⚝ Intercepted At April 19, 2026
Chapter 6
"...as I told you before, Rundicate's operations are classified. I can only tell you Piotr's currently engaged in one."... .... "It doesn't have anything to do with confidential things, Josef. I am simply asking you about my brother."... .... "Mr. Lingduck has called me in advance about a series of elaborate precautions." ... .... "An esotericware ring in Moïre was assaulted by terrorists just a few hours ago" ... .... "Minister Horseshoe is planning an amendment to Act 13"... .... Eevves Corporation's chief executive Coole Aidenson has a meeting with me shortly. Their analysts are tracking all the leads, all that could be salvaged from the Moire terrorist attack. It is infuriating that this faction of terrorists escaped the Rundicate's eyes and looted another faction who was also proficient in schemes enough to exploit the matrix. The latter is, from what little is known, an esotericware manufacturing operation called Septauxthebes. Analysts haven't confirmed but I am confident that it was a stealth ambush which undermined the authority and the criminal opposition alike. It is 13:52 now; just in eight minutes, Mr. Aidenson will be presenting the latest report. What will he be presenting? I have been making private investigations on my own. It has been 26 days since the Moire incident and a week since Keinstein's assassination. The dissonance in Moire was the most anomalous incident in Tatterstown's security history. Rundicate agents have been exemplary at identifying and hunting esotericware manufactures prior to the incident. The notion of esotericwares was long leaked to an uncomfortable number of population percentage since almost a decade ago. However the matrix analysts are affirmative that the concept of esotericwares was a distant myth, an urban legend to the majority of those who were familiar with the word. The freedom to imagine the existence of such notion is not catastrophic whatsoever; cybernetics never changed the notion of humanity. New World houses altered humans, God did not oversee this transformation. It was not a divine rebirth. There's no need to prove God's existence or inexistence, there's no need to deny or affirm the soul. Humanity needs prospects to remain in this earth. The saturation of entropy is the death of the universe. No, the myth of esotericwares is not harmful to the citizens in the long run. Prior to the Moire incident, the bulk of esotericware manufacturers was cut short by the secret police. And Datamangle Inc and Eevves Corporation. The previous home minister entrusted the matrix's surveillance to these two. Up until now I never thought there was any need to tilt the power balance to any other corp. If I had been lax or negligent about this aspect, I would have been a failed authority. But Datamangle and Eevves were indeed hard to fault.
Gumtitled #23
In memoriam Winfried Georg Sebald I / Austerlitz