Look The Other Way

February 27, 2008

Xenet 71.43.1 System Msg

TTY31201.02.27

Network Connection Enabled
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Ignorance is bliss. Those words might as well be carved into the steel doors outside Penumbra. Anytime you wonder what goes on there, just read those words and be happy you don't know.
The inside of the doors has a message of it's own, but it's just a blank door.

The message is "nothing." Nothing leaves those doors, nothing is spoken beyond them.

I only have a minute to tell you why. My crack can only hold off the keyloggers and cameras for so long.

Penumbra is outside, maybe even above the command structure. They report to nobody, and it's in Command's best interest that it stays this way. They do what the AFS cannot, with no regard to lives, morals, ethics, cost, honor or any kind of decency. Because of their lack of limitations, they have made astonishing advances in everything from large-scale weaponry to genetics. Yet nothing they do can be shared with the AFS or it would reveal secrets that the AFS is better off not knowing.

If you're reading this, then you have a good chance of Penumbra trying to recruit you. You decide for yourself if the ends justify the means. Just do it soon, because once you get in, you can't get out.

- Ana Nimus