SoCT Elder Mentor Raish confirmed that the facility is now fully operational, and has been formally designated as the "H4-RP4 Kyonoke Inquest Center". Adding to the announcement, he stated [...]
NEW CALDARI - The Chief Executive Panel has sent a shockwave through the political landscape of New Eden this morning, after ordering the closure of all State Embassies and consulates with in the Gallente Federation. The mandate, which was issued just moments ago, demands "the immediate cessation of all diplomatic engagements with representatives from the Federal Government" along with "the immediate return of all State ambassadors and emissaries operating within Federal border to New Caldari Prime [...]
NEW CALDARI - The Chief Executive Panel has responded with outrage this afternoon, after an alleged report from the Federal Intelligence Office passed to the Nugoeihuvi News Network further fuelled Caldari Intelligence Service suspicions that the FIO has been operating illegally within Caldari borders. The report, which has no credited author or details of intended recipient and is said to have been leaked from within the Federal Intelligence office, highlights what are believed to be a number of [...]
PERIMETER - The Office of Press for the Caldari Navy has responded angrily to questions from several press outlets that have suggested the involvement of the Caldari Navy, State Peacekeepers and Home Guard in the breach on the Kyonoke Pit which occurred in early February. The circumstances surrounding the breach, which resulted in a number of still unresolved quarantine situations across the cluster, have been called into question by the Federal Intelligence Office in recent days after senior figures [...]
RENYN - The Federal Intelligence office has confirmed rumors circulating in the press that the Special Department of Internal Investigations and Federal Security, also known as the "Black Eagles", is in the midst of an investigation that may link the outbreak of Kyonoke Plague in Postouvin to acts of terrorism in the Federation. During a statement made to the interstellar press on board FIO Headquarters in Renyn, Thoun Gaterau, Lead Field Agent & Administrator for the Black Eagles, commented that "an [...]
HATAKANI - Executives from Kaalakiota, Sukuuvestaa and CBD have walked out of Chief Executive Panel talks with the Federal government, after audio recordings were leaked in which a number of Gallente Senators criticised the ethics of forcing protestors in the State back to work. While the identities of the senators involved are unknown at this time, it is known that questions were raised about the unethical treatment of the workforce in the State, after those protesting against conditions on Oijanen [...]
NEW CALDARI - Almost two billion protestors returned to work this morning, after a statement released by the Chief Executive Panel gave further details of the ongoing situation in Oijanen II. Footage released anonymously to the Scope was branded as "heavily edited, sensationalist tabloid reporting" by the Chief Executive of Lai Dai, with several representatives from the Nugoeihuvi News Network commenting that the footage in no way represented the situation on the ground in the city of Myrskaa. The CEP [...]
VILLORE - Comments made by several Senators from Essence and Placid sparked controversy this morning, after the situation in Oijanen was branded a "humanitarian crisis" in a progress report meeting on the ongoing RP4 Kyonoke outbreak in Postouvin. Representatives from the Supreme Court and the Senate's newly formed Kyonoke Oversight Committee were briefed on the ongoing efforts of Poteque Pharmaceuticals, Duvolle Laboratories and Genolution, who remain in constant communication with the quarantined [...]
NEW CALDARI - State Peacekeepers have been forced to draft in additional troops, after protests erupted on New Caldari Prime, Nonni I, Malkalen V and the Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant, as well as in several other locations across the State earlier today. The unrest across several of the most populated systems in the State comes after the release of unauthorized footage from within the Myrskaa quarantine zone, which appears to show conditions of extreme squalor, indicating a breakdown [...]
POSTOUVIN - A large formation of Society of Conscious Thought research vessels has arrived at the construction site of the Kyonoke Inquest Center this afternoon, along with a flotilla of freighters carrying research and medical equipment. A statement from the Society has confirmed rumors that the organization has begun genetic research on the latest strain of Kyonoke, in an attempt to "either create a vaccine, or an inhibitor with the intention of limiting the spread of the deadly pathogen". Speaking [...]
VILLORE - A number of Federal human rights groups have criticised the Caldari State's handling of the Kyonoke Plague outbreak in Oijanen, after unauthorized footage released today showed mass protests outside the quarantine nanoshield dome that was placed over the city of Myrskaa almost a month ago. The Gallente Humanist League, Federal Humane Foundation and Gallente Humanist Association staged their own protests outside the Senate chamber today, after it was revealed that an unknown number of [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Society of Conscious thought has outlined full details of an inquest into the interstellar Kyonoke crisis, after revealing construction plans for a Keepstar class citadel that will serve as a base of operations for science teams working toward a resolution. Speaking at a conference before the interstellar press, SoCT Elder Mentor Matshi Raish confirmed that the construction project ongoing in close proximity to the stricken RP4 Hemorphite processing facility in orbit of Postouvin's [...]
NEW CALDARI - Ishukone CEO Mens Reppola was the target of scathing attacks from Lai Dai this afternoon, in a Chief Executive Panel session called to discuss progress on the resolution of the Kyonoke crisis on Oijanen II. Reppola was targeted after stating that Ishukone would "continue to render any assistance necessary to both the Federation and State, in order to foster an environment of cross-border collaboration during a time of extreme crisis in both nations" with Lai Dai Chief Executive Alakoni [...]
YULAI - A heavily armored transport arrived in Yulai this morning, carrying individuals believed to be members of the leadership of the Guardian Angels and Serpentis Corporation's narcotics distribution network. Security has remained tight around the unknown number of detainees, who are rumoured to be key links in the narcotics trade in the regions of Solitude, Aridia, Syndicate Placid and Delve. The undisclosed number of prisoners, believed to be in the region of fifteen individuals, were escorted to [...]
NONNI - The Scope Galactic News Network has learned that a State-wide manhunt has been ordered by the Chief Executive Panel, after the remaining members of the Kasaras family have been revealed to be missing. Jaron and Akira Kasaras, the father and sister of Ohmon Kasaras, who was killed during an unauthorized breach of the Kyonoke Pit quarantine cordon earlier this month, are sought for questioning in relation to the incident. The breach of the Kyonoke Pit is believed at this stage to be the root [...]
NEW CALDARI - C-Level management from both the Kaalakiota Corporation and its security arm, the Home Guard, have been called before the Chief Executive Panel this afternoon after the remains found inside the quarantine cordon at the Kyonoke Pit were identified as those of a decorated Home Guard pilot. The pilot in question, Flight Lieutenant Ohmon Kasaras, was a highly decorated young combat pilot who had served with the corporation for two decades. Aged 38, he was in the early stages of what Home [...]
POSTOUVIN - The Scope Galactic News Network has reached out to the Society of Conscious Thought in the last hour, after a flotilla of construction vessels began to arrive in close proximity to the stricken Astral Mining RP4 Hemorphite processing installation. The vessels, which all carry SoCT markings and identification transponders, appear to have commenced the deployment of an Upwell Consortium designed construction scaffold, with numerous jump freighter class vessels arriving to deliver materials [...]
MUTTOKON - A press conference held by the Republic Security Services this afternoon has confirmed speculation that the Kyonoke Plague is responsible for the lockdown of a Freedom Extension space elevator in the system of Muttokon. This new revelation, which was made by Field Administrator Abja Etbald of the RSS, accompanied an announcement that the detached orbital platform of the space elevator has been towed to a concealed location in high orbit by Republic Fleet vessels, in order to further [...]